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BETTER GRADE HORSES Make Up the Fields for Thursdays Sport at the Downs. Dare Say Takes Principal Contest Lee 0. Cotner Easily Audacious a Surprise. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 30. Smaller fields with a better grade of starters improved the racing at Churchill Downs considerably and also accounted for an augmented attendance. The big crowd enjoyed the sport immensely. The weather continues summerlike and the track was in splendid condition. Some good time was recorded in several of the races. The mile and a sixteenth purse was the best race on the program, but the third and fifth races also brought to the post some well-known and popular performers and shared in interest with the feature. Frederick Johnsons Dare Say, ably ridden by Stutts, accounted for the. feature. She was extensively backed by the public and her victory was popular. i Dare Say began somewhat tardily, but J Stutts kept her out of trouble and managed to save ground by staying close to the inner rail. In the stretch she responded gamely to hard urging and wore down Sunayr. The latter had dashed into the lead when some crowding came at the backstretch. Fabian was a sufferer by this and he was in last place in a flash from being the leader. Dare Say moved up gradually while the others were in a tangle and had an advantageous position when the stretch was reached. Dustabout, the outsider, came with a great .rush in the last sixteenth and was going as fast as the winner at the end. ICING NADI NO MATCH. A meeting of the much heralded King Nadi and the crack Lee O. Cotner was of absorbing interest. They met at three-quarters and it resulted in the hollow victory for Lee O. Cotner, which showed the fastest race for a two-year-old at the distance during the present meeting. Lee O. Cotner disposed of King Nadis pretentions at once, for he moved into a long lead and won as his rider pleased. King Nadi was the strongest contender from the start but was lucky to finish in second place. Bad Bow Bowers not suffered keenly by interference in the first quarter, which forced him into last place, he would have headed King Nadi for second place. Mary Ellen O. was one of the longest priced winners of the afternoon. Her victory came in the closing race, where she led for the entire way. Gorget, hard ridden, lasted long enough to beat home Defiant, which had closed an immense gap. Kindred proved best of the big band that started in the opening race and she won with consummate ease. Sequel, under pressure, lasted to take second place, with Jupiter just managing to finish in third place. Kindred was claimed by M. ShapofE for ,600. RETURNS TO OLD FORM. One of the outstanding surprises of the afternoon came with the running of the fourth race, in which some good sprinters met, and it resulted in victory for Audacious in easy style, with Indian Trail and Pegasus i fighting it out hard for second place. In two preceding starts here Audacious was beaten off, displaying poor form and racing far out of it. Pool was energetic with him this afternoon and rushed him into the lead at once to hold sway for the entire distance. Indian Trail raced forwardly and well and outstayed Pegasus. The disappointment of the race was Alice. Blue Gown. She was the victim of a bad ride and she also suffered by interference when Pegasus swerved over and impeded her when making the stretch turn. Nassau, racing in the colors of S. N. Holman, furnished an additional incident of the race when he bolted sharply at the stretch turn after having closed an immense gap from a poor send-off. The third race, at one mile, resulted in a I lucky victory for Lexington Maid, which, coming with a strong rush, got up in the last stride to down the incompetently ridden Lady Choco. The latter had the race won a sixteenth out when her rider became careless and did not note the oncoming Lexington Maid. Little Clair was another that blundered her own way and managed to get up in the last stride to take third place. Minus was the favorite in the race but she quit in the stretch and Queen Charming, another well supported one, was left at the post. The fifteen maiden two-year-olds that started in the second race furnished a spirited contest, with most of the starters racing closely grouped for a time, but most of them becoming strung out in the last quarter and Dorothy Adams, Bad Luck and Lucky left to fight it out, Dorothy Adams won well in hand, with Bad Luck just up to beat Lucky for second place. The latter was an extreme outsider. S. Griffin, who is riding in splendid form at present, was signed up by J. McGill, thand latter having secured a six months contract on the youngsters servicea
