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ALAMO PURSE VICTOR Recollection Takes Chief Offering at the Downs Gaffney Scores at Longest Price of Meeting Peculiar Case of Wolfy LOUISVILLE Ky May 21 The Alamo Purse of 1800 at a mile and seventy yards was the outstanding feature of the Churchill Downs program and attracted four starters The winner was Kohn and Theissens Recol ¬ lection which defeated Percussion with Bo ¬ tanic following in third place placeRecollection Recollection had an advantage when the start came and hard ridden he continued to show the most speed and raced Botanic which had followed him closest into defeat In the stretch he had to be shaken up to outstay the fast gaining Percussion The latter was restrained in the early stages after having been taken back and responded vhen urged hard but lest ground by racing wide through the stretch Botanic swerving badly under punishment began tiring rapidly under his weight of 120 pounds Lady Carolyn never figured seriously and was always outrun outrunSpirited Spirited racing was witnessed this after ¬ noon by another big attendance Ideal con ¬ ditions prevailed for the sport sportThe The longest priced winner of the present meeting developed in the opening race when S N Holmans Gaffney won handily from Amir with Hats Up in third place The win ¬ ner was ridden by the inexperienced Stanley Cooper it was the second race in which he had ridden and the first winner to his credit He kept Gaffney in close pursuit of Amir in the early stages and the Holman racer came away in the stretch though swerving out Hats Up was coming fast through the stretch and just missed getting up for second place Helen Carter the favorite would have fig tired much more extensively under btter riding ridingVICTORY VICTORY THROWN AWAT AWATThe The second race brought about the unusual incident of a horse losing a race when he had it to all appearances won ten yards from the finish Wolfy was the victim of his own swerving tactics He had shown the most speed from the start and had the race won twenty yards from the finish when he suddenly took a bad swerve and enabled Phil Foto to pass him Garner who rode Wolfy stated that he shied when he reached the gate a few strides from the finish Wolfy was tiring and Garner began applying the whip This might have caused him to swerve and most likely he would have won but for the whip playing Phil Foto was going well but did not appear to have a chance of over ¬ hauling the leader but for the swerve Tim Gkason finished in third place after having been a strong contender for most of the way wayA A hair line decision was given Widgeon in the third rare over Rrunell the pair land ¬ ing half a dozen lengths in advance of Open Hand Widgeon had taken a good lead in the early stages but Rrunell began moving up fast only to be forced back and he had to come around the others at the stretch turn He took the lead en eighth out but suddenly swerved and interfered with Wid ¬ geon The latter recovered fast and began his duel with the offender and managed to outstay him in the closing strides Brunell sulking near the end Open Hand wore down the others Double Star wheeled when the start came and Blue Sprite was almost left She closed an immense gap in spite of the poor ride she got gotTWO TWO FOR J L KXIOIIT KXIOIITJ J L Knights colors were conspicuous dur ¬ ing the afternoon his representatives scor ¬ ing a double victory Little Visitor accounted for the secondary feature in a canter from a good band of sprinters in the sixth race Jhil Foto had previously won in his colors Little Visitor raced as if much the best and led the others the entire distance The duel for second place was spirited with Lakme just lasting to beat home Rothermel The victory of Little Visitor marked the third winner that W Perkins had saddled for in addition to Phil Foto and Little Visitor he also trains Gay Halite winner of the fourth rsico II Teller Archibald has changed plans with regard to his stable and will send the twelve under O Walkers charge to Fairmount Park I Karl Pool will go with the St lx is con cont t sigmnent Trainer George Arvins band of fourteen will be shipped to Belmont Park ParkJ J Sunday to inaugurate an eastern campaign Jockey If Thurber will ride the Archibald Archibaldj j horses in the East whenever he can be 1 secured Twentyfour horses comprise starter Wm WmJ J Hamiltons schooling list at present this j thisj being the largest number in a long time Rhinock was withdrawn from the fifth j race today due to an injury He struck him self in his workout this morning It will probably keep the colt inactive for three or orI I Jour days
