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BLACK MARIA FIRST Captures Kentucky Oaks Run in Blinding Rain Storm W E Coes Superb Filly Easily EasilyTakes Takes Measure of Dark DarkPhantom Phantom and Others LOUISVILLE Ky May 31 The Kentucky Oaks had its fiftysecond renewal this after ¬ noon in a blinding rainstorm and the East triumphed Black Maria daughter of Black Toney Bird Loose owned by W R Coe saddled by trainer Kenneth Karrick and given a rousing ride by jockey Arthur Mor tensen who came here especially for the occasion was returned winner by a margin of four lengths from Dark Phantom which in turn beat Helens Babe by a head for second place Ten made the contest giving the race a net value of 10960 the second horse receiving 1500 the third 800 while the fourth which was A B Hancocks Parco saved 220 worth of nomination and starting fees feesThe The rainstorm came up just as the horses were leaving the paddock and it seldom rains harder in this section than it did while the race was being run It poured so hard that it was impossible to see the horses at various points of the race and every rider was cov ¬ ered with mud even Mortensen who rode the winner when they came back to the scales to weigh out outJockey Jockey G Johnson sent Indianapolis on in front at the start of the journey of one and oneeighth miles but he was too anxious to get the lead and as a result he will spend the first ten days of the Latonia meeting on the ground He was suspended for that period by the stewards stewardsNearing Nearing the far turn Indianapolis began to tire and then Mortensen sent Black Maria which was never far out of it into command Once she got at the head end of the proces ¬ sion it was all over but hanging out her number as she was eager to run Dark Phan ¬ tom upon whom the West placed its chief reliance was away rather slowly but ran a good race and while not threatenting the winner outgaraed Helens Babe for third place Rapture the H P Whitneys repre ¬ sentative sent here for this race did not figure importantly at any stage of the con ¬ test testVivandiere Vivandiere owned by Baylor Hickman local sportsman won the opening race from Queen Navarre Sarava showed the most early speed but quit in the stretch Then Vivajidiere took up the running and held Queen Navarre safe Queen Navarre dis ¬ played plenty of speed but was tiring in the stretch Lady Carolyn finished in third place placeBroomstef Broomstef cleverly ridden by jockey Scobie galloped away with the long end of the purse in the second race Lucky Drift which showed a lot of early speed got the short end of tho purse The Janitor which races in the interest of the Bloomfield Sta ¬ ble took down second money This is a pretty fair threeyearold and will bear watciiing watciiingFor For the first time in several years CapL B C Bunbury won a race when his two yearold Dr Streett triumphed in the third race Jockey G Johnson rode him to per ¬ fection and at the end he had plenty of margin to spare over Irene Rohan with Ruane third
