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, I , . , i , I . ; , , r t GOSSIP OF THE TURF. All the heavy work of building the new grandstand, the stabling and the race course proper at Kinloch Park will have been completed by next Saturday night. There will be nothing left to do the following week but put on the finishing touches, to paint up the stand and the fences and to make everything look spick, span and clean for the opening day— Saturday, September 1. When, on August 1. the gentlemen of the Kinloch Jockey Club announced that they woidd have their race course ready to run over on September 1. there were meu who laughed at the mere suggestion of a first-class race course being erected in that time, but the men back of the new venture evidently knew what they were talking about, for they have not only com-i pleted the seemingly impossible task, but they will be ready for business a full week ahead of time. The new grandstand at Kinloch Park is just a city block iu length, the track has been fitted up with all the modern improvements of a first- class course, including a splendid paddock and a hundred roomy stables. While the managers of the new venture have been at work on the race course and its entire equipment, the Wabash Railway and the Suburban electric managers have also taken hold of the important end of transportation. Both roads have put in new switches on the grounds. loDg platforms, and have made all arrange-| ments to accommodate the big crowd that is expected out on the opening day. The Subur-i ban managers say that they will run cars direct from Sixth and Locust streets to the new race course without change, and that 10-cent fare will be maintained throughout the racing season. The Wabash railroad managers have arranged to run trains from Union station and from the foot of Olive street. The trains from Olive street will stop at North Market street. St. Louis avenue. Bremen avenue, Grand avenue, Baden and all other points enroute to the track. The trains leaving Union station will stop at Ewing avenue, Vandeventer avenue, Forsythe Junction. Ferguson and all other points along that line. The Wabash managers will clear the track " OOMTIMUKC ON 8BCOND TA.OU, GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Continued from First Page. for the race trains and they will make the trip from the city to the racecourse inside of thirty minutes. The new racetrack is located exactly twelve miles from the Union station at the intersection of tbe Wabash and the Suburban electric roads. The Florissant valley lias long been regarded as one of the prettiest spots in the world, and the new Kinloch Park course is located in the very center of it. A prettier piece of ground on which to locate a first-class racecourse cannot he imagined.— St. Louis Republic. Joe McAuliffe, who has been riding and training . horses in the Bawaiian Islands for the past two year6, arrived from Honolulu this week. He says that the meetings held at Honolulu and Hilo thir- year were the most successful ever held at the islands, and that the California . horses got niirc than their share of the money. : Joe rode Dixie Land to victory in all but one of the hurdle races. Among the other California winners were Yenu formerly owned by Dow Williams; Billy McCloeky, with three wins to his credit: Watotsa. Uncle True, Ziufandel, Weller and Aggravation, the latter being a Brutus mare presented to Helen Wilder, the well known President of the Society for the 1 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at Honolulu. by Charlie Boots. Everett, by St. Saviour, and Naples, which showed marked improvement in their races at Honolulu and Hilo, have been shipped back to this city. They are in charge I of Trainer Bob Burns.— San Francisco Breeder j and Sportsman. ,
