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TALENT CANNOT PICK THEM. SUPPORTERS OF FAVORITES HAVE ANOTHER BAD DAY AT LATONIA. Miss Doyle and Collonade Their Only Two Douglas Park Officials Are Named Elastic Goes Back to the Corrigan Barn. Cincinnati, O., August 8. With the memory of thirteen favorites going down to defeat in fourteen races, the talent today resumed their onslaught against the books with do or die determination, only to be again grievously disappointed in their selections for the first two races. Miss Doyle afforded them slight consolation by winning the third at short odds, and so did Collonade in the fifth. Thereafter outsiders got most of the money. The defeats of Weberfields, Decklaw, Solon, Optional and St. Paris gave the bookmakers an exceptional chance to clean up, but their timidity cost them considerable. . With the absence of several layers who were willing at all times to handle a fair commission, the ring here at present is a joke. If a bettor desires to place a fair sized wager he is unable to get accommodated unless he. Is willing to accept a ridiculously short price for his money. The jumping race went to Dalesman in a spirited finish with Bluemint, which showed good form and forced the Bratton candidate to do his best to head him out in the final drive. Solon, coupled with Modredlaw and the mainstay of the Ferrlss entry, repeated the trick of his former start and bolted when he seemed the probable winner. Miss Doyle and .Collonade had it easy In their respective races. The latter might have been given a strong argument by Santon. but evidently his connections did not think the horse up to a bruising contest. He was given an easy race and Is no doubt qualifying, as Two Bells did from the same stable. Announcement was made today by John Hach-meister that A. W. Hamilton would be the presiding judge at Douglas Park. Martin Nathanson will will be associate judge, handicapper and racing secretary; A. B. Dade will do the starting. The judges today ordered that Elastic, recently claimed from Edward Corrigan by Thomas Saycrs, acting for Lcmp and Co., be returned to Mr. Corrigan on the ground that trainer Saycrs did not have the authority to claim the horse. George Taylor, who was considered among the foremost riders in this country In the late eighties, had the mount on Allinda in the fifth race. The younger generation clearly has It on him, at least in the matter of getting away .from the post.
