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i , | I j I j j , EQUALS TRACK RECORD * Caractus Ties Mile and Seventy Yards Mark at Latonia. ■ • Wins With Consummate Ease in Outstanding Race of Day — Sport Is Spectacular. i LATOHJLA, Kjr., June 9.— Latonias track record for •* mile and seventy yards was equaled for the second time in successive days when Caractus, carrying the colors of C. W. Riedinger, won from some good ones that started in the fifth race, the outstanding race on the card. He won with the greatest of ease and had his rider so elected he could have established a new mark. King Gorin II. finished in second place and Lath-rop, an extreme outsider, surprised by racing in his best form to land third place. The E. R. Bradley pair. Breakfast Bell and Buttin In, were the outstanding favorites in the race, but after three-quarters of the way Breakfast Bell tired and as Buttin In had refrained from extending himself to the urging of G. Johnson, both were out of the picture when the actual racing began. As far as the winner was concerned the race was over when he reached the stretch turn, for at this stage he drew away fast and was under restraint in the last sixteenth. He came back to he stand bleeding profusely from a bad cut on the leg. probably incurred when he moved into the lead at the first turn. INTENSE HEAT PREVAILS. Intense heat was again the rule at Latonia, but it did not affect the attendance to any appreciable extent and a generous crowd was again on hand to view the racing. The sport was spectacular and there was also a noticeable absence of rough riding, the stewards warning to the riders that violations would be dealt with drastically, coupled with the fifteen days suspension handed to Bludau, had a salutary effect for at least this day. The opening race produced the outstanding surprise of the meeting in the victory of Uncle Bert at an extremely long price. Ho won well in hand from Billy Klair with the favorite, Pure Dee, in third place. Keegan and Coyne were a couple of disappointments in the race. The winner was prominent from the start and disposed of Billy Klair in the last sixteenth. Pure Dee was taken back repeatedly for no reason other than that his rider refused to take a chance of sending him through next the inner rail. Harry Wills, favored in the second race over the eight other maiden youngsters, won well under restraint after having led for the entire way. David L. was closest in pursuit of the leader throughout and he had little difficulty landing in second place with Frazer best of the others. Nine Sixty was one of the favorably regarded ones but Thomas rode incompetently and the Applegate colt never figured seriously. LUCKY STRIKE UPSET. Lucky Strike, a recent comer from Maryland and extensively backed by his connec-j tions, upset the calculations of those who saw in Contact a good betting medium. Lucky Strike acted unruly at the post, closed an immense gap steadily and won drawing away from Contact with ease. Contact had been the leader until the last eighth and was much the best of the others. J. G. Denny, an outstanding favorite in the fourth race, ap-I peared destined for an easy victory after | he rounded into the stretch fully five lengths in advance of his nearest pursuer but he began to tire alarmingly in the last sixteenth and he just did last to win by a short margin from Petie with Spread Eagle in third place. The finish was a siiectacular one. Another hair line finish came in the concluding dash with Fanny Detoursy just lasting to beat Warfare with Kublai Khan in close proximity to the pair. Fanny De Coursy was lucky to win for Warfare with a stronger ride would probably have won. Sam Mengel was another that suffered through bad riding and had he not been taken back sharply at the stretch for no apparent reason he would have been the victor. The sixth race, a handicap at three-quarters, resulted in one of the most spectacular finishes of the meeting, with the judges award going to Menifee over Better Luck, witli Bradleys Toney given third place. The latter was pounds the best and had HergJar kept him straight during the stretch run. when he was going the gamest, he would have won handily. The finish was one of the thrilling kind and only inches separated the lea I is. In ano.her stride Bradleys Tom v would have beam the victor. King Nadi was making his first start Inre since his victory in the Grainger Memorial Handicap, but he had no opportunity to run at his beat on account of Fields timidity, who eased him in the first qu.irti r a lien interference to the colt seemed imminent.
