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DRASTICS EASY TRIUMPH Takes the Latonia Autumn Selling Stakes Without Trouble Cirrus and Exterminator Are Dis ¬ tinguished Arrivals Lyke and Loftus to Ride Them Lntonia Ky November 19 O E Pattersons threeyearold Hastings Dragnet colt Drastic hitherto almost unknown to Kentucky nicegoers carried 101 pounds and with J Dreyer in the saddle scored an easy victory over seven other good selling platers in the Autumn Selling Stakes the feature of the card at Latonia this afternoon The Waheck Stables Basilius finished second a neck in advance of Opportunity First money was worth t340 net The winner was entered for the compara ¬ tively small price of 800 but there were no bids for him himThe The winner accomplished his task in fine style He was kept in close attendance on the pacemaker Opportunity and when the latter showed signs of weariness after turning for home Dreyer called on him and Drastic passed into the lead and afterward was not seriously menaced Basilius made an in ¬ effectual challenge in the last sixteenth but could not get close to the winner The winner practically neglected in the speculation paid 24 0 for each 2 invested Buford the lukewarm favorite could not goingIn extend himself freely in the going In a majority of the races the horse that got out in front stayed there for the entire way with the winners all scoring by good margins A purse race at one mile and a handicap for alt ages at threequarters proved of interest ITlie first named enabled Luckv Bto scon hisseconilpnr e at the meeting which he did easily in beating Gipsy Queen and War Machine the latter an oddson favorite The handicap also brought out a small field and re ¬ sulted iu an easy triumph for Frank Weirs Toto this latest victory being the geldings third purse here in as many starts Toto was backed almost o the exclusion of the other three starters and he justified this confidence by taking the lead and veeping it to the end endAfter After Lucky 11 won he was worked out an extra mile Moscowa which started in tin handicap also was given an extra mile Both gallops were pre ¬ paratory to their engagement in the Latonia Cup to be run Saturdayt Mary Hs defeat in the closing race was a hard blow to the talent as she appeared to outclass her opposition The face that Lnusford was in the sad ¬ dle brought her additional support but after having an apparent safe lead in the stretch she suddenly tired and Walter H Pearce caught and passed her in the last eighth Jockey eighthJockey Lunsford signalized his return to Kentucky by riding two winners Joe Stahr and Toto TotoJockey Jockey Smith was set down for three days by the starter starterCISHTTS CISHTTS SHOWN TO EACEGOEES EACEGOEESS S C Hildreths Cirrus the prospective favorite for the running of the Queen City Handicap on Thursday made his first appearance on the Latonia trnck after the running of the first race Tuesday afternoon when trainer Dave Leary who brought the sterling son of Tracery and Morningside here to fill his engagement iu the richest juvenile race of the western turf gave him slow cantering exer ¬ cise preparatory to his final work Iwfore the race which he will get Wednesday morning Jockey L Lyke will have the mount on the Hildreth crack in Thursdays Rice and is expected to arrive from the east on Wednesday WednesdayThere There was another important piece of work oa Tuesday afternoon just before the running of the opening race when Willis Sharpe Kilmers crack threeyearold Exterminator brought here by that astute trainer Henry McDaniel to make a try for the Latonia Cup at two and a quarter miles on Sat ¬ urday was sent a mile and an eighth in 157 Exterminator is a noted mud runner and his work was satisfactory satisfactoryJockey Jockey Loftns arrived from the east Tuesday and will have the mount on the Kilmer crack in Sat ¬ urdays big race raceJockey Jockey II Lunsford was another important addition to the riding brigade at Latonia Tuesday He caim from Maryland to finish out the season here under the management of Kay SIHMICC for whom he rode so successfully before the latter sold his contract to Edward JulyKay B McLean last July Kay Spence was the victim of a painful though happily not serious mishap Tuesday morning when lie was thrown from his pony and suffered some seven laceration of the face and bruises else ¬ where whereAdditional Additional stables linked for shipment to Cuba Include those of W L Schwartz J Armstrong and 1 Hall The last named is coming from his home at Stansberry Mo MoE E Iward Jasper who acts as clerk of the scales at Oriental Park has been actively engaged in can ¬ vassing the horsemen at lilt mill in the interests of the Cuban meeting
