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GORGEOUS LADY SCORES Respess Filly Extended to Limit in i. Latonia Headliner. Third Public Choice to Make Good on All-Claiming1 Card Thrills for Crowd. LATONIA, Ky., June 17. Larger fields than have been the custom here started in the majority of races at Latonia this afternoon and on several occasions thrills were provided for the gathering of racing folk who turned out to view the sport. Members of the claiming ranks virtually had the eight-race card turned over to them for the afternoon and five of the races were sprints that brought together some well-matched fields. The Reading Road Claiming affair, over a distance of a mile and seventy yards and holding sixth place on the program, could easily be termed the best offering of the day, the field for this comprising six of the better class selling platers. J. B. Respess Gorgeous Lady was all out to win by the margin of a half length over the F. L. B. Stables Our Bud, with King Carl taking the short end of the purse, with Gray Jack, Just Frank and Asyouwere following in the order named at the finish. It was a closely contested affair most of the way, but Gorgeous Lady was on the head end practically from the start, the brown filly assuming the lead before round-m ing the clubhouse turn and succeeded in holding it over Just Frank. When Just Frank gave up in the stretch, Our Bud took up the pursuit of the leader and fared slightly better but was not good enough to wear down Gorgeous Lady, which stuck gamely to her task. Gorgeous Lady was established the betting choice, returning .80 for each straight. She was the third successful favorite of the day to run to expectations, Epitome and Log being the other well-backed winners. The Brentwood Stables Little Edith came from behind to account for the opening race, a six-furlong sprint which brought out a capacity field of platers. Sweet Tody was second, a length behind the winner, while Greenock Queen was a tiring third. Wanoah and Greenock Queen indulged in the lead during the early racing, while Little Edith worked her way up on the outside. Little Edith closed strongly under hard urging from jockey George South and did not get to the front until the last fifty yards, but the black filly swiftly made her margin of triumph decisive. A. L. Fergusons Epitome made a runaway of the second, a five-furlong sprint for two-year-olds, when the chestnut gelding romped home six lenrhs in advance of Katichan. The latter was a nose in front of Frosted Rain at the end. Close up from the start, Epitome got through on the rail entering the stretch and the son of Epithet Reprove swiftly took a commanding lead, never leaving the result in doubt. The first photographic finish called for in some time occurred in the third race of the day, with Tobacco getting up in the final stride to nose out Jack W., the heavily backedvfav.orite, at the end of the six-furlong dash. Lynvete accounted for the show portion of the purse. Tobacco began slowly, but improved his position steadily while working his way through the field and finished with a fine burst of speed to overhaul the badly tiring Jack W. The winner was an outsider in the betting, returning 1.40 for straight. Former jockey Jimmy Smith saddled the winner of the fourth, a six furlongs affair in which there were six starters, and wound up in a close finish. Porcellus scored by a head over Wilda, with Lady Confucius third. Sadie Greenock was hard pressed by Wilda while setting the pace for the first half mile of the sprint, then the latter took a slight advantage. Porcellus charged down the center of the track in the final quarter and slowly but surely whittled away Wildas lead and forged to the front during the last sixteenth. The Coldstream Studs heavily supported brown filly Log romped to an easy triumph in the Duntreath Farm Purse, a five furlongs affair for maiden two-year-olds, and a limit field started. Cavour finished second, four lengths in the wake of the winner. Orientalist was third. Jockey Harry Lou-man, who had the mount on Log, lost little time getting his charge into the lead and moved into a comfortable lead. She was never threatened thereafter. The winner was a 3 to 2 favorite in the betting.
