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DELIBERATOR IN FRONT Even-Money Favorite Makes Good at Covington Course. Everglades Campaigner Fourth Latonia Choice to Win Good Card Attracts Big Crowd. LATONIA, Ky., June 18. The most attractive program of the week thus far brought out an increased attendance at La-tonia this afternoon and interesting sport resulted in the majority of instances. Showers Wednesday night deadened the track to some extent, but it was in good condition for the running of all races. Headlining the card was the Runnymede Farm Purse over a distance of a mile and seventy yards, with a field of top notch performers of this section engaging. The Everglades Stables Deliberator earned his first victory in three trips to the post and it required all that the bay son of Wise Counsellor had in order to defeat C. L. Croans Crowning Glory. Watersplash, from the stable of Childs and Walker, got up in time to be third. Deliberators triumph marked the fourth score of the choices during the running of the card, which ranks favrrably with the most successful enjoyed by the students of form during the current meeting. Crowning Glory possessed the most early speed and set the pace, followed closely by My Blaze and Deliberator. The trio maintained this order for almost six furlongs, then Deliberator moved into second place and made a determined effort for the lead However, Crowning Glory would not submit to the challenge and the pair hooked Continued on thirty-eighth page. DELIBERATOR IN FRONT Continued from first page. up in a head-and-head duel which lasted throughout the last quarter of the contest, both jockeys Fernandez, astride Deliberator, and H. Beasy, on Crowning Glory, working with-might" and main for the advantage, with the Everglades colorbearer proving the better at the weights, the winner having a six-pound concession from Crowning Glory: Deliberator was an even-money favorite. L: ODonhells brown filly Navarre made a runaway of the Wildrose Purse, a five and one-half furlongs sprint designed for maiden two-yearroids and winners of one race. The daughter of Stefan the Great came from behind in the last quarter to ;hold a four lengths margin over Dr. Menendez, the favorite, at the conclusion, with third place going to Exclaim. It was the second victory, of the fillys career and it was accomplished in an impressive manner. Exclaim, Dr. Menendez and Jackemma dominated the early racing, with Navarre in fourth position. But when the top of the stretch was reached apprentice Beasy found an opening and sent the filly through. Navarre quickly drew clear and added to her advantage as the race progressed, as Dr. Menendez ducked to the inside rail and performed rather greenly. Six platers went postward in the first race, a six-furlong affair, with R. L. Stivers Ramrod coming from behind in the last sixteenth to register by the margin of a neck over Peter Pumpkin, with Jane Rachel drawing down third money. Jane Rachel delayed the start more than three minutes, but showed a good burst of speed when the field was dispatched. She jumped into the lead quickly and held the advantage until well straightened away in the stretch, where Peter Pumpkin forged ahead, only to bow to the challenge of Ramrod near the end. Favorite followers connected in the second race, a five and a half furlongs sprint for maiden two-year-old fillies, when Mrs. E. A. Gross brown filly Toneys Girl accounted for first money, showing the way to Alkit by a length and a half. Pickaway finished in third place. Toneys Girl, never far out of it, while Coronium, the second choice, set the pace with Good Selka in that order, moved between her rivals rounding the turn into the stretch and swiftly drew into the lead. However, the filly required some hustling tactics and Alkit moved up rapidly from last place in the run through the stretch. The second straight favorite ran to his backing when Shining Jewel, racing in the colors of Childs and Walker, came up from behind to score by one length over Emmie R. Our Lily collected third money in the field of twelve which contested over six furlongs. Emmie R. and Parade Step battled for the right to set the pace,, with the former holding the edge for most of the way, while Shining Jewel was never farther back than fourth. The brown gelding gained gradually after heading for the finish line, and succeeded in overhauling the pacemaker. C. R. Allens South Bend made it two victories in a row when the four-year-old gelding annexed first money in the fifth, a mile and a sixteenth contest, which brought together a field of five. John Tio finished second, two lengths back of the winner, while Kievs Sub was third. South Bend was kept close on the heels of John Tio until passing the three-eighths pole, where Jockey Norman Le Blanc called on the son of Bos-tonian, and he responded quickly forging to the front, where he remained to the end.
