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INFERIOR RIDING BLAMED Upsets at Latonia Ascribed to Lack of Good Horsemanship. L.J Itockminister Knocked About and Unplaced Miss Jemima Wins in Good Style Runzaf Fails. is e - LATONIA, Ky., October 4. Todays racing resulted hi frequent disappointments for most of the big crowd that was at Latonia. Upsets were numerous and it was not due to laek of speed on the pnrL of those horses in which confidence had been reposed. Poorly judged rides, also a woeful lack of skill on the part of some of their riders wen primarily the contributing causes to bringing about failure. At no time in any one day at this meeting lias there been such an accumulation of bad riding. Jockey Iiunsford, only restored to favor this afternoon, was the most conspicuous one in the bad riding line. His lengthy absence from the saddle, coupled with a strenuous course of reducing, has left him, at least for the present, seemingly unfit to show his real skill. It was only too apparent in his riding of Itockminister in the feature dash that brought together some good two-year-olds at a mile. Lack of post alertness caused Itockminister to .stumble at the start and shortly afterwards, while going to the first turn, Itockminister suffered from interference and had to be taken back. Lunsford at this time was completely rattled and guided bis mount nlo trouble again when attempting to extricate liimself at the half-mile ground, but again Was thwarted. . In the. last .quarter he attempted to-come through next the inner rail, but here he found a solid. Avail .of horses in front of him and shortly afterwards he was effectively hemmed in and Itockminister was forced to shorten his stride and could never get to going freely. Meantime, the leaders were fighting it out in strenuous fashion, with an outsider, Yoshimi. just succeeding in outstaying the fast coming Bet Mosic, while the latters stablemate Bill and Coo beld on long enough to finish third. BLUNDERING TACTICS BEAT BROOKHOLT. In the succeeding race, at three-quarters, Lunsford again figured sharply by bis blundering tactics on Brookholt, which almost shared favoritism with Miss Jemima. He began taking him back early in anticipation of getting cut off and then took bis mount all over the track and ultimately on an outer course in the stretch. Miss Jemima, with her early speed, look the lead and held it lor the entire race. Ginger succeeded in outstaying Brook holt by virtue of having saved much ground when lie slipped through nest the inner rail on the stretch turn. The disappointments began at the outset when Runzaf. backed with rare confidence in the initial dash, failed badly anil finished in third place, Ben Bolt and Tharon showing him the way home, Run-saf led for a half mile, but was done then. Clougbjordan was the one that had the call in the second race. Barrett had the mount on him and gave him an indifferent ride, resulting in his failure to finish among the placed ones. It is doubtful at that if he could have beaten Bud Fisher under the most careful riding, for the colt was in a running mood this afternoon and never left the result in doubt. Treasurer, a supposed good one, finished second and Brother John accounted for the shorter portion of the purse. Dimples was centered on by most as a retriever of previous losses, but again they did not allow for the fillys incompetent handling. Cinderella long overdue, won here by virtue of Scobies superior .skill. The uncertain Furbelow followed her home, with Foggy C. in third place. .Touett was given the call in the sixth race, but met defeat by Wiekford. Herd Girl, another extensively backed one, ran a poor race and seemingly refused to extend herself fully. Gregory made some amends to his followers in the closing race, in which lie had the mount or Lady Longfellow and won in runaway style from Iiekawaiina and Ava It. , FBIGID WEATHER PREVAILS. Frigid weather ruled here this afternoon and the sudden wintry change contributed to a decreased attendance and required heavy topcoats for comfort. The track had dried considerable since yesterday and, while good, showed some traces of wetness in spots. The continued downfall of choices made a big in-voad in bank rolls, but the racing was interesting, several of the close finishes causing a frenzy of excitement. Trainer J. C. Milam said this afternoon that Pegasus came out of his fall last Saturday in a bad way and is out of racing for the year at least. W. F. Knebelkamp, owner of the Louisville baseball club, was among the days visitors. He announced that he would again take part in Cuban racing next winter. His stable of fifteen in charge of W. B. Finnegan will be forwarded to Havann at the close of the Churchill Downs meeting. It. C. McDermott will go along to ride for the stable H. E. Coleman was sent a mile and a half ii l!::iit and pulled up sound. His performance was good, in view of the fact that the track was some wlnt soft. Dissatisfied with the recent races of Kinburn, the stewards called John Gallaher, the owner, before them prior to the first race and asked for an explanation. Ho said he could not account for Kin-burns race in which he was favorite and finished last, unless it was a bad ride which he though Pool gave him. Ho said he had bet on the horse on that occasion and produced some tickets to verify his statement. He was told that the stewards did not consider Pool to blame, that in their opinion the horse was deficient in speed on that day. Pool was questioned by the stewards and said he had used his best endeavor, that he had ridden the bon:e with whip and hands and got no response. While the stewards took no action, they stated that the future races run by the Gallaher horses would j be closely watched.
