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EVERYTHING IN READINESS AT LATONIA. George Smith and Some of His Probable Latonia Derby Opponents Next Saturday. Latonia, Ky., June 13. — All the prominent candidates and probable starters in the Latonia Derby to be run next Saturday are daily taking their regular work at this track. The noted black colt. George Smith, could not ix ssibly be doing lietter than he is at present in his preparation and he appears to the eye as l erfectly fit in every way to run a mile and a half race. Franklin and Dodge, the two candidates of J. S. Wards stable, are also apparently as fit as a fiddle for the coming big race. Both of them seem to have any amount of s] oed in their morning exercise and, as far as going the distance of the Derby is concerned, it would seem now that Dodge is as equal to such a task as his good-looking chestnut stabb-mate. It is more than probable that Ward will run both his three-year-olds next Saturday. Since his last race at Douglas Park J. W. Schorrs Dick Williams has loomed up as a menacing starter. In that race he beat such high-class older horses as Hodge, Solar Star and John Guild, and in that race as well as his other exhibitions at Lnas-ville, showed a marked liking for a long route of ground. Like Ward, it is probable that the Schorr stable will also have a coupled entry in the Derbv. Ellison running as a stable mate to Dick Williams. The arrival of II. P. Whitneys Derby starter is now expected hourly from the east and the representative he will send on to carry his colors may be-either Bromo or Chicle. Another certain starter in the event that has shown vast improvement in his last races is the Cincinnati named colt. Jack ODowd, and this son of Peter Pan may turn up the big surprise of the rich stake. It can be set down as a certainty that probably the greatest crowd that bus ever witnessed the Latonia Derby will see the event run this year. The meeting beginning tomorrow runs for twenty-four racing days, ending on Tuesday, July 11. One of the closing features of the coming great meeting is the Cincinnati Trophy, recognized as the richest of till two-year-old races now decided on the Kentucky turf. It has this year the huge number of 121 nominations and the cream of the two-year-olds developed this year in this state are eligible to the big race. Manager John Haohmeister sets almost as great store on the Cincinnati Trophy as he does on the Latonia Derby. E. R. Bradley has at present one of the smallest stabes in numbers that he has campaigned In recent years. The cyclone accident near Cincinnati last year removed several prominent members of his string by death and injury from future participation in racing and, previous to that, being what he thought then a bit overstocked in his stable, he had disposed of some of his yearlings that he would not have otherwise sold. He now has but nine horses at the Latonia track. Next year Bradley will be back again with his usual heavy string of horses providing nothing happens to his yearling crop of this year. Trainer James Kverman brought twelve horses to Latonia from Louisville. All are ready to race with the exception of the six-year-old mure Flondo. which he is anxious to dispose of for the stud. Flonda has never raced and Evenuan did not put her in training until this year. She was never broken as a two-year-old and as a consequence he concluded to try her as a broodmare. She had a foal last year, a colt by Transvaal, that died when he was twenty days old. He had her mated again, but failing to prove in foal, he put her in training this spring. He thinks she is good enough to win cheap races, but being so richly bred, he thought he would rather dispose of her to some breeder and give her an early chance in the stud. Her dam is a sister to the great race horse Libertine.
