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LATONIA RACING POPULAR Great Attendance Turns Out to View Some Exciting Sport Colonel Livingston Takes the Fort Thomas Stakes in Easy Fash ¬ ion Grundy Wins Again Latonia Ky Novcmbrr 11 J IJrannon llandsfl Ais gelding Colonel Livingston added still further to hi splendid achievements when he shouldered 1S pounds and scored a hollow victory over eight other gixxl twoyearolds in the Fort Thomjs Stakes at threequarters at I itonia this afternoon First money was worth 3735 He led throughout anil came to the finishing line tsree lengths 5 advance of Williams Bros Linden oupled in the betting with Ijcgal Siinings Park finished a distant third while Cerinus coupled with Texas Special sivel the starting and entrince f fes es of Owner Holers by running fourth The stake was decided over a mildly track but the going was f nil underneath enabling the horses to make comparatively good time Colonel Livingston ran the tiireequarters of the race in l13if Ginger raced prominently to the streth turn only to drop out of contention Kegalo the favorite was racing close up when she stumbled near the four and one lillf furlong post and unseated 1 Williams her rider The boy escaped injury injuryharp harp showers in the early morning rendered the track muddy for the first time at the meeting The weather however was of the summer vaiiety and m enormous crowd that compared favorably with that of any previous fall meeting was on hand Favorites and second choices accounted for a ma ¬ jority of the races and long priced horses failed to justify the expectation of their backers Siwcu lation was of an immense volume resulting in the winners paying good prices The program offered was the best in some time and was productive of excellent sport sportThe The Sinton Hotel Special one of the new fixtures of the fntT itirctiiig served as a worthy vompauion piece to the Fort Thomas Stakes It enabled Gruiuly to score his second purse in as many Ktiirts and to enrich his owners Lester and Hen ¬ derson to the extent of 1K The race was easy for Grundy which look kindly to the mud and led his opponents for the entire way whining in a tuiter Fruit Cake had to be ridden hard to beat War Machine for second place honors honorsThere There were large delegations from all the adjacent cities Among the visitors from Louisville were Judge W H Shelley Nat Dortvli and James Shel ¬ ley leyMrs Mrs T Furnish administrix of the estate of E Nicholl hts filed suit against L A Calm well known turfman seeking to recover 10000 damages It is averred that Nicholl was bitten by a dog owned by Calm at the Latonia track last August and died from hydrophobia six weeks later laterThe The Inited War Work Campaign committee was out during the afternoon and secured large donations from the horsemen and nicegoers nicegoersW W J Young former trainer for John Sanford came over from Lexington He reported that he has no horses of his own in training but that he has some finelooking yearlings at the Lexington track trackH H D Brown general manager of the Cuba American Jockey Club wired Charles H Lansdalc from Washington that the military authorities had made an important ruling in connection witli the issuing of tfaiisiiorts to those desirous of visiting Cuba for the approaching season of winter racing
