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t • I J| A ■% HfcS MM Traffic Court Displays Splendid Form in Easy Eight-Length Score • 1 . ; ; , I ! | J 1 i i r ; . ; ; ! Draws Away at His Riders * Leisure in Lanark Purse; Henny Penny Runner-Up LOUISVILLE. Ky., April 21. — Traffic Court gave another exhibition of plain and fancy running at Churchill Downs here this afternoon when she captured Keenelands featured Lanark Purse by a mere matter of eight lengths in time only a second off the track record. Mrs. M. E. Millers six-year- old was backed into favoritism at 1 to 2 and devastated five rivals of her sex, as that sort of risk should, traversing seven tar- longs in 1:2415. F. Forestieres Henny Penny was the runner-up by a length before Mrs. F. P. Letelliers Sun Flower. Jockey Willie Garner had the mount on the Whitney cast-off. breaking her off with Lady Waterloo and Henny Penny. She had "dead aim" on the outside about a length and a half off the pace in the brush through the backstretch, where she was under wraps. Swinging for home, the Discovery mare skipped past Henny Penny into an easy lead which she increased at each stride moving by the stands, finally winning by eight with her ears pricked. Henny Penny was clearly second best. Sun Flower closing a little ground the last part of it to be third. Lady Waterloo stopped. Pouter Pigeon Repeats As you might guess from the time, the racing strip was fast. The first six furlongs were clocked in 1:11%. The winner carried 115 in duplicating her facile victory of opening day, spotting weight to each of her rivals. The mutuel attested the popularity of this latest tally. The day was favored by warm, sunny weather and the attendance was 6,000. Pouter Pigeon, a half-sister of Carrier Pigeon, accounted for the second purse of her young career in the six furlongs of the Duntreath, in which she had to be hard ridden by apprentice W. Bailey throughout to run down the pacemaking Epic Lady, then outlasted Bolo Babe by a nose in l:13?s. A length and a half back, Maggie Jane was third in a field of seven three -year-olds. The winner and Darby Dimout. who was APPRENTICE W. BAILEY— Was astride two winners on yesterdays Keeneland program, including Rockwood Boy in the Scarlet Gate Purse. devoid of speed, shared the mutuel play, Pouter Pigeon paying .60. W. C. Hobsons Diavolaw probably raced himself out of the Derby in the mile and a sixteenth of the Scarlet Gate, in which he showed 1 to 5 on the odds board, went to the front at the break and saved all possible ground, then was subdued by W. C. Davis Rockwood Boy from the head of the stretch.
