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AMATEUES DISPLAY SKILL RACE FOR GENTLEMEN RIDERS AROUSES KEEN INTEREST AT LEXINGTON Finish of the Race Is Exciting and Two of the Par ¬ ticipants Have Unpleasant Experiences Horses Begin to Kovo to Louisville Lexington Ivy September 12 The weather be Ing considerably cooler with the sun shining brightly the best crowd of the week nnd one of the largest of the meeting turned out for the rac ¬ ing Jit the Kentucky Association course this after ¬ noon The race for gentlemen riders attracted many who otherwise might have remained away This race had four starters and produced one of the closest finishes ever seen in a contest between anni leur riders The winner was Lucas Combs Un ¬ popular young son of Leslie M Combs leader of tin1 Progressive party in Kentucky Jle rode Jim rafferata and hud a head the better of Vancn which was ridden by Barry Shannon the youngest of the sons of Mr and Mrs John M Shannon of this city Third a neck away came Alex Hum phrey the young Louisville sportsman on Austin Sturtovant while bringing up the rear some fifty lengths away was young Mr Osborne of Louisville n Danville II Mr Humphrey was not able to pnli up Austin Sturt Sturtvvant vvant until he had run an extra mil and a half and the young man was so thoroughly exhausted by his effort that he received the niton lion of Dr Maguirc the track physician who said that he had been badly shaken up as well as weak cued by his ordeal Danville II wanted to ruu away with Mr Osborne but lift took him into the fince slowed him down and jumped off with Un ¬ less of an inch or so of cuticle from one of his legs After he had been turned over to a stable boy how ever Danville II got the bit between his teeth aiil ran a mile and a half the wrong way of the track The two Lexington boys well used to horseback riding and polo playing were none the worse for liio race raceBackers Backers of favorites fared hotter today Silver Moon Lady Lightning and Sea Cliff being successful tirst choices Star of Danube and Jim CalTerata vffc second choices while Nobby and Vaiien sec ind respectively to the first mentioned two were fivorites The only winning long shot of the after ¬ noon whs Mark A Mayer in the opening race raceThe The total amount of money handled through the iiiutuels during the afternoon was 31130 31130Frank Frank K Brown whose sixteen Castletonbred vearlings are to l e sold by auction in Horsemens Headquarters next Saturday morning returned from New York this evening The catalog for the sak ami olT the press today and after perusing If K K Bradley who has inspected the yearlings it tin farm expressed the opinion that they will bring an aggregate of 30010 an average of ap ¬ proximately 2000 each eachTlio Tlio string of A 1 Humphrey Jr and Dan Iehan consisting of seven yearlings and six older horses will be transferred tonight to Churchill Downs Louisville James Kvcrmans fourteen racers will be shipped to Douglas Park on Saturday There will be a special horse train leaving here on Sunday next and it will transfer to Louisville the horses ivncd by Gallaher Bros It Colston F A For svlhc K D Weir AV 5 Yanke J W May W T Yrftilml Jr W T Worthingtun J C Mllam and W L Lewis LewisGeorge George Ham will take eight old horses and ilovon yearlings to ChurHiill Downs He also has i leven yearlings at the Gcrst farm at Nashville Ix of them having recently been purchased from IJ S Gardner GardnerIose Iose Goldhlatt was among todays visitors Jake Creciihurg was also among the visiting delegation from the Falls City CityAbout About 150 turf followers will go on the Kitoil special to Louisville Saturday night nightMany Many expected to see Lady Lightning bid up after her victory in the lifth race and a crowd Slithered around the judges stand in anticipation She was in for 300 but invited no raise As a twoyearold K F Carman offered 0Xo for her but she was then held by her owner at 15000 15000The The program book for the lirst six days of the iitcmplated racing at Porter Intl under the auspices of the Mineral Springs Jockey Club was received this morning by many of the horsemen who commented on the liberal policy of the manage ¬ ment
