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Latonia Track Opens Saturday • Everything in Complete Readiness for Inauguration of Thirty-One-Day Meeting — Latonia Derby Candidates Reported in Fine Condition « LATONIA, Ky., June 25. — Beautiful Latonia, the picturesque, complete and popular race course of the Latonia Jockey Club, today was brought to a state of complete readiness for the opening Saturday of a summer meeting of thirty-one days. As a warm sun, occasionally tempered by flitting clouds, bathed that scenic course, nine of the eleven probable starters in the 5,000 added Latonia Derby, the stake feature of the inaugural program, looked out upon the tawny track where they will match speed and stamina over the testing route of one mile and one-half in the opening day fixture. Those of the crack three-year-olds to represent East and West in the Derby quartered on the grounds as concluding important preparations for the meeting were made ®this afternoon were St. Brideaux and Scut- tie, eastern invaders, and Spanish Play, Pittsburgher, Boys Howdy, Joey Bibb, Knights Call, and All Hail, recognized westerners. Oswego and Royal Ruffin, other Kentucky candidates listed as possible starters, are expected from Washington Park Friday morning. As St. Brideaux, sturdy son of St. Germans and Panache to carry Mrs. Payne Whitneys Greentree Stable colors, unloaded from New York, Bernard B. Jones Knights Call, Knebelkamp and Morris Spanish Play, A. C. Bostwicks Scuttle and H. C. Hatchs Boys Howdy were going through final trials over the prevailing good track. St. Brideaux, in charge of W. Brennan, assistant to James Rowe, unloaded in fine condition and was quartered in the new barn occupied by the western division of the Greentree establishment. Brennan was accompanied by jockey C. Kurtsinger, who will ride St. Brideaux in Saturdays important race. Under the direction of "Terry" OMalley and with Herman Schutte, his Derby rider, in the saddle. Knights Call worked one mile and one-eighth in 1:55, handily, and eased up an additional eighth in 2:09%. Nicely suited by the soft footing, the son of Bright Knight went the quarter in :25%, three-eighths in :37%, half mile in :49%, five-eighths in 1:02%, three-quarters in 1:14%, seven-eighths in 1:28 and the mile in 1:41%. He came out of the trial, one of the best shown by any of the brilliant hopefuls, in fine fashion and OMalley looks for him to come, through with his most effective performance of the year. Spanish Play, Knebelkamp and Morris Louisiana Derby winner, which finished in fourth place in the Kentucky Derby, was sent one mile and one-quarter in 2:09% and also cooled out in good style. He went along easily throughout the long drill, in which he ran the quarter in :24%, half in :50, three-quarters in 1:16, seven-eighths in 1:28%, mile in 1:41% and mile and one-eighth in 1:54%. Boys Howdy breezed a mile in 1:46, the Continued on twenty-third page. LATONIA OPENS SATURDAY Continued from first page. quarter in :26, half in :51% and three-quarters in 1:19%, while Scuttle traversed a like distance in :144%, handily. A heavy fog hung over the grounds when the latter, daughter of Whiskaway had her final important preparation and accurate timing of fractions of her workout was impossible. Owner Bostwick supervised the final work of his crack filly, the only one of her sex in the probable field. Joey Bibb, the C. C. Van Meter candidate, which finished third in the American Derby last Saturday, unloaded from Washington Park this morning and nothing was asked of the son of Chatterton, while Mrs. C. Gregorys All Hail also remained indoors and T. E. Muellers Pittsburgher, beaten a nose in the American Derby, and Mrs. John Hay Whitneys Lightning Bolt were indulged with distance limbering gallops. Trainer Haughton believes that the light work given Lightning Bolt since his arrival here from Washington Park, where he went amiss on the eve of the American Derby, was not sufficient to bring him into satisfactory condition for the one mile and one-half of Saturdays race and the Wrack gelding may miss this second important engagement in a week. With the Derby topping the first day card, the seasons opening is awaited with great interest and with every indication pointing to the most interesting contest in the recent record of the fixture, there is high prospect that the largest and most representative crowd in several years will witness the inaugural program and its principal attractions. Requests for reservations for the day have been received from all parts of Kentucky and southern Ohio.
