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DISTINCTIONS GREAT SPEED Lands Her Victress in Louisville Track Record Time Rouleau Wins a FastRun Mile MileDash Dash Hughes Graham Makes MakesAmends Amends in Easy Style BY J L DEMPSEY DEMPSEYLOUISVILLE LOUISVILLE Ky May 30 Thomas C McDowells grand mare Distinction made her seasons debut this afternoon a most aus ¬ picious one and likewise recorded the best performance of her career when she won the Decoration Day Handicap with 52500 added in one of tho most grueling drives witnessed over the Churchill Downs course Her success was achieved by a noso over her former stable companion Braedalbane Following the pair came Centimeter with such other noted sprinters as Marjorie Hynes and Dr Clark following The time of the race 111 equals the track record for the distance held jointly by Flags and Bring hurst hurstDistinction Distinction by carrying 122 pounds con ¬ ceded actual weight to all the others as well as scale weight but she was in the thickest of the strife from the start and when it came to the final drive Kederis rode her vigorously and she responded in her usual game style Braedalbane had been the early leader and holding on gamely seemed almost certain of success in the last eighth but steadily the McDowell mare gained on him and finally got her nose in front just as the pair were taking the last stride Her per ¬ formance was a wonderful one considering it was her initial start for this year and it was a great tribute to jockey J Howard who has had supervision of heir training as well as ojt the other racers in the McDowell es ¬ tablishment tablishmentDB DB CLARKS DISAPPOINTMENT DISAPPOINTMENTThe The disappointment in the race was Dr Clark because of his good showing in a pre ¬ ceding race in which it took High Clouds sensational recordbreaking performance to beat him home by a scant margin He was made a big favorite in todays race but he was lacking high speed and Connelly was con ¬ tent to let him race wide and follow the others a good way back after the first quar ¬ ter had been traversed traversedTodays Todays holiday attendance was one of tha largest that has been at Churcnill Downs ex ¬ cepting Derby day Wagering was also heavy and interest in the sport of a high standard The perfect weather and track conditions contributed extensively to make the occasion an enjoyable one for the big band of visitors visitorsThe The Montfort Jones stable took down their daily purse during the afternoon with Rou ¬ leau He was in with some speedy milers In the secondary feature and won in game style from Parader with Dartmoor in third place The winner was far back for the first half mile but came fast in the stretch to win in race horse fashion fashionHughes Hughes Graham which has been a failure of frequency was returned the victor in the sixth race but his success was aided by the crowding that came soon after the start and it enabled him to race into a long lead which assured his victory Old Top under strong riding landed in second place a few inches in advance of Skeezix a first timer that might be a good colt He raced green and as a result was almost left at the post He displayed a sensational flight of speed and moved around the rear guard like a flash but in the final drive he tired and it enabled Old Top to beat him out for second place placeTUNTA TUNTA GORDA IS BEST BESTHarry Harry Payne Whitneys Punta Gorda a favorite in the second race bringing to tho post a band of maiden twoyearold fillies proved much the best of the starters and won easily after having been outpaced in the early running by Barbara Palmer and Needy The Whitney filly was away well but on the stretch turn Connelly rode her wide then under rousing up in th last eighth she rushed into a long lead Barbara Palmer maintained her position well in the stretch and was standing the hard final drive in resolute style Bandeau which had been ex ¬ tensively backed came with a rush right at the end and outstayed Needy for third place Tho Introductory scramble In which some good platers met resulted in another victory for Frank J Kelly whose Janku winner of his previous race won easily after having led for the entire race James B Brown was the runner up with the much interfered with Wayward Lady in third place just beating Pindar Peel There was a mix up in the first quarter as a result of College Girl going down with J Kederis and this Continued on twelfth pace DISTINCTIONS GSEAT SPEED Continued from first page contributed to Wayward Ladys defeat Jockey Kederis was uninjured by the fall and rede in the following race raceC C IL Berrymans colors were carried to victory for the first time at this meeting when his Tulalip won the third race in run ¬ away style from the suddenly Improved Padua with Cinderella bringing up in third place placeThe The promising apprentice W Pool had the mount on Tulalip and he kept her under re ¬ straint until just before reaching the stretch where he called on her and she responded gamely by racing into a long lead in the last eighth Padua after racing around the others when coming into the stretch lield 01 resolutely and had no difficulty in outstaying the others but was no match for the winner Mysterious Girl which in a preceding race beat some good ones home was shy of speed today and never figured prominently in any part of the running runningLouis Louis Tabcr today shipped the horses be ¬ longing to the Greentree Stable to Hamilton Canada Included in the number transferred were Peter Piper and Debadou DebadouJ J S Hawkins has shipped his stable of twelve horses to Latonia where he will pre ¬ pare them for that meeting meetingLloyd Lloyd Gentry has disposed of the erratic Flags to A P Foley for a private considera ¬ tion tionMose Mose Goldblatt has sent the threeyearold filly Aloft back to Harry Payne Whitneys farm in New Jersey The filly has been retired from racing and will be bred to one of the Whitney stallions Aloft was some ¬ what of a disappointment as a racer and did not figure extensively in the winning column during her rather brief racing career careerThe The Elrod special carrying horsemen and race followers to Latonia and Cincinnati is scheduled to leave over the L N from the Tenth street station at 9 oclock Sunday morning morningT T C Bradley resident manager of the Lexington track came over yesterday to confer with general manager Matt J Winn regarding a number of contemplated im ¬ provements at the plant plantLouis Louis Marshall has arranged to send his stable to Latonia next Thursday ThursdayTho Tho Latonia program books giving the list of all the eligibles to the twelve rich stakes to be dicided during the course of the twentynine day meeting at the Mill Dale track made its appearance today and was distributed among the horsemen The book is handsomely got up Besides the stake nominations it contains the conditions of the races for the first seven days of the meeting meetingThe The Florisant Stable in charge of Ed Trot ¬ ter was shipped to Latonia tonight to rest there until the opening June 6 6Jack Jack Phillips also shipped his horses in ¬ cluding Guy to Latonia for the racing there thereJohn John M Goode and William Perkins were principals in an altercation this morning and the stewards fined Perkins 250 for violating the rule pertaining to breach of the peace on the race track trackAfter After dismounting from Distinction in th feature race jockey Kederis showed pro ¬ nounced lameness as a result of his fall on College Girl and canceled his riding en ¬ gagements on Millersburg in the closing race E Pool substituting Pool will be an ab ¬ sentee from the saddle for tho next fifteen days having been suspended by the stewards for rough riding in the sixth race raceJockey Jockey N Barrett was suspended for five days by the starter in the second race for disobedience at the post postG G Drumheller claimed Tulalip at a cost of 2000 from the third race raceMiss Miss Joy and Fair Phantom are the latest additions to the list of influenza victims They have it in a mild form and will prob ¬ ably be ready for racing again during the second week of the Latonia meeting The epidemic that is raging is only in mild form
