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LATONIA RACING ORDINARY HOT WEATHER AFFECTS THE ATTENDANCE AND NO STRIKING FEATURES STAND OUT Arcito Runs a Fast Mile and an Eighth and Wins Easily Old Class Leader Takes the Steeple ¬ chase After All but Three Fall Cincinnati O June 22 The Latonia management today began its program of racing with a new sched ¬ ule In conformity with the recent concession oC the Racing Commission the purses were cut from 3000 per day to 2400 effecting a dally saving of 600 The management was also Impelled to economy in other respects A twenty per cent re ¬ duction was ordered in the salary of the clerks em ¬ ployed to run the mutuel machines The clerical force In this department will probably number thir ¬ tyfive and their salaries range from 5 to 15 dally Under normal racing conditions the club ought now to make a satisfactory profit during the remainder of the meeting meetingAn An ordinary card and extremely hot weather affected todays attendance The betting was list ¬ less and the racing itself called for little more than ordinary comment The feature race at a mile and a furlong was taken in hollow style by G J Longs good colt Arcite He was an overwhelming favor ¬ ite and never left the result in serious doubt after going a quarter showing great speed and winning well in hand Ordono and Moquette put up a spir ¬ ited struggle for second place Ordono gaining it in the closing strides The poor ride that Warren gave Czar was probably responsible for his failure to finish in the money moneyIn In the steeplechase only three of the starters finished Class Leader wnning in a drive by a neck from Coal Black Lady witii Charfield third Im ¬ pertinence was favorite but fell tripping over Chancellor when the latter went down at the club ¬ house jump C II Shilling fell at the next ob ¬ stacle and as Belford had refused early the placed trio were the only ones to fight it out CharfleId might have been much closer up but for going lama while iu a contending position positionAnne Anne McGee was the shortest priced favorite to get home during the afternoon She was much the best and won all the way Geneva S ran im ¬ pressively when she downed Merrick hi the fifth after a wellsustained stretch drive Quagga at a long price showed improved form in winning the closing race rather handily from a good band that included Dick Finnell FinnellJockey Jockey Minder was at the track today but will not be able to resume riding until the latter part of the week weekJockey Jockey Heidel had to cancel his engagements for the afternoon on account of having been overcome by the heat while out reducing this morning morningAnticipating Anticipating light betting this afternoon two of the machines were temporarily discontinued discontinuedBen Ben Cable secretary of the Dallas Racing Asso ¬ ciation was among todays visitors He is here la the interest of his club and also trying to get a good line on the inutucl machines There is a bare possibility that the mutuel machines may be In ¬ stalled at the Dallas track next fall fallH H Flippen will ship several of his best jumpers to Windsor for the meeting there thereHorsemen Horsemen are concerned tonight about the ac ¬ tion of the Louisiana senate They are hopeful that the Locke bill will be defeated defeatedSeveral Several bookmakers that were In line at Hamilton were among todays arrivals
