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LEOCHARES VICTOR AGAIN Veteran Sprinter Takes the Quick ¬ step Handicap in a Canter Great Crowd in Attendance On OnLadies Ladies Day Jockey Lunsford LunsfordBrings Brings Two Winners Home Latonia Ky July 10 Edward I McLeans sturdy Lcochares which at present is enjoying nearly the best form of his career although at an age which finds many less hard campaigned racers in retirement added additional lustre to his fame by a sparkling and successful performance in the Quickstep Handicap at threequarters the stake being wortii 1 9 0 net and contested by all the star short distance performers in these parts His tri ¬ umph was an easy one and the more outstanding from the fact that he carried 130 pounds conceding much weight to the others and ran the three quarters in 11175 the fastest time for a similar race during this meeting and within twitfifths of a second of the track record made by Winning Witch Boniface also running a good race landed ill second slace with Violet Bonnie following a small margin before Fruit Cake which saved her stake placeThe by landing in fourth place The Quickstep Handicap was first run in 1913 when Helios won it Its condensed history follows Year Winner AWt Jockey Val Time 1913 Helios 3 108 R SteeleL8 5 111 1914 T Widow Moon4 100 A Mott 2470 113 If 1915 111191i Hodge 4 122 P Keogli 2565 111 191i Kathleen 3 105 I Connelly 245 112 jf 1917 Gipsey George 4 105 II Thurber 2595 115 1918 Leochares S 130 W J OBn 29t0 111 111There There were eleven starters with A N Akin m I ITroilus Troilus representing the E Trotter stable and this pair dominated the running at different intervals of the race but when the hard drive came they were badly wanting and finished among the unplaced Leochares with his customary style began slowly but was closer iiy than usual in the first half and OBrien guided him in faultless style to come away in the stretch and win in a canter Boniface also was a laggard in the early racing but worked his way to the front steadily but was not good enough to beat the winner today todayLadies Ladies day the second and last of the meeting at this track brought to the track one of the larg ¬ est crowds that has witnessed the sport in some time The feminine guests of the association occu ¬ pied every vacant space in the huge grandstand and filled the spacious lawns also to the crowding point Their interest in the sport was refreshing and they cheered the winners impartially The rac ¬ ing was interesting witli most of the finishes close and exciting excitingJockey Jockey Lunsford who enjoys a tremendous follow ¬ ing here again figured extensively in the days results landing two of the winners and to his good horsemanship was due the victories of Blue Paradise in the third nice and Alert in the final dash On the last one which incidentally showed improved form over his previous start he had to do his best to win from Lytle With Blue Paradise he took the purse simply because he outgeneraled Buckles on Gipsey George The Respcss starter again dis ¬ played bad post behavior ami wore himself out there considerably but he managed to get away forwardiy and if his rider had not taken him too far back in the early running would have overcome Blue Paradises lead in the last eighth eighthCOL COL TAYLORS LUCKY VICTORY VICTORYThe The fourth race which served as a preliminary tt the rich Cincinnati Trophy which will havn it decision Saturday the closing day furnished an up ¬ set when Col Taylor won by a nose after havin led for the entire way Ginger was the runnerup and St Bernard landed third thirdThe The usual band of maidens began proceedings and Jack Hill graduated into the winning ranks when he beat Great Gull by a neck Cant Hodge in this was thought best and he would have been closer up but for interference he suffered from fromChurchill Churchill Downs and CacamlKi furnished the out ¬ standing contention in the second race when they fought it out in strenuous style and Churchill Downs won by a neck neckRepton Repton and Paula V fought it out in the sixth race and landed heads niiart in the order named namedBlack Black Mammys injury sustained in her fall yesterday was so grave that she had to be de ¬ stroyed stroyedJockey Jockey D Connelly lias been engaged to ride for II A Porter during the Empire City and Saratoga meetings He will report to trainer Harry Morris sey next Monday at the Empire City track trackWilliam William Shelley who has Iteen serving as thb clerk of the scales at all the Kentucky tracks will leave for New York tomorrow night and be em ¬ ployed at the Empire City track in an official capacity capacityJockey Jockey T Buckles was suspended for three days by the starter for disobedience at the post in the first race raceThe The horses of Williams Brothers and those of John Lowe will be shipped to Lexington Monday and be rested until the fall meetings meetingsJockey Jockey Lloyd Gentrys broken arm is mending and he will go to Saratoga where he expects to ride for E R Bradley BradleyArthur Arthur B Hancock president of the Thoroughbred Horse Association was among the visitors this aft ¬ ernoon from Lexington and will be here for the remainder of the meeting meetingGen Gen W B Haldcmau member of the Kentucky State Racing Commission was among the visitors and will remain here until the close
