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CURRENT WINS EASILY 0 Clark Filly Romps to Victory Despite Muddy Course. « One of Shortest Priced Winners of Latonia Meeting — Eil Weir Pays Long Odds. LATONIA, Ky., June 7. — Carrying top weight of 109 pounds, R*. S. Clarks good three-year-old filly Current easily defeated four others of her sex and age and scored the most popular victory of the present meeting in the Taylor Mill Purse, the three-quarters race that was the principal offering at the Covington course today. The capable daughter of Chatterton — Dark Water ruled at almost prohibitive odds and vindicated the judgment of her big following. She was never fully extended. The race was run over a muddy course, several heavy showers coming after the program got under way and being responsible for the first adverse track of the meeting. Vesta raced to secpnd place, while Lady Gossip was taking third in advance of Reeme and Lynette Stone. Although she is not regarded as a superior racer over such a course, the winner was well suited by the footing, due, perhaps, to the tracks good bottom, and racing into the lead without delay, led throughout and won well in hand, a length and a half in front of Vesta. But for being taken under strong restraint by Earl Pool, her rider, as the race waned, the winner probably could have won by many times the mentioned margin. It was one of the easiest victories of her career. BY WIDE MARGIN. During much of the first half, Lady Gossip and Vesta raced closely aligned and in fairly close pursuit of the winner, but when the final test came, Vesta quickly disposed of Lady Gossip and rolled up a margin of eight lengths over her, while negotiating the final quarter. But for brief early speed by Reenie, the other pair showed nothing and were far back after reaching the stretch. Current ruled at little better than 2 to 5 and her success marked the initial triumph of a public choice. Her impressive performance and popular victory was witnessed by an average sized crowd, which, due to cessation of the rain, had an opportunity to leave protected places to witness the running of the race. The Audley Farm veteran, Creek Indian, downed a lowly band of older sprinters in the introductory three-quarters dash for which Foreign Relations, which was making his first start in several years, was the favorite. The latter finished third, second place going Continued on twenty -first page. CURRENT WINS EASILY Continued from first page. to Purple Light, which succumbed to the winner after leading the field of eight for almost five furlongs. He easily outstayed the choice, which just managed to save third from Little Torch. A poor ride by W. Lauscher reduced Little Torchs chances to a minimum. LTnder a stronger ride he would have been a keen contender. A severe rainstorm broke over the course just as the field of top grade three-year-olds reached the post for the third race. While it failed to have an effect upon the track for the running of the race, it provided a severe handicap for the racers, particularly during the run through the stretch where the heavy rain was lashed into the faces of the horses and riders by a strong wind. The running was productive of an easy win for S. and A. Fuersts Uptime, which raced around Hot Shot to the lead after following eJoM up to the stretch and won well in hand and by three lengths over Hot Shot, with My Hobby third. The latter, after closing resolutely, only failed by a short margin of wearing down Hot Shot for second place and was followed at the finish by Zurich. Uptime ran the distance in 1 :12 and was ridden by A. Pascuma. The sixth race, which brought out a band of two-year-olds under selling conditions, was marked by the rough riding of jockey Danny Connelly, who obtained a big advantage for Princess Carolyn, when he caused a bad jam by permitting her to cross sharply in front of most of her opponents shortly after the start. While her troubled rivals were badly tangled Princess Carolyn was sent after Nim the Nymph, which began swiftly and, pinching the Breckinridge filly back on the turn, gained a clear lead and held it for the remainder of the five-eighths. Hades, one of a half dozen caught in the crowding a short distance after the start, raced to second place, wbjle Wingo accounted for third honors. Princess Carolyn was the medium of strong support from her connections. The outstanding upset of the meeting developed with the running of the second race, for maiden masculine juveniles, when Eil-Weir, a son of Actuary — Miss Lady, owned by T. H. McCaffrey of Cincinnati, delivered a winning performance under Jake Ileupel at the long odds of almost 60 to 1, a record for the present meeting. The diminutive brown colt led for the entire five-eighths and won in a drive and by a head over Kings Crier, the strongly backed starter of the E. B. McLean stable. Bluch Dineen, another rank outsider, took third, not far back and only slightly in advance of Colonel Henry, which had scant chance, due to being impeded during the run through the main stretch.
