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LATONIA MEETING ARRIVES Big Spring Racing Reunion Begins Today With a Fine Card Crack Racers to Contest Inaugu ¬ ral Handicap This Afternoon Track Probably Slow LATONIA Ky June 4 Latonia offers its pa ¬ trons an exceptionally well arranged program for its opening day tomorrow All the races have filled in good style and in tlie lieadliners the stars in these parts are among the entered ones The Inaugural Handicap with its 5000 added is tin outstanding feature and the dozen named to make the contest comprise the cream of the han ¬ dicap division There is every prospect that at least nine of the dozen will go to the post postThe The announced jockeys and their mounts in the race follows followsThe The PorterOIrien King Gorin Connelly Minto II Wilson General Haig Mink lUackie Daw Warringtou Pe Frank A Collins Ginger Meri mee Prince 1al Kobinson Kegalo Hanover Atta Roy II Garner Leochares is coupled with The Porter both being owned by Edward H Mc ¬ Lean but it is doubtful if the veteran will en ¬ gage in the race raceHard Hard rains this morning put the track in a muddy condition but there is every prospect of fine weather for tomorrow and it presages a record at ¬ tendance Up to date more than 1000 horses have been stabled at tlie track and at least 100 more will find quarters at tlie track and in adjacent barns Applications for room for 300 others cannot be com ¬ plied with and they will be forced to refrain from racing JIUIT ship lo jither points The mutuel arrangements under direct supervision of Gene Elrod are fully completed A force of 55 men will be employed in charge of the mutuel machines and their necessary requirements There will be sixtyone machines in daily operation operationToday Today practically wound up tlie big shipments of thoroughbreds from Louisville as with few ex ¬ ceptions all of tlie horses which took part in the Churchill Downs meeting and which are intended for racing at Latonia have arrived at the Milldale track It was no small task to transport a thou ¬ sand or more horses here even though it was a short ship as half of them or more had to travel by freight A remarkable incident in connection witli the shipping of the vast number of thorough ¬ breds is that not a single case of sickness was reported and two race track veterinarians said this morning that they did not know of a sick horse on the grounds groundsLICENSES LICENSES AND BADGES ISSUES Kacing secretary William II Shelley placing judge Edwanl Jasper and Julius Keeder spent the entire day today and tlie greater part of yester ¬ day registering the horses available for the La ¬ tonia meeting and issuing badges to owners train ¬ ers and jockeys This task was greater than ever before localise of the increased number of racers on hand handIn In addition to Re Frank winner of tlie Latonia Dcrly and Latonia Cup last year trainer William Jennings brought three other iiorses here for Cor ¬ nelius M Garrison They are Kddie Fuller a threeyearold and Clarkson and Edna both two yearolds Re Frank is entered in every stake for which lie is eligible on the Latonia roster rosterAl Al Woodman acting for M Dattner of Detroit this morning purchased Concentrate a twoyearold colt by Klkhorn Intensity from Charley Itowe The colt started twice at Louisville LouisvilleSams Sams Roy owned by John Middleton of Louis ¬ ville has been turned over to Dan Ixlmn to train He brought six other horses over from Churchill Downs DownsWui Wui Cain has taken over Thinker to train for 0 Timberlake Tills filly was turned out all win ¬ ter but her long rest seems to have availed her little as she performed poorly at Ixjuisville IxjuisvilleSeveral Several hundred horses were out for gallops at LMtonia yesterday morning and even though rain had drenched the course a number of good work ¬ outs were noted A majority of the horses were not worked fast however especially those in tho early morning hours when muddy spots were visible on the track trackRy Ry far the best workout of the day was that Of Accelerate which went a mile in l403 the first three quarters in 114 Other good moves were Col Taylor threequarters in 1115 Mys ¬ terious Girl one and oneeighth miles in 155 Uncle Velo fiveeighths in l0i Marjorie Hynes threequarters in l14Jf Lorraine mile in 145 Ry Golly and Rest Pal together mile in 147 Prospector mile in 143 Jf Lady in Rlack five eighths in Kunmic fiveeighths in 1011 Ouincv Ward half mile in 4J and Rertha S five eighths in 102
