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S3.WILL RACE AT LOUISVILLE. W. O. Parmer, acting for a combination, has leased the Louisville Driving Clubs track and has announced that racing will begin there Friday, November 1, and continue thirteen days. In a communication Wednesday to a Cincinnati newspaper he said: "It may be that the meeting will continue for a week or ten days longer than announced, it all depends on the weather. Now, we are not out to fight anybody and dont want any war with any race track. We have taken hold of this as a business proposition and have leased the track for four years. After the close of the Louisville meeting there will be racing further south ior horses that are under the ban of the Western Jockey Club. I cant name the points just now. I was at Atlanta to make some arrangements for southern tracks, when I was advised by telephone from Louisville that the deal here, which has been on for nearly a month, was ready to cIobo, and I came here and signed up the papers. " There will be no scarcity of horseB. The St. Louis meeting will be over by that time and we will get the cream of those that are racing at the Fair Grounds, and some that have been resting up at Delmar, and in addition to these we will get about 250 now at Newport. "Did you know that the majority of the horsemen at Newport have asked the Western Jockey Club for reinstatement?" Mr. Parmer was asked. " Yes, he replied, bnt that dont make any difference. They didnt see anything in sight for the winter, and had to do the best they could. Now that there is to be something doing I figure that the beBt of them will come to us, We will begin tomorrow to build 100 new stalls, so that we will have about 500 for use this fall. We will have more in the spring. "We have decided to open racing in the spring at Nashville, than come up to Louisville, then to Newport, then to the Canadian circuit for the summer and then back again in the fall. There will be plentyjof racing for Turf Congress horses next year, and there wont be any clashing of dateB with the Western Jockey Club tracks. Already an agreement has been signed between Memphis and Nashville not to conflict, and the meeting which we will give here next spring willnot conflict with the ono at Churchill Downs. There will be a spring meeting at Newport either before or after the Latonia meeting."
