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LATONIA RACING EXTENDED j jMore More Days Are Added to Make Thanksgiving the Finale Red Cross Fund to Benefit by the theChange Change Yesterdays Racing RacingOrdinary Ordinary but Draws Well Latonia Ky November 20 After confer ¬ ring with former Senator Johnson N Cam den chairman of the Kentucky State Racing Commission General Manager John Hachuieister of the Latonia Jockey Club made the formal an ¬ nouncement today that the fall meeting of the La ¬ tonia Jockey Club which has beea in progress since Wednesday November 13 would close on Thursday of next week Thanksgiving Day This will make the duration of the meeting fourteen racing days which will be just seven days short of the original allotment of twentyone racing days made by the Kentucky State Racing Commission before the in ¬ fluenza epidemic disrupted the plans for the open ¬ ing of the meeting early last month and compelled the illferment of the opening for more than a month later than the date originally set setThe The decision to close the meeting on Thanks ¬ giving Day instead of continuing it to the end of next week which would have been permissible under the Kentucky law was arrived at on the sug ¬ gestion of Senator Camderi that the racing be continued only long enough to permit the completion of the mammoth fund of 300000 which the racing interests of the state pledged themselves to raise during the present racing season in Kentucky for the benefit of the Red Cross Cross3Che 3Che raising of this ejionnous fnndhaslieen going along steadily all through the racing season and the goal will be reached so far as the contributions of the race tracks their employes and the horsemen are concerned on Thursday of next week General Manager Haclimeister announced Had there not been sufficient racing this fall to complete the fund it had beea planned to continue the assess ¬ ments next spring Happily this will not now be necessary and no assessments will be required next year yearCoincident Coincident with the announcement that the racing would be continued until Thanksgiving Day Manager Haclimeister announced a still further increase in the value of the purses for the final four days of the meeting next week weekAlthough Although the card at Latonia this afternoon was devoid of an outstanding feature the well devised races supplied good contests and satisfied the large crowd that turned out It was ladies day and the members of the fair sex were out in full force The track was still in bad condition and best suited to the mud running horses The afternoon was overcast and threatening with slight showers just prior to the opening nice niceBAD BAD DAY FOR FAVORITES FAVORITESIn In a majority of the races the winners won off with the remainder of the field well strung out at the finish The form backers did not fare any too well as Serbian and Sun God were the only first choices to score The defeats of Words o Wisdom First Ballot and Prospector were costly to tlie followers of favorites favoritesThe The fifth nice a dash of threequarters proved of the most interest and provided the only really close contest of the day A good field of twoyear olds started with Jagi the ruling favorite The Livingston colt could not extend himself in the going and was never a forward contender hi the race It was a threecornered contest between Ixyiniwin Camoufleur and Archie Alexander This trio alternated in setting the pace and in the final drive Barretts strong riding won for Iwiniwin which gained tiie verdict by a close margin with a head separating the other two twoOne One of the days features yas the saddle work 6f Harry Lunsford Tlie boy piloted three winners Helen Atkin Rafferty and George Duncan He also had a second and a third thirdWhile While the horses were in the paddock for the seventh race and after the betting had started the paddock judge reported that Brynlimah was ex ¬ tremely lame The stewards accordingly ordered the horse withdrawn withdrawnYenghee Yenghee was struck in the head by a clod in his last nice receiving a cut above the eye Jockey eyeJockey Lyke arrived today and will ride Cirrus in the Queen City Handicap tomorrow tomorrowJoseph Joseph E Martin manager of the Fort Erie and Hot Springs nice tracks was a visitor from New York and will spend a few days enjoying the races here before proceeding to his home in St Louis Kay LouisKay Spence announced today that he had com ¬ pleted arrangements with Edward B McLean of Washington by which he would have the services of Jockey H Lunsford fcr the Cuban campaign of his stable during the coming winter
