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IMPROVED CONDITIONS ♦ Latonia Finally Favored by Better Going and Weather. ♦ 1 Favorites Prove Elusive, Onlft One Scoring in First Five Races — Platers Hold Sway. LATONIA, Ky., June 15.— The best tracs? of the meeting and a return of favorable-weather permitted one of the largest weete day attendances to witness the running off of a featureless program at Latonia today The racing ground was just a shade away; from fast and was easily the firmest that has prevailed at the Covington course this spring. Platers held entire sway throughout the program and acceptances were more numerous than on any previous day. Favorites again experienced no end of trouble racing up to the betting barometer and not until Col. J. Swigert Taylors Isos-tasy got home victorious in the fifth race did a starter from the rank3 of the choices succeed in making good. His success at the termination of the mile and a sixteenth was at the expense of C. J. Longs Hengist, a rank outsider, which the Taylor gelding led by a length. Queenston was third in the field of nine. E. Pool kept the winner in a forward position as he stepped along in fairly close quarters to the stretch. Here he forced his way between Hengist and the tiring Busy Lassie and got up to win handily. Hengist was indulged with the pacemaking to the last eighth and held on in game fashion to remain well out of range of the others. Just a nose gave Queenston his placing over Busy Lassie, which began retiring after forcing the pace to the stretch. CLOSELY CONTESTED RACE. While the performers were recruited front among the cheaper grade plater three-year-olds, the race was closely contested, making up for what the starters lacked in quality. J. W. Parrishs Moody Mary, making her first start since last summer, when she was forced cut of training through injuries, graduated from the maiden ranks when she registered an easy victory in the three-quarters mile that opened the program. D. Froggatte brought her from behind to score by a length, and a half over Updike, with Owena in third place. The winner was accorded fairly confident backing and prevailed as second choice to Updike. C. C. Van Meter provided the winner of the fourth race, for maiden two-year-olds under claiming conditions, in his Doltaire, ridden by W. Crump. The son of Boniface won by a length after a spirited race, in which he showed speed from the start and, after disposing of Panini, remained in advance of several fast-finishing rivals. Aspin Lake, which took second place from Paul Revere a length back of the winner, showed a good performance. He ran away at a slow pace for an eighth before the start. Busy Fairy, the only horse John Hach-meister is racing, triumphed in a nose finish with Loretta Brooks at the end of the third race. Dubois brought the winner from far out of it with a belated rush and outrode H. Cray on Loretta Brooks in the drive to the finish. After overcoming some adverse luck when leaving the back stretch, where she was pinched back, Loretta Brooks raced into the lead and continued resolutely in her vain effort to outstay the winneF. Third honors went to Pretty Run, with Royal Omar, the favorite, in advance of the two other starters. Royal Omar and Dixie Prince were placed in close quarters by Loretta Brooks in the stretch. Both were tiring badly at the time and the interference was not intentional, as Loretta Brooks seldom fails to bear in when racing. POOR RACING LUCK. Adverse racing luck brought about the defeat of Neptunis, the much admired J. B. Respess starter, in the second race. He was unplaced behind Neck and Neck, Sauce Box and Catlettsburg at the end of the five and a half furlongs. D. Dubois got him away very slowly and his failure to find racing room in the first three-eighths forced him to remain far out of it to the stretch, where ha closed an Immense distance of ground and only narrowly failed to dispose of United Army and Catlettsburg for third place. Neck and Neck outran her rivals almost from the start and, while she bore out on the turn and swerved through the stretch, she was never In serious danger and won by three lengths. Sauce Box had only a neck to spare over Catlettsburg. which moved up steadily through the stretch. Vendeuse, racing for G. S. Bell and J. T. Looney and coupled in the mutuel field with Kissin Kin and Dontados, furnished an outstanding surprise when she was a winner from Black Flyer, Cleora and nine others at three-quarters in the sixth race. It was a nose finish, the winner holding a very short margin over Black Flyer during most of the concluding eighth.
