The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-18
Three Hot Favorites Win the First
Three Races = Dan Paxton
Breaks the Winning Record.
BRANNIGAN A NICE COLT.
Bad Ride by Mathews Beat Him
Out of Second Place to Lord
Quex-Fleuron Wins the
Star Event Cleverly.

KinIoch Park opened its summer meeting
yesterday under most suspicious circum-
| stances.
The weather was pleasant and propitious.
the track fast. the environments delightful.
the attendance large n fashionable. the
racing good. Favorites la q rather easy
day OF It. four Of them winning out Of fve.
three at odds-on prices.
Neither MI. Hoffman nor Mr.. Dwyer. the
regular starters. appeared. and Judge Muir
ply left the stand to Mr.. Hopper and did
the starting. He had small fields and onedi-
ent boys. He did remarkably well. In the
absence of the regular starters. II was ex-
pected that H. d. Brown. better known as
Curly Brown. would drop the nag. Mr..
Brown was on the course. and his friends
were much disappointed when they found he
would not ~oficiate.
The race OF the day was the six-furlong
sprint. in which five good ones faced the
starter. Likeness started out an odds-on
favorite. but the bettors would not have
result quite justified their expectations.
F1euron allowed Likeness to set the pace
TO the stretch entry. tiren came on and won
cleverly by half a ZENITH. Ffreside. quite
out of form, ran a neat race and was a good
third. Boundlee. the Schneider horse. run
ING III tne COiOfS OF rtuX Sdfr. was ex-
pected to do a lot. but ran a poor sixth in
the field Of seven.
Two Good Two-Year-Olds.
Both 2-year-old races were very interest,"
s .Rs sh IN The aP Pour shf %unar Ts s sna n hSfd y Sues.
Is a mover. The Four Hundred was about
n nes do Ea much d1G there. n af see sPdiHf Re s Msn, o TO
Chicago and performed well. He ran a
very neat race yesterday. winning at five
The -Four Hundred was a 2-to-5 favorite
in the first race. with ArGoto. Preetorious
Snd Arkansas held around hves. The Four
Schreibers colt, showed fine speed for a
so;9 ran IKE q Slayer. sSe finished very
Ben Battle was a 2 to S sho in the
next event. and he. too. walked home.
Hi-Nock-Er. Mr.. Lucas's good and honest
chestnut. but could not do II. Tho race
lay between these two, and Ben Battle won
rather easily in good time.
made. and Impromptu got q lot the worst
OF the break. He made up a lot Of ground
at the end. but could scarce have won in
any case.
BrannfEan . Likely LOCKER
Lord Quex made II three straight for the
odds.on ~favorite in the third He is a
small rascal. but an easy mover. ard q
shown in this race BY W. l. Lansing in
bfannfSdH, q SldsnlnR son OF imp. Ben
Strome-Acra. This fellow. q gallant chest
nut of great size and bone, has not been
well recently. He was full Of run yester-
day.. and while he could not possibly nave
beaten Lord Quex. he should have been an
easy second to him. Mathews threw the
place away by a sleepy ride in the stretch.
Kit Chinn's Ravensbury. a Iisssk colt.
came with a great rush from behind and
got second money. Throw the race out for
Brannigan.
Then came Fleuron's neat win Of the
feature. She Is a nice and very At mare
and will be heard from at this meeting.
The fifth and last race saw an awful fall
Of a f~avorite. when Dan Paxton. a 6-to-5
shot. ran a doleful last. beaten fully fifty
lengths at a mile and seventy yards In Les.
Patton has been running at Delmar Park
and on that track. which Is probably much
slower than Kinloch. he recently ran a
mile and one-sixteenth in 1:4s. fully 90
pounds a better race than he ran at Kin
1och yesterday. The race was won by W.
r. Gates. the second choice. Chorus Boy,
cast of by John s. Bratton, set a hot pace
to the seven fourionRs. Then the light
weight Tony Lepping came along and had
a try at the pace-making . In the run home
brough Gates UP In delightful
style. and won cleverly by a half length.
Chorus Boy hurt himself making the pace.
Patton simply could not, get up a gallop.
TO-MOrrOw's Kialoch Park Entries.
First race. five and one-haif furlonss. purse: