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VETERANS VIEW THE RACES t tAmerican American Legion Day Brings Fine Crowd to Churchill Downs Downsi i L Errant Captures the Feature but Only by a Narrow Mar ¬ gin from Kiku LOUISVILLE Ky May 27 American Legion Day brought to Churchill Downs this afternoon uji inerous veterans of the world war who are meiii bcrs of tin organization They manifested keen interest in the racing and attending incidents and voiced unmistakably thrir approval of the great ouldcor sport sportTin Tin re were no outstanding features down for decision but the evenly matched starters contrib ¬ uted to wlmlesome and interesting contests many of the fiiiishes being hard fought The stand of the stewards with rospee to rough riding caused n entire absence of rough riding on the part of the jockeys and it benefited the racing considerably For tin first time at this meeting the twoyear old dashes were cleanly run and the youngsters retained the positions in which they left the barrier Poth juvenile scrambles were hard fought from the start culminating in tight finishes 1 1 Elwells theHeach Stable colors were car ¬ ried to victory for the first timeVat this meeting when his LErrant won in game style in the mile and a sixteenth purse after a hard drive to out ¬ stay Kiku The latter might have reversed the decision but for her stumbling at the start and hying forcoji pira wile jnost of thawayi Garner aTSrt contributeu to L Errants victory by the powt erful finish lie rode The veteran Sqiieeler led home an ordinary band iu the opener Harry Glover caused some excite ¬ ment by his runaway while going to the barrier barrierLady Lady Fair Play finally succeeded in landing a purse for W L Lewis when she accounted for the handicap Hefugee in this started out as if she would make a runaway race of it but she quit badly in the stretch stretchJockey Jockey Lyke was taken suddenly ill before the racing anil had to cancel his riding engagements for the afternoon afternoonThe The E H Hradlcy horses will be shipped to Litonla next Sunday Those owned by Edward H McLean will be transferred to the Milldalc track next Monday MondayW W L Drakes horses were sent to Toronto thin morning and will be campaigned during the sum ¬ mer over the Canadian tracks tracksOonrpiund Oonrpiund winner of the last race was claimed for 1700 by Mrs 1 L Paul Co represented iu the race by Orenzo OrenzoThe The Walter M Jeffordsowrcd Reprisal showed an extra game f iuisa to land the second race for ii attempting to keep him from running out jockey Stack pulled the bit out of the horses mouth and it was some time before it came back into position positionCharles Charles F Price was forced by illness to absent himself from the stewards stiml after the first
