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LATONIA DERBY PROSPECTS « , — „ Foremost Three -Year-Olds Among EKgiblcs to 5,000 Race. 1 InacgTiral Handicap of ,000 AIM tlio Feature of Opening Day Program en Juno 5. LATONTA, Ky., May 29.— With 142 nomi-■atlona, including the greatest three-year-olds in the country, the .", 000 added Latonia Derby, which will be vun on Saturday, Juno 23, promises to settle beyond Question the championship of the three-year-old division. This race, at a mile and a half, removes racing luck from the equation and the winner is always a thoroughbred of indisputable stamina and high quality. Victorian, Nssssk and a few other eastern stars failed to come out for the Id n-tucky Derby, and few of the western leaders will take part in the Belmont Stakes, but all are expected to meet in the Latonia Derby as a final battleground of the spring and summer meetings. Though Reign Count will be missing all the other star three-year-olds are ameng the potential starters in the Latonia Derby, including Harry Payne "Whitneys Victorian, II. B. IfcXi cans Toro, Re Mar Stock Farms Misstep. Otto Lchmanns Beigh Olga. J. P.. Macomb9rs Petes-Wrack, Hancocas Stables KssssJc, SagAmore Stables Don Q., Kenton Farm Stables Typhoon, H. H. Leehleiters Cartage, W. J. Currans Jack Higgins, Audl.y Farms Stables Bobashela, Salubria Stables Strolling Player, Rloomfield Stables Blackwood, A. n. Cosdens v*ito, A. C. Scliwartz Sortie, Whentley Stables Diavclo and Distraction, and W. H. Whitehouses Colonel Shaw. The opening day of the Ratonia meeting, Tuesday, June 5. will be featured by the running of the Inaugural Handicap, ,000 added, thrce-ycar-olds and upward, tine mile and a sixteenth. This event cloned with seventy-one nominations, among which are the loading stake performers of the turf. K. B. McLean presents one of the strongest hands with Jock, Toro, and Greenock ; Stuy-vesant Peabody has Flat Iron and Minervus ; J. W. Parrlan has Rolled Stocking and Percentage : II. P. Headley has Helens Babe ; J. X. Camden, Rothermel, Dark Phantom ; F. M. Grabner, Chicago; Goldstream Stud, Barbara ; Coventry Stable, Cotlogomor ; M. Goidblatt, Marconi ; W. H. "Whitehouse, Royal Julian : 11. P. Whitney, Afterglow. From this group and other eligibles an unusually large and high-class field is expected. — . * .
