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AMATEUBS AN ATTRACTION SOCIETY FOLKS VISIT CHURCHILL DOWNS IN FORCE TO SEE GENTLEMENS CUP RACE Superior Saddle Ability of His Rider Enables Sara SaraBernard Bernard to Win High Private Is Beaten Beatenin in Handicap by Royal Tea Louisville Ky May 23 The seventeenth running of the Gentlemens Cup race which featured todays card at Churchill Downs was responsible for the largest attendance of the week The society element turned out in force notwithstanding threatening weather conditions The race as a contest did not call for much as live ordinary horses were entered and the best one failed to win Sam Bernard look the purse as a result of the superior riding abil ¬ ity of his pilot Mr Lee Dr Waldo Briggs with Mr Howe astride was second and Beautiful with Mr Leon up ran third Tlie last named was much the best As a spectacle the race pleased the big throng and the winning rider was accorded en ¬ thusiastic applause After the finish Mr Lee was presented with a beautiful silver loving cup Judge Charles F Price acting on behalf of the association associationTliis Tliis was another poor day for those who pinned their faith to favorites Old Kosebud and Merrick were the only successful first choices The chief upset of the afternoon came in the handicap iu which some useful sprinters competed for tlie 1000 purse High Private was considered to have the race at his mercy but he succumbed to the outsider Koyal Tea Callahan won the race witli the Adair ifc Itakor colt by staying close to the inner rail which gave him a commanding lead when the othrrs swung wide on tlie stretch turn High Private was best but Loft us allowed himself to be trapped into going widest of all on the turn and could not over ¬ come tlie advantage obtained by the flying leader though he made a game effort effortTho Tho condensed history of the Louisville Handicap is as follows followsYear Year Winner AWt Jockey Val Time 1805 Henry Young 5 110 A Clayton 1010 154 154ISM ISM Loki 3 102 C Kciff 1070 147 1471NI7 1NI7 Not run this year ISiis Estaca 4 101 Beauchamp 11JO l52i 18 K I Bangle 4 110 Turner 1140151 JOWl lircotitimird until 1007 1007V V 7 Dainty Dame 3 loo J Lee 1700 114 1KS Altuda 4 107 lleidel l7So l12Vfe 1000 Crvstal Maid 1Q4 Page 1500 114 114mid mid lien D mla i IfJtl iani l02i 113 1011 Ocean Bound 4 120 T lllce liio 112 1012 Sranite 1 110 Loftns 1710 111 1013 Koyal Tea 4 10 1 Callahah 700111 700111Hun Hun at 1 110 miles in 1805 1800 1808 and ISO ISOOld Old Uosebud did not have Little Nephew opposed to him this afternoon and it required little effort on his part to win the sixth race as his rider pleased The Norman beat Ilanwood for second place Secretary Maginn of the Douglas Park track an ¬ nounced this aftdnoun that entries would he re ¬ ceived tomorrow by J 15 Campbell at Churchill Downs up to 10 a in and that they would close at 10J30 a in at Douglas Park for Mondays card cardHie Hie bidding up of Merrick by J C Weaver in the llfth race this afternoon is said to have been done in a spirit of retaliation for J C Milams failure to return his share of the runup money when Gowell was advanced by a big sum at Latonia after her victory in a selling stake last season Wilhite winner of the oiiening dash was bid up by rover Hughes localise of owner Yankos charges lilPd with the Lexington stewards that Hughes had furnlslicd the money to enable O Glass to claim Swish SwishTen Ten Point by his failures here has me guessing now said owner Asle today and I am beginning to think like other people that the colt has been ovcrindiilgvd At that he raced successfully and beat some of the best in the east on the same sort of training Perhaps the climate has something to do with it At any rate I proiwse to give the colt a hard llnal mile tomorrow and if they heat him In the Kentucky Handicap next Monday I will linger but little longer in these parts for I will lie convinced that 1 can do much better on my native heath in the east 1 am still conlldcnt that he will give a good account of himself in the big race next Monday MondayPrince Prince Gal Recompense and Sir Marion from the H Cj Hallenbeck stable will be sold tomorrow by auction to make room for younger material that trainer Taylor is trying to secure secureV V II Karrick has arranged lo ship eighteen hones to Belmont Park on Monday next All the horses will be raced in the east in the name and colors of the Oneek Stable Mr H K Knapps iictn ilt course The horses of Messrs Hitchcock have boon leased to Mr Knapp for this season on ac ¬ count of the recent death of the Messrs Hitchcocks mother motherKudulfo Kudulfo was worked a mile and a quarter in 1118 after the lirst race today Buckhorn was sent a mile and an eighth in 200 at Douglas Park this norning These trials were preliminary to the Ken ¬ tucky Handicap next Monday MondayGeorge George 1 Lungs horses will be kept in Kentucky until after the close of the Latonia racing Free Laiifo Is going slowly in his training but may be starled during the latter part of the Keutou County meeting 1 N Camdens unbeaten twoyearold Impcrator came from Lexington witli Helios and live other horses 1 hat have joined trainer J O Keenes stable at the Downs The winner of the Breeders Futuritv and the leading moneywinning racer of the year looks good and is certain to race a time OP two at Douglas Park in preparation for tlio Spring Trial Stakes there on Saturday June 7 when he will cinch witli the two other unbeaten youngsters Lit ¬ tle Nephew and Vmdergrift Trainer Keene is not sure of Imperators superiority over Little Nephew but he dues think that he can dispose of Vaiulcrgrifr Imperator will have to carry six pounds penalty in the Spring Trial Slakes on account of his Futurity victory whereas Littler Nephew and Old Kosilmd will both get in at the regular twoyearold scale and Vandergrift will get a four pounds allowance for never having won a sweepstake Helios the stir twoyearold of the Kentucky racing season of It2 was on flie track yesterday and appears to have picked up some in Mesh during his letup following tlie Lexington meeting Trainer Keene now has hopes of racing him earlier thau ho thought two weeks ago agolames lames MacManus good sprinter Presumption which ran second to Casey Jones in the Tobacco Stakes and was somewhat badly cut down in that race was on tbe track yesterday and trainer O A Ithinchl has hopes of being able to race him during Ik I lie early part of the Douglas Park meeting He was still n bit sore yesterday yesterdayNews News reached the local track hat the prominent Versailles Ky turfman Dr John D Neet Is diintcermifOy ill Dr Neet is one of the most intr esthig ligures in racing While practicing his pro ¬ fession as n physician lie came in contact with prominent turfmen and developed a liking for the tlxiroughbred horse His success in breeding thor ¬ oughbreds has hardly a pmallel in racing history For a trilling suui he purchased the two imported tllllcs Cinderella aiid Tarantella lie had them trained as twoyearolds and while they showed sye l he was satisfied they were not iirqinjslng g raping propositions so he retired t uv stud as threeyearolds All tiufllUn are familiar with their records as broodmarys Tarantella dropped eleven race winners including the two great horses Handsel and Too Madden while Cinderella became the dam of the Kentucky Derby winner Plaudit Handsome Ferricr and Hastings If is a matter of record that from tho sales of the produce of these great mares Dr Neet secured sulhclent money to buy a farm of 1000 acres 111 Woodford county which he still owns
