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INDEPENDENCE HANDICAP SUGGESTIONS. Horsemen Hoping for Increase of Days for Kentuckys Autumn Racing Campaign. Latonia. Ky., July 3. Kentuckys spring racing season will come to an end with the running of tomorrows program at the Latonia race track, the crowning feature of which will be the ,500 added Independence Handicap! for three-year-olds and over, at one and three-sixteenths miles. With the exception of tlie Kentucky Handicap at Douglas; Park, the Independence is the most valuable long-route race on tlie Bluegrass racing circuit, in which horses older than three, years are eligible to compete. In his allotment of weights, Racing Secretary J. 15. Campbell put the chief burdens on R. L. Bakers entry, as he gave Plf Jr. an impost of 123 pounds and King Goriri, winner . of the Kentucky Handicap, one pound less. Old Rosebud was assigned 129 pounds, but he will not be here to run in it. In the three-year-old division Cudgel, John W. Schorrs son of Broomstick Eugenia Burch, drew the top impost, 110 pounds. In the Kentucky Handicap, in which King Gorin beat Cudgel a neck over the route of one and one-quarter miles, the former carried 103, while the latter had up 103. That race caused much discussion, many horsemen and patrons as well, being of the opinion that Cudgel would . have been returned the winner with a better ride and a little more racing luck, as he raced wide on the turus and thereby lost much ground. Of the seventy nominations for this stake this year, thirty-seven of them were three-year-olds. Three times out of the six years that the Independence has been run., it-has fallen, tola three-year- old, first by Round the World, in 1911, when the stake was a one mile and then, in 1914, to Black Toney and again in 1916, by Dick Williams. Thfr pull in the weights which the three-year-olds get as a rule in a handicap of this kind, helps their chances considerably, but Cudgel has none the best of it in this respect this year. To the credit of Secretary Campbell, it must be said that this year the various handicaps and, especially the stake handicaps, have resulted in close finishes with his weight assignments. Big: Crowd Expected for Independence Day. Independence Day is the only day that many of! the turf enthusiasts of Cincinnati and vicinity get a chance to see the thoroughbreds in action, as it is a holiday, and . the, big stake on this occasion has always been a magnet to draw them out. Not, only do the Jaorse.lpvers from this vicinity turn out"6H rnffsSe" orf- this day, "but they come from many miles around and this will especially be true this year, because it will be the. last chance to; see the racers in action in Kentucky until next fall. The question of fall racing dates for the four, tracks in the Bluegrass state will be settled at the meeting of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, which will be held in the clubhouse at the Latonia track tomorrow. Only tliree members of the com-; mission will be on hand, Gen. W. B. Haldeman,, Judge Allie Young and T. H. Talbott. Charles F. Grainger- is in New York, while Chairman Johnson N. Camden is still confined to his bed with illness. Much confidence is felt that Latonias portion of! dates for the fall meeting wilLbe increased and the; patrons of the course are hopeful that the commis- sion will see its way clear to tack on some additional days. Drawing its patronage .chiefly, as it does, from the State of Ohio, and paying 00 per day license in Kentucky, 00 to the state and 00 to the city of Covington, an increase in the dates for the Latonia for the fall season could not do otherwise than help Kentucky. It is the intention of Major Thomas C. McDowell to race his recent purchase Auriga at the coming Saratoga meeting and also in Kentucky in the fall, but at the end of, this year she will be sent to Ashland Place to be mated with The Manager. Auriga is a highly-bred filly, being by Waterboy-School Mistress, and it is said that Major McDowell paid a fancy price for her. , ; ;
