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EQUALS TRACK RECORD Royal Pam Wins Bashford Manor Stakes in Fast Time. Carries 119 Pounds and Buns Five-Eighths in :59 — Juvenile Race Final Feature of Meeting. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 30.— The Bashford holiday program closed a meeting of twenty-two days at the famous home of the Kentucky Derby and dropped the curtain on spring racing in Kentucky. The next scene of the sport in the Blue Grass State will be Dade Park, where the annual meeting opens early in August, to be followed by fall sessions at other tracks, starting with an important stand of the thoroughbreds at Latonia beginning September 3. Ex-senator John N. Camden furnished the winner of the ,000 added Bashford Manor Stakes in Royal Pam, a brown daughter of Royal Minstrel — Pampeluna, which equalled Ruddy Lights track record of :59, for the five-eighths of a mile. Unerring was second and Cherry Jam third. Royal Pam, carrying 119 pounds, was slightly overlooked in the wagering and furnished something of a surprise, paying 7.20 for , in the mutuels. It was the second victory in three starts for the filly, which has proved herself a capable performer on an off track. Although general economic conditions had some effect, the Churchill Downs meeting probably came up to the expectations of Col. Matt J. Winn and his associates. On Derby Day a new attendance mark was recorded, and on several other days speculation ran above last year. But for unprecedented demands upon racing material brought about by the many tracks in operation at the same time, the final figures for the entire meeting of tv/enty-two days might have been more satisfactory. Smaller fields than Churchill Downs patrons have been in many years were the rule rather than the exception the last ten days, and they naturally reduced the pari-mutuel play, though competition for the purse offerings was brisk. An unusual amount of rainy weather, with violent storms on several of the more important days also was written into the record. Besides the Kentucky Derby and Bashford Manor Stakes the racing feature renewals of the Kentucky Oaks and Clark Handicap, revivals of the Kentucky Handicap and Debutante Stakes and new added money events in the Derby Trial Stakes, Louisville Handicap and Churchill Downs Handicap.
