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FAVORITE DAY AT LATONIA FIVE PUBLIC CHOICES WIN. BUT SHORT ODDS HELP THE LAYERS. Some Excitement in Ring Over Paul Davis — Bad Weather Keeps Down the Attendance — Jockey Mountain Has His First Mount. Cincinnati. 0.. May 20. — Todays featureless card resulted in ordinary si« rt. the bad weather also accounting for a decreased attendance. Track conditions could not have l*-en worse, and owners of the l etter class of carded starters were adverse to sending their charges to tlie post. Favorites fared well, five of them winning, but tlie seventeen lavers were not hurt to anv considerable extent bv their victories, as the prices were short. . A. Leiiuan. at lO to T. was tlie outsider to acare, Tlie most pretentious race of the day. if such It could be termed, was the mile selling dash, in which Tom Havward. Colonel Blue Bonnie Bard and Brookhaf were engaged. Tom Havward outclassed his op-IMMieiits ami won as his rider pleased from Colonel Blue, with Bonnie Bard in third pla.-e. Some excitement was created in tlie ring during the oiMtiitig of prices on the third race, for with the chalking up of .Kids against Paul Davis, then-was a wild scramble to get on board, and for a time there was steady backing for him. but toward* the close his price receded sharply, lie might have won l«it for suffering from considerable interference when, rial Ilk attempted to run out on the stretch turn. C. A. Leiman profited nu St. as he was enabled to dash Into a long lead, which pn eluded anv possibility of his Witnr overtaken beloie the finish. Clierrvola placed the form backers on easy street •when she came Into a cantering victory in the opener. They followed their advantage up by s. lecting Marmoreau as the probable winner in the second, and she made good rather han.Iilv under Powers vigorous ride. Boserrian had little ditti eulty in landing the fifth rare. lie might have had a more strumous time of it had I.adv Vie n..i been cut down during the eariv running. Stout: Street proved his superiority in tin- going over a cheap band in tlie closing race ami Iwat out Water Lake, the extreme outsiiler. The management dlacon tinned today tlie withhold ing of scratches, jockeys and overweights and posted them before the running of the first rjice • Claude i-ouiptou waa au atkUlUm lo Uie ranks of . layers this afternoon. Jockey George Mountain, who was granted a license by the Kentucky Racing Commission to ride for the Fizer Woodford stable, had his first mount this afternoon since his suspension at City Park during the spring or IMS. W. J. Young shipped Plate Glass and Warneld to New York, where they will engage in tlie racing. John Rodegap arrived today from Lexington with a string of eleven racers. P. J. Miles and ex jockey James McLaughlin are expected to arrive from Norfolk. Va. The former will bring four horses and •McLaughlin will have seven in his care. Jockey rooster has signed a contract to ride for W. E. Walsh. Jockey Shea was fined *2." by the starter for disobedience at the post today. The announcement that there would be a short term of raclug at Ingalls Park. Juliet. 111., was read with considerable interest by horsemen. Many of tliem are of the opinion that tlie re establishing of racing at Juliet will prove the wedge for resumption of the sport on some of the Chicago or Indiana tracks. t Graver Baker has severed his connection as trainer fi»r the Alvey string of racers. The horses will iu future lie trained by J. C. Ferriss.
