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HORSEMEN DEPARTING FROM LATONIA Home Going East While Others Will Remain in Kentucky Rumors About Fall Dates Cincinnati O July 10 The Latonia course pre ¬ sented a busy scene yesterday Although the long summer meeting of the Latonia Association came to a close on Saturday horsemen were up and aboul packing their tack and getting things in read ness to ship to Louisville and Lexington A few will remain here while others will journey tf Empire City and from there to Saratoga SaratogaHorsemen Horsemen unite in declaring that the victory of Hatter Cake in the Cincinnati Trophy the richest twoyearold event of the meeting was no fluke The Bradley filly demonstrated her ability to com pete with the best of the other sex and come out victorious She was handled in superb fashion bv Earl Pool who made his move at exactly tin proper time timeJohn John Ilachmeister general manager of the La tonia plant is a happy man as a result of the suc ¬ cessful meeting last spring He will not venture any opinion regarding the probable action of tin Racing Commission in handing out dates for tin fall meetings iij Kentucky Mr Hachmeister stated that he was more than willing to leave this mattei with the members of the commission for adjustment and that any action they saw fit to take wouh meet with his hearty approval approvalReports Reports from Lexington which reached here to day are to the effect that the Kentucky Associa ¬ tion will ask for only seven days of racing this coming fall It is claimed there that Louisvilh will request a similar number of dates while La tonia will ask for fifteen days of the sport at the Milldale course courseWhen When asked if there was any truth in the re port that the track managers had reached ai agreement regarding the dates they would reques of the Racing Commission Mr Ilachmeister statci that he was not responsible for any rumor emanat ing from Lexington He added however that La ¬ tonia would ask for racing dates at the proper time Horsemen hern arc divided In opinion regarding the riding merits of E Sande and Harry Lunsford These good apprentice riders staged a great battli for honors during the twentysix days Both oi these lads ara capable riders having brilliant pros ¬ pects Sande is inclined to rough it at times whili Lunsford usually goes about his work in business like fashion fashionCRACK CRACK RIDERS GOING TO SARATOGA SARATOGARoth Roth Sande and Lunsford will ride at Saratogr and horsemen ar interested regarding the showing they will make against the star pigskin artists on east Lunsford is now under contract to E 11 Me Lean and will secure many star riding engagements Sande will not lack for capable mounts and botl of these boys should hold their own against the ex ¬ perienced riders at the Spa SpaUncle Uncle Dick Williams will ship his entire strinj of racers to Lexington as soon as he can secnn horse cars for them The Oklahoma turfman woi more races than any other turfman and it is es timrjted that lie had the most profitable year of his entire turf career careerAnother Another topic of conversation among the horsemei is the big stake events to be given by the Latoim Jockey Club in 1919 It is the unanimous opinioi that Manager Ilachmeister made a wise decisioi when he concluded to add 20000 to the Derby am bar geldings from this stake This will certalnlj help to improve the breed of the thoroughbred am in future horsemen will lie most careful about iisiut the knife save as a last resort resortT T 15 Goodman has about concluded to ship t Saratoga lie thinks that itriiieil Voter could get the money at the Spa Goodman was indeed fortu ¬ nate after securing this thoroughbred from the E R Bradley stable Hundley Raker iias returned to Latonia from St Louis when he went to bury his brother Grovei C Itaker Ho states tlmt he will not ship cas this summer as lie contemplated but will rest up ai the local course until fall His thoroughbreds have imd a strenuous campaign during the past yeai and should be benefitted by the layoff layoffJockey Jockey Itoscoe Goose returned to Louisville I had been the intention of Goose to journey to Sara toga and to resume riding there but he will nol get back into the saddle before fall and maj possibly conclude to retirepermanently
