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AN OFF DAY AT LEXINGTON RAIN SPOILS PROGRAM AND RACING IS ON DECIDEDLY XAME ORDER Withdrawals Lead to Substitution of Soiling Race for Event in Which The Manager Was Carded to Start Be Scores at Long Odds Lexington Ky May 6 The racing at the Ken ¬ tucky Association course this afternoon could hardly be dignified with the term sport There were numerous showers during the morning and the track was muddy It was even worse than that during and immediately after the seventh race for tho hardest shower of the day fell then Each of the winners led virtually all the way Senator Jamra and Steeplejack were the only winning first choices The race won by Steeplejack was one of the poorest ever seen here hereBecause Because of the mud The Manager and Bell Horse were scratched out of the regularly carded third race causing a substitute selling affair at six furlongs to be carded This was won by Vlley which sold in th field There was no betting on tlio Breeders Futu ¬ rity consolation purse and It was no race Hal Price Headley in view of the fact that My Genii and Katrine were running as an entry and they were vir ¬ tually walking over for the purse instructed jockey J Henry that his fathers My Genii be permitted to win and it was so announced to the officials Thu instructions were carried out outThe The longest shot of the meeting was Be the shortest named horse cow on the turf winner of the sixth race He paid 4270 to 1 1Duquesne Duquesne was claimed by F D Weir for 525 J M Barker owner of Austin Sturtcvant also had in a claim William Wallace expressed no ills appointment over losing him If he cant beat the kind he met today in such going he said I do not want him himStarter Starter Cassidy ordered Charley Brown on the schooling list after the first nice niceJust Just before the first race Sonada worked a mile in 147 and earlier in the day The Manager was sent a mile and a quarter in 224 and Worth gal ¬ loped a half in r 5 5Under Under instructions from President Catesby Wojd ford the track police today ordered all persons lu the grandstand to keep their seats during the racing Even with the mere bandfiil In attendance and Mm tame racing it was Impossible to keep them all down Some of the curious are anxious to see what will happen the first time there is a big crowd and an exciting finish If the police undertake to keep these redblooded Kentucky people off their feet or for that matter try to make them quit the prac ¬ tice of standing on chairs which Is admittedly a bad practice but one that excited people are not apt to give a thought to toHarry Harry Morrisscy was notified today by the Okla ¬ homa City track management that they could not accept his terms to start during part of the meet ¬ ing but would close with him to do the starting for the entire meeting and also for the other meetings on the circuit Mr Morrissey had to decline the proffer having already engaged to do the starting at Biitte Anaconda Salt Lake and Spokane A special train to Louisville for the accommodation of lie horsemen parimutncl crews and others will leave Thursday evening eveningDr Dr Maurice M Ixach who went to Australia last fall with Andrew ICobinson returned to Lexington yesterday Dr Leach did weM on his Investments speaks in glowing terms of Australia as a racing country and will shortly make another trip there by way of England EnglandSlow Slow work was the rule over the sloppy track this morning The following were among the best trials trialsCoppertown Coppertown Threequarters in 122 122Fashion Fashion Plate Mile in 150 150Helenc Helenc Half mile In 50 V VJ J H Reed Fiveeighths in 107 107Joe Joe Morris Miic and an eighth in 201 201Pirate Pirate Diana Mile In 152 152Rosturtium Rosturtium Fiveeighths In 100 100The The Manager Mile and a quar r in 224 224Waterbury Waterbury Threequarters in 120 120Worth Worth Half milo In 52 52Yorkville Yorkville Half mile in 52
