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BY MARGIN OF A NECK * preenspring Lad Defeats Bartering Kate in Fast Run Race. « Covers Six Furlongs in 1:11% to Score Second Straight Victory of Churchill Downs Meeting. • LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 4.— The tumult and excitement of Derby Day over, Churchill Downs swung back to normalcy today. However, with quite a few of the Derby visitors remaining over, it was no ordinary or average crowd that witnessed todays racing under fine conditions. As a matter of fact, Churchill Downs today was host to more patrons than on any corresponding day in many years. Many of todays out-of-town visitors, like scores who departed soon after Saturdays big race, took occasion to express their complete satisfaction with the manner in which Saturdays Derby and the rest of the program was presented. Those of them who have been coming here for years were unanimous in declaring that all arrangements were an improvement over previous years and that the race itself was the most thrilling in the modern record of the old fixture. Todays program featured the Brownsboro Jtoad Claiming Purse, a three-quarters dash and the Bardstown Claiming Purse, at one mile and a sixteenth, both bringing into action some of the better class platers. In the former, presented as the fifth race, Greenspring Lad, owned by John West of California, raced to his second victory at the meeting when, in running the distance on a fast track ■in the excellent time of 1:11%, he defeated C. A. Pecks Bartering Kate by a neck. Felwyn, one of several, including Crowning Glory, which shared favoritism With Hastinola, which failed to get away from the starting post in good style, managed to finish third. BEATS THE START. After beating the start Bartering Kate went on to lead in the field of nine for more than five-eighths and, holding on well in her futile effort to withstand the winners challenge, forced the West colorbearer to stand a hard drive to take the race. Meanwhile Felwyn came from far back in the stretch to finish within three lengths of the runner-up. Best Bid was fourth, Hastinola tiring after showing early speed, while Crowning Glory, after starting poorly, clinched his elimination when he stumbled a short time after the ragged break. Although the favorite, Santerno, met defeat, choices accounted for the first three places in the first race. This tested nine of the cheaper platers and the winner was saddled by M. Reiser in L. C. Ewalds Chalk Eye. Running a game race under P. Roberts, the locally-owned winner gained a nose decision over Mission Time, which, in I turn, defeated Santerno by a length and one- j half. Several others in the field finished close up. After attaining positions at the head of the field on the far turn, the winner and runner-up staged a stubborn, almost head to J | head duel thereafter. Mission Time man- i aged to push his head in front in the last furlong, but Chalk Eye was not through and in a final spurt the Ewald six-year-old regained the lead. DIXIANAS WOOF DECISIVELY. Dixianas Woof, which had finished second on her only previous visit to the post, graduated with a decisive victory over eleven other maiden juvenile fillies in the second race over four and one-half furlongs. A pronounced choice, the victorious daughter of Bull Dog, quickly proceeded to open tip a good lead on her opponents, and then left little to the running. As she crossed the finish, Navarre and Quilt Pieces battled it out furiously and to a nose finish for second, which went to the former, a J. E. Widener colorbearer. Following a fast start and early prominence, Alice Jean, the second choice and making her debut, tired to finish fourth, two l.ngths back of Quilt Pieces. Cactus Stables Sailors Gift, with L. Balaski in the saddle, was a driving winner of the third race in which a full field of three-year-olds met over six furlongs. Confi- Continued on ticenty-sixth page. BY MARGIN OF A NECK Continued from first page. dently backed, the victory was popular. Miss ; Lizzie accounted for place honors with l Tenace next and Lawyer Brigade fourth. Extremely lucky to obtain room on the inside . in the stretch, the winner raced from I fifth place on the stretch turn and getting r up in only a stride or two from the finish, gained the score by a head. Miss Lizzie was a sharp factor at all stages, v/hile Tenace came through with a fast finish to snare third by inches over Lawyer Brigade. In the fourth race, another three-quarters sprint, but for platers four-year-olds or older, Forewarned carried the colors of D. W. Butler to an easy victory and chalked up another win for the favorites. H. Beasy had the veteran Spur Gelding in the van after the first quarter, and he came on to win by three lengths. Holding on with good courage after having forced the pace, Cap tain Henry took second in a thrilling finish with Bill Bleiweiss and Sis Alice. The winner was odds-on.
