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LARGE CROWD AT LATONIA Early Arrivals for Derby Responsible for Big Attendance. z Lucky Drift Accounts for Chief Offering of Ordinary Card C. H. Trotter Saddles Two Winners. ; LATONIA, Ky., June 24. There was a tremendous throng at Latonia for todays racing, the arrival of a great number of visitors attracted by tomorrows Derby being largely responsible for the big increase in patronage. Discussion of theJ Derby, while heard on almost every side during the afternoon, was not sufficient to overshadow the interest and excitement derived from todays sport, which, while provided by the more ordinary equinines, was the most spectacular served at the old racing place in some time. A big majority of the races culminated in those highly entertaining close finishes and the public choices just about held their own with the outsiders in the stubbornly contested outcomes. The program was minus any particular feature, the most capable field answering for the Eastern Avenue Purse, an allowance dash that had presentation as the fourth race. But five accepted, but the quintette raced closely grouped the entire- distance, and the contset was one of the most spirited of the day. The winner turned up in C. H. Trotters only recently acquired Lucky Drift, which was making her appearance under her present owners colors. After leading almost from the start, she finished a mere half length in front of Lancer, with Dawn of Tomorrow a head further back and a half length in advance of Profiteer. GARNERS YIGOBOUS FINISH. Mack Garner was forced to rouse the winner during the last eighth as she began tiring, and both Lancer and Dawn of Tomorrow were dangerously close. The latter, however, had her chance of victory eliminated when Dent Smith, her rider, permitted Lancer to race up on the outside and pocket her behind the winner. She was eager to run at the time, and with a better judged ride that would have obtained her running room in the stretch, she might have been the winner. Lancer, after menacing the winners lead a sixteenth of a mile from the finish, tired slightly at the end. He was an equal choice with the winner. Lucky Drifts success gave C. H. Trotter his second winner of the afternoon, he previously having furnished Turn On, O. Tor-rells winner of the second race. The opening race, at three-quarters, in which a limit field of three-year-old platers participated, was productive of a close, thrilling finish, in which the Crescent Stables Edna Glenn oustayed Gabaldon, and Ortlieb was a short margin away for the winners award. GabaJdon raced from far back to trail the winner by a length at the finish after she had been put to a severe task in disposing of Ortlieb and Seminola as welL The winner was favorite, and ridden by R. Russell. TTTM ON SURPRISES. Turn On, superbly ridden by Alfred Johnson, furnished the surprise, when she defeated Helen R, Blushing Maiden and nine other maiden two-year-old fillies in the second race. After being restrained behind the leaders for the first three-eighths, the winner began moving up slowly on the outside after entering the stretch, took the lead inside the last eighth and, strongly handled in the final drive, just managed to lead Helen R home after the latter had raced from a good distance back and suffered from interference in the early stages. A short head separated the two at the end of the five and a half furlongs. Smiling Betty, for which last-minute support was plentiful, finished in fourth place, the fast finish of Blushing Maiden putting the latter in third position. The colors of T. C. McDowell were carried to their first victory in some time, when the three-year-old gelding Forbearance led eight opponents from among the cheaper grade for the entire distance in the third race. The winner was given a good ride and successfully withstood several challenges. Alleviator finished in second place, but benefited much by forcing Radio into the fence inside the last eighth, where D. Emery sent Alleviator through on the inside. The Missus outstayed the unfortunate Radio for third, the latter falling lame, probably as a result of his near fall when bumped by Alleviator. He was running well at the time of the interference. The fifth race, at one mile and seventy yards, for which there were seven starters, had its surprise in the win of the rank outsider Benito, which outstayed King Basil in a driving finish in which S. Stretton, on the winner, slightly outrode Willie Garner on King Basil. Bright Shawl, the favorite, finished in third place, after making up ground, after C. Eagan permitted her to drop out of it in the early stages. She was racing well at the finish, a length and a half behind King Basil, which bowed to Benito by a neck. The sixth race, given over to two-year-olds, at five and one-half furlongs, under claiming conditions, resulted in another close finish, in which the first-time starter California, defeated Elizabeth, the favorite, by a head. California was tiring near the end after having taken the lead from Bellham. The latter showed the most speed from the start and was the leader to the last eighth. He stuck it out to save third from the fast-closing War Wings. After the numerous close finishes in the previous races, came one of the easiest vic-: tories of the meeting for Peggy Bledsoe in the final, the filly taking command when ready, and easily cantering along far in front of the others thereafter. The race was another at one mile and three-sixteenths, i and the finish found Peggy Bledsoe five lengths in advance of Longchamps, which outfinished Tirza. W. F. Taylor, veteran horseman who has a small stable at Latonia, Is suffering from i a badly lacerated right leg, which injury he received when he was kicked by the horse allndclasp, the property of his son, A. F. Taylor. Jockey W. Lilley left for Fairmount Park, where he will ride Helens Babe in the Stat-; ler Hotel Handicap Saturday. Jockey C Allen went to the same track to have the , mount on Cotlogomor in the same stake, i L. B. Draun claimed Fire Chief out of the i final race Thursday from W. Wilson, for ,000.
