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DON LEO LEON A BIG SURPRISE DON LEO LEON UNEXPECTED RESET Easily Accounts for Long Estab ¬ lished Idle Hour Stakes Tannery Again Qualifies for Derby Honors in Beat ¬ ing Bradley Pair LEXINGTON Ky May 3 Don Leon jL W Collins homebred son of Lee O Cotner and Water Willow and victorious in his only previous start provided an outstanding sur prise for the largest crowd of the meeting when he carried off honors in the renewal of the Idle Hour Stakes worth 3290 and the stake feature on todays closing program Running the four and onehalf furlongs in the Comparatively slow time of 54 he WOU by one and onehalf lengths from C B Daileys Deemster a maiden and Gallaher Combs Back Log was third a like margin back Three others namely Liberty Ace Bill Morris and Tiger Prince completed the small field irom among the best masculine juveniles on the grounds and the result occasioned most surprise in the undoing of the unbeaten Back Log and Bill Morris sensation of the New Orleans season seasonIn In justice to Back Log and Bill Morris it can be said that racing luck was against them while the winner and Deemster ob tained clear sailing from start to finish Only a short distance after the start which was held up some seven minutes by the frac tiousness of Back Log and Bill Morris the latter pair and Liberty Ace all on the inside of the winner and Deemster at the point of dispatch piled into an ugly jam jamSECURES SECURES LONG LEAD As their riders busied themselves at un ¬ tangling the trio the winner ridden by K Hoffman raced into a long lead to be fol ¬ lowed closest by Deemster and aside from Back Logs ability to outrace Bill Morris for third position the race was as good as over Bill Morris was quickest to get back into good stride but after being rushed up the hill to the stretch turn tired thereafter and both Back Log and Liberty Ace passed him in the final stages stagesTodays Todays running was the fifteenth for the stake the fifth renewed during the meeting and it carried in addition to first money a handsome trophy provided by the Kentucky Association AssociationThe The meeting one of the longest conducted here in recent years was remarkable in many respects none more so than the fine patron ago and good sport that marked the term Fast going prevailed every day during the meeting and there was no serious accident suspension or claims claimsThe The attractive closing day card had as a secondary feature but surpassing in interest the stake event called the Au Revoir Purse in which Edward Prichards Tannery defeated E R Bradleys Breezing Thru and Buckeye Poet PoetTannery Tannery running the one mile and a six ¬ teenth in 1 144s 44s raced from behind Breez ¬ ing Thrus pace to win handily by slightly more than a length as the moody Buckeye Poet which sulked bullishly trailed some lengths away It was a victory which estab ¬ lished Tannery as one of the chief reliances for a western triumph in the coming fifty sixth running of the Kentucky Derby and his sparkling success was witnessed by the largest crowd of the meeting meetingCLYDE CLYDE VAX DUSEX SCORES SCORESClyde Clyde Van Dusen H P Gardners winner of the 1929 Kentucky Derby returned to com ¬ petition with the running of the Newton Pike or fourth race the sprint feature and offered evidence of having retained all his prowess when he won in a driving finish over Beam ¬ ing Over Star Lassie and others Quick to find his stride the victor found Clog Dance a bit too speedy in the early paccmaking and after taking a breathing spell when McCrossen took him under strong reserve during the early stretch he got up with a rush in the closing stages At the end he led Beaming Over which gave way to him after saving ground and the Bradley filly had but a nose over Star Lassie Closr Dunne ivhirii IVIK DON LEONS IDLE HOUR STAKE Continued from first page I Bidwill when Hidden Thoughts ridden by apprentice R Canton accounted for the opening race Pagan Laddie took second place with Nevermore third It was a lucky victor for the Bidwill filly as she had a big advantage in the ragged start while Nevermore which raced in a manner leav ¬ ing little doubt of his superiority was prac ¬ tically left From his poor start Never ¬ more gradually improved his position and finished fastest of all only failing by a nar ¬ row margin to take second place In addi ¬ tion Nevermore was forced to find his course near the center of the track and as Hid ¬ den Thoughts only succeeded in getting away with honors by one and onehalf lengths the formers ill luck probably saved the day for her Jane Williamson another Cf the starters failed to start after acting errati ¬ cally prior to the release of the barrier barrierThe The narrow margin of a nosa gave Plumage the initial victory of her career when she just lasted to lead Elizabeth Lester home by that margin in the four and onehalf furlongs second race for maiden juvenile fillies Martha Jones which greatly reduced her chances when she bore out badly on the turn finished third and was followed by eight others It was a field that included several poorly schooled youngsters with the result that there was a long delay and when released Tavy Irritation Concordia and Bubble On began in a tangle The lat ¬ ter which was making her first start was as good as left leftGeorge George Collins Simon Kenton furnished a mild upset when he led throughout in defeating Crash Hiram Kelly and three oth ¬ ers from among the older distance platers in the one and onesixteenth miles of the third race After holding sway easily for threequarters he gamely resisted the chal ¬ lenge of Crash and led the latter by a good length at the end Hiram Kelly fin ¬ ished third with George McCrann next II Thomas had the mount on the winner winnerKate Kate Geary owned by I Weil goes from here to Aurora where she will be raced
