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LATONIA RACING POPULAR Great Crowd Visits the Track to Applaud the Winners WinnersMajor Major Parke Proves Victor in the theValuation Valuation Stakes Fruit Cake CakeRuns Runs a Good Race Latonia Ky July 0 The Valuation Stakes for twoyearolds under selling conditions and having a net value of 2575 was won by Jefferson Liv ¬ ingstons Major Parke after a hard drive with Edward 15 McLeans English colt Candle Light with the favorite Legal following close up Only five started in the race somewhat surprising in view of the many youngsters here regarded to be better than the plater division Legal seemed best and was given confident supi ort but he lacked the speed he had displayed formerly and was outpaced steadily first by Carrie Moore and in tlie stretch by Major Parke The finish found the leading trio striving to their utmost with Major Parke stand ¬ ing the drive in gamer fashion than the others othersTlie Tlie Valuation Stakes is of recent origin its list of winners with other details being as follows Year Winner Wt Jockey Val Time 1913 Black Toney 109 J Loftus 2095 100 1914 Menlo Park 108 I Connlly 2133 107 1915 Checks 95 M Garner 2333 110 1910 W H Pearce 107 K Goose 2405 107 1917 Tex Fornian 121 It Roose 2403 1OS 1918 Major Parke 100E Sande 2573 107 Another attendance of immense size was the theorder order at the course this afternoon and witnessed some exciting racing despite a Saturday offering that did not come up to the days former standard WJuit it lacked fir cjuality was however made up In the fact that all the fields had starters of even calibre and produced wholesome and spirited con ¬ tests with several finishes so close that none out ¬ side of the judges could determine the victors with accuracy accuracyThe The weather was again extremely hot but the track was in the best condition that it has been in some time timeTlie Tlie threequarters handicap for a purse of 1000 which served as a secondary feature resulted in victory for A K Macombcrs sturdy Fruit Cake which displayed her best form of the year by leading from the start such a fast cue as Grundy and outstaying him in the final drive Viva America was one of the starters in it but she lacked her customary speed and was given an indifferent ride besides Jockey E Sande was in the publics eye during the afternoon and enriched his following by piloting three winners He in ¬ augurated his success when he landed Vansylvia the winner in the opening race by a nose from War Tax He followed with Major Parkes victory and in the following race on the outsider Alhcna the out ¬ standing surprise of the afternoon afternoonA A thrilling finish came in the second race in which Blue Paradise one of the outsiders won after a hard drive with Lady Ivan and Dimitri The favorite Impressive lacked much sneed and was done after going a half mile mileBaby Baby Lynch showed her best form in winning the third nice after she almost fell at the post through stumbling stumblingThe The filial race was easy for I5ig Fellow which displaying a high flight of speed from the outset won in commanding style from Kline KlineGeorge George Strate trainer for J II Rosxatcr who is here in charge of a division of the Rossetcr racers corroborated the report of the extensive purchase of broodmares and Friar Hock from John E Madden Tlie horses will lie kept at Hamburg Place until some time next fall before being shipped to Cali ¬ fornia forniaOPPORTUNITY OPPORTUNITY SUFFERS INJURY INJURYOpiwrtunity Opiwrtunity which suffered a leg injury wliich has kept him out of training for some time is now back again taking his daily exercise He will be shipped to Saratoga for the racing there thereEddie Eddie Ts breakdown in tlie sixth nice was at ¬ tended bv an injury to jockey Gentry that will keep him out of the saddle for some time as he sus ¬ tained a fracture of the collar bone and a scalp wound the result of falling when the horse blun ¬ dered Gentry was not aware that he had been injured until after his return unassisted to the jockey quarters quartersJack Jack Laxon representing K E Millett owner of Smart Money called on the stewards at Laionia to inquire as to the status of the horse in the event of his being taken out of Edward Trotters stable and committed to the care of another trainer for racing at Saratoga He was told that the juris ¬ diction of the Latonia stewards did not extend l e yond control of racing at their track but that in any event the ruling so far as it affected Smart Money would be withdrawaii when the horse was placed in other hands handsJockey Jockey Majesties apprentice allowance expired on Friday the boy having ridden his first winner one year ago As a result the apprentice allow ¬ ance claimed on Hig Fellow was waived today and jockey Gentry was given the mount after Majestic had been carded as the rider Mooney who is an apprentice was substituted on Baby Lynch another horse which Majestic had been engaged to ride under apprentice allowance weight weightJ J L Dempsey acting for Edward B McLean today closed a deal by which Kay Spcnee sold for 10000 the contract he held on the crack apprentice rider H Lnnsford to the McLean stable Lunsfurd recently has been showing the best form in the sad ¬ dle of any of the apprentices riding at I itonia and gives every promise of developing into a firstclass jockey of the finished type with little more ex ¬ perience His connection with the McLean stable is a highly desirable one for the lad and doubtless will help him to reach the top in his vocation The contract runs until November 30 1920 and as the boy weighs only ninetysix pounds and has not l en gaining in weight to any appreciable extent of Inti1 it seems probable that he will be able to continue riding indefinitely indefinitelyLunsford Lunsford is a Covington boy and is seventeen years of age He is the seventh successful rider that Kay Spenre has develoocd the others l eing Anbiicliou E Martin F Cole C Hunt T Hunt and J Gruber The hitters contract was recently sold to A L Rogers for 7300 Spence will in ¬ troduce another apprentice to tlie racegoing public the coming fall in a lad named Thomas Murray whose home like Lunsfords is in Covington CovingtonEddie Eddie T terminated his racing career when he broke down in the sixth race for tlie injury was found to be bo great that it necessitated his dc structioii
