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HOLLISTERS CAPITAL RACE ♦ Wins the Churchill Downs Main Dash in Fast Time. ♦ Red Cross Breaks a Leg and Is Destroyed — Serenest Defeats Rahu in a Close Finish. ♦ Louisvlle. Ky.. May 23. — A. K. Macombcrs English horse Hollister. earned the right to be regarded as one of the mist dangerous candidates for Kentucky Handicap honors, by a brilliant victory this afternoon in the mile and an eighth handicap, featuring the card provided for Churchill I»owns racin-: patrons. He was opposed by four other eligibles to the rich Douglas" Park fixture and took them into camp in the easiest fashion possible ami conceded weigiit to all of them. He had up 119 pounds and ran the mile and an eighth in 1:52. Capt. Kees was his nearest follower at the finish and Juy Fortune third. Opiiortunily was allowed to lead for the first half mile, seemingly on sufference. for Hollister raced by him with the utmost ease when Willis called on him and took a big lead, which only required him to go along at an easy gallop in the stretch to keep in front. Capt. Rees also ran a good race, for he was forced back on the lower turn and caused to suffer the loss of considerable ground, which he made up steadily in the stretch and finished fast and gamely. The first serious accident of the present meeting came with the running of the third race, when Red Cross, while racing prominently in the stretch and having a chance to win. snapped her left fore leg suddenly above the ankle and it enforced her destruction. The race in which she started was won by Thorn Bloom, a victor in his last previous race. Backers of favorites had a field day. as most of their choice*, excepting Rifle Shooter in the last race, which proved a rank disappointment, won in easy fashion. The final race brought about an acrobatic i er-formance on the part of Sun Maid, which was iu a running mood this afternoon and scored easily from Rhymer, another outsider. J. H. Rotiseter scored his first victory on a track other than in California, when his Serenest outstayed a good band of sprinters in the three-quarters dash. The filly ran an excellent ra-e and beat Rahu by a neck after a well-sustained stretch drive. MADRAS WINS AT LAST. The frequently disappointing Madras at last managed to emerge into the winning ranks when she led home eight other maiden two-year-olds that tried conclusions with her in the opening race. Petrovna proved much the best of those engaging in the second race and won with ease. Col. Taylor led the two-y?ar-olds home tliat started in the sixth race, winning easily. Todays attendance was agaiu of generous projections, the small fields of the better grade of racers here, couoled with the fine weather and track conditions." being instrumental in bringing out the full strength of racing devotees in these parts. General Crowders new "work or fight" regulations, to become effective July 1. was read with much avidity and proved a topic for serious discussion by the racing fraternity. Applying to tie-jockevs alone here, it will effect about thirty of the sixty eight doing saddle work at this track. The other effect on branches of the sport will 1m- pro-Itortionately much less, as persons considerably over tiie draft age an- employed. Manager Winn begun a tabulation this aft moon of the ages of all employes : t the New ImMh Jockey rlub for record ourooscs. Barry Shannon, formerly manager of E. R. Bradleys Idle Hour Farm, who has been called to the colors, was at the track this afternoon and will go to Camp Taylor, where he has lieen assigned, next Monday. Shannon is trying to get iu the remount service, being a qualified horseman. J. C. Milam has sold on private terms, the filly Lady Apt to F. W. Staton. Manager Hachmeister of the Douglas Iark track annouiii-ed today that racing at that course would begin daily at 2:30 p. m. A
