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: i . , 1 ; , - FAST GOING AT LATONIA NEW TRACK RECORDS MADE BY C. A. LEIMAN. HYPERION II. AND KINGS DAUGHTER. T. C. McDowells Mare Makes Good at Odds-on in the Decoration Handicap — Holiday Attendance Thousands in Excess of Derby Day. Cincinnati .. Mav 31. — Racing conditions todav wcre perfect and lovers of the sport manifest.. 1 their interest by attending in great numbers, there prohsbty being 3.MH more at the coarse than on Derby day. Twentv-two layers-two less than on Saturday quoted xhls. and bad a prod table day. most of the favorites being beaten. Improved track conditions permitted the breaking of three track records. The feature race, the Decoration Handicap, or the net value of .7!M to the winner, was taken in easy fashion bv T. C. McBowclls good niaje. Kings Daughter. She was at all times an odds on favorite, despite the weight concession she was making to her opponvnts. and never gave her backers a moments uneasiness, as she took a long lead Immediately after the start and maintained it throughout. Wool Sandals II a I she d second a sbot distance in advance of the consistent Tom Ilavwurd. Hack. T. M. Greea. Pi hut Ahmed, Mars.- Abe. The Beer and Klor.al were withdrawn from the contest, but the adding of Maltbie left eight starters lighting it out for the purse. On The Mink- recent showing he was coiwedcd a ehsaCe to give the McDowell mare a good argument, but ran dMappointlngiv and was beSteP bv all but Old Honesty. Kings Daughters time. 1:11*. for the mile and a sixteenth, reduced the track record by two fifths of a second. The tabulated history of the Decoration Handicap is as follows: Year. Winner. A. Wt. Jockcv. Val. Time. 1902 A.lel.mte 4 93 J. Hicks . .,490 2:UK| BH CI Reservation ..3 M Roinanclli . -1.7SS lrJUJ 1004 Reservation ..4 lis Monro l.«45 1:9Q 1906 Lady Savoy ..3 loo Noonan 1.0M 1.17* 1906 Princess Orna.4 lnl D. Austin . 1.M0 1:1... DM17 Pasadena ". 114 Cherry 1.950 1:47 DMIS Biukola 3 107 Minder l.ffi I l« 1100 K. Daughter..!! 1L 3 Y. Bowers.. 1.7HJ 1:441 111 the six furlongs race the track record was alsj clipped and a new mark of 1:12 established. Hv- . Iierion II. and the speedy Colloquy lought out the Issue, with Victory going to Hyperion by a small margin. Colloquy was thought to have the race at b.T mercy ami was heavily backed at odds on. Sie flattered her hackers bv going into a good lead .oksthe outset and appearing a certain winner until it tin-last sixteenth, whea the Cells sprinter came with a rush that brought him to the liuNli first by a few inches. Crystal Maid, which landed third, might have been returned the winner but for bad racing luck. Cherryolas defeat by C. A. Leimaii was a severe blow to form players, but they derived consolation rroui the belief that she would have won but for a bad send off caused by fractious behavior at the post. C. A. Leiinan. In winning, established a new track record by running four and one ball furlongs in 5S|. Cherryoia came with a great rush in the last furlong and was going so stoutly at the end that she probably would have bceu the winner had the distance been a trifle greater. The opening race, in which eighteen were originally carded, was reduced by withdrawals to eleven starters and it enabled T. P. Haves to land his first purse of the year when Lillie Turner finished first just in advance of Billy Iullnian. A betting coup was attempted in the closing race on Miss Siroiue. but she tir.-d and stopped so badly after follow ing Keep Movings pace for three quarters that she finished unplaced. The fifth, won by Lud-iii.ina. was contested by about the poorest band that could be mustered here. John Wbil laws good fitly. Irfaneh. dropped dead this morning while being ltd from the track after a work out in which she ruptured some blood vessels. The filly was highly thought of bv her owner, who onlv recently refused ,200 for her transfer to an eastern stable. The Latonia Jockey inb stewards today announced the reinstatement of jockey A. Brown, who is under suspension on "account of a faulty rids on Dcutsch-laiui daring the fall meeting of 1907. Tod Cell. i contemplates maintaining a breeding establishment in the near future. He will in all probability select the Spring Lake ground, purchased by the Dells faction and originally intended as the opposition track to Latonia during the We-tcrn Jockey Club and American Turf Association strife. He will have a limited number of mares, probably Ult-eii. with Mentor at the head of the stud. John . Kerriss has added to his string of racers by taking Civita. Delf and Deerfoot to train for C. J. Long, which horses arrived here from Louisville this morning. John B. Dillon, who has been connected with tlie Latonia Jockey Club since the earlv days of racing here, received tlie Democratic nomination for comity i"Uit clerk on Saturday last. Nomination is equivalent to election and as the term ot otlice is four years and carries with it a salary ranging from SSOOQ to 11,000 annually, it was gratifying to Dillon-, friends that he bin. led the plum. Young .limes McLaughlin got in this morniii • from Norfolk. Va.. with nine horses that he will campaign here. B. J. Miles With three. M. T. W 1 with two and M. 1. Casev with three, al.- arrived. Jockey T. Burns is expected in a few days and will do most of the riding for James McLaughlin. Latest advices from authoritative sources in I-lor ida Intimate that the racing llllislliai is safe and that no adverse measure will be enacted during the pros.-tit session of the legislature. Tlie Klori.lu legl. -lalni-o will gdjnuiu Saturday. The report of a possible earlv resumption of ra. ing in Chicago set the horsemen agog here, and 111 the event that tie sport Is permitted to resuni 1 every horseman here will be on hand for the oneii-. ing. Horsemen from Norfolk. Va.. Bay licit Al Valen-I line, who backed the meeting at the Virginia stoat, lost 2 000 on the venture, and that the attendance was very light. It Is considered doubtful if racing in that section can be put on a paying basis, under present conditions.
