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BUT TWO FAVORITES FIRST By Golly and Dick Williams the Lucky Ones to Score The Porter Loses His Rider When Gaining Fast in the Big Race Raceof of the Day LATONIA Ky June 21 Courtship carrying the colors of Marshall Bros accounted for the En ¬ quirer Handicap worth 8920 gross of which the winners net share amounted to 7430 St Bernard landed in second place and Dodge just managed to last long enough to finish in front of the fast coming placeFourteen Vulcanite for third place Fourteen started and the unwieldy field precluded the possibility of a true nin race over the narrow course and interference was frequent culminating finally when jockey Kederis on Dodge cut off Blackie Daw and when the latter was forced back The Porter which was closest ran into him catapulting his rider Simpson Courtship which had been lucky to leave the barrier in a good po ¬ sition and by virtue of his speed kept St Bernard close company was always clear of interference and drew out in the stretch stretchBlackie Blackie Daw as a result of the Interference waa knocked completely out of the running and Regalo sufferer from earlier interference was eased up after going a half mile The Porter continued riderless with the others and later jumped the fence and brought up in the saddle yard where he was caught In addition to the valuable purse dw ierMarsimil ncelYeda massive and ornate KilTet cnp donated by Mr Edward B McLean Mayor Galvin presentationThe of Cincinnati making the presentation The stewards instituted an inquiry at once as to the cause for the interference on the lower turn and on report of the patrol judge that jockey Kederis had deliberately cut off Blackie Daw they sus ¬ pended the offending rider for the remainder of the meeting Jockey Simpson waa knocked out for a time as a result of the fall but later showed no ill effects beyond a bruised cheek Todays cheekTodays race offering was one of the best to tempt racing patrons in these parts and resulted in a record attendance being on hand to view the sport Most of the races were hard fought mid closely contested with the finishes in several in ¬ stances so close that no one outside of the placing judges were in a position to determine the winner winnerThe The Ogden Stable of which Lester Henderson are the owners fared well during the afternoon and representatives from their establishment scored a double but in the case of War Gods victory it war an accidental one for Tacola which landed in sec ¬ ond place was pounds the best but the blundering ride that Mooney gave him resulted in his defeat defeatAnna Anna Gallup was the other winner from the Ogden Stable and her margin at the end was only a noso over Clintonville with Alsace the same dis ¬ tance back of the pair pairBT BT GOLLYS EASY VICTORY VICTORYE E R Bradleys By Golly established his right to favoritism in the valuable Cincinnati Trophy to be run on the closing day of the meeting by u crack performance In the third race which he won with all ease from Mickey Moore and Sam Freed man The latter was a keen sufferer from interfer ¬ ence soon after the start and also raced Impressively but it was the general opinion that he would not have beaten the winner today under any circum ¬ stances stancesBagpipe Bagpipe upset calculations when he defeated a good band starting in the opening race and Sandman II scored a victory for his new owner when he won with ease In the sixth race He ran this after ¬ noon without blinkers and this probably had much to showingThe do with his improved showing The Porters accident in the Enquirer Handicap recalls the injury sustained by Kathleen carrying the colors of Edward B McLean in the same fixture last year Freecutters yearFreecutters absence from the Enquirer Handicap was splintM due to his having developed a splint M Doyle was fined a small sum for his failure to comply with the rules requiring the naming of jockeys before ten oclock According oclockAccording to the most recent advices from New Orleans the new lx ard of directors has arranged for 100000 credit and aim to use this money in improving tjie Fair Grounds The steel structure of the City Park stand will be used for the new grandstand at the Fair Grounds and already work of clearing the space opposite the track has begun to install it Gravel walks are also in contempla ¬ tion and the erection of new stables will be started soon The track nroper will also come in for a fair share of attention and when the plants improve ¬ ments are completed there will be little for owners to complain of ofR R S Eddy Jr has been appointed the new man ¬ ager and A Blettlier is secretarytreasurer F St John one of the directors will reach here next Tuesday from New Orleans and will confer with a number of the horsemen relative to plans of the Fair Grounds management for nest winter and also set some ideas of the Kentucky tracks with a view to their incorporation at the Fair Grounds Trainer GroundsTrainer John F Schorr will shortly ship several of the E B McLean leased racers to Hinata Farm to be turned out until fall The McLeanowned yearlings mostly sired by Loch Foil an Irish bred stallion will te transferred from Hinata Farm to shortlyThe Mr McLeans Virginia farm shortly The epidemic of influenza or something like it which has been prevalent among horses here this spring has about spent its force and most of those which were sufferers from the ailment are on the road to recovery
