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OFFENDING FAVORITES ♦ Bottom Dollar and Clonaslee Fail in Mt. Sterling Purse. • Girl Scout Leads Them Home in Lexington Feature — Bad Day for Public. , — • — ! UDCneCrTOX, Ky.. May 3— The Idle I Hour Farm Stables representatives. Bottom I I ollar and Clonaslee. were offending fa- I vorites in the Mt. Sterling Purse, which brought to the post some speedy ones to i race over the futurity course and held the i outstanding place on the Kentucky Associa- I tions racing program today. Girl Scout i was the victress here. She won in rather clever fashion from Bottom Dollar, with , Clonaslee in third place. There were six , starters in the race, but outside of the placed , ones the other trio had little or no attention. . Girl Scout allowed Seminola to race in i the lead on sufferance during the first three-eighths, but when W. Garner called on Girl | Scout she readily moved into the lead and | during the stretch held Botom Dollar safe. , Clonaslee began well but Goldje Johnson allowed her to drop far out of it during the first eighth, and she seemingly was unable to get fully in her stride until in the last eighth, where she came determinedly, but Girl Scout and Bottom Dollar were both so far in advance of her that she had little chance of overcoming their lead. Intermittent showers during the morning, coupled with cloudy weather all during the afternoon, resulted in a reduction of attendance, and the featureless program also contributed towards decreased interest in the sport. The racing, however, was interesting and several of the finishes close enough to suit the most exacting. Supporters of favorites did not fare so well, for most of the choices suffered defeat. Outside of D:irk Angel, there were no outstanding l ng priced winners. OPKNKR TO DARK ANGEL. Dark Angel, an outsider in the wagering, accounted for the opening race, which brought out a dozen platers to race over the futurity course. She was given a rousing ride by I*. Geving and after getting to the leaders an eighth out proceeded to race away from her rivals to win by almost two lengths from One Way, the latter downing Sue Barker by a nose for second place. The well-thought-of Cousin Lute finished in fourth place after working her way from far back. The race was marked by considerable jamming and several of the starters suffered from interference. The Wild Rose Farm Stable furnished the winner of the second race, for maiden two-year-old fillies, in its Cuddle, which was backed to the exclusion of the others and won from Madam Kmelie, Lovelike and three others. The winner was in advance from the start and Crump restrained her in the last seventy yards when she was racing far in advance of the others. At the end of the four and one-half furlongs she led Madam Emelie by four lengths with the latter lucky to take second place from Lovelike, as the G. Watts- filly bolted to the outside at the first turn and had to make up considerable ground to finish third. Sne ran a winning race. NABISCO BY A NOSE. O. Torrells Nabisco, a well-backed starter in the field of eight, was winner from Arro-gosa by a nose in the thrilling finish that ended the race over the one mile and a sixteenth distance. The race developed a sharp fight and, after Nabisco had assumed a lead of almost a length in the last eighth, Arro-gosas Ixlated rush made great inroads upon this advantage, and the winner just lasted. Arrogosa was blocked several times when W. Fool attempted to get him through on the inside on the upper turns, while the winru r was on the outside of the leaders. They finished far in advance of the others, the tiring Gahaldon lasting for third place, six 1 ngths back of Arragosa. Atiother race for two-year-olds, run as the fourth, resulted in a close finish with Bun outstaying Tiger Flowers, while Watson was third. Bun sprinted into the lead soon after the start and saving much ground after the first eighth was not in serious danger until in the final eighth where Tiger Flowers moved up slowly and only failed to overtake the winner by a nerk. After Tiger Flowers began in front he was taken back when Hun and Watson raced upon the outside and when I. Kroggatte sent him after Bun. it required a loss of some ground to get to the winner. Finishing with determination he was slowly making his way into the lead as the two horses flashed across the finish. Watson, whi«h fniied Huns pace for the first three-sixteenths, began tiring in the stretch and •Was five lengths back of Tiger Flowers at the finish. The race was at four and one-half furlongs and the winner was timed in or two-fifths of a second slower than the ,-:! 4, traek record. Six met under claiming conditions with most support for Tiger Flowers. i outiuued on twentieth i»ag«-. OFFENDING FAVORITES Continued from first page The Iceland Hotel Claiming Handicap at a mile and a sixteenth, enabled O. Terrell to make it a double for the afternoon when his Battle Field was winner over My Destiny, with Happy Bob in third place. Added incident to the race came when jockey Mc-Gonigle. astride Grand King, began belaboring with his whip, jockey J. Johnson on Happy Bob when the latter horse came over shortly in the stretch and forced Grand King to be eased up. The stewards promptly took cognizance of McGonigles action and fined him 0 for his use of the whip. Johnson, when questioned by the stewards for cause of McGonigle striking him, disclaimed that he had been struck. Some expected Happy Bob to be disqualified out of the third place for having so sharply impeded Grand King.
