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WINS FOUR STRAIGHT — ♦ Consistent Silverdale Victorious by a Neck at Louisville. « McLean Racer Sets Pace and Outstays Martinique in Hard Drive — Track Improving. « LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 27.— Silverdale, the fleet three-year-old son of The Porter and Margaret Ogden, in the stable of Edward B. McLean, set a mark for consistency in Kentucky racing this year when he scored his fourth consecutive victory in accounting for the Eminence Purse, which featured this afternoons program at Churchill Downs. Silverdale, a big favorite, won in a drive by a neck from U. E. Stewarts four-year-old filly Martinique, while Golden Racket was third in the field of five. The winner raced fast over the prevailing good track and, carrying 110 pounds, conceded weight to each of his opponents. He was timed in 1:18% for the six and one-half furlongs and was ridden by A- Pascuma, whose judgment proved of no little assistance. While setting a fast early pace, Silverdale was raced wide, thus forcing Golden Racket a good distance out on the track at the turn and, after disposing of the latter in the stretch, was allowed to swerve to the inside and only narrowly failed at crowding Martinique as the race waned. The latter rushed up along the rail in the final quarter and while the winner did not impede her D. Dubois, her rider, appeared a bit cautious, as Silverdale persisted in bearing over in the last sixteenth. But for brief early speed by Oui Monsieur, the race always was between the placed trio, although Golden Racket tired so sharply after reaching the last eighth that he finished four lengths back of Martinique. Summerlike weather was the order and it was instrumental in working a gradual improvement in the track, which was in a slow condition for the earlier races. For today the crowd was extremely large and unusually enthusiastic. Favorites again had more than average success. C. H. Trotter furnished his first winner* of the meeting when Turn Over, which came in for stanch backing, proved best among a dozen older platers in the opening race. He triumphed in a driving finish and by a neck over The Bat, which had but a nose over Southland Boy, the finish being one of the most interesting of the afternoon. Tommy Murray was required to race the victor from behind the early leaders and his task was added to when The Bat pinched him back on the stretch turn. He made a quick recovery from the interference and, racing wide in the final quarter, gradually improved his position until he headed The Bat for the final seventy yards. Coming from a long way Continued on twenty-fourth page. WINS FOUR STRAIGHT Continued from first page. back. Southland Boy just failed to overhaul The Bat for second, while Peggy Lee, Mc-Culloch and My Dan, which displayed early speed, were tiring in the run through the stretch. There were only six starters in the second race, for two-year-old fillies, under claiming conditions, and the running over five-eighths resulted in a popular victory for Desha Breckinridges Fair Rosalind, with Betty Ann second and Vieux Carre third. Racing as if much the best and well suited by the soft footing, the winner followed close to Betty Anns pace under restraint until ready in the stretch, where she lost little time sprinting into the lead. After heading Betty Ann, the winner rapidly drew away to win by three lengths, while Vieux Carre, with belated speed, raced into third place, a position held by Youthful Wridow for the first half mile. After numerous opportunities, H. P. Whitneys Latch Key finally scored her maiden triumph when she won over a lowly band of non-winners from among the three-year-olds and over in the third race. Apprentice K. Russell rode a particularly strong finish on the filly, which he raced from behind the leaders and got up to win by a neck from The Show Off and Dr. Parrish. The winner was timed in 1:14%, a very ordinary showing. The Show Off and Dr. Parrish finished a nose apart, the latter tiring right at the end, after having set the pace and after he had repulsed a stretch challenge from Otilla. The filly Lillian T., carrying the colors of R. C. Thatcher, scored a hard earned victory over Maidens Tryst, Alcman and three other top grade plater three-year-olds in the fourth race. This was over one mile and a sixteenth, and the winner, under a good and hustling ride by D. Dubois, led throughout the final quarter and won by half a length from Maidens Tryst, which had but a neck advantage over Alcman. Woolorac and Amsterdam, which shared favoritism, finished in fourth and fifth places as named, while Miss Moonlight, which completed the field, was far back. Woolorac never seriously challenged for any of the leading positions, while Amsterdam tired after racing prominently i for the opening three-quarters.
