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I 1 1 : - . . I - . • , 1 t ; KFEN INTEREST IN LATONIA DERBY. Tremendous Crowd Expected to Witness Its Decision Tomorrow — Something of Its Winners. Cincinnati, o.. June 4. — Monday the Latonia Derby, one of the most tssaartaat events of the racing season in Kentucky, will be decided over the Iwant if ill course nestling in the hills of Kenton County. The elite of Cincinnati will grace the occasion with their presence and with sunny skies the race is almost sure to attract a record-breaking attendance. Strictly speaking, this will be the twenty-fourth Latonia Derbv, which was actually first run under that name in 1887. In MRS, 1884. IMS and lSMi lb.- chief three-year-old stake of the Latonia spring meeting was titled the Hindoo Stakes. This event was successively won in the four years of its history by Lcomitus. Audrain. Bersan and Silver Cloud. The name of the race was changed to the Latonia Derby in 1887. Without the break of a single season, its distance has ever remained one mile and a half, like its prototype at Epsoin I towns. England. One feature of the race has been its penalty and allowance clause, which has resulted in more than one instance in a victor in the Kentucky Derby meeting his Waterloo at Latonia. The racers that have won both fixtures embrace only Kingiuan. Halina. Ben Brush. Lieutenant Gibson. Elwood and Sir Huon. while Montrose. Riley and Plaudit are three great horses that failed to win the Latonia Darky alter capturing the Churchill Downs prize. Monday Donau, the most recent winner of the Kentucky Derby, will essay to join the list made tip of Kingman. Halina. Ben Brush. Lieutenant Gib- son. Elwood and Sir Huon. but there are many who doubt his ability to perform the task. He will be asked to pick up ten pounds for winning the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs and go a quarter of a mile farther than he has yet been asked to run in a real contest. Owner William Gerst and trainer Gearac Ham arc confident that he is the kind of a i-olt to iH-rform this feat. In his final trials for the big race the son of Woolsthorpe has done all that trainer Ham could ask of him in a generous way and he will undoubtedly strip for the big race "as fit as a fiddle." There are many who profess to believe that the winner will turn up in Joe Morris or Boola Boola. The first-named has been training in splendid shape and has startled the work-watchers with his dazzling speed. His last trial, a mile and a quarter in 2:06£. was one of the best performances of its kind witnessed at the Churchill Downs track. Trainer Baker, who has him in charge, makes no secret of Ids belief that the colt will win and will be greatly disappointed should he fail. While not discounting Donaus ability. .Mr. Biker lays great stress on the fact that Jar Morris will be in receipt of ten pounds from Donau and this, in his estimation, will easily offset tbe scant margin that separated the pair of colts in the Kentucky Derby. Boola Boola is the sort that is always coming with a great rush just as the race at an ordinary distance is about over, and this, more than anything else, has attra.-t.-d a band of admirers to his standard. The mil.- and a half route is considered just to his liking. as it will afford him ample time to get going well and settle down in his lumbering, but space-devouring stride. The above trio, in the estimation of the critics. will battle it out liotween them. Surprises, however, have developed in former years and this seasons running may. of course, bring another. Coming back to the history of the Latonia Derby. its first winner was Libretto, a good-looking bay colt by Iingfcllow. that later won some good races for Edward Corrigan. Like so many useful racers that have worn the ••green and white sash" of that famous turfman, the first Latonia winner was put to jumping and was killed one day by failure to clear a hurdle properly. He was a colt that was a Unit his best the day he won he Latonia Derby, with Jim Gars and the Kentucky Derby winner of tiiat year. Montrose, behind him. The second Latonia Derby resulted in a dead beat between E. J. Baldwins filly. Los Angeles, and W. O. Scullys celt. White. Neither owner cared to divide tin- stakes and in the runoff Los Angeles won. The latter was a fatuous mare, in her turf car.-er earning over 7. WK . She onlv reeentlv died at Hamburg Place Stud. J. K. Madden being her last owner. White, her formidable competitor in the race, was sold to a western stud and sired several good horses. He died several years ago. Hindoocraft. one of the earlv good sons of Hindoo, the sire of Hanover, was the big race in ISSit and defeated Proctor Knotts stable companion, Cnme-to-Taw. He died coming into his four-year-old form after selling the fall of his Derbv success for something like 7.1100 at auction. He was a good colt, particularly as a three-vcar old. In 1V.H» Rill Letcher, like Libretto, a son of Longfellow, won the event and beat Riley, a winner that year of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Bill Ietchcr proved a gixxl handicap horse in later Years, but died leaving little stud record behind him. as in a breeding way he Yvas isolated in a section of the country when- good thoroughbred mares were few. He might have been a stud success under more favorable conditions. In 1S01 the Kentucky Derby winner, Kingman, duplicated his Louisville success at Latonia. He was regarded as a splendid racer, but poorly trained. He never raced after he was a three-vear-old and died young. Newton, by Billet, had only Ronald to beat in the race in 1S92. but Newton was regarded highly, and at one time held the record for two inibs. He did not do much in the stud aud died while still in his prime. In 1S93 Buck McCann beat the crack. Boundless. Boundless later went to Chicago and heal J. R. Keenes good colt. St. Leonards. 111 the SUVt.ftOO American Derby. Buck McCann was killed as a four-year-old. He was a sou of the successful sire. Buchanan, a Kentuekv Derbv winner. Lazzarone. which, as a four-year-old. defeated the great Domino in the Suburban Handicap, won the usteala Derby in 1S!»4. He was considered a high-class horse and was a son of the great race horse. Spendthrift, and out of Spinaway. a sensational race mare. He was placed in the stud in Iowa aud sent several Baal horses to race. He was still alive at la.st accounts. In 1S95 another great racer. Halms, by Hanover, won the big race following his success in the Kentucky Derby. The late Charles F. Fleischmann gave .-.. 000 for him. Just for the sake of winning the Latonia Derby. As a sire Halma was a success, both in this country and France, where W. K. Van-d.-rliilt sent him after becoming his owner. A year or two ago he was returned to this country and presented to the New York Breeding Bureau. He died recently. Another Kentucky Derby winner. Ben Brush, won the latonia event in 1«6, and he is one of the really great horses enrolled in the list of Latonia Derby winners. He is now at the head of J. R. K.eiics noted CasUetea Stud, and has sired among others such brilliant race horses as Delhi. Rro mi Mick and Swi-op. Another excellent race horse. Or-tiiini nt. won the Latonia Derby in 1S97. and went on after that event to many great victories, one of which was the Brooklyn Handicap. In the stud he is also gaining fame, having sired many useful winners*. He is still alive and In active stud service. In MM the most sensational Latonia Derby, from a time standpoint, was yvoh by the Hanover colt. Hand d"Or. when he set the mark for the distance at •_:::21. It is still the record for the race. He heat on the occasion of his fast performance the Ken-lucky Derby winner. Plaudit, since famous in the stud as the sire of King James and other good racers. Hand dOr died as a five-year-old. Prince McdUTX. the next victor, beat Decring. Prince Mc-CJara;, like Hand dOr. died while still racing. Peering is at present in the stud somewhere in Illinois. In 1900 the prestige of Lieutenant iibson was so -Teat that he was allowed a walkover for the stakes, having previously won the Kentucky Derby in time that lias not been eclipsed to this day. This great son of ;. W. Johnson died in his three-year-old form. Hernando, another son of Hanover, won the race in BfL It was among his best turf performances and his time equaled Ornaments 2:3."ii. the third seal record for the race. As a five-year-old Hernando weal to the stud, was returned to the turf in a year or two and then once more sent back to breeding, but died a short time after his second re tirement. In 1!WI2 Harry Ncyv. a son of Pirate of Penzance. won the race, and Woodlake. in T. V McDowells • •■lors. YYon the prize in rM3. Both of these horses raced long afterwards. Harry New is now dead. I.l y 1 wm the race in l.HH after previously winning the Kentucky Derby. He was racing up to a few years ago and was in the west at last accounts. The Foreman, a Canadian-owned horse, by the Tennessee stallion. Inspector B.. won the La-taahl Derby iii P.M r . He Yvas returned to Canada after hi- rleteey ami arahahty is still alive. Sir Huon. a g 1 ra.er. also a Kentucky Derby winner. met success in the race the following year. He is now just In-ginning what bids fair to be a brilliant career at Bashford Manor Stud, the breeding farm of the l/.uisville turfman and Kentucky racing 00m-■taataaer, Q eater J. Long. The AMmt won the race for W. .1. Young in 1MT. lb- was still racing at Jacksonville last winter Hi- Latonia Derby victory is aliout his best tint n rl.ii-mani-e. In I.rfiS Pinkola won the Derby and lb. sea of Pink Coat is still racing creditably. being a -take uinn-r at the Ijouisville meeting which end- today. The last of the list of winners is Olambala. He was ridden l»v T. Rice, who will bar the mount Monday on Boola Boola. There were tiiisy scenes at Latonia yesterday and today. Hillside the Hack the switch engines were shifting the horse cars, and many thoroughbreds from LoalsrlUe were unloaded. The one over which tic- btgresl Faes eras made arai Joe Morris, a Derby candidate .M...111 sereaty-Bra banal ranse in on i|. nisi train yesterday. Another special train I 11 later in be afternoon and aboat 2 mi horses arrived this morning. By Sunday night stable super- Intendent Larry Bogenschutz expects to have more than a thousand horses under cover Inside the track. The mutuel booths an* ready and there will l e no delay getting the machines in place on their arrival Suiuiav morning. The patrons of Latonia will see a new structure this time in the place between the betting shed and grandstand, which is to serve a double purpose. The new structure is a two-story affair and will be the home of the combination niutuels. which require gigantic blackboards. Then one will also be able on rainy days to go from the betting shed to the grandstand without getting wet. Roval Re|x rt worked a mile and a half today in 2:::4». the first mile in 1:41 i. Boola Boola worked a mile and a quarter in 2:10j . The jockeys and probable odds for the Latonia Derbv tomorrow are as follows: Horse. Wt. Jockey. Odds. Donau 127 Herbert 2-1 See Morris 117 C. Grand 5-2 Boola Boola 117 T. Rice S-l Roval Report 117 M. Hill 5-1 Gallant Pirate 114 Kennedy 15 1 Milton B Ill 20-1
