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DANCING AFFECTS RIDING. JOCKEYS AT LATONIA PUT TO WEAK FINISHES . AFTER THE BALL. Only Two Favorites Get Home In Front Steeplechase the Usual Chapter of Mishaps Horsemen Are Shipping: to Louisville, Cincinnati, O., August 29. An excellent card was provided, here today and the attendance was up to the usual standard, but the racing was far from satisfactory from any point of view. The jockeys had their annual ball last night a local affair of some importance and this, no doubt, had considerable bearing ou the decision of some of the races this afternoon. It was generally conceded that only a weak finish caused Boserriari, an odds-on choice, to lose to Dr. Frank, an outsider in the speculation. Nicol had the mount on the former, and he apparently thought that he had the race won, only to find that the decision had been given against him by the narrowest of margins. The riding in the third race, a condition affair at a mile, which was the feature of the programme, would under normal conditions have come in for very severe criticism. Coruscate and Miss Doyle were both far and away the best of the others, but both received weak and indifferent rides. These two were the choices, Terns Rod defeating both decisively. The steeplechase developed a series of mishaps. Six faced the , barrier with Dunning considered the best and heavily backed. He and Bluemlnt, which was second choice, .were the only two to finish, the others having come to grief either by running out of the course or unseating their riders. Profitable was given third money, Archibald remounting him after a spill over the last jump in the field. Battle Creek while in the lead ran out of the course at- the fourth obstacle and was followed by Frank Mc. At the same jump St. Volma lost his rider and continued with the others until the club house was reached, where he fell heavily in an effort to jump out to the main track. Sallie B. B. and Amberita were the only winning favorites. The latter gave Nicol his last winning mount at this meting, as he leaves tonight for the east. Among todays arrivals was W. A. Stanton, owner of a select string of horses now racing at Saratoga. Mr. Stanton developed W. Miller, the crack eastern jockey, and still has a two years contract on this youngster. In Mr. Stantons opinion Miller is the greatest rider the turf has sen in many a year. The boy can ride at 84 pounds and as he is only 18 years old he bids fair to be a successful pigskin artist for many seasons to come. During his short career he has saved up 0,000, and only- recently he purchased a home for his mother, which cost him 0,000. Henry Flippen stopped here en route to Nashville where he goes to take up two horses that have been turned out at J. B. Fergusons farm. He will ship them to Bennings. Mr. Flippen has been for the past month at Esmont, Va., looking over some of the stock owned by J. E. Lane. Flippen will campaign an extensive striug owned by Mr. Lane next year on the metropolitan tracks. The horses now owned by Flippen, with .the exception of Cardigan, which Is at Toronto, are resting up at the Bennings track, where they will be sent after purses when that meeting begins. Shipments today for Douglas Park included part of or all the horses comprising the stables of K. Schrelber, C. Heifers, G. W. Baldwin, L. Lemp and Co., T. KIley, D. Hill, It. Porter, W. Perkins and W. T. Woodard. Four horses owned by Oots Brothers, were shipped to Lexington, Ky., where tliey will le turned out.
