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KENTUCKY RACING SCENE « . SHIFTS TO . LATONIA Picturesque Course Across From Cincinnati More Beautiful Than Ever * Grandstand Enlarged to Seat an Additional 5,000 Spectators — Large and Well Matched Field of Good Horses Named for Inaugural Handicap — ♦ LATONIA, Ky., June 1. — "Fair Latonia," fairer now than ever, will inaugurate tomorrow its annual spring meeting of racing, this year for a period of twenty-nine days, under conditions that augur well for all previous records being broken. A better setting for the opening could not bo conceived. Everything that should tend to the success of high-class racing is available. With few exceptions, all the noted racers that contributed to the success of the Churchill Downs racing have been transferred here. This material will be augmented from time to time by arrivals of stars from other tracks in different parts of the country to fill engagements in stakes. The objectionable concrete-like track has been renovated and owners and trainers will not have the opportunity to complain that the going is conducive to lame their charges. JTrack superintendent Charles Nolte has given much of his time to perfecting a sane racing strip. It will be at the expense of extremo speed, but with safety to racers. He has cut up the former track completely and added a top surfacing that gives the track an ample amount of top dressing and cushion. Everything at the picturesque plant is in readiness for the opening, the reconstructed grandstand, which will afford an extra seating capacity of approximately 5,000, is the chief improvement noted. There also has b?en some notable improvements to the clubhouse. All of the buildings have been repainted and refurnished and the entire plant, with its lawns of deep emerald green and kaleidoscopic flower beds presents a most pleasing scene. The meeting will be marked by an innovation that should appeal to the clubs feminine patrons. The grandstand messengers who have been carrying the womens wagers heretofore at all Kentucky meetings have been let go and the system abolished. Instead, the women folks speculatively inclined will purchase and cash their own mutuel tickets in a commodious room especially built for the purpose at the back of the new extension to the grandstand. The offering for the inugural days sport is a praiseworthy one in keeping with the magnitude of this plant. It should provide Latonia patrons with an abundance of the ■ brilliant sport and with the well-matched fields the finishes are bound to be close and exciting. The Inaugural Handicap, with an endowment of ,000 and over the mile and a sixteenth course, has attracted a field of sixteen of the better grade in the handicap division. At the weights adjustment the winner is pn bl- matical and it should furnish a ! splendid contest. Included in the list of j entries are six noted three-year-olds, he-si. h s other olilcr horses that performed | creditably at the I towns meeting. The list | of younger contestants includes Captain Hal, King Nadl, Supremus, Kentucky Cardinal, Sir IVter anil Step Along. Among the older division named to start are Prnci— Moreen. Stanwix, Beau Butler, Sandhurst. Gra.-ni" and Hope]. -is. lrinoss Dorcen will shoulder top weight of 112 pounds, slightly more than the oth-is in to carry. The Covington Handicap* which is a stab.-event in all but the name, will s-.*rve as Um s.condary feature. It will bring under colors for a contest at three-quart "is. a notable fi. Id of sprinters that Include tB un- — — — — — - _ Continued on eii- .-:.tli page. LATONIA OPENS TODAY Continued from flrmt pace. beaten Queen of the Forest, from the stable of Keene Brothers. J. N. Camdens Dudley, K. R. Bradleys Bob Cahill. E. B. Mcleans Slow and Easy and Caractus, Phidias and Lathrop. The other five races that completes the card will brins many good horses int public view. The opening race is most attractive and embraces among its list of entries such good ones as Bothermel. Lawless, Certain and five others. The races for juveniks are replete with youngsters that have excellent racing credentials. The sixth race in par- ticular has a noted list of starters. Starters W. Synder and Wm. Hamilton, will again alternate in the starters box Snyder will dispatch the fields during the I first fifteen days of the meeting and Hamilton will get into action for the remaining fourteen days. The races will start every afternoon at two oclock, Cincinnati daylight saving time. All of the officials that will serve at the meeting are on hand. There is no change in the official roster from that at Churchill Downs. Horses continued to arrive all day Monday jand by nightfall, practically all intended to engage in the meeting were safely housed in their barns. Among the late comers were : J. J. Elani-gan, who brought the Bashford Manor winner. Take a Chance; Sam Cottrell came, in i charge of the Kentucky Oaks victress. Deeming. Both horses arrived in good condition Deeming is the property of C. B. Dailey an engineer on the L. and N. railroad, who makes his home in Lexington, and who has a small breeding farm near that city, who has a couple of brood mares. Deeming is by Spanish Prince II.— Pin Feather and was bred by Senator J. W. Bailey, near Lexington. Her present owner paid $.175 for the ] filly as a yearling, at the Lexington Fall sales. She is an eligible to the Latonia Derby, Raceland Derby and Chicago Derby. Take a Chance by his victory in the Bash-ford Manor, gained a place of rank. Tho colt was bred by Dan W. Scott, who also bred Son of John. As a yearling Take a Chance was sold at Hawthorne last summer and bought by C. Kirk, her pr. sent owner for JJOO. The colt was developed and trained by J. J. Flanigan, who raced him at New Orleans, last winter, and afterwards brought him to Douglas Park, where he was prepared for his stake engagements. Take a Chance is eligible to both the Harold Stakes ■ and Cincinnati trophy.
