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WINTERING AT LOUISVILLE. S.B. Weems, the locally well known correspond-entJof Morning Telegraph, says in a recent letter from Louisville to his newspaper: "On my way here I stopped off to visit the Louisville race track, and found the stables there all filling up for the winter. Louisville is year by year growing in favor as a winter resort for race horses. The climate and the light sandy soil admit of out-doorwork in all except the sovcrer weather, while trjinersgcnfir3JIy consider - the-track .oho one of the best early spring training grounds in the country. "John E. Madden, who hag developed at Louisville some of the best hones he has handled in the last few years, is back again in his old stable with some twenty-five yearlings. "E. Corrigan has sixty head at the track, including his yearlings ; P. Dunne, nineteen ; Capt. 8. S. Brown, forty-eight ; J. F. Schorr, twelve, and G. C. Bennett, eighteen. These two last named lots are all yearlings and they will be shipped on to Memphis shortly, where they will winter. Brown Dick also has some of Fred Cooks horses at the track, and nine of John Fays are located there. "There has been quite a bit of distemper at Louisville this fall, although the disease seems to be in a mild form. In the short time I was there I did not have opportunity to inspect the yearlings closely. There are, however, a number of very promising youngsters at the track. Madden has several that have been highly tried, and half a dozen in Captain Browns lot look as though they might be close to Btake form. Two brown colts in ;the string, one by Troubadour and the other by Sir Dixon, are especially noteworthy. They have size and quality. A chestnut colt by Fonso is also a. good individual. "Captain Brown was a very liberal buyer of yearlings at the eastern sales during the season. He will winter a second string at the old Bascomb course at Mobile, and will control one of the most extensive stables in training next year. "P. Dunne thinks he has some extra good juvenile material. Several of his youngsters were under the weather and did not appear to good advantage. Three of his colts, all bays, by Star Buby, Basset-law and St. Andrew, are above the average in point of claEB and have shown enough in their trials to make them encouraging prospects. Charles Hughes will winter about thirty head at Louisville. "A new stable of seventy-two stalls has just been completed, and when other stables in course of construction are finished the stabling capacity of the track will be increased by about 250 stalls. "Other important improvements are in view at Louisville. The club was reorganized last spring with the idea of appealing directly to the society element of the city. Mayor C. F. Grainger was elected president, C. F. Price, secretary and manager, while the remainder of ..the directorate was made up of prominent business men, including M. J, Winn, J. C. Boardman, S. P. Jonas, W. E. Glover and Louis Seelbach. Mr. Price had previously for Jmany years been identified with the management of the club. He is known as one of the ablest racing officials in the weBt, and, with the high class men associated with him in the reorganization, Louisville racing ought certainly to increase in popularity. "A new clubhouse is to be built on the grandstand side of the track, and an effort will be made to establish a country club adjunct to the racing. This feature cannot fail to add to the patronage of the Louisville spring meetings, enlisting, as it will do, the support of the best people of the city. The Louisville Jockey Club has always opposed any and every attempt to overdo thoroughbred sport at that point. The wisdom of this policy is shown in the continued prosperity of the spring meetings there." , J "
