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RAIN FALLS AT LEXINGTON SUDDEN DOWNPOUR AFFECTS ATTENDANCE AND LEAVES THE TRACK MUDDY Handicap Field Reduced to Three anil Countless Ii IiReturned Returned an Easy Winner Solar Star the theOnly Only Other Winning Favorite Lexington Ky September 3 There was very lit ¬ tle sport to be iiad out of the racing at tlie Kentucky Association course this afternoon To begin with the card was a poor one Then came a sudden anil heavy rain cutting down tlie attendance and leaving the track muddy to the extent that previous calcula ¬ tions as to form were upset Tlie handicap which came Kiurtli on the card and which was intended to be the days feature was riddled when the judges excused King Olympian Mary Uavis Milton B and T M Green leaving only Countless Grover HughtH and Donau to contest At that it was the best hot ¬ ting race of the day Countless ran as if he out ¬ classed the others and won as his rider pleased after leading nearly all the way The only other winning favorite was Solar Star This good colt of Weber Ward wore down La Mode and beat her a length iu a hard drive driveThe The biggest surprise of tho day was C W Bied ingers Oreen which got up just in time to take the measure of the favorite of the second race Sun Queen by a neck In the opening race S C Lynus Skeets led all the way and won in a drive witii Worlds Wonder The victory of lAtourno In the last race was pretty much of tlie same order though more easily achieved Tlie victory of Transport was a pleasant surprise to hisowuers Arvil Baker and S K Hughes They both had the opinion that lie could not run well in the mud and the latter was s strongly of that notion that bo kept a small commis ¬ sion that one of the stable boys had insisted on betting bettingThere There was a drop of about 10000 in the volume o the yesterdayA betting today as compared with yesterday A big circus showed here this afternoon and that drew nearly as many persons from tlie racing as the rain kept away awayColonel Colonel 1C T Holloway who has been in Canada all summer was at the track this afternoon K C Cnwdiu of Mt Kisko X V owner of the Ken ¬ tucky Endurance Stakes candidate Swannanoa was also among the visitors visitorsWilliam William M Wallace who has been racing in Canada was at the track His seven horses went to Louisville LouisvilleJames James MacManus who owns the big string that A Bianchi is training was another arrival and G W J Bissell of 1ittsburg also put in an appearance for the first time today George todayGeorge Ham acting for himself and William Gerst the Xashville brewer for whom he traiaa today purchased from Walter Payne four good looking yearlings They are Chestnut colt by Marta Santa Aida Dunn brown filly by Marta Santa Ann Conyers hay gelding by Marta Santa Ito lierta Lee and bay gelding by Foiintaiublue Miss Present The firstnamed two are the property of Mr Gerst and the others Ham bought for himself himselfThe The annual sale of thoroughbred yearlings under the auspices of the Kentucky Sale Company will ho held Wednesday and Thursday evenings by electric light at Tattersalls TattersallsJockey Jockey AV Andress was blinded by the flying mud in the second race and after dismounting from Oreeii had to have the services of a doctor He cancelled his remaining engagements for tiie afternoon Jockey J Henry who was substituted for Andress on Lord Marshall in the third race was unseated while on the way to the post but escaped injury injuryStarter Starter Cassidy dispatched the field in the closing race without the aid of the barrier as a result o Ietourim putting one of the barrier supjiorts out of commission webbiugC when he went through tlie webbiug C Glasner is expected to arrive with his horso from Havre de Grace tomorrow tomorrowHoward Howard Oots telegraphed today from Windsor for stable room for the horses he intends to ship liore tomorrow tomorrow1C 1C J Mackenzies eight horses W G Yanke with six and K I Weirs lot of eight horses are due to arrive from Windsor tomorrow tomorrowK K 1C Bradleys consignment of thirteen racers came in tonight Air Bradley has practically closed with A D Steele for the contract on jockey B Steelo and that lightweight wil do most of tho riding for the Bradley stable on the Kentucky tracks this fall fallJockey Jockey Borel arrived today from AVindsor and will accept mounts Jockey Obert was another ar ¬ rival He came from Havre de Grace and bus con ¬ tracted with AV J Speirs to ride the horsea owned by II Benzinger BenzingerE E 1C Bradleys yearlings have been broken by Charles Dodson and will be raced in Air Bradleya colors next season The lot includes the first Ken ¬ tucky crop of Ciinard a sire that got several goo racers in California CaliforniaSeveral Several prospective patrons of tlie yearling sales to begin here tomorrow evening arrived today frota various points pointsIt It is expected that there will be further arrivals of racing folk from Windsor tomorrow
