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PLATERS MONOPOLIZE CARD Riverside Park Program Made Up Entirely of Claiming Races Bob Bruce First Winner. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 10 A program, which was made up entirely of claiming races, was the mid-week offering at Riverside Park, and in most of the earlier races, capacity fields went ppstward. A drop in temperature over night made conditions ideal for the sport, which was thoroughly enjoyed by a large crowd. The program opened with a race for two-year-olds, which had won two races in their careers, and the winner turned up in one of the less fancied ones when Bob Bruce, from the stable of Mrs. C. E. Mick-ens, led home the field of ten that competed for the purse over five furlongs. Two and one-half lengths back of the winner and driving hard came J. Burnsteins Santa Marita, which finished fast in the stretch to take second place from the odds-on choice by the narrowest of margins. Mrs. L. Copenhavers French Honey, making her first start of the meeting, was a driving winner of the second race, which was at six furlongs, for three-year-olds and older, and eleven started. From a good start, Amazement, which began from outside the gate, was the first to show in front, but she was quickly outrun by Josie G. and Wittora, with the ultimate winner laying close up and on the inside. As the field swung around the lower turn, the leaders went wide, and Sykes, on the winner, drove up on the inside, saving much ground. This enabled her to take command as they came into the stretch and she opened up a clear advantage on the others. A sixteenth out she started to loaf and Sykes was forced to go to the whip to maintain her advantage over the fast-closing Millard, which came from far back in the last quarter to take second place from the tiring Josie G.
