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REPUBLIC UNDEFEATED ■ Brilliant Colt Makes Triumphant Return to Competition. » Trainer J. J. Flanigan Acconu plishes Outstanding Achievement of His Career. ♦ LATONIA, Ky., June 18.— John J. Flanigan, long one of the most capable and successful of Kentucky trainers, this afternoon accomplished perhaps the outstanding achievement of his career when he returned Laffoon and Yeisers Republic to competition to account for the Big Stone Gap Purse at Latonia. Running the distance in the fast time of 1:1111 over a good track. Republic won by a length and a half from Clog Dance which led Typhoon by a head. The race marked the winners first start since he bowed a tendon following an engagement at Fairmount Park on June 11, 1927, and his triumphant return kept his record unmarked by defeat On the strength of his recent fast trials, he was installed an odds-on choice and left no doubt of his worthiness of that distinction by outsprinting his seven opponents for the entire distance. It was his fourth victory in as many starts. The victorious son of Busy American-Sherry showed speed from the outset and, while jockey D. Dubois could not avoid sending him over the less firm inner part of the track as he hustled him clear of his opponents in the first quarter, he easily overcame that handicap. After reaching the. turn Dubois picked out better footing for the colt and, after easily withstanding a mild bid from Clog Dance, he continued at a fast pace and was clear of the latter all through the stretch. Typhoon, which steadily improved his position, just failed to wear down Clog Dance for second and was going fast in the final stages. FIELD OF QUALITY. Behind Typhoon came Retort. Boris, Reenie, Scott and Ragus, the field not wanting for quality. Following the race Boris, a likely starter for Saturdays renewal of the Latonia Derby, was worked out an additional quarter of a full mile, for which he was timed in 1 :40%. It was another day of torrid weather, the intense heat serving to work a rapid improvement in the track until it was in a god condition when the racing began. The attendance was one of the largest for a week day during the meeting and the program one of the best of the meeting. Followers of the successful stable of Hal Price Headley had another winner when the useful juvenile Betty Ann accounted for honors in the fourth race. This was a high-class selling affair for youngsters and none of the six opposing the winner was able to give her much of an argument at any stage of the five and one-half furlongs. Wingo finished second, with Michigan Boy third. Jake Heupel wasted no time getting the winner in front and, altei maintaining a strong hold on her as she set the pace for the first three-eighths, permitted her to Increase her advantage when entering the stretch and held it easily thereafter, winning by two lengths. Both Wingo and Michigan Boy raced close up from the early stages while disappointing efforts were contributed by Campion and Princess Carolyne. SUDOEV IMPROVEMENT. Valence, showing a rather sudden improvement in form, chalked up her first win of the meeting when she defeatea Hold Fast, the choice, Chiz and six other older fillies and mares In the third race. This was contested over one mile and seventy yards with the winner passing the tiring Soiree and Delightful after three-eighths and holding her position safe against the oncoming tavorite, which gained steadily in the stretch after beginning sluggishly. Both Soiree and Delightful, which headed tin others to the second turn, tired during the run through the stretch. My Dan, after many trials, finally emerged from the ranks of the maidens when he accounted for the three-quarters introductory race given over to older maidens brought together under selling conditions. Under a hustling ride by Pascuma he led throughout and won with something in reserve by three lengths from Career. The latter outfinished Woodlot for second after they provided a head-and-heafl duel through much of the final three-eighths. Ma Yerkes, the highly regarded daughter of Leonardo II. — Crossbun. which Sewell Combs is training for J. Graham Brown, gave further evidence that she has not yet displayed the peak of her ability when she scored a very easy victory in the Sulphur Purse for juvenile fillies. Running the five and one-half furlongs in 1 :06% over the cuppy course constituted a remarkable performance, and adding to this the fact that j she won with speed to spare, she was show-| ing considerable improvement over her best I previous racing. James Stewart sold the two-year-old Don Tinky to Earl Dubbs, of the racing firm of Dubbe £ Runnels.
