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HEAVY GOING AND UPSETS I • Latcnia Favorites Run Like Cows ] znd Outsiders Win. ♦ Skeesix Takes tlie Main Race for Ills Chicago Owner — Extermi- nator on Way to .batonia. i — , BY J. L. DEMPSEY. LATONIA, Xy.. J arse 28. — Prank J. Kellys I ■ promising colt Skeezix was returned winner 1 1 of the beat race offered at I«atonia daring ; ] i the afternoon. It was a dash at five and ; j a half furlongs fur the better grade of two- It year-cMs ami it found the non-staying Cer-| j tain an overwhelming favorite, with Fair : • i Alice also in high esteem. Certain, with bis It I high order of early speed, took a long lead, ! [i but he succumbed readily to Skeezixa chal- j j i lenge in the stretch and the final sixteenth ! ! t found him driving hard to outstay Metric for j second place, Fair Alice retired early, rinding j the stiff going against her. One which would j have had a pplendld chance to at least land t part of the purse was Kent L. had he been | j r away well. Bvt be was away slowly and I N far back of the olhtrs. but the colt buckled | to his task in the last quarter and came with [ a sensational rush. I j J. Threatening weather, follov/ing a hard;! downpour of this morning and an ordinary I j 1 racing offering, resulted in a decrease in at-If tendance from the former days of this week. J The trade, following the rain of this morn- 1 I 1 ing. was deceptive and deep and considerably I c against some of the starters. Some of the i winners came from the most unexpected ! : i quarters and the regularity with which the i j c favorites were DBS tea left the speculatively- I * inclined groggy. t i ItOY.U, DICK A BLEEDER. I Their troubles began with the opening race * when .lake Berger won easily from Cap Rock i* [to and Royal Dick. The latter was purchased j j l efore the race by "rat" Knebelkamp and! ho repented his bargain after the race, when • the horse showed symptoms of being a bleeder. The disappointing Laatados was favorite in the race, but again he displayed his non-Btaying proclivities and quit after having j led Cor the first half mile. | The second race, for maiden two-year-olds, j ! found Sweet Lady firmly installed as the!] ! favorite and she j was sadly wanting, b: inging i up far in the rear ac the finish after having | been far back all during the running. Tip;1 , Toe Inn, so lightly regarded that she was . group. m1 with the other supposed poor ones | ! in the field, showed One speed from the start and held the race safe at all times, winning from another outsider, Irish Ilcse, with Play- • ful Miss ia third place. Virgo and An a van attracted the most bet- . ting attention in the third race, but the result was again disastrous for the majority in the . throng, Link Boy winning after having led [ ] all the way. In a hard drive Grace Daugh- . ! erty headed Virgo right at the end for sec- . ond place. Gammer Curton was the first to furnish I a ray of hope to backers of favorites, when I she scored in the fourth race from an evenly - matched band. Penman rushed her into a , long lead at once and it was well he did, ; for she tired perceptibly in the last eighth [ and had hard work in outstaying the weakly . : ridden First Consul, with Winding Through t landing third place. HILLEBSBURG BAD ACTOR. Aph, running to her best form and given , a superior ride by the diminutive J. Owens, was kept in the best poing all the way and j It enabled her to defeat Sun God and Madge , F. in the last sixteenth. Millersburg, a l starter here, which has only been left off f the schooling 1st, acted badly and unseated 1 her rider at the post. As a result of her r misbehavior the stewards ordered her further . entry refused. The closing dash found the two outstanding . backed ones — Kewpie ONeil and Dimples—beaten . by Tharon. Kewpie ONeil 1 landed in second place and Marine Corps 3 finished third. The redoubtable and durable Exterminator, , j I veteran hero of many grueling contests on .J tracks in all parts of this country, as well j , i as Canada, is en route here to start in the ., Independence Handicap with 5,000 added, " that will have its decision next Tuesday. He will be accompanied by a stablemate and i with them will come the skillful trainer r Eugene Wayland. Exterminator is assigned j 140 pounds for this race. This is the highest t •weight ever carried by a horse in a handicap 5 in Kentucky since racing has bean a pastime. Considerable added interest attaches 3 to his performance on that account His 3 popularity here is unquestioned and he will I have a host of supporters rooting that he e Continued on twelfth page. i HEAVY GOING AND UPSETS Continued from first paea. duplicate his Independence Handicap victory of last year, when he succeeded under a burden of 130 pounds, This was regarded as sensational, far other great horses had failed under an impost of nearly this amount, particularly Boniface, which, carrying 131 pounds in the same stake In its 1920 running, could do no better than land in third place. J. J. Ashe, represented by Lady Liiilan, claimed Marine Corps out of the seventh race for ,500. Trainer Robert Shannon said today that Deadlocks injury did not show up as plainly this morning and that he would probably start him, with a view to determine what is wrong with the colt. Negotiations have been pending for the transfer of Distinction to C. Vr. Clark. The McDowell mare is held at a high figure by her owner, but she may carry the Clark colors at Saratoga. Jockey Ileupel was fined 0 by the stewards after the third race Tuesday for striking Ttilane over the head repeatedly with his whip after the finish. Albert Johnson will come here to pilot Iilx-termir.ator in the Independence Handicap. The horse P.illy Hoots, entered in the nanu of Milton Bates, owner, was scratched out of todays fourth race, the owner having failed to register him in the secretarys office, as required by the rules. John I. owe came over from Louisville today and announced that all of his horses that had been left at Churchill Downs, owing to illness, would be transferred to the Windsor Jockey Club track July 7. Colonel Winn is of the belief that at least seven three-year-olds will face the barrier in the I.atonia Derby Saturday, and thro may be one or two more. The probable starters are Olympus, Broomster, Thibodaux, John Finn, Deadlock, Margaret Winsor and By Cosh.
