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AGA KHAN REACHES LATONIA Together With Priscilla Ruley and Plames, Star of Belair Stud Comes for Championship. LATONIA, Ky., Oct 14. Three formidable aspirants for the Latonia Championship Stakes arrived on next Saturdays battleground when Aga Khan, Flames and Priscilla Ruley, the property of the Belair Stud, were unloaded at Latonia, having been shipped from Jamaica. Trainer Jim Fitz-simmons did not come with the horses, but will arrive "Wednesday. The horses arrived in good condition, Avith the exception of Priscilla Ruley, which had a slight car fever. Both Aga; Khari and Priscilla Ruley are regarded as strong candidates for next Saturdays stake. They come here with a fine reputation and their success in the Pierrepont Handicap at Laurel last Saturday, when they ran one, two, and the winner hung up a new track record of 2 :01 for the mile and a quarter, is still fresh in the memory of local racegoers. Jockey G. Field accompanied the horses here and will have the mount on one of them in the stake. Only light work was demanded of the Latonia Championship Stakes candidates this morning. Tomorrow they will be asked to extend themselves in ambitious trials to thoroughly fit them for the muscle-straining and nerve-wracking journey of a mile and three-quarters, which they will be asked to travel in next Saturdays rich stake. This mornings work included a gallop by August Belmonts Blind Play, which ran three-eighths in :33. Mad Play went a similar distance in 37, and Honor, his stablemate, galloped a half mile in :49.
