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FAVORITES PROVE FICKLE Lexington Choices Give the Ad ¬ mirers a Disastrous Afternoon Harvest King an Especial Of ¬ fender Pif Jr Beaten in His First Race of the Year LEXINGTON Ky May 5 Backers of choices experienced disaster during the afternoon when most of the favorites succumbed readily in un ¬ expected fashion the mile and an eighth handicap intended as the feature bringing with it the most disappointing incident by the failure of Harvest King On the strength of his previous showing when he finished third in good company under a somewhat inefficient ride on the part of Barrett he was considered to have the purse this afternoon at his mercy and was backed ir confident style but he proved a failure and his defeat was fore ¬ shadowed long before the stretch racing began Barrett was in a great measure responsible for his poor showing as lie kept him under choking re ¬ straint for threequarters and the horse was com ¬ pletely exhausted when he was called on The winner turned up in Omond on which C Robinson rode 11 perfect race and coming with a welltimed rush wore Hocnir down in the last sixteenth Herald landed In third place Another jolt that the followers of favorites got Kline In the mile dash in which the veteran Pif Jr making his first start of the year went down to defeat as a result of a poor ride M Garner was the offender in this instance and his riding of the Baker starter came in for considerable criticism Garner tried to account for his failure by going into the stewards stand and complaining that Murphy on Manokin had repeatedly interfered with his mount The winner in this was Buford which just managed to last long enough to win by a neck Trusty which had been winning con ¬ sistently of late met defeat in the initial pice Brig of War triumphing over him and scoring a lucky win at tlmt tlmtBooneyille Booneyille proved best of the starters in the sec ¬ ond race which brought to the post a quintet of ordinary twoyearolds Most of them wcn green to what was expected of them Principle and Nick followed Booneville to the finish finishAnother Another favorite that went down in defeat was Luke Dillon in the fifth race which lost enough ground by being raced wide to have Avon if kept close to the inner rail Bread Man saving grounl throughout on the turns won by virtue of it with Black Prince in second place and Horace Lerch in placeTo third place To dissolve the partnership between John Wiggins and 0 A Biancht four yearlings were sold by auction today They were a brown filly by Jim Gaffney Viola B which was bought by A Bianchi for 1000 John Wiggins bought the filly by Darley Dale Diamond Grain for 800 and a brown fill by Jim Guffney Pennance and the bay filly by The Picket Mary King KingSUN SUN BRIAR IN TRAINING TRAININGTrainer Trainer Henry McDaniel returned this morning from Bhigliumton N Y where he had conferred with owner W S Kilmer The latter will have no representative in the Kentucky Derby this year but Exterminator wijl be started in the Camden Handicap here and the Kentucky Handicap at Louis ¬ ville Mr McDaniel stated that Sun Briar is under ¬ going a steady training preparation with a view to a campaign on eastern tracks During the winter he was mated with about fifteen mares owned by Mr Kilmer KilmerThe The Kilmer horses now training at Biughamton will be shipped to Aqueduct about May 15 to begin their campaignHal racing campaign Hal Price Headley reported this morning the following new foals at his Beaumont Farm Bay filly by Uncle Colonial and n bay colt by Uncle Miss Granville and a halfbrother to Little Nephew NephewJohn John Bradley brother to E It Bradley is a visitor at the Idle Hour Farm after a fourweek crosscountry trip on horseback starting at Ash ville N C He was accompanied by T I Reese mayor of Palm Beach Fla FlaThe The B J Brannon racers including St Bernard were shipped to Louisville yesterday St Ber ¬ nards disappointing performance in the Blue Grass Stakes won by Uegalo was probably duo to his previous exhaustive race in the mud which ii supposed to have dulled his speed Kegalo speedKegalo winner of the Blue Grass Stakes and owned by J C Gallaher and Sewcll Combs will In whipped with the others in the Gallaher Bro string to Louisville Wednesday and her Derby trial will be over the Churchill Downs track next Thursday Her victory Saturday has brought her prominently to the front and she will have many confident supi orters from this section Her owners feel confident that she will beat the crack eastern owned threeyearolds and she has demonstrated fully that she holds the western brigade safe safeE E W Moore who holds the contract on Jockey C Robinson stated this afternoon that he has had no offers for the transfer of the riders contract Matt contractMatt J Winn vicepresident and general man ¬ ager of the Kentucky Jockey Club tracks departed this morning for Louisville where lie will lend hi assistance in arranging the minor details neces ¬ sary to complete arrangements for the opening of the Churchill Downs track trackAccording According to report the Kentucky Derby candi ¬ dates Eternal Sailor Vindcx Billy Kelly and Sir Barton were given stiff gallops this morning over the heavy track at Churchill Downs Sailor and Eternal ran the mile and a quarter in 2il8 Vindex in LI8 and the J K L Ross pair were gal ¬ loped out a mile and an eighth in 00
