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POPULAR SWEETHEART! Annexes Camden Handicap, Star I Attraction at Lexington. Improved Weather Brings Out I Largest Attendance of the Present Meeting. ■ LEXINGTON, Ky.. May 2.— The Camden Handicap, one of the stellar fixtures of the Kentucky Associations annual spring meeting, was captured by Brownell Combs popu-lar filly Sweetheart from Graeme, with Georgie in third place. Sweetheart was lucky to annex the stellar portion of the stake. Her success can be at- tributed to the faulty riding that Connelly gave Graeme. To close observers the latter was supposedly best and his failure was due to the blundering ride he got. There , were six starters in the race and immediately-after the start Connelly took Graeme from an inner position to the extreme outside. This action caused him to be in last place I and far in the wake of the others. He con- , tinued to race there for the first quarter I but suddenly Connelly b?gan riding hard | ! and he rushed him from last to first in the j space of an eighth. He held command going j up the hill but Connelly was still urging him j hard. Sweetheart was meantime kept in restraint after Graeme had wrested the lead I | from her but Vuillemot began calling on her j when straightened for the stretch and she I responded with alacrity. She continued to ! press Graeme stubbornly and the latter, well I | spent from his exhaustive racing in the early stages and the fact that he was in the slower going, began to tire in the last sixteenth and Sweetheart came away in the last seventy-yards to an easy victory. Georgie managed to finish in third place because of being better ridden than Stanwix. TRACK MUCH IMPROVED. Improved weather brought to the Kentucky Association track the largest attendance that has witnessed the sport during the present meeting. The track was slow at the outset but continued to improve as the afternoon progressed and the better class starters were enabled to make fairly good time. The third race, in which ten platers met at a mile and seventy yards, furnished thrills I : for the spectators by the stubborn duel that Battleman and Neat Girl staged with Son j 1 of Tromp directly in their wake. Battleman ; just lasted long enough to win. His victory j was somewhat clouded by the unfair tactics | ! of his rider in coming across in front of the j others sharply at the first turn and causing I ■ many in the field to suffer from the interference. There was considerable rough riding I in the race, Maximaneh, Son of Tromp, Foxmore and Aviette being sufferers from it. Homing Bird, Maximaneh and Aviette were the favored ones and their failure to get a | portion of the purse resulted in big prices to rule against the ones that finished in the ! first three places. Of the dozen that began proceedings in the I opening race Tippity Witchet was installed the favorite, but he was at all times far in the ruck and he could not get going over the short distance and in the big field to advantage. Meddling Mattie was the victress and she won well under restraint from My Valet with Odd Seth, a fielder, in third place. CAMDEN COLORS IN FRONT. The J. N. Camden colors were carried to victory in the second race when Cornelian defeated Belle. The latter, with Stanwix, had been transferred to the G. F. Croissant stable at a cost said to me 5,000 and Belle 1 was expected to win handily from the band she met h re. She carried the Croissant col- j l I ors but was handicapped by her rider getting her away from the post badly, then being rushed into exhaustion up the hill in an effort to wear down Cornelian in the first quarter and as a result she tired badly in the last eighth and it enabled Cornelian to win handily. Helene Hackworth finished in third place. Those having faith in favorites were grievously disappointed for the choices were in eclipse, some performing in decidely unsatisfactory manner. Poor riding in some instances was a contributing cause. Two of the afternoons outstanding disappointments were Belle and Peggy Bledsoe. The latter, a double winner, and owned by the popular Desha Breckinridge, finished in last place in the sixth race. She laeked the . good sp • d she displayed in her preceding fctarts and it might have been due to the change in track conditions. . The Lafayette Hotel Handicap, secondary feature on the card, brought to the post six . of the supposedly best short-distance racers in Kentucky and it furnished an upset when Reputation won handily from Gibbons, with , .Continued on eleventh yagcj POPULAR SWEETHEART Continued from first page. Quince Garden in third place. Sucn fast ones ! as King Nadi. Columbia and Certain trailed. Reputation displayed a high order of speed I and he was benefitted by a hustling ride ■ he got. Gibbons might have given him a ; more determined battle witli better riding. ] Columbia was outrun from almost the start ; and the well thought of King Nadi had his Kentucky Derby pretensions exploded by his dull effort. The closing race enabled jockey Earl Pool to land his third winner for the afternoon when he piloted home Lily M. Previously he had ridden to victory Kyrock and Cornelian. Lily M. raced in her best style and, having slightly the best of the start, enabled her to follow Sarah Day closely under restraint and take the lead when the latter tired and win with ease from Bullet Proof and Nogales.
