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I 1 • • j ] , , ; i ■ ! J ■ ] ! , 1 • ; i • j i 1 ; ■ | • , ! i • ; GET WORKOUTS DESPITE MUD I Laila Wild in Outstanding Training Move at Latonia — Our Grief Gallops Five -Eighths. LATONIA, Ky., June 15.— Despite the muddy condition of the course, candidates for the six stakes to be decided during the thirty-one days of racing beginning here Saturday, June 27, showed a decided likeness for the going. The best work of the morning was that of Gorham Brothers Laila Wild, which T. ■ L. Pierce is preparing for her Latonia Oaks 1 engagement. Working with Joann Gorham, j a stablemate, the daughter of Big Blaze ran three-quarters in 1:19%, after going the quarter in :25% and the half in :51%. The Southland Stables Play Time, which , Johnny Daniels expects to have ready for the Independence Handicap, breezed three- , quarters in company with My Hobby in . 1:20. It was about two seconds slower than Daniels intended, but the pair were a little 1 , slow in starting and the exercise boys failed to judge the pace. Bachelor Hal, a candidate for the Cin- cinnati Trophy from the same stable, went : ■ an easy three-eighths in :40, while Miss i Byrd, a stable companion, and eligible for • i the Clipsetta Stakes, ran five furlongs in i ] 1:10. Hasta Luego, which "Butch" Covington , named for the Trophy, was timed five- . eighths in 1:09%. The Warm Stables Our Grief, an eligible I for the Clipsetta Stakes, breezed five fur- longs in 1:02% and galloped out the throe-quarters in 1:19. Beginning from the five-eighths post, the daughter of Our General ran the quarter in :23%, the three-eighths ■ in :35% and the half in :49. J. L. Carricks Running Water was called I . on for his first breeze since arriving from Lexington when the son of Cherokee breezed I . three-quarters in 1:18. The quarter was timed in :24%, and the half in :50%.
