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HIGH COSTS IMPROVEMENT Regains His Speed Suddenly and Makes a Track Record Rangoon Qualifies Handsomely as asa a Latonia Derby Candidate Miss Joy Wins Cantering LATONIA Ky June 7 After having figured obscurely in last years racing and been beaten off i few days ago by Brookholt when carrying 125 pounds to bis 110 High Cost this afternoon turned in n iierfnrmance that eclipsed any of his most bril ¬ liant feats and beat his opponents in the three quarters handicap in hollow style Ho covered the distance in 110 displacing the former trad record of 111 held jointly by Winning Witcli and Scnnings Park High Cost displayed a high order of speed from the start and led the others prac ¬ tically throughout lie was easing in the last six ¬ teenth and nt that he had a twolength margin over Sewcll Combs with Minute Man and Darjeeiing closely grouped Minute Man might have given the winner u better argument but for being forced hack at the half miln ground when High Cost came over to the inner rail railWhile While the handicap was accepted as the feature of the afternoon the race following in which three yearolds exclusively contested held out the most interest from the fact that several of the starters will go to the postnext Saturday in tli Iiatonla Derby J Jfr Cam5eris Rangoon qualified hand ¬ somely here for Saturdays fixture by carrying 120 pounds and scoring an impressive triumph He was rushed into the lead at the outset outpaced his challengers without any apparently great effort and drew away in the stretch to win as Butwell his rider elected Planet was closest to him at the end by virtue of having been saved during the earlier part of the race but Uncle Vclo was crowd ¬ ing him sharply at the end and with i few more strides to go lie would have displaced him from second place Gold Digger and McGoodwin essayed to follow Itangoon closely for the first threequar ¬ ters but their efforts told and they were badly spent when reaching the stretch stretchThe The crack Miss Joy in the Montfort Jones stable won the opening race a dash at fiveeighths and the first of its kind in these parts this year Her victory was in the nature of an exercise gallop for she led all the way and was under sharp re ¬ straint for most of the way but good filly that she is she could not keep her pace to slower time than 100 for the distance That she was highly re ¬ garded is indicated by the short odds she returned to her backers backersGROUNDSWELL GROUNDSWELL RUNS WELL WELLGroundSwell GroundSwell was another favorite to follow on the heels of Miss Joy with a victory This mare is showing a bit more gamcness than was her wont She allowed Sweet Liberty to make the running until in the last sixteenth where she raced past the pacemaker and won easily easilyAn An ordinary band of twoyearolds met In the third race and the evenness of their caliber was in ¬ dicated in that the field ruled favorite at 440 to 1 The winner Rugglcs was in the field as al ali i was Salamander which landed third Killy Sitnr split the pair and the latter colt paid more lo show than he did for second place placeJouett Jouett was another favorite that galloped in I ho van of bis company His success came in thn fourth race Make Up landing in second place and Cotton Blossom third thirdThe The closing race a mile and a quarter dash was productive of the best finish of the afternoon Gourmand a favorite winning from La Foudre in the last few strides Gourmands success made it a clean sweep for the favorites the entire seven winning winningJockey Jockey Murray who had the mount on Capital City in the closing race was suspended for five days by the stewards for rough riding He had car ¬ ried off the riding honors of the day by landing Miss Joy and GroundSwell winners in the first two races racesKorbly Korbly will be shipped to the farm and turned out until winter racing as he came out of bis race yesterday in n bad way wayTexas Texas Special is suffering from lockjaw and there is some doubt if he can be saved The infection was due to a bruised heel heelAnne Anne Elizabeth which was badly cut down last year has been taken up to train by trainer Pete Coyne but it is unlikely that she will be a starter until fall The veteran Freecnttcr is also back in training and seemingly going soundly
