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ELLICE BY WIDE MARGIN 1 J. N. Camdens Filly Easily Triumphs in Main Offering. Black Flyer Continues on His Way, Scoring His Third Straight Success at Lexington. 1 LEXINGTON, Ky., April 29. The racing here this afternoon featured a test of the spring powers of some of the better grade three-year-olds and the race appropriately titled "The Respect" had a popular result when J. N. Camdens Ellice raced home an easy winner. It was a victory for the daughter of Black Servant and Five Aces, which marked the initial success of a favorite and further demonstrated her readiness for the contest with the best of her age and sex. Taking the lead without delay, she dominated after the first furlong along the Futurity Course and Paul Neal brought her to the finish five lengths in front of Gallaher and Combs Fiddler. Still another highly regarded colt, namely, R. S. Clarks Hieover, was third, and the six others included Alvin Ranshaw and Broad Meadows, E. R. Bradleys son of Black Servant and Bit of White, while Hieover was making his first start of the year. The winner a potential candidate for impending renewals of the Kentucky, Latonia and Illinois Oaks, had none the best of the light scale of weights prevailing and, carrying an impost of 107 pounds, offered unmistakable evidence of ability to carry on over greater distance. Before reaching the turn she had increased her lead to three lengths over the closely aligned Broad Meadows, Fiddler, Hieover and Alvin Ranshaw, and again increased her advantage by a length before entering the stretch. With the further progress of the race Ellices lead was never threatened, with the result that her success, the second during the meeting, was the most decisive. Continued summerlike weather resulted in another good attendance and while the track retained a somewhat cuppy condition, good time was turned in by the better racers. The Keeneland Purse, or secondary feature, which had presentation as the third race, witnessed the defeat of the second choice at odds-on during the afternoon. This time it was Howard Oots veteran Illegitimate, sent to the post sporting four bandages and with M. Austin in the saddle, which offended, and his undoing was most decisive as the finish found him last among the six under colors. Top honors fell to the Reuter stables consistent and improved Black Flyer, but he had no easy task in landing his third straight for the meeting, as Scotland followed only a nose back at the end. Helen Dean was third to complete the short futurity course and reached the end almost two lengths back of the leaders. During the opening half mile the favorite succeeded in holding a short lead, but Hot Time and Ray Blades carried him along at a swift pace and his rider was unable to get much out of him during the run through the stretch. As he retired, Ray Blades and Hot Continued on twentieth page. ELLICE BY WIDE MARGIN Continued from first page. Time also gave way to the stronger finishes of the placed trio. Nevermore, an outsider carrj-ing the colors of J. V. Pons, won decisivelj- in the Futurity course race opening the program. L. Jones drove the six-jear-old from last place and got away with honors bs almost three lengths over the unlucky Captain J. S. Third place fell to Bruno with six others in his wake. While the winner began slowly, he missed a bad jam on the turn and the crowding took much from the chances of Captain J. S. and Participate. Captain J. S., before becoming entangled, appeared to scrape the inner rail and, after making a challenge for the lead in the stretch, tired badls. yet succeeded in outstaying the tiring Bruno, which raced along in front for five-eighths. Jesse Spencer uncovered another good juvenile, when his Tiger Prince, a slashing son of Prince Pal and Fluzej, defeated J. N. Camdens highl- regarded Leros by a nose in the second race, which brought out a field of seven from among the maiden colts and geldings. Good Jest held the others safe for third place and finished five lengths back of the leaders. Leros sprinted into a long lead on the turn but the winner came through with fine speed in the last quarter and gradualls cut down the formers advantage and passed him right at the end. The winner, ridden by Deprema, prevailed as second choice, support for Leros being of such volume as to install him one of the strongest favorites during the meeting. A dozen of the inferior older maidens were brought together in the fourth race and the contest at one and one-sixteenth miles proved interesting, in which Red Rider, the staunch favorite in so far as the money plac-ings were concerned, played no part in the result. He led in the big band to the stretch, where a majorits of his rivals raced past him and the leaders fought it out in a furious drive with Swift Breeze, a five-year-old daughter of Under Fire earning the honors. She won by a half lengtli from Ros"al Beauts, which had a like final margin over Bano and Teaspoon followed a nose back. z -fc j ; ! ! i I 1 . 1 2 c - - 2 s f e 2 j 3 . 0 s j j. t 1
