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DISTANCE RACING FEATURED AT CHURCHILL DOWNS $ * Meeting Ends Saturday— Cape Race and Free Money Win Sprints « , Bosque Bonita Purse Main Event on Program — Grand Child Opens Proceedings With Triumph Over One Mile and a Sixteenth — Rain Threatens LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 18.— Distance racing was featured at Churchill Downs, where five of the eight events were decided over a mile or at longer routes. The program embraced two six furlongs sprints, one at five furlongs, and the others were contested at distances from eight furlongs to a mile and a quarter. The featured race was the Bosque Bonita Purse, at a mile, and it attracted a good field of eight thoroughbreds, while the chief supporting race was the Twin Caves Claiming Purse, at a mile and an eighth. This race drew a field of six better grade platers. While there was not a great deal of quality to the rest of the program, the other races brought together well-matched fields, and the sport was entertain- i ing. Today was the warmest day of the meeting, and the rising temperature seemed to have a stimulating effect on atttendance, for the crowd was the largest of the week and business in the mutuel department was correspondingly good. Skies were somewhat overcast at various intervals during the afternoon, and there was a hint in the air of showers, which the weather man threatens for tomorrow. PROMISING PROGRAMS. Only two more days of racing remain at Churchill Downs, and if the attendance holds up Friday and Saturday the meeting will be the most, successful the local track has enjoyed in several years. Designed to attract these patrons in increased numbers, the last two days are two splendid programs which have been arranged for the end of the week. The third event, a test of six furlongs, which attracted a field of twelve, resulted in a popular victory for D. H. Silberbergs Cape Race. Parisian Maid, displaying good early speed, showed the way to the turn, and then Cape Race assumed command, holding his rivals safe the rest of the way. Parisian Maid dropped out of contention in the run through the stretch, Jens Son moving up to take second place, Country Ace finishing third and Arianna fourth. The winners margin was a length and a half, with Jens Sons beating Country Ace two lengths for second place. Warren Yarberry was astride Cape Race, which was scoring his second victory of the yeai MAIDEN GRADUATES. A race of a mile and a sixteenth for mediocre three-year-olds opened the program. It resulted in victory for Hunley and Killpatricks Grand Child, a maiden until today. The Greeter, favorite in the field of six, appeared to have the race won when he turned into the stretch with a lead of three lengths, but he bore out badly in the drive and Grand Child nipped him in the closing strides. Six lengths back in third place came Serenata Maid, with Easterner leading home the other two. The Woolford Farm of Herbert M. Woolf won its sixteenth race of the meeting when the two-year-old Ogallah graduated out of Continued on thirty-ninth page. DISTANCE RACING FEATURED AT CHURCHILL DOWNS Continued from first page. the maiden ranks in the five furlongs second event. This gelded son of Insco and Rau-cona was never a great distance back, while Denver and Columbias Boy were fighting it out for pacemaking honors, and in the last eighth rallied and got up to win by a length. After being slow to settle into her best stride, the favorite, Check Girl, literally ran over horses in the stretch to earn the place, as Denver finished third and Brown Moss fourth. W. Yarberry, who is riding his last day as an apprentice, added another victory to his growing string when he guided Mrs. W. C. Weants Free Money to a popular victory in the fourth race, another at six furlongs. The gray Royal Broom finished second and Pepper Box third. Free Money followed in closest pursuit of Pepper Boxs pace for a little more than a half mile and then, responding to the urging of Yarberry, forged to the front and continued on to hold Royal Broom safe. The winners margin was a length, while Royal Broom beat Pepper Box a similar margin for the place. Mrs. L. C. Molays Inscomira became the first horse to win as many as three races since the meeting began when she turned back seven other rivals at a mile and a quarter in the fifth race. With Hayden Dupuy at the reins the daughter of Insco was reserved off the leaders until reaching the far turn and then she began to move up. She collared the pacemaking favorite, Miss Firefly, a furlong out and after shaking her off had enough left to outfinish Cross Ruff for a head victory. Miss Firefly set the pace under a good job of rating but she tired in the drive and wound up third, a length and a half behind Cross Ruff and a length before Boy Valet.
