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MONTFORT JONES IN LUCK Adds Two Wore to His Growing List of Victories Ethel Gray Wins in a Canter Woodtrap Takes the Feature Miss Joys Speed LOUISVILLE Ky May 18 Montfort Jones continues his winning way nml added a double this nftoinoon with representatives from his stable when Miss Joy and Ethel Gray scored easy vic ¬ tories The former a twoyearold filly by Peter Quince Proud Daisy and secured just before the Lexington opening at the reported price of 10o0 displayed a sensational order of speed by winning in track record time by a margin optional with her rider and that too after a faulty beginning which left her supporters in suspense It was her first appearance under colors and she lacked post edu ¬ cation for when the start came she dwelt and swerved out with the result that the speedy Rekab managed to secure a long lead with hpr a distant follower in last place She settled quickly to her task and raced around those immediately in front of her with a rush but did not succeed in getting to Rekab until in the last eighth From there on it was simply a question of how far Garner would allow her to win by Her last threeeighths was accomplished in 33 seconds secondsEthel Ethel Grays showing was one of the best in her career TJnllke In former races she took the lead with a rush and showing the way throughout drew away decisively in the stretch and won with con ¬ summate ease Dancing Spray just managing to save second place by a nose from the fast coming Tippo Sahib with Legal only a nose in back of the pair pairIn In the feature race a mile and an eighth 1800 handicap came an upset when Sterling was beaten by Woodtrap The latter raced in his best form of anytime this afternoon and his early speed en ¬ abled him to race into a good lead at once with Belgian Queen and Midway closest in pursuit for the first half mile Sterling had lost his position in the first quarter and Murray decided to guide him wide but he moved up resolutely after passing the half and gave Woodtrap a stern chase but it was unavailing for Woodtrap held him safe to the finish Belgian Queen had no trouble in shaking off Midway and Drastic the only other starter fin ¬ ished in u bad way and on the verge of a break ¬ downWEATHER down WEATHER AND TRACK CONDITIONS PERFECT PERFECTTodays Todays card while devoid of any outstanding features was notwithstanding productive of some excellent sport with conditions in the matter of weather and track perfect perfectThe The fifteen maidens contesting in the opener at a mile raced closely grouped for most of the way Radio grouped with others in the field finally winning from Wishmaker and Blond Buddie BuddieThe The veteran Dr Carmen was in a running mood this afternoon and outfooted a good band of sprint ¬ ers that started in the fourth race Apple Jack II landing in second place with Sergeant York third Claude Brown was n supposed good thing here but he was not good enough though he ran a good race raceOmnipotent Omnipotent showed herself to be a good filly by winning the sixth race in a canter from Lady AstoV and Bright Trash She paid her backers an unex ¬ pectedly good return due to the diversified back ¬ ing the others had Lady Astor being the favorite favoriteAn An unusual accident happened in the running of the hist race in which Tugs and Nominee ridden by Barnes and Connelly respectively figured Tugs while going to the first turn directly in front of Nominee lashed out with his hind legs while going at top speed and kicked Connelly out of the saddle Tugs fell heavily and Barnes and Connelly also hit the ground hard Connelly being kicked uncon ¬ scious and sustaining a compound fracture of tin jaw in addition to minor body bruises bruisesHe He was taken to a local hospital Barnes got off with some bruises Nominee running rider less raced on and headed Mab in the last stride but of course no cognizance of him was taken by the judges Mab getting the purse with Our Birthday in second and Hocknir in third place placeJockey Jockey M Garner has contracted second call on his services to J C Milam and he will ride most of the Montfort Jones horses and those owned by J N Camdeii that Milam is training trainingWHITNEY WHITNEY HORSES TO GO EAST EASTTrainer Trainer James Rowe decided not to ship Tryster Exodus and Broomspun back here and may de ¬ cide on shipping all the Harry Payne Whitney horses that he brought here to race back East next Sunday He may send John P Grier here to help Upset land the Kentucky Handicap on Satur ¬ day dayA A miscellaneous band of horses will be shipped to Omaha tomorrow They will comprise some owned by Michael Shields J A Brause W M Dondas and J M Hiibbard HiibbardW W D Bernhardt accompanied his brother to To ¬ ronto today where their horses will inaugurate their campaign at all the meetings in the Dominion DominionStarter Starter A B Dade was short an assistant today on account of the absence of W Hamilton who is suffering an infection of his foot footJockey Jockey Wida who is under contract to the C W Clark stable returned today from Baltimore where he had been riding for F Hewitt HewittUpon Upon advices from secretary Stall of the Ken ¬ tucky State Racing Commission that K Pitt was duly registered as an authorized agent the horse Alex Jr which he claimed yesterday was turned over to him himUpon Upon receipt of a report from the secretary of the Maryland Racing Commission that H Garner was in good standing in that state his application for a jockey license in Kentucky was approved by the stewards It had previously been withheld upon the understanding that Garner had been suspended there thereO O Willis jockey having been reinstated by the Tijuana officials also had his application approved and will ride here
