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LATONIAS PROGRAM PLEASES HORSEMEN. Tarfasea at LeafesiBe Tracks Register Over a Thousand Strong to Help Uncle Sam. liouisville. Ky.. June 7. -Showing a purs- money di-lribuiioa of 0.808 for the first seven days of [the meeting and a stake aggregate distribution of I 7,588 for the entire meeting of twenty-one days. I the first condition beak of the Latonia meeting j has been distributed among the horsemen here and • its offerings have net with favorable comment on I all sides. Three stakes w;ll be run the first aseek : l the Milldale course, the Inaugural Handicap. ,008 added, on the opening day. June II. the lipsetla Stakes. S2.000 added, also on the third day ef the aseethss;, and the Latonia Derby, 0,888 added, on the sixth day. The recent good showing of several of the Latonia Derbjr caadhlatea at various race tracks throughout the country has caused interest in that event to increase by leaps and bounds. From present indication: selecting the wininr will be a difficult task. With the exceptisa of the horses which will represent the Fast in Cue big race, the other eaa- ii!a!es are «, carter. 1 at the local tracks, but they will Btore towards Milldale the latter pari of this week. I! is more hall probable that several of the Bastera eUgibtes will also arrive at the Cov-iagton track before the aseethsi opens, so as to become accustomed to running over that course. It lias beea derided to chase the eatrtes for the first days Latonia racing it Doaglas Iark on net Saturday morning. Those owners who have their stables at Katonia on Sat unlay, can make entries with Kany Boaeaachatz, who will telephone tin in to Douglas iark. l.oui.viHe oaaed bersea are accounting for more than their share of races al Houglas Iark and Tuesday three of the winners were tlie property of local men. They wire Milbr-y. Which is owned by Coi w. B. Apatesjate; oi ! Miss, the property «,• T. M. Murphy, and Guy Fortune, which betsasa to the Pastkac Stable. In recent years many well known bashtSSS men of this city have taken up racing as a side line, and none of them have had i ease to regret their action. American Eagle Named in Cincinnati Trophy. Independence and Aascricaa F.agie. two recent first time starting two yea l -olds from the T. C. McDowell Stable, an- two as well bred horses as ever raced ia these parts. The former is by Ballot -r.racogirdle. being a half sister to The Manager, and the latter is by The Manager Star Cat. which makes him a half brother to the former useful stake horse. Star Jasmine. Major hteDoweB named American Baffle in several stakes at Katonia. including the iKrold and the Cincinnati Trophy, and he is confident that he will Inn out to be asst of his best of the year. The McDowell two -year olds have not been setting the world afire this spring thus far, but he has cat loose several good ones and he has some more to turn on as the racing season advances. iat White. Bated barteaaae comedian, and, for a sjaarter of a ceatary owner of ■ show, has shifted traiaers for hi- mare Leeaetdts ami aaw she i- in the care of Dob McMillan White, who bought Leoaeldia frees Lua Jones, after she won a race at Devonshire last fall, and she gives promise of w inning around here when properly placed. Baa has beea orerasatched at feral lines, running in races where she had no chance. She will be raced at Kiton-,-, by McMillan and then taken to either Canada or New York. Jockey Johnny McCabe. who was recently in-Jercd by falling from eae of Jefferson Kiv isajstaaa horses at Lexington, is able to get around now arithout cratches, but it will be some time before he can ride egaiu. Be expects to get bath into action during the Katonia BMetbsS and will K able to do lighter weight than in several years. oiisciptioo would hit Bat rating people on the Kentucky circuit hard if three fourths of those who registered are drafted. Brery owner and trainer saw to it that their Stable hands, white or black, registered and these who could not register in this city were taken to the courthouse to get their certificates. There arare more than a thousand persons from among the jockeys, trainers, owners and stable hands alone to register, to say nothing of tie- other employes around the track. Many of the jockeys are anxious to join tie csdars, but tleir size n.-turally prevents then from passing the physical examination.
