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MUD RACERS HAVE A DY Latonia Track Well Drenched, but Racing Is Spirited. Chatterton Wins the Feature Without Trouble Change in Kentucky Fall Dates Asked. BY J. L. DEMPSEV. I A.TONIA. K. July 3. Mud racing was the order at I atonia today. For the first time at this meeting pronounced mud runners were given full opportunity to earn a purse. A majority of the starters had good mud racing ratings and the sport failed to suffer. On the contrary, nearly all the finishes were o: the close variety and early contention active. A surprisingly large attendance was n hand, despite the theatening weather and the difficult track, made so by copious vain-falls of yesterday and during the night. Ti e crowd was speculatively inclined and as the betting was well diversified it afforded literal prices about the various winners. I i spite of the adverse track the public ha.il a good line on the contenders and profited well by their success, as, with the exception of Ten Sixty, no outsiders figured as winners. Ten Sixtys success came in the sixth rac?, which brought to the post a band of third raters. She carried the colors of Herbert P. Gardner and is in T. C. McDowells stable. She led from the start and was easing up at the finish. The Herbert F. Gardner colors also carried off the previous dash, for two-year-olds, his North Star Voterina filly Mary F. Gardner, which is in the Gallaher Brothers stable, winning with consummate ease from some other maidens starting in it. Frank J. Kelleys Chatterton, unknown as a. mud performer, seemingly outclassed his opponents in the feature dash, at a mile and seventy yards. The lack of knowledge concerning his mud-running ability caused him to be but slightly in less esteem than Precious Lula. When it came to the running Chatterton held sway throughout, though driving near the end to outstay Margaret Winsor. Precious Lula ran a dull race and was far back throughout, her race in no way representing her true form. 1TXDAU lEKIi A SITOISE. Pindar Peel furnished a mild upset when he took some good sprinters into camp in the three-quarters dash, with Tuscola in second place and Advocate third. The latter and Gangway were best supported, but neither of these favored ones figured in the result. Pindar Peel and Tuscola were both sired bv the dead Jack Atkin and they showed a decided ability to run freely in the stiff going. Harned Brothers took down their first purse of the meeting in the third race when their Lina Clark scored a runaway victory under iruenings guidance. Spats landing in second place and Georgette third. The erratic Tulane was the favored one here, but he encountered trouble on the first turn, where he was almost upset. Bruening made it a double for the afternoon when he piloted Escarpolette home, with Hope in second place and Countess third. The opener found the talent off in their best stride when Rapid Stride and Louanna, respectively first and second choices, fought out the race practically from the start, Rapid Stride drawing away near the end. Bobbie Shea was third. The Latonia Jockey Club intends to ask the State Racing Commission for dates for the Louisville opening beginning August 30 and running ten days in order avoid any conflict witli a convention of Masonic bodies booked for Louisville. Lexington will follow with a short meeting and Latonia will wind up with thirty-one days. The closing day in Kentucky will be November -1. Last year Latonia inaugurated the fall racing season and the windup came at Lexington. The Kentucky State Racing Commission will meet here next Saturday to pass on applications for dates. Gallaher Brothers have decided to ship their horses back to Lexington after the close here. During the interval of racing in Kentucky A. B. Gallaher will confine his attention to breaking the ten yearlings now in the Gallaher Brothers establishment. Deadlock will be given a rest at Latonia until fall racing is resumed on the Kentucky tracks. W. Perkins will ship thirty horses, including the Latonia Derby winner Thibodaux, to Windsor next Sunday. Thibodaux will l a stake engagement over the "Windsor track and one at Devonshire. He win be shipped with six others in the Perkins string to Saratoga, where he will try to reverse his Ken tucky Special defeat with Whiskawayw
