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HELIOS HAS A CLOSE CALL Champion TwoYearOld of 1912 Starts His Three Year Old Season with a Victory Cincinnati June 21 In the fourth race at La 1 tonla this afternoon JNCanidens Helios accounted last season to be the champion twoyear old narrowly escaped lieing defeated by tnw mediocre IJ Steppa an extreme outsider ill the letting One stride beyond the finish U Steppa was in the lead It was Helios lirst ellorl this season and doubt as to his Illness to run well in the dillicull going caused only faint ¬ hearted support to be accorded him though he ruled the lavorite He showed a Hash of his two yearold form during the early running by keeping pace with the speedy Pan Zarctii and then passed her when his rider got ready In the stretch ho began to tire and Steele was forced to exert his best efforts to keep him going long enough to cross the finish a scant head in advance of U Steppa The latter came with a great rush in the last fur ¬ long and at the finish apitcarcd to be going two strides to the favorites one Ilciiaiict under hard pressure managed to wear down Pan Xareta for third place Solar Star another crack juvenile of last season made his threeyearold debut in this race but he ran disappointingly and finished last Hcli s undoubtedly will be benefited by this race and Solar Star should also show to belter advantage hereafter hereafterTodays Todays track was ditlicnlt and puzzling It was dry on top but decidedly moist under the surface particularly close to the inner rail and those essay Ing on the inside came to grief in short order after a promising beginning The cause for flu track lieing so much worse near the Inner rail was due to Superintendent Keegaits compliance with the demand by some horsemen that the dogs lie kept off to enable horses to gallop on the in ¬ side strip Formerly it was Kecnans custom to fence oil the inside portion of the track after a hard rain rainOwners Owners Caniden and Yanke and their contract riders Steele and Horel were coiispiciously in the limelight during the afternoon Korfhage and Wil lute both favorites and handled by Boiel ac ¬ counted for two of the purses On Korfhage Horel had to ride his Kst at the end to withstand the challenge of Ambition In addition to winning with Helios the Caniden stable scored with Char meusc They were both ridden by Steele His other winning effort was on Milton 11 in the closing dnsli dnsliFour Four favorites rewarded the confidence of their backers during the afternoon Bronzewing and Servieencc being the failures Servleences showing was especially bad and indicates that he is if little account at present Dr Waldo Hriggs which scored yesterday repeated his winning perform ¬ ance in the race for which Servicence ruled the choice and won with consummate ease He was the longest priced winner of the day dayCarroll Carroll B Heid was in receipt of advices to ¬ day from Danville Ky to the effect that K C Hopper the wellknown racing ollicial was in a bad way and had l een hurried to a hospital to undergo an operation His illness may interfere with his duties as presiding judge at the coining Butte Montana meeting meetingPresiding Presiding Judge Charles F Price and John Hach meister will go to French Lick Springs for a short stay at the close of the racing here Judge Price presides over the two summer meetings to be held at the Windsor track trackHithard Hithard Dwyer who came here in the interest of the Porter lud meeting departed last night for Chicago ChicagoT T P Haves has decided to ship his siring which includes the Kentucky Derby winner Donerail and the horses he is training for H P Hcadley to Windsor at the close of racing here J C Milams stable will also be sent to Windsor WindsorClay Clay Bros horses will be transferred to Saratoga in the near future futureHelios Helios Wilhite and Milton B comprising the threehorse combination paid 2150 the shortest threehorse price recorded since this form of wager ¬ ing was installed The twohorse combination con ¬ sisting of Korfhage and Dr Waldo Briggs paid 42C5 42C5Threatening Threatening weather did not deter a big crowd from being on hand It rained copiously in the city during the afternoon but the track and its vicinity escaped with a sprinkle sprinkleThe The betting was again of fair volume
