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MEETS HIS WATERLOO Another Outstanding Latonia Fa-- vorite Goes Down to Defeat. Buster Beaten Through Poor Biding Jockey Parke on Three Winners. LATONIA, Ky., Oct 12. Another outstanding favoritio met his "Waterloo at Latonia this afternoon in the feature offering when Jefferson Livingstons Buster could do no better than land in third place, beaten by Better Luck and Metric after a spirited stretch duel in the Columbus Purse, Better Luck at the end winning handily, with Metric just suceeding in outstaying Buster. Metric had a "step" on the other three starters when the barrier was released and Parke took full advantage of it and sent him into a lead at the first turn, but he was quickly joined by Buster, the pair racing as a team for almost the next three-eighths, with Better Luck in close pursuit. Buster shook off Metric at the lower turn and it seemed then that he would go on to an easy victory, but Better Luck challenged and soon after Metric came again. Buster was between the pair and Wallace, his rider, was not equal to the emergency and the Livingston colt fell back only to come again in the last sixteenth and almost nip Metric at the finish. Better Luck shook off Metric an eighth out and was gong well at the end. Poor riding was also responsible for the failure of the favorite in the secondary feature when Bradleys Toney brought up in third place. FLOWERS OF LOVES GA3IENESS. Illness and injury has deprived the Bradley stable of its galaxy of star riders and it found itself forced to put up E. Martin. That rider bungled his task woefully, with the result that Flowers of Love and Crayon both led the favorite to the finish. Flowers of Love displayed a game performance to come from as far back as she did to win. It was her first start since the spring meeting at Lexington and she ran somewhat sluggishly in the early stages of todays race. Fine weather again prevailed here and it contributed to maintaining the standard for big attendances during this meeting. While some of the fields appeared a complex problem for most, the betting did not fall off to any appreciable extent. Favorite followers, however, did not fare so well, many of the heavier backed choices going down o defeat. Close finishes marked most of the racing and elicited considerable enthusiasm. The two-year-old flash under claiming conditions, run as the sixth race, was a hard fought duel between Colonel Gilmore, Privilege and Boots and Shoes, the trio fighting it out all during the last eighth, with Parkes superior riding bringing Colonel Gilmore the victory. At that, had Privilege had a clear course in the stretch, she would have possibly won. Boots and Shoes bumped her sharply at a critical period and it was some time before the diminutive D. Jones could bring about her recovery. Boots and Shoes was close on the leaders in third place at the finish. SCORES IN FURIOUS DRIVE. Jockey Parke again started off his big following by landing his mount winner in the opening dash. He was astride Modna and she won by a neck after a furious drive over By Golly, with Lord Allen following closely and a nose in advance of Charles Henry. The second race, like the first, also engaged the limit number of starters except that two-year-olds made the contest. Hello from Hal Price Hcadleys stable, had little trouble leading here for the entire way and beat home Markiluna and Bessie Hope. Another hairline finish came with the running of the third race, a mile and a quarter, in which Fancy Free triumphed by a matter of inches over the fast-going Georgette, an outsider grouped with others in the field. Kimpalong, by saving much ground, got up to down the others for third place. The concluding contest brought to the post some highly rated selling platers and was productive of another close contest, with Donges the winner by virtue of the better riding skill that Parke displayed over F. Hastings on Lady Champ. The latter raced herself into exhaustion in the first three-quarters- and was unprepared when Donges challenged with his stout rush. It marked the third winner that Parke had landed during th afternoon and he was given a noisy reception on his return to weigh in.
