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RE1GH OLGA MEETS DEFEAT — ♦ Well Backed Favorite Finishes Fourth in Louisville Feature. 1 Boyal Julian Outstays Typhoon by a Nos? in Spectacular Finish — Favorites Fare Well During Day. ♦ LOUISVILLE. Ky., May 31.— After favorites had scored in three of the four preeeed-Ing races, there was a severe shock for many of Fridays visitors to Churchill Downs when Otto Lehmans Reigh Olga finished in fourth place in the Meadow Lawn Purse, a mile race for better grade older racers that was the best offering. Reigh Olga, one of the outstanding favorites of the afternoon, was a victim of a very poor ride by Nick Huff and he was led home by W. H. Whitehouses Royal Julian, Typhoon and The Choctaw. His defeat was by a goodly margin, Royal Julian and Typhoon fighting it out to a nose finish three lengths in front of The Choctaw, which finished two lengths in advance of the favorite. Huffs persistent endeavors to get the favorite through inside, forced him to be taken back so often that he scarcely found opportunity to settle into his best stride. While Reigh Olga was encountering misfortune after misfortune, Typhoon was setting a fast pace and, after he drew clear of The Choctaw on the stretch turn, Royal Julian moved up and engaged him in a drive which was to bring his defeat by the shortest of margins. It was one of the most spectacular finishes of the meeting. Despite continued hot weather and the fact that the day followed a holiday, there was a big crowd out for the running of the next to final program of the meeting. Racing conditions were at their best and favorites made good in a majority of the races. Golden Racket, backed into prohibitive favoritism, was the initial winner of the afternoon. He was opposed by but four others of the" top grade sprinters best suited by the distance of three-quarters and won by a length and a half from Retort, with Sister Zoe third. Golden Racket headed the others for the final three-eighths, but there was a tinge of hollowness to his success as Retort bore to the inside of the track so stubbornly in the final quarter that K. Russell, his rider, could not get him to the outside of the winner, ■with the result that he followed behind the victor in the final eighth. Another of the two-year-olds in the stable of H. P. Headley was graduated with the running of the second race, for maiden juvenile fillies. The race resulted in a victory for Heretiz, a daughter of Supremus and Mamie Smith. After getting away poorly she displayed fine speed in sprinting into the lead in the first quarter and was not seriously challenged in the final two of the five-eighths. Rattle took second place three lengths back of the favorite and Truly Movin was third. Only three others started. There was another success for the Headley colors when Superlove, a three-year-old daughter of Supremus, was returned an easy winner over Longwood, Florsi, and four other plater three-year-olds that included the offending favorite Blind Hills, in the third race. This was decided over one mile and a sixteenth and the winner, which led for the final half mile, was a strong second choice in the betting. A contender from the start, Longwood, made a bold challenge entering the stretch, but was readily repulsed by the winner and just managed to outstay Florhi by inches for second place.
