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Eight N amed Overnight for Keenelands Lafayette Stakes Gross Value of ,825 if All Named Start Muddy Track and Showers in View-Probable Favorite Is J. E. Wideners Roman. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 25. Keeneland will present the third running of the Lafayette Stakes, a dash over the Headley course, as its semi-final feature tomorrow afternoon. Eight overnight candidates, including several of the fleetest two-year-olds here, were named. With all starting, the event will have a gross value of ,825, and the winners share will be ,850. A muddy track is in prospect for the- Lafayette running, due to the showers today, but nearly all of the candidates have had experience in the going, as the Keeneland track has been in an off condition for the greater part of the meeting. The probable favorite is Roman, Joseph E. Wideners son of Sir Gallahad III. and Buckup, which won so easily in slop early in the meeting, but opponents will include such good ones as W. F. Morgans Rapid Way, Milky Way Farms Charitable, and Hal Price Headleys Ambuscade, all winners here. Other candidates are L. B. Mayers Flying Mary, Charlton Clays Madam Capet, Green-tree Stables Wake Robin, and F. B. Koontz, Jr.s Pinnacle Light. The four colts in the field will carry 117 pounds each, and the fillies 114 pounds, with the exception of Pinnacle Light, the lone maiden, which gets a further allowance of three pounds. Continued on twenty-seventh page. EIGHT NAMED OVERNIGHT FOR LAFAYETTE AT KEENELAND Continued from first page. Calumet Farms Chic Maud, ridden by I. Anderson, won the first running of the Lafayette here over Green Bottle and Knee , Deep, and last spring the speedy Oddesa Beulah scored over Cherry Jam and Batter, 1 with M. Calvert in the saddle. Oddesa Beu- 1-1. A 1, ! hnn tn;,imnVi ia.ii eiutuicu. uic uaw icwiu in uci uiuuiju, The principal supporting event is the Idle Hour Purse, at a mile and one-sixteenth, its three-year-old entrants including Scotch Trap, Doc Jock, Morcarine and Linger Awhile. In the Hartland Purse, at the same distance, are such promising three-year-old maidens as Sports Writer, Old Joe and Ata-time. The field for the Lafayette Stakes, Head-ley course, about a half mile, ,500 added, is as follows: PP. Horse. Wt. Jockey. 1 Flying Mary 114 C. Bierman 2 Roman 112 W. Yarberry 3 Pinnacle Light Ill C. Perkins 4 Wake Robin 117 E. Arcaro 5 Madam Capet 114 1. Hanford 6 Ambuscade . . 114 S. Coucci 7 Charitable 117 H. Lindberg 8 Rapid Way 117 B. James
