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ELKS HANDICAP TO JOCK E. B. McLeans Crack Colt Scores in Convincing Style. Takes Measure of Percussion and Boo, Qualifying Handsomely for Latonia Derby Honors. LATONIA. Ivy., June 21. E. B. McLeans home-bred colt Jock, wJiich won a place among the top rank three-year-olds of the year by his brilliant third in the Kentucky Derby, added abundantly to his laurels when he easily accounted for the Elks Handicap, at one mile and an eighth, the outstanding race of a fine program at Latonia today. Taking the lead in the first few strides after the start the winner raced in front of his five rivals the entire distance, A. B. Hancocks four-year-old filly Percussion getting up in the final drive to defeat Col. E. R. Bradleys Boo by a half length for second. Aside from a flash of early speed from JL S. Clarks Sea Scamp, the race was always a contest between the placed trio, although both Percussion and Boo failed to prove themselves equal to bringing out the best qualities of the winner. Boo, which followed closest to the winner from the start, offered a weak challenge at the top of the stretch, but Mack Garner was quick to see Boos moving up on the outside and light urging sent the ultimate winner- into such command that he was entirely out of jeopardy the entire final eighth. BOOS RETURN TO RACES. Percussion, under the light impost of 98 pounds, finished gamely in outstaying Boo, which only tired when within the shadow of the finish. It was Boos first race since the meeting. His was a good per-ormance, Jjexingtbn and in galloping out an additional quarter of a mile in 2 :18, showed himself to be well adapted to distance racing and probably worthy of a chance at Latonia Derby honors Saturday. On his fine performance Jock is likely to prevail , a choice for the Latonia JJerby. He. ran the mile and an eighth of the race in li50Vand over the prevailing good track, and was-galloped on out-an additional eighth-in 2 :04. He carried 108 pounds, two. pounds . more than Boo. There was a generous crowd out for the afternoon, the large attendance braving intermittent intervals of rain, which were insuft ficient to force enthusiasts under cover or prevent the track from showing rapid improvement as the afternoon progressed. Mack. Garner, who was -in .the, limelight during the afternoon, rode his third winner on the Crescent Stables Gibbons, which easily defeated the seven good sprinters that, started with him in the Mundys Landing Purse, run as the sixth race. Gibbons, like a majority of the successful ones during the afternoon, was the favorite, and his disposal of Dinner Dance, the leoder for almost five-eighths, in the last eighth, proved highly pleasing to his many admirers. Garner rated the winner behind Dinner Dance in the first half mile and it was nothing like a task for the six-year-old to race into an easy lead near the end. Dinner Dance, making a better finish than in several of his recent races, encountered little difficulty holding second place safe from Energy. The latter raced in close quarters for the first quarter of a mile but, after saving ground on the last turn, failed to gain on the leaders in the stretch. Gibbons ran the three-quarters in 1:11, his race reflecting the speed of the drying out track. "WILLIAM T. VICTOR. William T., well-backed, was winner from Lady Paramour, Owena and five other two-year-olds that started under claiming conditions, and at five and one-half furlongs, in the fourth race. Danny Connelly had the mount on the winner and, after rating him behind the leaders,- punished him severely upon reaching the stretch. He responded with fine speed and easily outfinished the tiring Lady Paramour, after the iatter had disposed of Nine Dollars when passing- the eighth post. Nine Dollars retired into fifth place at the finish, while Tiger Flowers and Jessica were among the rearward ones. The latter filly began more slowly than usual and failed to display her true speed at, any strfge of the race. Brinkley, making his first start of the meeting, easily accounted for the opening dash at three-quarters, apprentice T. Pas-ciima having the winner in front the entire distance. He was followed to the finish by Three Sixty, which got away" slowly and ran a winning race, to overhaul Jolly Boy for second place. If away well, Three Sixty probably would have been a troublesome one for the victor. Jockey Sammy Steele rode his first winner and, incidentally, the longest priced victor of the Kentucky meeting this year when he accounted for the third race with Dial. The winner was forced to race from last place t defeat Dusty Mary by a neck at the end of the one mile and seventy yards. Dusty Mary had led from the start. Resolute, but for her repeated swerving in the last three-eighths, might have been closer up than third, where she finished. Pendelton and Helen R., two highly regarded two-year-old fillies, provided a thrilling finish at the close of the five and one-half furlongs of the second race, in which the former was winner by a head. The close finish was caused by tiring of the winner after she had raced in advance of her eleven rivals almost from the start, her faltering strides over the last sixteenth of a mile permitting Helen R. to race within the mentioned distance at the end. This pair was followed by Elizabeth, which finished with fine speed after having met with much interference soon after the start. The final race also had a formful result in the making good of Lady Stone, which came from behind the leaders, after reaching the stretch, and wore down Midnight Rose, after the latter had taken the lead from the tiring Pretty Run. The race was over a distance of one mile and seventy yards. Peggy Bledsoe finished in third place.
