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MANY ARRIVALS OF HORSES AT LATONIA Bainfall Improves the Dusty Track Appointments Being Made Rapidly in Good Order CINCINNATI O June 2 Continued arrivals during the day are bringing the number of horses in those parts to the point of congestion The attractive prizes that the Lutonia management is offering this year are responsible for the center ¬ ing here of more horses than at any other racing plant in this country countryProbably Probably never before in the history of thor ¬ oughbred racing have owners been given such big opportunity of garnering rich stakes and purses Luring the life of the first program book em ¬ bracing eight days a total of 100800 in added money will be distributed to the various stakes and overnight dashes The largest money distri ¬ bution will be on Derby Day June It when La tonias chief spring fixture will be decided That event has an added money value of liiCOO and ail additional 5000 in the event that 1aul Jones duplicates his Kentucky Derby success successWeights Weights for the Inaugural Handicap i000 added at a mile and a sixteenth to be run the opening day next Saturday were announced this c orning by Secretary Shelley The board of handi cappers gave Sir Iarton the top impost of 133 pounds witli This 1orter next in their esteem he being assigned 131 Boniface is allotted one pound less and King Gorin winner of the Kentucky Handicap has up 127 pounds The weights grad ¬ uate downward to 94 which several in the list of 110 originally entered are burdened with withAt At present the outlook is for at least u dozen starters with the following the most probable to go to the post for the valuable prize The 1orter lot King Uurin 127 Minto II 122 General Haig 118 Ho Frank 115 John O Ill Ginger 110 Damask 110 liegalo 107 Distinction 107 Atta Hoy II 105 105A A brisk shower during the afternoon was bene ¬ ficial to the track fur it laid tiie dust and solidi ¬ fied the footing considerably There has been an absence of moisture at the track and the drench ¬ ing this afternoon freshened the shrubbery and lawns lawnsTodays Todays visitors at the track included Martin Nathanson who came to Cincinnati on a brief business mission and returned to CJiiiago tpuipht Jolm IIaehmcister former gencraC aiThurgcr it the Latcnia and Douglas Park race tracks who is now in Cincinnati took a trip to give the track the once over and he was considerably impressed with the many changes and improvements wrought management managementEnmiiy Enmiiy which has been on the ailing list for some time had to be destroyed this morning as a result of contracting blood poison poisonGeneral General manager ilatt 1 Winn arrived yesterday to give personal supervision to many details con ¬ nected with the opening
