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i : , , ; • . , , i LATONIAS BIG RACING DAY Capacity Crowd Expected to Witness Independence Handicap on Saturday, July 4. LATONIA Ky., June 4.— There is one day in Latonia racing which to local fans is equivalent to the Kentucky Derby Day at Churchill Downs. It is July 4, the day of the Independence Handicap and, as it falls on the second Saturday of the thirty-one-day meeting, which starts at Latonia June 27, it is certain that one of the largest crowds in the history of the old course will be present for the program. With the best of the handicap horses named for the Independence Handicap, a gallop of a mile and three-sixteenths, for an added prize of 0,000, this years renewal should produce one of the best races since its inaugural in 1910, when Pinkola defeated Hanbridge for the small purse of ,435. Kay Spence, who trains the western division of the Audley Farm Stable of Bernard B. Jones since his Hodge was second to Cudgel in 1917 and who conditioned and saddled Princess Doreen when that grand individual won the 1925 and 1927 runnings, only to lose to Johnson N. Camdens Roth-ermel in 1926, probably will send the favorite to the post this year in Gallant Knight. Displaying during the Churchill Downs meeting that he had lost none of the ability, that earned him the title of being the second best three-year-old of 1930, Gallant Knight is expected here immediately after his engagement in the Francis S. Peabody Memorial Handicap. Gallant Knight is now at Belmont Park for the Suburban and unless he goes amiss will make an effort to revenge the defeat of Easter Stockings, which succumbed to Jean Valjean in the 1930 running. From all indications it appears that Gallant Knight will be called upon to meet George Collins good mare Thistle Fyrn, W. S. Dudleys Miss Bess, R. M. Eastmans Agua Caliente Handicap winner Mike Hall, Mose Goldblatts Jimmy Moran, Hal Price Head-leys Pigeon Hole, the Keeneland Studs Jean Lafitte, winner of the recent Sweitzer Handicap, Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sun Beau and the Southland Stables Playtime. The field will include the best of the older horses now in training and handicapper William H. Shelley will issue the weights on Monday following the opening here June 27. Although the Independence Handicap is only one of the six stakes to be decided during the mid-summer meeting, there are other handicaps programed that are sure to attract much attention. The new rule of nllowing an overnight handicap to go with three or more starters and which met with such good results at Churchill Downs wiU prevail here and this gives horsemen an opportunity of trying their charges before such stakes as the Independence and Enquirer. a
