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START OF THE LAST WEEK Mondays Latonia Card Furnishes Some Well Contested Finishes Midway Runs Well and Wins His First Race of the Year Turf ¬ man G C Baker Dies Latonia Ky July 8 J W Parrishs once highly rated Midway finally managed to win his first race of the year when he ac ¬ counted for tlie mile and seventy yards dash for a purse of 1000 which featured this afternoons card and in which three other highly rated ones made the contest Midway showed his best form of the year and followed Freecutter the early pace ¬ maker closely until reaching the stretch turn where lie came away to win easily from Arriet which by virtue of saving much ground on tlie stretch turn was enabled to overhaul Freecutter in tlie stretch for second place Aurum the other starter was beaten threequartersThe after going threequarters The secondary feature a handicap contested by some good sprinters furnished an upset in the victory of Bon Tromp on which Lunsford had the mount and brought him up with a well timed rush in the stretch to pass Itringlmrst in the last seventy yards Sedan was the one most favored in the race and that racer showed a high flight of early speed but was well spent after rounding into the stretch and fell an easy victim to Bringhursts and Bon Tromps challenges St Augustine iu this ran poorly poorlyBalmy Balmy weather was the order this afternoon and track conditions was also suitable for good sport The attendance was up to the Monday standard and those present witnessed some excellent and close racing racingThe The Morris Walden crack Ticklish famished an outstanding incident in the third race whielt he won but only after he had given his supporters considerable anxiety right at the end due to his fast quitting propensity In the early running lie had raced out into ten lengths advantage but in the stretch he frittered it away fast and barely lasted long enough to outstay Linden lie was raced in blinkers today and it helped his post behavior considerably considerablyLarry Larry 15 graduated into the winning ranks this afternoon when lie led home a baud of maiden youngsters in the initial race The 9The second nice brought out a poor 9 band and re ¬ sulted CapersDay in a victory for Capers Day Dream han an easy time of it in the sixth nice and won easing up Lortl Byron in this re ¬ fused postThe to join tlie others and was left at tlie post The closing nice fell to Hocnir which led from post to finish but had to be ridden hard by Luns ford to outstay Dr Carmen and Col Marchmont MarchmontTrainer Trainer Galen Brown iu charge of horses owned by F II Brunell has sent them all to the Waldeck Farm where they will be rested and not engaged in racing until next fall
