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" I t , J j ; I J . ] . . ; , . : | , , , THROUGH OMOND EARNS PURSE » French Lick Springs Stable Enters Winning Owners List. • Desert Call Runs Fastest Three-Quarters of Churchill Downs Meeting — Big Crowd Present. 1 LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 19.— Although there was nothing especially attractive in the program, Churchill Downs entertained another large crowd with the semi-final offering of the meeting this afternoon. Again the weather was pleasant and while warm, was not uncomfortably so and the breeze swept lawns were just as popular as the shaded sectors of the grandstand and clubhouse. Track conditions also were of the best and while horses of the lower flights had the entire card, the racing was productive of the fastest three-quarters mile performance of the meeting. During the afternoon the victory of several stables not .successful here were home in front and T. D. Taggarts French Lick Springs establishment was the third to enter the win class for the first time during the meeting when Through Omond accounted for the fourth race. He scored in hollow fashion with Foxland Hall next and Glamorous third. A dull performance by Star Brook, the favorite, marred the running. With L. Ruder handling Through Omond, he was good enough to set his own pace. For a half mile Ruder steadied him along a length before Glamorous and Missie and after increasing his advantage on the lower turn, he came on to win by a length and one half. Foxland Hall, which came through on the inside in the stretch, beat Glamorous by a like margin and the latter was three lengths in the van of Thistle Tom. After a quarter Star Brook was badly outrun. Jake Lowenstein saddled the winner of the first race in his own Aladdins Dream and he won decisively over Pete, Le Ministre and four other three-year-olds. The distance was a mile and the winner, ridden by C. E. Allen, easily took command after following the pace for five-eighths and once in front, never left the result in doubt. Until the winner showed in front, Bubbling O. and then Pete set the pace. The latter readily bowed to the victor and, tiring badly in the late stages, barely outlasted Le Ministre for second place. Aladdins Dream was four lengths away from the runner-up at the end. The Laffoon and Yeiser stable, trainer Roscoe Goose and Jack Mayer, a Louisville boy, crashed through for their initial triumph of the meeting when Miss Flip, daughter of Republic and Delco Light, was a surprise winner over a large band of maiden juveniles in the second race. It was Mayers first winning ride and he got a big hand from the crowd. Miss Flip rushed into a long lead after reaching the final two furlongs and although she tired badly near the finish, was good enough to beat Ding Bin, also at long odds, by a length. Pharamaid, second choice, was third, a half length back and slightly more than a length before Brusti-gert, the favorite. The latter was blocked on the stretch turn. Mayer came back with another winning ride in the Laffoon and Yeiser colors in the third race. Here he had the mount on Desert Call, and, running the three-quarters in the fast time of 1:11%, the Goose-trained three-year-old experienced no trouble defeating Ridge Wise, Billy Jones and eight others that opposed him. In command after the first quarter, the victor set a fast pace to the end and won by two lengths. Ridge Wise was a length better than Billy Jones, which took the minor award by a nose over Slapstick, Ridge Wise and Billy Jones were in second and third places throughout the final half mile. The winners time was the fastest of the meeting for the distance. He ran the first quarter in :22% and half mile in :46%. «
