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ACTIVITY AT LATONIA Horses Arriving by Carloads for Saturdays Racing. Drastic Punishment Inflicted on Jockey W. Taylor Expected to Have Wholesome Effect. CINCIXXATI, Ohio, September 2S. La-tonia was a scene of activity from early morning, horses literally pouring into the grounds from all sections. Most of the arrivals were from Lexington, where racing terminated yesterday. The close at Woodbine, Toronto, yesterday also contributed to the number here, and several cars containing horses that had figured prominently in the Dominion racing were in the consignment. Finishing touches to have everything in readiness for Saturdays opening were applied by track superintendent Knoltes big force of workers, and the huge plant wil: present its best appearance on the opening day. General manager Matt J. "Winn is giving his personal attention to the numerous details in connection with having everything in order for the inaugural, and indications point to 300 per cent perfection in connection with the opening. An innovation in the matter of mutuel ticket selling, which is expected to be an improvement over the old style, will be put in use. It is that of enabling a bettor to secure place and show tickets at all booths where straight tickets are sold. Heretofore it has been necessary to buy place and show tickets at separate booths. The disastrous experience of the Harry Payne Whitney establishment in its endeavor to land the Breeders Futurity elicited attention among the Latonia racing colony. The poor showing of Enchantment was partly expected. He is known to be a bad post proposition and additionally displayed a tendency to sulk, Johnson claiming that "he just would not try to run." As he was the mainstay of the Whitney string, his elimination coming early as a result of his failure to leave the post, spelled the foreshadowing of huge losses by his backers. They still had slight hopes that Blue Peter would come to their rescue and the colt flattered their hopes when he made a game rush and moved up swiftly on the first turn. But he became involved in a jam that lifted him off his feet and when he again found footing his left foreleg snapped just above the ankle. He ran part of the way on the broken leg before Penman could get him stopped. PENMAX UNDULY TROUBLESOME. Penman must have been unduly troublesome at the post, for starter Dade sought sanction of the stewards and secured it to inflict a ten days suspension on the rider. The starter in Kentucky is only empowered to suspend a jockey for a period of five days for misbehavior at the post. The additional five days incurred by Penman was with the approval of the stewards. H. Neusteter and G. Arvin were making efforts to secure a car today to ship their horses to Chicago to engage in the Hawthorne racing. Several jockeys also intend leaving here tonight for Chicago to ride there during the meeting. It is the second time in a short period that owner Bradley has been deprived of a huge sum due to the disqualification of- his representative and through the blunders of a jockey. The drastic punishment inflicted on jockey W. Taylor will, it is thought, have a wholesome effect in preventing rough riding here. At that it is only in rare instances that any of the riders in Kentucky attempt foul methods. HIDES UNDER SCRUTINY. The stewards are unusually vigilant and on the lookout for offenders and dire punishment is the order for any of the culprits. The stewards have recently also gotten after several riders who, when they find themselves in the rear guard during the running of a race, lose all interest and are content to have their mounts canter along at their leisure. W. Pool has become an offender in this respect and has been warned by the officials that unless he mends his ways he will suffer a lengthy suspension. If the experiment proves successful it will probably result in next year bringing a system of having straight, place and show tickets of various denominations sold at different booths. It is also probable that the mutuel machine totalizer used at all straight booths will be discarded and a substitute totalizer used to record at various stages of the betting the total amounts bet on each individual fcorse in the race, enabling everybody to approximate at a glance the probable odds against any of the starters. Because of the gradual shortening of the Continued on twelfth page. ACTIVITY AT LATONIA Continued from first page. days it is regarded expedient to begin racing daily at 1:45 p. m., so as to avoid running the seventh race in darkness. Gossip anent happenings in connection with the Breeders Futurity yesterday at Lexington continued among the turf colony today. General sympathy was expressed for E. R. Bradley that he should have been the victim of jockey W. Taylors rough methods taht caused Betty Beall and her stablemate, Bradleys Toney, to be disqualified. Aside from the honor of a victory in the race and its value of 5,000, Mr. Bradley had a fair-sized wager on his entry and, as he would have received the limit odds, it can readily be seen that the disqualification cost the owner over 0,000. He took the matter in sportsmanlike style and said, "I dont want to win when there is a question of fairness."
