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LAT0N1A DERBY PROSPECTS Field of Twelve or More Expected to Start in 5,000 Added Event on June 27. LATONIA, Ky., June 1. — That in all probability the forty-ninth running of the La-tonia Derby, which is to be decided the opening day of the thirty-one-day meeting Saturday, June 27, will draw the cream of the three-year-old division was further evidenced this morning when track superintendent Charles Nolte received a wire from C. H. "Pat" Knebelkamp asking for stabling accommodations for Spanish Play and fourteen others. The son of Spanish Prince II., which finished fourth in the Kentucky Derby after annexing the renewal of the Louisiana Derby, will come on from Chicago after filling his engagement in the American Derby. That means he will again meet Mrs. John Hay Whitneys Lightning Bolt, which bested him in the Floiida Derby, only later to succumb to the son of Spanish Prince II. in the Louisiana fixture. During the recent Churchill Downs meet ing Spanish Play, which races for the firm of Richard Morris and C. H. Knebelkamp, demonstrated that he was capable of holding his own in the best of company. He was defeated by A La Carte in the Ohio Derby at Bainbridge, a week following the Kentucky classic, but Knebelkamp states that the colt came out of that race in pood condition and expects him to be at his best for the gruelling mile and a half Latonia race. Unless something unforeseen occurs, J. B. Respess will have a representative in the Derby. His Busy Monarch is training in the best of fashion and was breezed a mile and a furlong late Saturday. The Respess horses run well over the Latonia track. This is where they receive their early education and they always appear partial to its footing. Present indications point to a field of twelve or more parading for the 5,000 added Latonia Derby and that is in the event that Twenty Grand does not come West for the test. The allowance conditions of the race would be the only thing to keep Jimmy Rowe from bringing out the Green-tree Stable candidate. He would be called on to carry the top weight of 126 pounds, while others he would be called on to meet would get in as light as 114 pounds. However his brilliant Kentucky Derby victory and as well as the chances of adding ,000 to his earnings may prove an incentive for Rowe shipping him here.
