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ACCIDENTS MAR SPORT — ♦ Three Horses Fall in Second Race at Louisville. -• Riders Fortunate and Escape Serious Injury — Account Pays Longest Price of Meeting. ♦ LOUISVILLH, Ky.. May 12.— The return of favorable weather, with a fast track, was responsible for a large attendance at Churchill Downs for the running of a well balanced and attractive program this afternoon. The racing was productive of a number of surprises, quite a few close finishes and marked by two accidents, which, luckily, di 1 not result seriously for any of the four riders involved. The most serious of the two mishaps came in the second race and it witnessed the falling of Lillyfield, Jlmmalee and Princess Donna shortly after they had entered the stretch. They were ridden by R. Heigle, L. Pichon and J. Ryan, all escaping with a few bruises. Lillyfield suffered a fracture of the left foreleg and was destroyed. In the opening race jockey L. Canfield was forced off Maidens Tryst when his mount was crowded into ihe fence on the stretch turn. In the same race Spooky, the odds-on favorite, broke down while in a contending position. Her mishap was the source of much disapopintment. After Supryse scored the initial win for the favorites in the third race, Account won at the longest odds of the meeting in the following race. The latter ruled at better than 35 to 1 in the mutuel betting. Following Accounts unexpected success. Buddy Basil chalked up a second triumph for the choices when he was an easy winner over Vesta, Princess Edith and six other three-year-olds in the Tyler Hotel Purse, the principal offering. Danny Connelly raced the winner from behind the pace of Vesta and Gardner Derr and, overhauling Vesta in the last eighth, won going away by a length and a half. Princess Edith outfinished Symphorosa. NORA D. BIG SURPRISE. The opening race for fillies and mares of the better plater class, marked by much crowding, resulted in a big surprise when the Rose Home Stables recently-acquired Nora D. raced home an easy winner. Ryan rated the winner back of the early pace and in the stretch easily overhauled the leading Lady Witt, which outstayed Jessie Carey for second place, at the end of three-quarters. The latter appeared responsible for the unseating of L. Canfield from Maidens Tryst on the turn and in crossing in front of the others rather abruptly soon after the start. Lady Witt caused a bad jam, in which Spooky was a sufferer. The latter, an outstanding choice, broke down badly after racing into a contending position on the turn. A second accident marked the second race, in which Lillyfield, Jimmalee and Princess Donna, three of the fifteen starters, fell shortly after reaching the stretch. Jockeys R. Heigle, J. Ryan and L. Pichon, who had the mounts, escaped injury, but the filly Lilly-field, the first to fall, suffered a fracture of the left foreleg and had to be destroyed. Jimmalee and Princess Donna could not avoid striking the prostrate Lillyfield, with the result that the three horses and a like number of riders were piled into a heap. The race for older maidens, over one mile, was won by George Stack, which led throughout. Latch Key was second, with Beechwood third. Supryse. which Mrs. E. L. Swikard recently purchased from H. P. Headley. added further to the fine showing of the get of Supremus when she easily accounted for the Lebanon Junction Purse for two-year-olds, and one of the secondary features. It was her third success in five starts and under the guidance of W. Fronk ran the four and one-half furlongs in :545f. , which permitted her to win by four lengths over Star Lassie with Wild Denise third. The winner was fortunate to escape a jam on the stretch turn, where Star Lassie, Wild Denise, Ellice and Lelia Peachy became so closely entangled that the riders of Wild Denise and Lelia Peachy were forced to pull up very sharply. After obtaining a clear Continued on eighteenth page. ACCIDENTS MAR SPORT Continued from first page. course Wild Denise finished fast, while Lelia Peachy could not regain a seriously contending position. W. C. Weant, local turfman, furnished his first winner at the meeting when his Account, half-brother to Reigh Count, got up tn the final strides to defeat Amsterdam in the fourth race. The latter led from the first quarter and only gave way when within a short distance of the finish of the one mile and a sixteenth. He took second place by a margin of a length from Kentucky Ace, the favorite, which failed to display his customary speed at any stage, yet held to his task in game fashion and, but for_ a big loss Of ground in the final half-mile might have been the winner. Account, ridden by A. Pas-curoa, proved one of the longest-priced winners during the meeting.
