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HAYES BIand DAY AT LATONIA. WINS THE CINCINNATI HOTEL SPRING HANDICAP AND TWO PURSES. Meeting Closes with Fine Weather and a Big Crowd Bookmakers Fred Cook and A, Fontelieu Are Heavy Winners. Cincinnati, O., July 13. This, the last day ot the Latonia Jockey Clubs spring meeting, will go down in turf history as "Hayes day." The Kcn-tuckian scored a triple that was costly to the layers. He won the Cincinnati notel Spring Handicap, which featured the card, with Rcdgauntlet; took the second with Hollow, and the fifth with Colonel Bob, which repeated brilliantly over his, performance of the day before. In addition to this Mr. Hayes has an interest in Trincess Orna, which carried the colors of II. P. Ileadley to victory in the last race. The fine weather and the good program, together with the knowledge that there is to be no more racing in these parts until October, attracted one of the largest crowds of the meeting. The seven scrambles for get-away purses afforded highly entertaining sport. Rcdgauntlet was in the handicap lightly, but he is wind broken and has been tiring so badly" in his recent races that his ability to go a considerable route was doubted. The drying out track, as well as the weight, suited him and he had no ditliculiy in leading the others from start to finish. Old Honesty was a keen conteder, closing a considerable gap around the upper turn, but he quit at the end of a mile. The Minks made a gallant effort through the last quarter, but was next the inner rail where the going was deepest. The history of the Cincinnati Hotel Spring IIan ill cap .is In the table below: Year. Winner. A. Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1002 St, Hera 3 07 Battiste ...,510 1;KH 1003 Fonsoluca 4 00 J. OCoimor 1,51.1 2:02 1001 Delmonico 3 08 J. Hicks .. 1,400 1:51 1005 Huzzah 0 05 C. Morris.. 1,535 l:53i 1000 Brancas 5 11-1 Obert 1,505 l:57g 1907 Rcdgauntlet ..3 0! E. Martin.. 1,515 1:55 On a track to her liking, Oak Grove showed a good performance in the third, wearing down the leaders In the stretch and winning easily. Rcbounder was one of the get-away good things of the afternoon. He also found a track made to order for him and easily led his opponents from end to end. The customary get-away sot back was reserved for the crowd in the final race when Envoy, the favorite, and the one life-saving bet that had been relied on by pretty nearly everyone, got the better of J. Lee and ran off a quarter of a mile at top speed. Fred Cook announced at the close of the racing that he had won 5,000 on the meeting. He will rest up at his Illinois farm for the next week and take with him about eighteen bookmakers clerks. A. Fontelieu acknowledged being 0,000 winner. He will return to New Iberia, La., until the resumption of racing in this section. Joe Yeager is credited with having won about 0,000 and will go from here to Mackinac Island. The biggest loser is L. M. Sire, who lias religiously been following J. C. Milams stable. He is credited with being 0,000 loser. The horses in the string of J. Gass and Co. will be shipped to Saratoga. T. W. Moore has decided to leave The Clansman and Ids other horses here. J. S. Bratton will ship his horses to his farm near St. Louis for a much needed rest. Hughes Brothers will ship four horses to Lexington tonight. William Gcrst said this afternoon that he lias ninety-five racers scattered in various sections of the country. Most of these will be disposed of in the near future. Jockey Crimmins was forced to cancel his engagements for today on account of illness.
