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] : i I I i : LATONIA IN FOR GREAT MEETING. | B-st Horses of the Yea.r Well Engaged in Stakes to Be Run at Kentucky Course Next Month. | Cincinnati, o.. May MX- The l.atonia Derby this seas in will be one of the areatesl of all the three year-old events of mil. The luteals spring and summer meeting this season will begin an Man i day. May S-. and continue twentj four days, making it the longest season of sport at any of Iho Kentucky tracks this year. The Derby is the feature race of this important meeting and it Is the one real Derby race of the year, inasmuch as it is at one mile and a half, the same distance as the Epsom Derby, la England. Old Rosebud, winner of the record breaking Ken tiicky Derby, in which he ran a mile and a smarter in 2:0:;--: Hodge, Which ran second to him in that I event, as well as Bronaewing and John Gund, which i respectively finished third and fourth In the ChurehUI i Downs event, aie all engaged iu the l.atonia Derby, and among the thirty-nine other entries are a number Of good three year-olds which were not entered for the recent Louisville raee. One of thee is Doctor I Samuel, which has been beating older horses m I overnight races in fast time at Lexington and Louis ille Ihis spring and at the latt-r place recently i won at iho Downs at a mile m 1:38*4, and another is ;. Al. lleiidries Decathlon, a colt of promise I ihis spring. Still another is the much talked about ■ Beach Comber, the highest priced of B. R. Brad I leys greai .juvenile baud of l!»lo, and a son of the I sensational Epsom Derby winner. Bock Sand, which twice has been sold for more than r .00t . Another colt engaged in the Latouia Derby, which I did not run in the recent Kentucky Derby, is Boots i and .•saddle, which in his only start so far this sea 1 son ran three-quarters in 1:134 and disposed 1 i a baud of good three year olds, including Vander-grift. The .Norman, Belloc also a Eatonia Derbj candidate. Stake and Cap. Maud B. L., First i Cherry and Osaple. Still others eligible to the La- | tenia Derby! which it is expected will draw Io the Eatonia track the day it is run this season ,-ne of the greatest crowds in the history of racing, in this vicinity, are Constant. Bulgarian. Bring hurst. San Vega, Ralph. Robmetta. fa anal Ilia. Han Gardner and old Bea, and it is believed that several of these are sure to go to the post in the big race. The Derby this season again carries an added valuation of fd.000, and with the average number Of starters it will lie worth 18,000 gross. Of the added money. tbe second horse will get . tin-third horse 00 and the fourth horse will save its slake. The greatest of racing is expected during the twenty our days of the uoming meet log al this beautiful course anion, the Kentucky hills almost in sight of tbe Ohio Blver. Aside from the Derby. there ar-- eight other rich stakes to be run during the meeting, namely: Inaugural Handicap, .0fHi added: one mile and I sixteenth. Clipsetta Stakes. ,000 added: live furlongs. Men hulls Stakes. ,500 added: one mile. Harold Slakes. ,000 added: lie furlongs. Quickstep Handicap. ,000 added: six furlongs. Valuation Stakes, ,500 added: five and a halt furlongs. Independence Handicap, added: one mile and three-sixteenths. Cincinnati Trophy. s::;. hm added: si furlongs. Old Rosebud, now looked upon as tbe champion race hois.-- of the veal, is heaily engaged at Latonia. Aside from the Derby, be has been en t Ted in the Inaugural. Quickstep and Iudependenrc band leans. The La Ionia track could not appear more sightly thin ii does al the presenl time, with its beautiful bids of loses and its general picturesque surroundings, and Manager John Hachmelster thinks !h- track v. ill this season be faster than ever iiefore. There will be not less than i thousand horses including the beat in training, to furnish the sport h-n- ihis spring.
