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GOOD DAY AT LOUISVILLE BRING OUT A BIG CROWD Kercheval Defeats Lotus Eater and Lens in an Ex ¬ cellent Race Through Accidents McAllister McAllisterWins Wins the Louisville Steeplechase Louisville May 20 Clear warm weather the first in several days and a good program drew out a banner attendance to Churchill Downs this after ¬ noon The Louisville Steeplechase Stakes over the full course and The Cotton Seed Crushers Han ¬ dicap at a mile and a sixteenth were the features The former resulted in a good hit of a farce as McAllister was the only one to go the course with ¬ out mishaps Seven were originally carded to start but only three accepted tin issue McAllister was at all times the choice in the speculation Ho allowed Don Jolly to lead on sufferance until over the seventh jump where the latter went down At that point BelltheCat the other starter was striding well hut at the water jump ho also came to grief leaving McAllister to sinter homo unat ¬ tended Don Jolly and BelltheCat were re ¬ mounted and taken over the course for second and third money Pierce Don Jollys original rider piloted him home but McCIain was knocked out and a stable hand named 1 Jordan weighing much in excess of the 148 iKnimls BelltheCat was listed to carry took the mount and barely managed to get him home inside of the specified threeminute time limit to gain third money The moneyThe tabulated history of the Louisville Steeple ¬ chase followsYear Handicap is as follows Year Winner A Wt Jockey Val Time 1908 Dr Nowlin 0 140lMcAiiUtTc 1015855 100 Prcsgrave i 1C5T Mcllugh 127585 1005 lUp 0 lVSIMcAulilTe 1055403 1900 Manners 5 187IIenry 1480 8 5U 1907 8rOJ190S St Volma 4 KUJArchibald 1105 8rOJ 190S McAllister 4 15SIR Holder 980415 980415The The handicap brought about a rattling good con ¬ test Kercheval being the winner but onlv after he bad put up the race of his career lie was badly outpaced in the early running seemingly on account of the flippy going but once fully settled In his stride after going a half closed a tremendoiis gap and responding willingly to Powers strong urging nailed Lotus Kater at the end Lotus Eater had been in close attendance on the speedy Zal for the lirst threequarters and when the latter tired took a lead that made him appear a certain winner but lie could not withstand Kerchovals final rush Lens running in improved form finished third The race was somewhat marred by a mishap to The Minks lie was caught in tlie barrier hnd was forced to carry the webbing for nearly five fur ¬ longs before his rider could free him from it This caused him to lost much ground and eventually to finish outside of tlie money Zal showed plenty of early speed hut quit badly after going some ¬ thing over threequarters threequartersThe The opening race went to She Wolf an outsider Powers using alert tactics got her away from the post throughoutThe in a rush and she led throughout The largest field of starters during the meeting1 went in tho second race and Stoner Hill having the most racing luck won in handy fashion over Mea rtowbreoze rtowbreozeBonehrake Bonehrake was best of a bad band that contested in CanopianTho the third and lieat the longpriced Canopian Tho closing race went to Hostile Hyphen which drew the record sale of mutnel tickets of the meet ¬ ing excepting on the Kentucky Derby starters Speculation startersSpeculation today exceeded the Derby day record and almost amounted to the total of last Saturday which established a record for the meeting Fully 800 members of tho Cotton Seed Crushers were In attendance at the track and were extended the courtesy of the clubhouse clubhouseJames James Blnte stated today that he was forced to leave Halket In the east on account of his being sick He was intended as a starter in the La ton I a Derby but it is thought ho will not round to In time 7 K Frayling will campaign a String of W Gcrsts horses in Canada tills summer They will be stripped from here after the close of the meet ¬ ing ingA A number of race followers will depart for To ¬ ronto tonight Among the stables to he shipped are those of C Pangritz W G KingDodds and S Louis Fred Cook and several bookmakers wijl leave for Woodbine tomorrow tomorrowMortiboy Mortiboy had to he excused from starting in the fifth race on account of colic
