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I j , ; ; • ; , : i DNIEPER BACK IN FORM Scores First Win of the Year by a Head Over Dusky Prince. Al an Feu Finishes a Nose Behind the Leaders — Large Mid-Week Crowd in Attendance. LOUISVTLLE, Ky.f May 10.— Dnieper, owned, by Mose Goldblatt, veteran Cincinnati horseman, made his first start of the Kentucky season at Churchill Downs this afternoon and it was a success, as he charged to a hard-earned victory in the Lexington Road Purse. This was a race of a mile and one of the better races on the mid-week card. Mrs. A. M. Creechs Dusky Prince finished second, a head behind the winner and a nose before A. C. Ernsts Al au Feu, while Knee Deep finished a bang-up fourth. Ernest Hanke was astride the Goldblatt horse. Dnieper, never a great distance behind the leaders, moved to the pacemaker, Dusky Prince, on the turn and then outfinished him to get his narrow decision. Both Dusky Prince and Dnieper bore out in the run through the stretch, and Al au Feu, which had been on the outside, was forced to lose enough ground to possibly represent the difference between victory and defeat. Knee Deep made his run on the inside and finished gamely, but was not quite good enough. Dnieper, which ran the distance on a good track in 1:39%, paid 1.80 for in the mutuels. IDEAL WEATHER PREVAILS. Splendid weather prevailed for this afternoons racing and it helped to attract a big week-day attendance. The track was slow for the first three races, but improved enough to be classified as good for the Lexington Road Purse, which was offered as the fourth event. The favorite players got off to a successful start when Mrs. Edward Haughtons Fay D. turned back, eight other three-year-old platers in the first race, a test of a mile and a sixteenth. Saving ground all the way and always within striking distance of the lead, Fay D. got to the front approaching the final furlong and continued on to score by a little more than a length. Blanco Sweep closed well on the outside to take the Continued on twenty-first page. DNIEPER BACK IN FORM Continued from first page. place as Catalonia finished third, a half-length farther back. High Place, racing in the interests of Mrs. Valley Wyse and ridden by Paul Ryan, made every post a winning one over the six furlongs of the second number, although she just lasted to get the decision by a nose. Gin Fritters, which raced in closest pursuit of the pacemaker from the beginning, made a game effort to -overtake the faint-hearted Wyse filly and, but for being carried out in the run through the stretch, might have reversed the order of finish. As it was, she finished four lengths in front of the favorite, Bargain Hunter, which ran third. CENTUPLES FIRST. The confidently supported Centuple,-J. W. Parrishs home-bred son of Percentage, graduated from the maiden ranks when he defeated eight other two-year-olds in the third event, a dash at four and a half furlongs. Apprentice J. E. Oros sent the Par-rish youngster up on the outside to take the lead on the turn and then kept him there to the end, where his margin was a length and a half. Alhalon, a sharp factor from the beginning, might have been closer in finishing second and might even have been the winner but for bearing out badly in the drive. Another well-backed horse rewarded the judgment of her backers when Carla, owned by Joseph E. Widener, was a one-sided winner of the six furlongs fifth race for her second success of the meeting. Jockey Porter Roberts sent the three-year-old daughter of Teddy to the front soon after the start and kept her there the rest of the way, as Abirieres finished second and Flying Up third. The winners margin was four lengths.
