Rivals In Stirring Finish: Neck Separates Rolled Stocking and Hydromel at Latonia.; First Five Races at Covington Course Fall to Favorites--Toro Captures Fourth Race King Basil Defeats Bottom Dollar., Daily Racing Form, 1927-06-10

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RIVALS IN STIRRING FINISH Neck Separates Boiled Stocking and Hydromel at Latonia First Five Races at Covlngton Course Fall Fallto to Favorites Toro Captures Fourth Race RaceKing King Basil Defeats Bottom Dollar LATONIA Ky June 9 Rolled Stocking J W Parrishs ungainly but swift and stout ¬ hearted threeyearold son of Pennant and Mary Belle captured the Polkaway Farm Purse the feature of a splendid program at Latonia today The victory of this stalwart candidate for Latonia Derby honors came at the direct expense of J N Camdens good threeyearold Hydromel which bowed in defeat by the margin of a neck at the end of one mile and seventy yards It was an ¬ other spirited finish similar to the windups inch of the way and Rolled Stocking had to traverse the distance in 142 or just four fifths of a second slower than the track record to conquer his rival rivalA A length and a half behind Hydromel came E R Bradlcys Birley M C one which played a part in making the race interesting in the first seveneighths Birley M C could not keep pace with Rolled Stocking in the last eighth and when he surrendered the task of forcing the winner to give his best Hydromel flashed up on the outeide to enter into a spirited battle with the winner This emphasizes the excellence of Rolled Stock ¬ ings performance and in again touching upon the spectacular finish it can be said that Hydromel was racing slightly better than the winner and gaining with every stride strideBehind Behind Birey M C at the finish came Per ¬ cussion and Lancer the former finishing fast after falling to figure seriously in the early running and Lancer tiring after threequar ¬ ters during which he did his running in third place Canaan the only starter was outrun outrunRolled Rolled Stocking the choice was the fifth favorite to score before the large attendance It was a day of formful racing the like of which has not been witnessed anywhere in some time The track was at its best and fast time was recorded in a majority of the races racesThe The first break in the run of victories for the public choices came with the offering of the sixth race in which King Basil defeated Bottom Dollar by a nose The latter was the favorite and she made valiant effort to make it six straight for the form players Ap ¬ prentice C Eagan rode well astride Bottom Dollar taking her back off Mirafels fast I early pace and urging her into the lead in the last eighth King Basils belated rush how ¬ ever proved too much for the Idle Hour filly and she was relegated to second place with the winners last stride Third fell to Azure AzureThe The sport was marked by the second dis ¬ qualification of the meeting when Noble Wrack was deprived of second place in the I Continued on twentieth page RIVALS IN STIRRING FINISH Continued from first page Norwood Purse for crowding Gloria Aspin into the inner rail in the first eighth The filly in coming into contact with the up ¬ right posts of the fence went off balance and after an endeavor to regain her footing ultimately hurdled the inner rail and threw G Fowler her rider with great force Fowler landed fully twenty feet inside the fence but quickly regained his feet He suf ¬ fered numerous cuts about the face and a severe shaking up Treatment was admin ¬ istered at the track hospital hospitalThe The stewards after interviewing the riders in the race patrol judge W Phillips and starter Hamilton were completely satisfied that Noble Wrack was responsible for Gloria Aspins mishap and jockey S Stretton who rode Noble Wrack was suspended for ten days Gloria Aspin broke her neck in the fall over the inner rail and had to be de ¬ stroyed The winner here turned up in E B McLeans Toro which led for the entire fiveeighths and finished two lengths in ad ¬ vance of Noble Wrack which had followed him closely throughout the dash Cartago and Charley J S which ran good races were third and fourth in the original finish but the disqualification of Noble Wrack gave second honors to Cartago and Charley J S moved into third place Toro was a pro ¬ nounced choice and he turned in the fastest time at the distance during the meeting the official timer catching1 him in 59 four fifths of a second slower than the track record recordFinishing Finishing gamely under C Allens vigorous riding Helen T was up in the last stride to win a nose victory from Edna Glenn in the opening race event at threequarters The finish was one of the closest of the meeting and the success of the much fancied winner over the persistent and well running out ¬ sider was highly popular Third place fell to Accumulator which had only inches to spare over Handclasp Peach which was ac ¬ corded liberal support tired badly after a good half mile mileThe The finish of the opening race was no more exciting than that which came with the decision in the second race and in which Mc Kim High Storm and Ginestra arrived at the finish of the fiveeighths almost abreast McKim beating High Storm a nose for top honors and Ginestra following them just a head back The former two fought it out doggedly for leadership from the start and while they led home Ginestra the latter was probably best He encountered bad luck in the early stages and when he left the back stretch was in advance of only one of his seven opponents Racing around the others with a rush on the stretch turn and doing the following quarter with fine speed he did not get into serious contention until right near the end where he was going much the best


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