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EASY FOR BLACK GOLD Runs Fast Mile in Accounting for Downs Main Race. Good Crowd Out Despite Ordinary Card Wallace Timidity Results in Westwoods Defeat. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 13. Mrs. H. M. Hoots Black Gold continues to keep himself in the front ranks of "Western two-year-olds and gave a splendid exhibition in the mile two-year-old dash featuring todays Churchill Downs racing, with an easy victory over King Gorin II. and Bobs Mary, with three other juveniles making up the field trailing far distantly at the finish. It was hardly a serious effort for Black Gold to go into the lead immediately after the start and show the way to the finish, hard held. King Gorin II. was his closest follower from the start, with Bobs Mary also in close pursuit, but neither had much chance of dislodging him from command. The mile in 1:38 was a good one from a time standpoint. It was somewhat featureless racing provided for racegoers this afternoon, but a generous attendance was on hand in spite of it. The even caliber of most of the starters assured good sport, some of the finishes being of the driving variety and closely contested to the finish. PEKDEEGAST COLOBS I2f FRONT. The colors of T. J. Pendergast were carried to victory for the first- time in many months when his John Q. Kelly, under one of Pools best efforts, got home in front of the improved Billy Brush in the fourth race. At one stage it appeared as if John Q. Kelly would win in hollow style, but Billy Brush came with a sensational dash in the last eighth and it took- John Q. Kellys best to withstand the rush. One of the worst riding exhibitions of the many that have been seen on Kentucky tracks this year, came in the sixth, with J. Wallace on Westwood the offender. The horse was possibly much the best, but Wallace, showing timidity, continuously kept taking him back and at no stage of the race did the horse get fully in his stride to run at top speed. He finished far back. The race was won by Randel, racing in his best form and an outsider in the betting. The Leopard and Halu fought it out for second place, with the former getting it. Some ordinary ones made up the field in the second, a mile dash, and it enabled the Greentree Stables Link, a pronounced choice, to get the verdict after a sensational stretch rush. He got up in the last stride to overhaul Grenadier. 3fO HELP FOE FIND AY. The opening dash fell to Hughes Graham, not because he was best, but solely to the fact that J. Eaton, on Finday, was helpless when it came to assisting the filly. She did manage to outstay Macbeth for second place. Breechloader, grouped with others in the field and owned by C. E. Hamilton, whose Stone Street carried his colors in front in the Kentucky Derby, just managed to outstay the fast coming Norseland in the third. Boots and Shoes finished third. The closing dash brought to the post a good band of platers and it served as the betting medium of the afternoon, the speculation being well diversified. It resulted in a victory for Miss Maize in fluky style from Paris Maid and Oo La La in third place. Had Paris Maid succeeded in getting through at any stage of the last three-eighths she wauld have won handily. William Shelley, who will serve as racing secretary at the Havana track during the winter departs for Cuba tomorrow to take up the preliminary duties. W. M. Cain has sold the horse Harry B. to tho Four Oaks Stock Farm, on private terms. Jockey J. McCoy was taken ill Tuesday morning and forced to cancel his engagements for tho afternoon. J. S. Wallace will sell in the paddock Friday morning tho horses belonging to L Well, the Chicago turfman. Four two-year-olds in tho stable of H. C. Fisher arrived Tuesday morning from Maryland In charge of trainer Alex Gordon. The list comprised Mr. Mutt, an intended starter in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, Little Jeff, Comic Artist and Nellie Morse. S. C. Nuckols will sell at public auction in tho paddock at 11 oclock Wednesday, fifteen two-year-olds for J. -N. i Camden, J. C. Milam and D. Breckinridge. The lot to be Bold Includes Muldraugh, Calvin, Buck Pond, Dover, Wilmer the Wizard, Karo, Attilia, Bob, Follow Me, Royal George, Saucy Susie, Barleycorn, Zanzibar, Chenoe and Peter Lee. After this sale Mr. Nuckols will offer the table of H. Neusteter, who is disposing of bis horses owing to illness.
