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NIMBUS TAKES HANDICAP OD0M RACER BEATS CHAPULTEPEC IN DRIVING FINISH AT LEXINGTON. Fine Weather Restores Track to-Normal Condition-Five Driving Finishes Furnish Excitement-Meeting- to Come to Close Today. Lexington, Ky., September 22. The card for the eighth and next to the last day of the Kentucky Associations fall meeting was not particularly alluring, yet it brought a good crowd to the course the weather being bright and warm and the track verging on good and produced some rattling good contests, there being five driving finishes. In a betting way, however, the talent again fared badly, four of the first choices failing. The handicap at three-quarters of a mile was the best race of the day. Chapultepec and Handrazetta went out together at the start, but coming up the hill to the; head of the stretch, Nimbus, the favorite, supplanted the filly and was within a length of Chapultepec. An eight of a mile from the finish Nimbus got to Chapultepec and beat him by a neck. Milton B. ran a good race to be third, coining from far back, aud would have won at a longer distance. The fastest race of the afternoon was the last, which Silver Knight won after wearing down Alice Baird. The Free Knight gelding ran the mile and a sixteenth in 1:40, which is within two-fifths of a second of the track record made last spring by Bonnie Kelso. "Uncle Si" Hughes scored a double when Ethel Samson and Hanly. both hitherto maidens," won the fourth and fifth races, respectively. They were both in front all the way. The riding honors of the day went to Motesworth. lie piloted Spalding and Bredwell, the long shot winners respectively of the first and second races, and was second on Chapultepec and Alice Baird. The last two winners were ridden by jockey Loftus, and Kenuedy and Goose each scored once. There was a miscalculation iu the straight pay on Bredwell in the secoud race that for a time caused considerable confusion. At first 9.00 was posted as the payoff, nut a recalculation showed the pay to bo 0.70 for . and the increased odds were at once posted on the blackloard. Several of the ticket holders had already cashed at the shorter odds, but were each given the increase of .85 for each dollar they had wagered. The longest place price of the meeting came when Crow Robb finished second to Spalding in thu first race, mutuels paying 11.30. Jockey Molesworth has been engaged to ride for W. G. Yauke during the Louisville meeting. J. W. May announced today that he will leave here next Thursday for Laurel with bis nine horses. He will return to Kentucky for the Latonia meeting. His seventeen yearlings will bo left here in charge of his stable forman, George Beaucbainp. Gallahcr Brothers will ship to Laurel next Tuesday. They will take six horses, leaving Ozana and their yearlings here to be broken. From Laurel ther will probably to to Jamestown. They will race at Havana next winter. Henry McDauiel said this afternoon that Irving H. Wheaterott had made a proposition to him that if accepted, will take him to Australia. He said that he will make up bis mind within a week whether be will go or stay, ir he decides to go ho will leave about the middle of October and will turn over his horses to his brother William. Bonnie Floise had to be withdrawn from the sixth race on account of illness. Trainer W. II. Knrriek will dispose of some of the horses he has here, and may decide later 011 for a winter campaign. Jockey Mountain will go to Mexico City follow Ing the close of the Churchill Downs meeting and will have a mount in the Mexican Derby, to be run about the middle of November. The Kentucky State Racing Commission will meet tomorrow and pass on several matters, including the Wrispen case. II. 11. Reotber has turned his filly, Catherine Ilanipson. over to Thomas Shannon, trainer of Luke LeBlonds string. Mr. Reether will remain here to break yearlings.
