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RAIN VISITS LOUISVILLE But Big Crowd Goes to Churchill Downs Anyhow Dresden Acquires Kentucky Oaks OaksChance Chance in Defeating Lorraine Lorraineand and Other Crack Fillies LOIMSVILLK Kv May 11 Cl gcd rack con ¬ ditions resulted from a heavy rain this morning lint while more downpour threatened it held off and induced another immense throng to lie on hand to view the sport Although there was an absence of a stake feature some fairly good ones contested il many of the dashes and contributed to some ex ¬ cellent sport sportJockey Jockey Carmody seems to timid judging liy liis actions in taking back his mounts Jim Hastings suffered from this sort of riding and Krnest I af tor being taken far back was nished into the lead in a short space resulting in his exhaustion when the stretch racing began and being without reserve speed to outstay Sun God when the latter made a challenge Tim Hastings and Ernest 1 were both favorites and their downfall brought chagrin to a majority of the Ms crowd on hand handGallaher Gallaher Bros flashy threeyearold filly Dresden entered the ranks of first flight contenders for the Kentucky Oaks to be run next week by a victory over 1 X Camdens Lorraine She was aided ex ¬ tensively by the going in which she rims freely lint her success was attained only after a hard effort to to outstay Lorraine The later tired unexpectedly when her victory seemed sure and it might be she is not overly suited by muddy gong Busy Signal showed her inability to run well in it by being far from the leaders at the finish finishAVIth AVIth GWden Broom out of the Uiird race 1t seemed Monfort Jones highly rated Irookholt would score easily lint he disappointed badly and finished well beaten though he showed early speed speed1atches 1atches led the others to the finish in easy style with Best Iil and Alex Jr fighting it out for second place placeAs As an illustration of the growth of interest in thoroughbred horse racing Thomas B Cromwell secretary of the Thoroughbred Horse Association who came over from Lexington this afternoon stated that he is in receipt of an inquiry for horses for the Minnesota State Fair at Minneapolis for the first week in September An effort will be made to supply a few good horses since it is the purpose of the fair association to furnish an at ¬ traction such as they never before have had at their fair The idea is to have one race a day fur two or three days with four six or eight horses starting in each race Owners interested are requested to get into communication with Cromwell CromwellAlbert Albert Simon who trained a division of the Harry Iayne Whitney stable and became ill at New Orleans and subsequently went to Hot Springs arrived this morning from the latter place accompanied by his wife He will remain in Louis ¬ ville only briefly intending to go soon to a conn try place in this state where he will try to regain his health healthHal Hal 1rice Headley president of the Thorough ¬ bred Horse Association and who will race i pre ¬ tentious string this year came over this morning from Lexington returning to his Beaumont farm after the racing
