Track Dries Out Rapidly: Second Day Of Racing At Lexington Marked By Close Contests.; Embroidery Wins Days Feature from Linderthal--Hocnir the Only Successful Favorite--Powerful Whitney String Coming to Kentucky., Daily Racing Form, 1915-04-24

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TRACE DRIES OUT RAPIDLY SECOND DAY OF HACING AT LEXINGTON MARKED BY CLOSE CONTESTS Embroidery Wins Days feature from Lindenthal Ilccnir the Only Successful Favorite Powerful PowerfulWhitney Whitney String Coming to Kentucky Lexington Ky April 23 Horses trained at Louisville divided the Kentucky Associations second day card this afternoon with horses trained at Lexington the winners from Louisville being Billy Joe Hocuir and Intention while those trained here were Cosmic Embroidery and Transit The weather was clear and warm with the track a bit slow at the beginning of the racing but improving so rapidly that it was fast at the end The con ¬ tests generally speaking were close and interest ¬ ing and they were witnessed by a goodly number of spectatorsThe enthusiastic spectators The days feature was the Combs purse for threeyearolds and upward at one mile carrying in addition to lirst money a silver cup donated by the Combs Luinlier company to the owner of the winner who as it turned out was Arthur B Hancock owner of the Ellerslie Stud at Charlottes ville Va he being the breeder and owner of the aptlynamed Embroidery which after wearing down Benanet withstood the belated rush of Lin dentlial probably best and won by half a length It was a poor start in which Hank UDay suffered most Little String while leading into the backstretch stumbled slightly and lost some ground 1 V May saddled a good twoyearold in Cosmic the property of John G Greener of Nashville and the lirst of the get of Countless to come to the post In fact he is the only twoyearold by that good horse W Meelian rode him well wellHocuir Hocuir was the oidy winning first choice Inten ¬ tion another of the get of Hilarious from the stable of J L Holland and trained by Dick Wil lianirij tillyTransit won all the way and is a good tilly Transit was probably lucky to win the closing race in that Buck Ke noti running easily anil seemingly best was knocked to his knees and jockey Warrington unseated as they were coming lip the hill Warringtou fortunately was not seriousjjr iiijimtilntt jockey Grillin who pulled over against him with Wryneck in an attempt to get to the rail was suspended for live days daysO O A Biaurhi when he found that thirteen was tlio number of the trainers license issued to him said Thats no jinx for me Its thu best sort of luck that number Why one season I shipped from here to I misville ou Friday the thirteenth with thirteen horses and I won more races than ever before that year Dozens of times in my life that number has ligured in successes for me Biauchi todfiy reported the arrival of a tine chestnut colt foal by Jim Gaffney from Irish Queen the llrst daughter of Bearcat flier to go Into the stud He also reported that Ethelda and Silk Day have been mated with Jim GatTney and that Miss Thorpe which raced today will also go to his court next week weekW W L Lewis reported a bay filly by Peep oDay from Crystal Maid and a brown lilly by Ormondalc from Silk Maid Last year he had colt foals from these mares by the same horses but both died They are the only two marcs he now has hasWilliam William Ryan wellknown Chicago racing devotee viin among the visitors today todayJ J W May expressed himself as highly pleased with the saddle work of his new jockey Willie Mcdiiin McdiiinAccording According to advices received today from trainer JauieH Howe in charge of the Harry Payne Whitney horses the extensive band of twentyseven horses intended for Kentucky racing will be shipped from Hrookdnle Farm in New Jersey April 7 and reach Louisville the following day In the shipment will MiH Regret and the other stars in the establish ¬ ment Mr Rowe will bo in charge of thu horses during the Kentucky campaign campaignAndrew Andrew Millers band of seven racers is due in reach Louisville tomorrow from New York having licen shipped yesterday The lot Includes lioamer which will be pointed for the rich Ken ¬ tucky Handicap to be run on the opening day of tlie Douglas Park meeting Trainer A J Golds liorougli will be in charge of the horses horsesFrank Frank M Taylor formerly trainer for the Hal lenheek stable was an arrival today and will niiile an effort to secure some likely racers that lie intends to campaign on the eastern courses this season seasonPreston Preston Birrch who has lien training John San fnrdV horses in France was among todays ar ¬ rivals rivalsTrainer Trainer Karrlck was advised today that Messrs Knapp ami Hitchcock will be iinxhle to leave New York until next Wednesday Schuylcr L Parsons will not come with the party on account of illness Phosphor and Sharpshooter in the Karrlck estab ¬ lishment which are being pointed for the Ken ¬ tucky Derby are training in good shape and it it is decided that lioth are to go to the post jockey Itutwell will have the mount on one and Loft us on the other Immediately following the running of the Derby the KnappHitchcopkParsons racers will be sent east eastThe The track this morning was again imsuited to fast training operations Among the best trials were wereArdelon Ardelon Threeeighths in 10 Benlah S Half mile in 53 Dr Samuel Fiveeighths in 100 Kmersnn Coehran Fiveeighths in 109 Expectation Threeeighths in iO First Degree Threeeighths in 39 Giibrlo Fiveeighths in 108 Indolence Half mile in 52 Irish Gentleman Mile in 133 Just Red Half mile in r2 Lady Errant Half mill in 53 Leo Skolny Threequarters In 121 Iovelind Odllo in 150 Luke Threeeighths in 43 Mama Johnson Threeeighths in 40 Manager Waito Fiveeighths in 100 Miss Fielder Half mile in n Money Maker Half mile In 5 One Step Threeeighths in 4 Pif Jr Half mile in 55 Robert Bradley Fiveeighths in 105 Shn Vega Fiveeighths in 107 Star Jasmine Mile in 154 Stick Pin Threequarters in 125 Tihoiichtrpader Half mile in 52 W W Clark Fiveeighths in 107 Worlds Wonder Fiveeighths in 107


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