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1 is P ti r li v a v v I s 1 i 1 3 1 1 I 1 : I : . i I 1 1 : i I . ; GOSSIP FROM CHURCHILL DOWNS. Louisville, Ky.i September 18. Churchill Downs rapidly assuming the aspect that marks the ap- i proach of a race meeting: The stables are gradually i tilling up and the sound of the hammer and saw is 1 ringing through the grounds, while painters are t busy with the brush and sandpaper, nud white- 5 washers are retouching the rough work of the. inner 1 and outer feiKres.- The track now, but for the dust, : would be as fast as It was last spring, when records 1 were frequently reduced. Charles Van Meter has . arrived from Sheepshead Bay with his good colt, the Fad, Lord Clinton and six yearlings that he bought at the New York sales.. While at Saratoga he had Lord Clinton gelded, and it is not likely that .youngster will race here, though 1 ; he recovered very rapidly from the operation- and is again in training. Yesterday he took up the three-year-old bay filly, Acqula. by Kllkerrau llinarlneu, whiCh ,he purchase! from Talbot Bros, of Paris, I Ivy., " at the Latouia summer meeting. Mr. Van Meter believes he .will win many races in the next ; twelve mouths with Acqula, as he is of the opinion that she will develop into an especially good four- year-old. The well-known six-ypar-old, Miltiadcs, by Meadow-thorpe, data La Joyii, Which is also owned by Mr. Van Meter, is about to close his racing career for all time in Henry Simons barn at. Churchill Downs. Mr. Van Meter .left the horse with Simons when he took The Fad and Lord Clinton east, ..and Simons has been racing the son of MeadOwthorpe with success on the bush tracks all summer. Now the old racer is about to lose a .foot through fever in his leg aud this, of cbutse, williiecessitate his destruction. As a two-year-Old ih 1905 Miltiades showed so much class that he readily sold at auction for ,000, but lie did not develop into the , high-class performer he was expected to be after his kindergarten age, and while as a three-year-old he ran several good races forScott Hmhron; he afterward deteriorated into a selling plater.- His .best races of recent date were at Douglas Park last fall, .when his stable connections made an Old-fashioned killing with him. The latest arrivals from Fort Erie aud the Canadian tracks include the striugs of T. II. Stevens. J. C. Milam, M. C. Pritchard and James Riley. The latter has . four in his stable, Maid Militant. Agues Wood, Little Fitz and Leamence. Stevens has six hi his string herei: five of which are two-year-olds, two of them being by Wadsworth, two by Governor Foraker and one by Scliitillant II. He left Vanen, Azo and .another horse In the north to finish out tho- Canadian- racing season, though they may be here, anyway, for the fag end of the coming meeting. Milam brought four, including in the lot his old sprinter, Merrick, and the smart two-year-old filly, Eva Tanguay.- Milam has only so far purchased four yearlings this season and has not as yet begun to break them. He will race in Mexico the coming winter, for which campaign ho will probably buy several horses that develop winning form here and at Latonla this fall. "If I tackle that bullfighting country. said -Milam, "I want good ammunition. 1 dont think anything but the best will make a campaign into that country a paying one. Pritchard brought only three horses here, the three-year-old filly Ariouette and the older racers. Belle Scott and Hooray, Some fairly fast work-was reeled off at the track yesterday. A three-year-old gelding shipped here by Mode Nicoll, who bought him from Ed Corrigau, stepped a quarter in 23s. while the bush horse, Hiram, worked, a halt in. 49. and Pegasus went five furlongs handily in 1:02J. .. The stable? of. JohnjKelly, William Steuve and James Lally have arrived from Latonia. W. J. Young with five horses .and S. SI. Hendersons big stable are expected at QuCe from Sheepshead Bay. A. L. Ivlrby is back frandiii , Cincinnati, bringing with him Joe Moser, which had been turned out at the Respess farm at Oakdale. Klrb3 says all the Res-pess yearling were taken up during his visit at the farm and are now being broken. The bunch this season Is twenty strong. Jvlrby says Respess told him in the cast that. Jid. wquld order his yearlings shipped to Churchill Downs at the conclusion of the coming fall meeting and during the racing at Latonia. " E. L. Davis, owner of the Rookwood Stud, Midway, Ky., dropped into the city yesterday to take in the .state fair, . lie says he has seven yearlings at his -farm owned by Thomas Clyde, the Pennsylvania steamship magnate,- which; will be sent east in October to be broken and put into condition for racing in the Clyde colors next year. They are by the good race horse Bryn Mawr. and, like their sire, all are brown in color. Davis has seven yearlings of liis own by such sires -as- Sempronius, Lissak aud Peep o Day, but he will send none of his youngsters to the- public market this year. If he sells any of the lot this fall it will be privately, as he sold Lawrence 1. .Daley to Fred Cook several years ago. "I- might as well ilo a Uttle training as anyone else,!" says Davis. "I have got youngsters this season that look as though they will make race horses sure."
