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LEXINGTON MEETING ENDS DIFFICULT GOING FAVORITES BEATEN AND BIG CROWD FEATURES OF LAST DAY Terah Wins Again and Is a Good Racer Sam Clay a Surprise at Long Odds Good Ail Around Record of tho Meeting Lexington Ky May 2 With a good crowd and fair weather but a heavy track and the usual get ¬ away day upset in the matter of betting the Ken ¬ tucky Associations spring meeting closed this after ¬ noon Direct in the opening race was the only winning favorite lit raced Anderson into defeat the first quarter of a mile but Lee had to ride him out at the end to stall off the challenge oC Tony W WMoquette Moquette favorite for the second race at odds on had no fancy for the muddy going and Terah oIT in front saved ground around the turns ran close to the rail and won easily by three lengths Terah is a much better horse than most people have supposedThe supposed The third race was strictly a twohorse affair Lady Hawthorne handily defeating the favorite Alice Baird BairdThe The surprise of the day came In the fourth race when Sam Clay belonging to Miss Sallle Haggin romped home at odds of 30 to 1 Just as starter Holtman released the barrier Hughey McCarrens Ansonia stumbled and unseated jockey Skirvin It was the first mishap of the meeting and neither horse nor boy was hurt hurtLady Lady Vie a superior mud runner that has been racing poorly this spring found the track to her liking and led nil the way in the fifth race and won as her rider pleased Trainer Walter Grater like the majority of the others thought Clifton Forgo and La Fayctte had the best chances and did not back the mare mareThe The closing race of the day and the meeting was won easily by Thomas Calhoun though Bucket Bri ¬ gade the favorite which finished second was un ¬ questionably the better horse and could not have lost with a judicious ride Ellenor was nervous and not able to control his mount On the first turn Bucket Brigade bumped Nancy out of her stride and when turning into the stretch swerved into Katie Powers and then ran into Thomas Calhoun CalhounNot Not a jockey was fined or suspended by Judge Price during the meeting and none was under sus ¬ picion Tin boys behaved so well at the post that starter Holtman Imposed only two lines during the nine days F Burton paying 25 twice The regu ¬ lars left for Louisville tonight on a special train in charge of Jene Klrod KlrodJohn John B Dillon secretary of the Latonia Jockey Club was a visitor and booked quarters for a num ¬ ber of stables during the coming meeting at the Ken ton county track trackThe The stable of AV II Fizcr including the Ken ¬ tucky Derby candidate Milford was shipped to Louisville today todayW W J Young will ship tomorrow his string In ¬ cluding Dunvegan and Bill Heron both of which will start In the Derby He worked both o these horses this morning a mile and a quarter through the mud Bill Heron running in 210 and Dunvegan in 21114 21114Simon Simon Weil the Derby candidate in the stable of Walter Grater worked a mile in 1474 1474Financially Financially the meeting was a success said Overtoil II Chenault but not what it would have been had we not encountered so much rain Our earnings were something like 1800 or 2000 We did not have any revenue from poolrooms which would have amounted to about 250 per day but in the long run we will be better off without money from that source The rule of the State Racing Commission against the dissemination of information to poolrooms was rigidly enforced and a strict censorship was kept on the matter going out by telegraph from the track
