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DUST A LATONIA FEATURE • Slows the Track and Obscures the Riders Vision. ♦ i Prmce of Como Wins the Main i Race of the Day — Rifle Cap-tures Another Purse. ♦ i Latonii. Ky.. Juno HL-CImMmMV racing. as :t result of the poor tr.uk conditions, was the onl. r her* Ma afternoon. Ike track being covered ! with :i Mii k layer «.f dust :it limes during tin* niuiiiug of Mime of the races, ilic riders failing to mw 1I1...1 -;li it. causing unavoidable cmwdiug and likewise ;i general timidity on their part. The card. ns a v. !:«.! •. MM a well MHtari one. with evenly inati -lied starters in most inst.uiecs. TUe attendance was again of splendid proportion, hut the total of •p cul.-ition w:;s light i:i comparison with former days. I!i- feature race, a handicap at three-quarters. was accounted for by Prince of C ano. whicli raced in i.i Ust form ami won in fairly easy style from the • tr.-tae outsider BWrt, ivith Kntit Cake , following. Solly and A. N. Akii were among tlie Ktarlers in the nice. hut the Camden representatives undoing came as a result of his effort to keep pace villi Plum in the earlier icirt of the race and A. X. Akin could never fnlly extricate himself from the taucle he got into immediately after the s!.,rt. The sport began with a dash for maiden three-yoar-olds. and J. C .Milams Kate Adams. ■ frequent furiner failure, finally managed lo place a victory to her cr.iiit when siie won from Kernan. in which she had to be ridden hard to overhaul ■ iu lie first half. hpMh upset calculations in the second race. ■*li m be h f- r the entire way and beat r.rother I Maclean and Byrne liome. Another two-year-old ; «lasn followed, with « er. a fii t-time starter, own d by John O. Whitlow, lending all the way. The winner had worked fast trials and absorbed i the most lietting attention on the race. The eonsisteiit Kifle. carrying the colors of Pat t Dunne. howed the way to the otliers in the fourth i race, hut hi-, easy victory was in -. good men sure due ■ to the interference several of the most dangerous I - »iit inters suffered from. Diversion being parti- iilarly subjected to rough usage and it was only by the merest scratch that she retained her footing while going around the first turn. Spring-side, - winner of Ibis years Kings Plate, the only f race lo date run in Canada, made his first ap-]h. - ranee since that victory and landed second to 1 tone. DUST SPOILS TEE SIXTH RACE. The twelve starters in the sixth race went away V fi.nn the | ost in a iangle and most of them con-Hi - •:,•■.! so. their riders taking them all over the e track in their efforts to escape the dust. Quito 0 •c"hil «asily in llii- .-nd won from Broom Peddler, . wilh Audrey K. following. The closing race went 1 l« the suddenly improved Fly Home, whicli, under r an energetic ride by Dishinon. got up to win by a nose from Dr. Carmen, with the intended good I th;n. Ituck Nail, lauding in third place. Charles Ndte. Iraet superintendent at Douglas s Park, was an arrival this afternoon with his complete i- staff and will assume the local track super-inteiideiicy. - John Keegau. the former track superintendent - and in that position for many years, -. bavins tenui red his resignation. Kathleen showed considerable improvement this s aft. rn.K n and her injury is regarded as not being ■ as serious as at first feared. James torrigan. formerly int»rested with Price C M, Kinney in the ownership of a pretentious racing I tritif; M"l •",!s" " »" Wickliffe Stud, was among I todays visitors, having stopped off en route to ° Cleveland to witness the racing. V. *s. Kilmers this years Kentucky Derby ner Exterminator, in charge of trainer William McDanhls. arrived last night from New York, to fill iiis engagement in the Latonia Derby. • The horse attracted considerable attention this morning when In- was given a five-eighths gallop. ,s whicli he accomplished in 1:00 in easy style. Jockey 0 knapp will arrive here next Friday from New , York and will rid- him in the Derby. There was considerable rough riding during the „ afternoon, but this was partially the fault of the d.-cp dusty track, causing most of the riders to fail ii lo note correctly where tiny wen- going. The ,, Hack was in the slowest condition it has been in 1 for some time, as a result of the dust. Tlie following workouts took place this morning: Ardenl — Three-quarters in 1:21. Ambuscade -Three-quarters in 1:17%. Amelia W.— Half mile in 49%. Ague Kive eighths in 1:04. Alda— Mile in 1:47. Alneiia Thi ■••• -quarters in 1:17-:.. Duttor-cotch II. — Five-eighths in 1:06%. Ilcnvcrki!! Mile in 1:44%. Busy Alice Five-eighths in 1:02%. Datehler Three -quarters in 1:20%. J.ulclier Boy Three -quarters in 1:17. lta« — Five-eighths in 1 :05%. Clean lp Th rec- qua iters in 1:1s--;:. Christie I loiters — Throe-eighths in 37%. C.don I Livingston — Five-eighths in 1:05. Ch.ilni.-rs Tlree-qiiarters in l:l72i. I»r. S.hafer— Mile in 1:44--. Eulogy Mile in 1:47%. Ebony Mile in 1:30. INc.mki Mile in 1:44%. Exterminator- Five-cigliths in 1:00. Fleetabelle Mile in 1:47. fl Hi Ciin i ll.ilf mile in 49. Qraaaeere -Three-quarters i:t 1 :1K. Clr.dy- I Am Seven eighths in 1:30. Ilowdy Howdy— Five-eighths in 1:03%. High Car Three quart, ra i.i l:ls%. Jiffy-Mile in 1:47. Joi.n Jr. — i Three- pmrters in 1:17%. l.::!ry II. — Five-eighlhs in 1:03 v.. I.ady Manager — Three-eighths in 30,.-.. Madame ilerrmauii -Tliree- |uarlers in 1:17%. Miss Ivan — Three-eighths in 37. Nib Thr.-e -quarters in l:l»i. Cphelia W. Three quarters in 1:1S%. Insumpl ion— Five-eighths in 1:04. Saner Thn-«--quarters in 1:21. Say When- Half mile in 50. Shine Five eighths in 1:04. Sqiii-clcr -Five-eighths in 1:05. Sedan Half mile ill 49. SiiM-nta Mile in 1:40%. Thinker Half mile in .VI. Ticklish Half mile in 4S%. Viley— Five -eighths in 1:07.
