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HANDICAP FINISH THRILLS T M GREEN ROYAL CAPTIVE MELISANDE AND GLORIO NOSES APART Patrons of Racing at Churchill Downs Treated to Exciting Spectacle Favorites Continue to Far Badly Budget of Kentucky Gossip Louisville Ky October 17 Todays handicap at threequarters at Churchill Downs resulted In a sen ¬ sational finish of four T Af Green Royal Captive Alelisande and Glorlo terminating a glorious struggle noses apart The desperate duel that the quartet engaged in during the final furlong brought the big throng of spectators to their feet in a frenzy of ex ¬ citement with ringing cheers of encouragement to their respective favorites Aside from the hard fought contest the race resulted in disappointment owing to the failure of Alelisande to repeat her Tlc tory of Saturday The additional five pounds that she had to pick up as a consequence of Saturdays victory was probably a potent factor Ire bringing about her defeat this afternoon By his performance this afternoon T Af Green showed a return to his best form and the haudicappcr will have him to reckon with in future starts Royal Captive but for losing considerable ground by being taken wide might have won and Giorio forgetting to sulk Wits going strongest near the end with every prospect of proving the victor had the distance been a bit longer longerThe The other races were made up of the cheaper racing material h these parts and engaged big and unwieldy fields which caused crowding and produced rather ordinary sport Upsets were numerous all the choices being bowled over J C Milam scored a double with A Ia Aleade and Labold Both ot these showed marked improvement and were smartly backed by their connections Ada Aleade came away an easy victor but Labold had to be forced out to the last ounce and barely stalled off Crex and Arty Port The latter was much the best but his rider made the mistake of allowing him to drop out of contention in the early stages and then took him extremely widd into the stretch Todays stretchTodays attendance was again generous and filled the spacious ground to the crowding point Specu lation was up to its former high standard Jockey standardJockey Dave Nicol accepted the offer to go to Afexico City to ride in the Derby and accompanied by jockey Mountain departed tonight Nicol took the place of T Rice who was first engaged but declined to go Nicol if he can secure a suitable permanent engagement will remain in Alexico arid ride there next year He also plans a trip to South American countries and may not again be seen In the StatesII saddle in the United States II D Brown after conferring with F J Poris concerning racing matters pertaining to Jacksonville departed for Baltimore where he will remain until the close of the Pimlico meeting after which he will return to Latonia LatoniaJohn John W Schorr decided to ship Tom Hayward here to engage in the Cherokee Stakes to be run tomor ow He came from Latonia tonight and will be ridden by Guy Burns who will come here specially to take the mount Ida May owned by F Gerlng also came from Latonia LatoniaThere There will be a closing out sale of the racing establishments of P J Alillett and the late L O Appleby in the Churchill Downs paddock on Thurs ¬ day next Jockeys Thomas and Keogh carried off todays riding honors with a pair of victories each Keogh was suspended for the rest of the meeting by the starter for disobedience at the post Jockey postJockey T Rice was given a snarp caution by the judges ridingThe for attempting some rough riding The horses that Alars Cassldy purchased at tlfe Lexingtou sales for Alberto Terrazas will l e taken in charge by W P Fine who wjll deliver them with his shipment to Juarez at he close of the present meeting meetingE E R Bradleys LoveXot which finished second to Bashti In the filly end of the Alatron Stakes at Pimlico Saturday arrived today from Baltimore Jockey J Reid also returned and will resume riding tomorrow tomorrowC C C Van Aleter has disposed of Pit aPat and Beechmont to W P Fine on private terms termsJohn John Ilachmeister returned today from Latonia whither he went to observe the progress of the Im ¬ provements made for the coming meeting He re K rts everything In order and that local interest in the coming racing is stronger than at any previous period Stable superintendent Larry Bogenschots will arrive here tomorrow from Latonia to complete the assignment of stable room to horsemen Already 955 stall allotments have been made and it is expected that fully 1000 horses will engage in the sport Several applications from Baltimore for stable room were received today Capt todayCapt J B Viley was at Churchill Downs a day or two aso and brought news that he would again be able to race his crack filly Little Oasis The halfslitter to Lux Casta was cut down in the Clip setta Stakes at Latonia last summer and at the time it was feared she would have to be destroyed Captain Viley will not allow her to l c trained again until next summer and will not think of asking her to race in the spring so she is out of the Kcntuckr Oaks for 1911 1911T T P Hayes was here recently coming from Lexington where his stable is still quartered as he has been busy since the meeting closed there break ¬ ing fourteen yearlings that he now has in his barn He will likely take three or four horses to Latonia to race and will land at one of the winter tracks with his entire stable His crack colt Oracle is still running out and he may not take up the sou of Delhi until winter sets in He is going to pre ¬ pare him for the big stakes of next spring and sum ¬ mer and as a consequence will race him but little during the coming winter winterW W T Anderson has received a letter from Lex ¬ ington asking him to put a price on his threevear old filly Jacquelina and informing him that a foreign buyer from the West India Islands desires to purchase the daughter of Jack Point Air Ander ¬ son is not overanxious to sell the filly as she is one of the twentyfive horses he figured on shipnin to Juarez to race the coming winter T C Me Dowell has also with Anderson made application tor stable room at Juarez and will take his enMri stable there after the coming Uitonia meeting is isWayne Wayne Joplin and his racing partner N il Vnri t have at Churchill Downs tTveP wlMroi yer S 1 halfst8r to Dndelion Xistiirtium HI
