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1 ■ i » . FAST TRACK FOR LATONIA DERBY. Ovelando the Choice — Eight Starters Likely-Still Alarm and Gargantua Doubtful. Ctectaaatl, ».. Jaae 8. The proapects at the prei eat writing are thai the twenty lit 1 1 1 l.atonia lie.l.y will be run on a fast tr.uk and I hat eight three-year olds will go to the post. The only doiiblful ones are Koine Bfptaa Still Alarm which, hi trainer believes, i- nol ready to -• the route and Moae GoMblatts Gargantaa. flearlj ..l ol tae .• ■:•• • i-andidates are at the track, but nolle Of than ha-had a real trial at the distance of one mile ami I half. The Abbot wa- the mih one lo appear on the track today and he was only cantered. His owner. W. .1. oiing is sanguine and epects his colt to win easily, especially If he is able to secure -I. Lee aa his rider. As most of the horsemen are still at Louisville. there waa little doing at the track today. Tomorrow ii will seem a racing lime alter the Falls i It] brigade gets in. Those who have seen all the horses perform in races and trials are not impressed with Old Hon estya efforts. Realty the beat work was done by Bottles, which is ow -in d by a .-..uple of young Cin-ciniiatiaiis. At thai be has polled up lame after every race and trial. Following is the L.itonia Berby leM with Jockeys engaged to riile and the probable odds: Horse. Wt. Jockey. Odds. Fink Star 127 Minder IS-l Prlace Ahmed 125 Taylor 1 5 I old Honesty 114 Nh ol 01 Ovelando 114 Lloyd 3 I Beau Binmmei ill Trailer v 1 •Still Alarm 114 .1. Lee lot lb ■ilgauntlel 114 1. Austin 10-1 Bottles 114 Pickens ■ l The Abbot 114 A. IP own 7 1 Gargantua 117 A. Brown 15-1 DoabtfuL Lee will ride The Abbot if Still Alarm is with drawn. None of these hor-es has ever been the Derby distance, one mile and a half, in a race. Pink Slar. in winning the Kentucky Derby over the heavy course at Churchill Downs on the opening day of the meeting that closed yesterday, ran the mile and a Qaarter in 2:12g. and he is the only one that has scored brackets at that di-iance. Ovelando llalalw ll third to link Star and Zal in the Kentucky Derby, bcaien three and a half lengths. Bedga lint let. was fourth in that race. None Of the others has ecr been a mile and I qaarter. Beaa Bvummel waa at a mile and ■ sixteenth in 1 :4 ■ *,. a new tra.-k record for City Iark, and one mile and seventy yards in 1 :43», a new uaek record for the New Orleans Fair Groaads, but in the first race he carried only 91 pounds and in the nexl a pound less. Beau Brummel won twice at a mile as a two-year-old. both races being run at Latonia, the first over a fast track, with lol pounds up. in 1:40?,, and the other over a good track with S3 pounds up. in 1:41?. The Ahhot won at a mile and a sixteenth at Lexington in 1:47C with 1O0 pounds up. Bottles won at the same dis lance at Churchill Downs with 10T, pounds up, in I is*. IVince Ahmeds longest winning race was seven eights of a mile in 1:201, with 112 |K unds up. at Churchill Downs. Ovelandos last winning race was a mile in 1:43, with 102 pounds up, at Churchill Downs. Old Honestys only winning performance this year was his three quarters in 1:1S] at Churchill Downs, with MS pounds in the saddle. la his two years on the turf Cargantua has won only one race, thai at City Park, carrying 117 pounds ove. a last track, three quarters of a mile, iu 1:14ft. Kedganntlet has never won at I Heater distance than seven -eighths of a mile. He struck a muddy track at Douglas Iark last fall and got home in l:o2$. with 106 pounds up. Still Alarm has not started this year. He won four laces as a two year-old, the longest, seven-eighths of I mile, in 1:27*. carrying 103 pounds, at Churchill Downs. K. •. Hopper in a letter to Secretary Dillon say-he will leav.- Oakland at the earliest possible mom ent to take up the presiding Judgeship at l.aionia The meeting at Oakland will close .lune 22. Louisville. Ky.. June !S.— Mose OaMblaH said at Churchill Howns this afteraoaa that Gargantua will not tie a starter iu the Latonia Derby. His failure to secure an eastern jockey to ride the coll is i ne reason he gave. In a Cincinnati newspaper it WW published this morning that Cohlblalt had purchased Hllgei I While tic was in New fork, tioldblatt tsays i liis l« not true.
