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GOLD BUGS GAMENESS « Accounts for Latonias Main Attraction Despite Poor Ride. H. P Whitneys Sandhurst Again Victorious, Achieving Easy Success Over Dudley. * LATONIA. Ky., June 10.— Edward B. McLeans Gold Bug scored his third victory when he won in the mile and seventy yards handicap which featured todays racing at Latonia. Four started in the race, with Gjld Bug favored and much the best. He had to be best to win for he was ridden badly, R. Williams using poor judgment for nearly the entire way and it forced the colt to his best effort to ultimately down Nassau. Gold Bug won by half a length. In the early stages Sweep Park was the leader, with Gold Bug going snugly in her wake and the other two starters also close up. "Williams, however, in going for a fresh hold, seemed to get all tangled with his lines and b?fore he could recover he had been passed by Guest of Honor and Nassau and was left in the rear. Later, when Nassau took the lead. Williams blundered in taking away from the inner rail. It cost considerable ground to go wide, but Gold Bug responded gallantly when hard urged in the stretch and in the last eighth seemed an easy winner, but ho suddenly swerved ond it faster took his best effort to d spose of Nassau. Sweep Park raced in improved form, but sslM showed an inclination to race wide in on the turns. She tired fast in the streeh rnd it enabled Guest of Honor to finish in third place. DUDLEY TIRES AT END. Harry Payne Whitneys Sandhurst again figured in a winning performance and achieved another easy victory. This tin"1 Dudley was the victim to fall before his prowess. The pair met in the three-quarter race which served as the secondary feature for the afternoon nnd the Whitney colt found the most sunporters. He indulged Pudler with the lead until well in the stretch whvn he came away with great ease. Dudley, considering that he carried 110 pounds to Sandhursts DS, made a determined effort for the purse. He displayed high speed but declined to fight it out seriously near the end and just saved second place from the fa t finishing Sporty McGee. The consistent Dolly Bay furnished the upset of the sixth race in which some good two-year-olds started and she beat them handily. Accumulator landing in second place with Little Cook third. Dolly Bay came away in the stretch after she had rac«d with the leaders. There was general support for Accumulator and he promised extensively by racing forwardly to the last eighth wher" the diminutive Dolly Bay drew away from him with ease. Selective furnished some excitement before the race by bolting through the paddock and throwing jockey W. W. Taylor and running away a short distance. Taylor remounted her. Little Cook also acted fractiously and landed on a bystander in the paddock with his forefeet BUM K GRACKLE WINNER. The concluding dash found Black Grackle the winner. His victory was in the main due to the pood rid- that Meyer gave him. Goldfleld finished in second place and Hag r third. Plus Iltra was the supposed good thing here and he was backed to the exclusion of the others, but he never was serious at any stage of the race and brought up distantly in the wake of the three placed ones. Ideal racing conditions were the order during the afternoon. The cooling breezes that wifted through the grand stand were a refreshing change from the oppressive heat that has ruled in these parts. The fields were small and their evenly matched starters resulted in spectacular racing. Favorites wt Tt; eminently successful, most of the choiees coming home in advance. The warning of the stewards has evidently taken root for there was a noticeable absence of rough riding during the afternoon. A. II Hancock scored his initial purse of the meeting when his Gaffmy won in th" opening race, bringing to the post some ordi-rary ones Gaffney was best and he raced in the lead the entire nay. He was foUoVOtl by Mefulloch and Poinst ttia. The latter pair were alv.i s in closest pursuit of the leader. The Tiaiden two-year-oM raea ir .. 1 easv f« r Queen Clara, a pmrwunced choice, si" I**! for the . Mire way but had to be urg-«1 hard in the stretch to beat home Weath-r I„i e, making her debut here. Lakme, an- th«r i.utsidtr. ■ * up in the last few strides to b. at oat Stella King. A BOO*] band i .f the higher regarded platers in. t in the third race at a mile and a sixteenth and Ton Kwk v:is the uinn. r. T-11 Kwk sh.v.ed high spe. d and lucky the . Mire Wfty V n well in hand from W. lcome. with Tall ir;iss In third place. Tall Grass at on.. ■4 age w is far out of it in last place and elooosl Ml bmnOMH gap in the last quarter. The disappoiMments of th. race was High iTim e and Goofftio. Both were handicapped by the DQOT rides tiny roooftrofl and th. toofl of ground they sustained as a result o€ Mag ridden ide.
