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I ; LATONIA STRIP AT BEST Training Continues Under Favorable Conditions — Large Field for Clipsetta Stakes. LATONIA, Ky., June 5. — Despite overcast skies which forced trainers to call on their charges at early hours, the rain did not fall and the Latonia course was again at its best for the works of a great number of horses which are quartered here awaiting the opening of the thirty-one-day meeting on Saturday, June 27. The only stake candidate to be called on for a trial was Furst and Bauers Castle Cliff, which breezed a half in :52. Under the guidance of Dale Hardy the son of Polymelian and Chiffon, which is being prepared for the Cincinnati Trophy, broke from the half-mile ground and clicked off the opening quarter in :26 under strong restraint. After the gallop trainer Jim Hukill stated that the colt bucked this spring and that he let up on him. "He looks like the best colt I ever trained and if he doesnt turn out to be, he will fool me," was the parting remark of the Bourbon County horseman. Other stakes candidates on the track were the Southland Stables Playtime, W. E. Smiths Wise Talk and W. D. Covingtons Sidestep. They were called on for only turns of the course, and will be expected to breeze in the next several days. Playtimes first important engagement will be in the Independence Handicap, while Wise Talk and Sidestep match strides in the Cincinnati Trophy. Unless something unforeseen occurs before the decision of the Clipsetta Stakes, the forty-ninth running of which will be on the third Saturday of the meeting, which falls on July 11, one of the largest fields in its history will face the starter. Indications point to a field of twenty lining up for the five and one-half furlongs race for the 0,000 added prize. The field of probable starters include the Churchill Downs Debutante Stakes winner Butter Beans, Wood Axtons Memorandum, Edward Cebrians Uma, which triumphed in the Curran Memorial, "Butch" Covingstons ; Hasta Luego, Dixianas Parfait or Dawn Mist, W. S. Dudleys Monks Fox, the Green-tree Stables Bryonia, H. P. Headleys Chu Chu, the Kenton Farm Stables Melody I Queen, Joseph Leiters Princess Ivre, Frank Letelliers Spanish Flirt, R. P. Lucas Wise Cross, Charles Nuckols Real Silk or Cousin Bell, the Paradise Stock Farm Stables Usual Time, M. N. Porters Doreen Princess, J. B. Respess Busy Bright, W. E. Smiths ; highly regarded Sally Smith, the Warm Sta-1 bles Our Grief, C. V. Whitneys Matinee Girl, Dr. R. L. Woodfords Jolly Fun, and Herbert M. Woolfs Silk Gown.
