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DISAGREE WITH THE JUDGES PLACING PLACINGLexington Lexington Bettors Think Heine Did Not Win and Make Their Views Known Noisily Ixxlngton KV September 25 A mild ilcnn nslra 4on following the placing of Heine as winner f tiie Hosing nice was a diversion out of tin or Unary it this heretofore placid meeting The dcin nstra tion was started by llartings backers wh wen under the impression that lie had won and prolonged by the Heine partisans who evidently were laboring under the belief that Judge Price would change the original placing The finish between the pair was ii desperate one and no one ontsldo of the judges stand was in a position to tell with any degree of rertalnty which had got liome lirst Holne had been the leader for over threequarters and his rider wont to the whiri while J Butler on llarting was taking matters coolly and resorting to hand riding This more ithan anything else gave the crowd the opinion that lie was winning Heine however put up a Kaine struggle and finished in advance by the slight ¬ est of margins Only four horses went to the post in the race and because of the iwssible small betting that would have resulted on Meada the ringmaster did not deem it worth while to keep the show mutuels in opera tiou on the race straight and place tickets only being sold This is another new de ¬ parture in inutucl betting bettingTodays Todays attendance was about the average since the beginning of the meeting There was a slight falling off in the betting chiefly on account of the poor speculative mediums offered The Ijest perform ¬ ance came in the third race wlien Darknight the favorite after appearing certainly doomed to defeat on account of numerous mishaps at the start ran all around the others and won In a furious drive from Margaret T That he was much tiie best was patent to all and his performance was made more impressive by the fact that in running the seven and onehalf furlongs in I lie established a new track record W recordW T Overtoil furnished a surprise by winning from Skyo a strongly backed favorite J II Bakers first time starter Sniff was best of a poor band of youngsters In the opening race and W F Kclmltes Gliding Belle easily took the measure of Mabel Henry in the fourth By winning today Gliding Belle becomes ineligible to the race she is entered in for tomorrow tomorrowI I X Prcwitts useful campaigner The Minks Is in a more serious condition than was at first sup ¬ posed temperatureHuerfano and his fever is at a high temperature Huerfano which was a starter in the fourth race was disposed of yesterday by J S Hawkins to Hughes Bros for the odd sum of 9980 9980A A special train in charge of Eugene Elrod will leave for Louisville Saturday next conveying most of the race followers now here All the niutnel machines here and other paraphernalia useful in the Douglas Park meeting betting ring will be trans ¬ ported at the same time timeA A Woolsthorpe yearling belonging to Colonel W K Applegate was worked a quarter this morning in 23J seconds
