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MORE RAIN AT DOWNS % Mitigates Against Any Improvement in Track Conditions. 1 Numerous Withdrawals Result in Small Fields and Substitute Race for One Declared Off. ♦ LOUISVILLE, K , May 29.— Additional ! rains during Thursday night mitigated I against any improvement in track conditions and again kept the better grade of horses in their respective stables. The original fifth race, because of withdrawals, had to be called off and a new race, engaging six platers of the ordinary type, substituted. Peals of thunder and overcast skies threatened a downpour and was probably responsible for a decreased attendance. Considering the unpropitious weather and lack of, I feature it was a surprisingly large crowd that witnessed the sport. Several of the finishes were of the close variety and the races hard-fought from the start. Six of the contests were under claiming conditions, the exception being the juvenile dash for maiden two-year-old fillies. The evenly matched fields served as good betting mediums and the public was in fairly good form for they managed to land on the j winners with frequency. In the substitute race The Runt was win- I I ner. It was a lucky victory for him. San- ! | dalwood, the favorite, raced as if best, but I bad riding coupled with interference the horse suffered was a combination against him and contributed to his failure to overhaul the fast-tiring The Runt. Ruby was best of the other four starters and finished in third place. | HAIR-RAISIXG FIXLSH. | Another hair-raising finish came in the | sixth race when My Destiny, under hard urging, succeeded in outstaying Sam Men-gel, ■ with Frances Victoria heading a compact band for third place. My Destiny and Sam Mengel began their hard duel in the j i last eighth and continued until the end, I with the result in doubt until the judges ! displayed their award. The finish in the opener was a thriller be- j i tween Quotation and War Prize, good jockey-ship deciding the result, with honors going to the diminutive R. Williams, whose psrsever- j ance enabled him to outride R. Fisher in the ! last few strides. War Prize should have been the victor. He headed Quotation an eighth out and was going well when Fisher suddenly drew his whip and in applying it caused War Prize to swerve into Quotation. Williams kept determinedly at his task on the latter and got up again in the last stride. Harry Payne Whitney earned his first purse of the meeting when his two-year-old Flyatit got home in advance of a band of maiden two-year-old fillies that started in the second race. Rock of Ages, under hard urging, managed to outstay My Dream for second place. The winner raced well after leaving the post. She came around the others and took command a furlong out. From then on she held the others safe, but Parke did not take much chance and continued to ride her out. SPECTACULAR CONTEST. The four starters making the mile and an eighth contest furnished the most spectacular race that has been witnessed here during I the meeting, with Prince K., a stoutly backed favorite, the winner by a length, with noses separating Lieut. Colonel, Blowing Bubbles and Ramkin. The quartette raced in closely grouped style for the entire way. Lieut. Colonel was the leader with Pflp K. his closest follower until midway of the stretch, | where Prince K. took command and heldi sway thereafter. The battle for second place was spirited, with the result in doubt until the last strides. S. X. Holmans Llewellyn furnished an upset in the third race in which some fairly] good platers met by winning handily from Tea Sixty, with Modna in third place. The! winner raced into prominence soon after the start and drew out in the last eighth to win with much in reserve. Ten Sixty after showing good early speed held on well. Modna began tiring in the stretch and just lasted for third place.
