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SUBSTANTIAL PATRONAGE FOR LATONIA Cincinnati O May 23 jCincinnatLls ablaze with interest this spring over the coming ineetlng at La tonia which begins on Decoration Day Thursday May 30 and continues for twentyfour racing days This season many new members have been added to the Jockey Club at Latonla which accounts in great measure for the Interest exhibited by pronv iuent Cincinnati people in the racing The recruit include many prominent citizens of Cjnclnuatl and as a result some who have not patronized racing since the dissolution of the noted Oakley plant will be seen at the course The Churchill Downs meeting at Louisville will also contribute to the success of the Latonlarraeme That is a majority of the horses entered at Latonia this spring and which are regarded as cracks have raced well at the Downs showing that they are it present in the best of form This assures remark able racing at Latonia All the prominent Latonia Derby candidates which are racing at Churchill Downs have been showing good form Sprite has not been to the post there as yet but she is training well at Douglas Parkand her stable connections are sweet on her uerpr ° ThetSLatonia program book Is out A nictnre of Governor Gray which won the Latonia Derby last vear adorns the cover The book contains a tubula of each event and also the program for the first nine days of the meeting tW ve been I increased as compared with last RPnn r On n oneuln dav there are to be three races with JFWH mhledlind two with 500 fThe wcond dwa card will consist of two 000 and four 500 Purses Derby Day is the biggest of them alL as f ar a daddednneyirfalue of 2500 making a grand total of 5500 to be distributed that day dayAs As far as the conditions are concerned out of tbe fiftyfour races that will be run the first nine days twentyfive are at one mile and over seventeen are df voted to twoyearolds and the other twelve are at sprinting distances It has always been the policy of the Latonla Jockey Club to stretch out the distances for the races racesThe The entries for the opening days races will close at the track next Wednesday at 1030 a m and at Louisville on Tuesday evening
