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ADVERSE DAY AT LATONIA Rain and Sloppy Mud Bring Un ¬ pleasant Conditions for All Favorites Fail and Bon Tromp and andEedmon Eedmon Pay Long1 Prices Old OldSleeth Sleeth Takes a Purse Litonia Ky November 18 Weather and track tonditions at Latonia this afternoon were anything Imt ideal for racing but in spite of adverse con ¬ ditions a large crowd journeyed to the course A cold rain fell all afternoon forcing the spectators to keep under cover during the running of the card The track was one of soft mud and only those horses with a known facility for mud running were given speculatorsFavorites any consideration by the speculators Favorites fell by the wayside in rapid succession with most of the races going to horses paying gen ¬ erous dividends BathiMe was the first to disappoint when she failed to get any portion of the purse in the second race which was taken by Uafterty in asy style Madge F was tie offending one in the lliiri race when she fell a victim to Delicious su ¬ perior staying power Brownie McDawell brought ziiore woe to the form backers in the race following The biggest disappointment of the day attended the running of the fifth race billed as the feature in which A X Akin was an oddson favorite and vis supiKised to be right at home in the slop but was beaten off all the way The race went to John Lowes Bon Tromp paying odds of a trifle better than 19 to 1 The Lowe horse raced close up with Skiles Knob the pacemaker and outstayed him in the stretch drive driveHiiidlcy Hiiidlcy Bakers nineyearold Sleeth astonished Jhe spectators when he led throughout and can ¬ tered home a winner in the sixth nice It was tlnf first purse1 for SleeKi to win In a long time The priceKetliiion winner paid a good price Ketliiion was another one that rewarded his backers handsomely with odds of better than 2G to 1 The speculators neglected him in the belief that he could not run well in the mud Delico and Jtrynlimali were Hie other longpriced winners that Wive the talent food for reflection reflectionMreh Mreh interest attached to the anpearance of JUvvell Combs in the fifth race This threeyear old colt was making his first appearance since he started DerbyThe in the Kentucky Derby The program booked for the final four days of this week was distributed by Uacing Secretary Campbell and the increased nurse values embraced in it met with the approval of the horsemen horsemenBahilde Bahilde favorite for the second race was claimed from M Goldblatt in whose colors she was making her debut by John Itandolph for 1100 1100TRATNEH TRATNEH NICHOLS ItfCKY DAY T II Nichols trainer of Itedmon which won the fourth race at the long odds of 5450 was anxious to scratch the horse in the morning but finally concluded to run him because to get out of the race lie wonuld have been called upon to pay a stiff scratch fee feeGoJden GoJden Glow was ordered scratched from the fifth nice after the betting had been in progress for a considerable time and the money wagered on him was refunded refundedAdvices Advices from Maryland is that It F Carman who lias charge of The Beach Stable contemplates shipping shortly his entire string including Sunny Slope to New Orleans for a campaign on the tracks there thereThe The horses of Mrs It L Bfeslcr and those of Frank Farrow passed through Cincinnati yesterday en route to New Orleans where they will be raced racedKick Kick of cars in Maryland is causing owners some delay in transferring to the Crescent City but they are hopeful that the car supply will soon im ¬ prove proveMax Max Hirsch who is training the horses of G W Loft has reconsidered his intention of resting the racers at Belmont Iark next winter and is pre ¬ paring them for shipment to the Crescent City CityMarshall Marshall Bros horses which include Courtship Marie Miller and others were shipped to New Orleans Sunday Several other owners will send consign ¬ ments to the Crescent City tonight and the horse of S Doyle will leave for New Orleans tomorrow tomorrowII II B Iteether came in from Ixxington with Ann S the property of T C Bradley and Andrew Bowman and King Osi belonging to J Speyer and r Gormley GormleyT T S Ward who arrived from the east last week with T W Parrishs Midway and Bulse plans to take life easy during the winter at his home in Ixmisville having sold all of his own horses The Parrish pair after racing the Latonia meeting out will be turned out for the winter winterI I onis Strube was an arrival from Baltimore from which ixjint he shipped three horses to Cuba He himself is under engagement to go to New Orleans with the stable of r T Chinn
