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LATONIAS JUVENILE RACES Harold Stakes and the Cincinnati Trophy Rich Events Yet to Be Decided COVIXGTOX Ky June 11 The Kentucky lockoy Club has never been enthusiastic about iwo vcarold racing in early spring its directors hold ¬ ing to the sane European theory that too much early racing by twoyearolds is destructive of tender bones ami immature tendons and conse ¬ quently a deterrent to the development of the jrt of horses that miglit make Kentucky Derby Latonia Derby I atonia Championship and I atonia Cup renewals races of the sort fjlks like to travel hundreds of miles to see Up to the end of the Churchill Downs meeting no twoyearold race at a greater distance than four and a half fur ¬ longs was offered Twoyearold racing will not be a pronounced feature of the current summer meeting of the Kentucky Jockey Club at Latonia but there will be enough of it to give variety to an attractive thirtyone days program The Clipsetta a sprint of fiveqighths with 5lj added in which twoyearold fillies participated has already been run The Harold and the Cin ¬ cinnati Trophy for years the most inportant of Latonia twoyearold races of annual revival art yet to be decided the Harold on lune 18 with the Ten lirueck Handicap one of the best Latonia stake races for threeyearolds and Cincinnati Trophy on July 2 along with the 10000 Ixitohla Oaks a race for threeyearold fillies that might Iirij the Kentucky Oaks contenders Nancy Lee and Prudery together in a gallop of one mile and a quarter under conditions that will test the speed and stamina of both to the utmost utmostThe The Jlarold and the Trophy have 5000 added the former at fiveeighths the latter at three quarters of a mile Colts and geldings only may start in the Harold The Trophy is open to colts fillies and geldings liecause of the many valuable races for twoyearolds to ha run in the late sum ¬ mer and autumn such races as the Hopeful at Saratoga Futurity at Itelmotit Park Breeders Fu ¬ turity at Lexington Maryland Futurity at Pimllco and the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Louisville horsemen East and West have been going slow with their best twoyearolds lest youngsters that might have chances to win one or more of these rich au ¬ tumn prizes be staled by less profitable spring and early summer campaigning However some of the good youngsters have shown and all that have are in the Harold and the Trophy
