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BRIGS BROTHER SCORES E R BRADLEYS JUVENILE IS LONE WINNING FAVORITE AT LEXINGTON Attempted Betting Coup on Free Trade Goes Wrong1 Track Drying Out Rapidly Helios Trainer TrainerAnnounces Announces He Will Not Start in Derby Lexington Ky April 10 The Kentucky Asso ¬ ciation had good attendance fine weather and in teresting racing over a rapidly drying track for tho fourth day of its spring meeting though the card was offeringIt primarily counted quite mediocre as an offering It was no day for favorites for five of the sis first choices were bowled over Rrigs Brother a goodlooking twoyearold son of Cunard and Ella Smith from E R Bradleys Idle Farm strjng saving the smart set from a complete whitewash by winning the fifth race The Norman which fin ¬ ished second in the cplors of T C McDowell is a son of Hastings and Monarka and is a handsome animal that will make a real runner with a little more education There was a tip about Will Youngs Dr Samuel but he ran greenly and was never prominent prominentThe The biggest upset of the day came in the fourth race when Free Trade from the Wayne Tppllu string finished absolutely last Old Ben the sec ¬ ond choice won after wearing down Mcshach in the stretch drive Joplin had placed a big commission on his colt in St Louis and some others had done likewise One of the St Louis handbookmakera who has a representative here became afraid to hold the Free Trade money and his man unloaded 11500 into the parimutuels the object being of course to cut down Free Trades price which it did quite effectually It likewise caused better support for Old Ben since it furnished something for the Old Beii following to shoot at Free Trade seemed to prop just as the barrier went up and at the same moment Ada darted across in frrtnt of him This caused him to be practically out of It from the start However It Is doubtful If he can beat Old lien for the son of Ren Brush is a really high class gelding and it is known that before bo got sick at Loulsvilb owner Yanke had some notion about winning the Breeders Futurity with him himLady Lady Lightning running kindly and in nowisa sour today simply romped away from Tillies Night ¬ mare Grif and the others in the opening race Ida Lavinia the second choice put it all over Harwood in th second race in which Caro Nome was a fast coming third thirdSheriff Sheriff Dan W Scotts Flying Tom made Weya noke and Strenuous look cheap in the mile allowance race He is a good gelding and will beat better horses than the two he took into camp today todayPraetorian Praetorian which was presented by Johnson N Camden to Sam C Nuckols Jr of Wood ford Co after the gelding broke down in 1 H made his first start since that time In the last race today which he won quite handily after a hustling ride from a slow start the favorite Rasli being second and Marshon third After the first race Captain Thomas J Clay the presiding judge John T Ireland patrol judge and Will H Shelley associate judge and racing secre ¬ tary summoned jockeys 1uxton and McDonald into the otlice and warned Buxton against rough riding Ho had taken care of Just Red on which littlo McDonald had the mount Buxton was told that a repetition of his offense here would cause his sus ¬ pension and that if set down here he would not soon ride agnin Secretary Shelley after this went into the jockey room repeated to the riders what the judges had said to Buxton and added Now that goes for all of you Do not get it into your heads that you can risk the lives and bones of one another for the sake of helping some fellow win n bet on a horse you are riding or on a horse that some other jockey is riding The judges here will not stand for such tactics and once you are down those fellows who are urging you to do this rough riding will not be able to get you up You will alt ride fairly or yon will not ride at all allMessrs Messrs Andrew Miller secretary of the Saratoga Association John Sanford member of the New York State Racing Commission H K Knapp F R Hitchcock Alex Smith Cochrane R M Bull and W G Street made up a party of New Yorkers that arrived this afternoon They intend to remain here until the contusion of the meeting and then go over to Louisville to see the running of the Ken ¬ tucky Derby Mr Miller said that interest in rac ¬ ing in New York is growing and that a grand meeting at Saratoga is in prospect prospectTrainer Trainer T O Kccne said this afternoon Helios will not be a starter in the Kentucky Derby Mr Camden the owner of Helios and I are agreed that the welfare of the gelding demands that he lw not started in that race It is now intended that Helios will be withheld from racing until the Saratoga meeting meetingThomas Thomas C McDowell said today that The Manager is sick with a fever his temperature was 105 aC one time during the day dayWilliam William Wallaces Duquesne is on the shelf for a while The plater drove a nail nto the quick of one of his feet and lamed him himJockey Jockey Loftns in an effort to reduce from 112 to 10 pounds became ill and was not able to ride this afternoon afternoonW W Christie Churchill prominent as a clubman and in turf circles died early this morning after a short illness The remains were shipped today to Louis ¬ ville for interment intermentThere There was a rumor this morning that Hawthorn was seriously ailing and that it would be likely to eliminate him from the Blue Grass Stakes and the Kentucky Derby There was no foundation for tuts story and it probably gained circulation from tho fact that trainer Trevey had applied a light blister to tho colts throat to relieve him of some trilling soreness Hawthorn is a positive starter In tho Blue Grass Stakes to be run Saturday according to his trainer He will meet among others in this event Yankee Notions Foundation Gowell Donerail Ballyshe and Lord Marshall MarshallII II K Knapps Yankee Notions was given a mile trial this afternoon between races and ran the dis ¬ tance in l4ft He went the last half of the trip In sluggish fashion
