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COOAIi TURF GO8SIP. Secretary Jasper announced yesterday a special race for three-year-olds at one and an eighth milos, to be run Wednesday, October 15. The conditions are 5 entrance, the association to add ,000, the winner to receive all. Weights tc be 122 pounds, except in cases of non-winners of a race valued at 00 since September 15, they to receive an allowance of seven pounds. The conditions mean that McChesney and Sombrero are to carry 122, while other three-year-olds that have raced around Chicago the past month can come in at 115. Three owners have already signifiod their intentions of starting horses, namely McChesney, Sombrero and Lucien Appleby. If only these three line up to the barrier it will prove one of the greatest magnets that has attracted race goers to a track here in recent years, and the race will result in one of the grandest struggles between equine giants witnessed on a local track this year F. D. Weir received a telegram from New York yesterday stating that his offer for King Pepper was accepted and the horBe will be shipped to him during the early part of next week. Baker and Wetter, who recently claimed Wyola for ,100 Irom Woodford and Everman, shipped thoir horses yesterday to Atlanta, Ga., where a twelve day running meeting is in progress. The Worth track record for five furlongs was broken twice yesterday. LEtrenne, from Corri-gans stable, was the first to clip one-fifth of a second from the mark of 1 :00. LEtrennes triumph was, however, short lived, as Irene Lindsey, the winner of the fifth race, reduced and placed the record at 1 :00?. Jockey Buchanan said after dismounting from McChesney yesterday that the horse was by no means all in and had much in reserve at the finish. To a casual observer it appears as if Buchanan had indulged the leaders too long and laid a trifle too far out of it, causing the game little three-year-old to be brought to a hard drive in the last sixteenth to get up in time to save himself from defeat. There is no doubt in the minds of the majority of horsemen that if the same race was to be run over again under similar conditions McChesney would prove the winner by a big margin.
