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RAIN FALLS AT LATONIA ; . Inclement Weather Keeps Attendance Down to the Regulars. Lillian Uhl Registers Double for Owner Knebelkamp and Three for Trainer T. Murray Track Sloppy. LATONIA, Ky., May 29. The ideal weather, which has attended the meeting here since the start, came to an end today when intermittent showers, which visited this section over night, developed into a hard rainfall that took on momentum after the first race and made the track sloppy. The program, one of the best presented, excepting the inaugural card, held together well, but the inclement weather kept the attendance down to the regulars. The Highland Stock Farm Purse, for three-year-olds and older, occupied the feature position and went to the recently acquired Lillian Uhl, performing for the first time under the colors of W. F. Knebelkamp, Louisville owner. Her achievement brought the score to three victories for trainer Tommy Murray, and two for the elder Knebelkamp, whose daughter furnished the second winner in Emileo. While the card was light in numbers, there was an abundance of contention embraced in most them and in some instances the finishes were of the thrilling variety. Upon returning to the scales, jockey Jimmy Smi i was limping badly, he having sustained a slight injury to his foot when Grand Rock collided with the rside of the stall when leaving the gate. The injury is not serious and Smith will be able to fill his engagements Thursday. Emileo, a speedy son of Sun Pal and. Lady Astor, astounded the patrons when he romped home in the second race, winning by six lengths. He paid the largest mutuel of the current meeting, returning 71.40 for each , ticket. Emileo paid 7.40 to place and 0 to show. That the connections were looking out the window is readily revealed by the astonishing dividend paid on the colt, which will probably prove one of the top-notchers of the season The winner raced as if much the best, for after being forced almost to the outside fence by the favored Hi-Hun, which was giving way as they ap- Continued on thirty-fifth page. RAIN FALLS AT LATONIA Continued from first page. proached the stretch, the colt was good enough to come on to win decisively. Early Call finished third, a length behind Hi-Hun. Line Drive, speedy son of Midway, made it a double for trainer T. Murray and the Knebelkamp family when he got away with honors in the fourth race, turning back six others of his age that raced five furlongs. It also marked the second success for jockey Willie Kern, who piloted Emileo, long shot winner of the second race. Best Bid, three-year-old daughter of Don-nacona, which races for H. W. and W. J. Young, moved up a notch in class when she came through with a sterling performance to annex the Briarcliff Claiming Purse; fifth on the card. It brought out eight of the better grade three-year-old platers. Half a length back of the winner at the finish was the B. and M. Stables Manners Man, which, ruled favorite. Third fell to the Young Brothers South Bend. It was the second straight and third victory of the year for the young miss. In accomplishing her conquest this afternoon, . she raced the three-quarters in 1:14 over the sloppy course. , She was ridden by. jockey South, -who was astride his second! winner of the afternoon., . The start was marred when JIah Grant,, whjch acted rank atthe post, failed to leave with the others and she failed to. rach contention after her slow beginning.
