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. EXCELLENT PROSPECTS FOR LOUISVILLE. Horse?, Arriving in Large Numbers for Meeting "Which Opens at Churchill Downs Saturday. . Louisville, Ky., September 20. The fall race meet- I Ing of the New Louisville Jockey Club, which -be- gins at Churchill Downs next Saturday, promises . to be one of the lest held at the historic old course. . Secretary Lyman Davis is in receipt of letters daily from prominent turfmen stating that they desire stable room reserved for their charges. Among the ! latest communications received by Mr. Davis are . letters from W. M. Wallace, W. J. Young and John Marklein. These owners have asked for stable room for twenty-two high-class thoroughbreds, all of which : are in fine racing trim. The meeting Includes thlr-. teen racing days and the purses offered will have , the effect of bringing many good racers to Churchill Downs that have heretofore remained in their barns i after the summer season lias passed. There will be . no stakes, but the overnight handicaps and purses arc of a liberal nature anil will be contested for by some of the best thoroughbreds now In training, i Starter Holtman, who has been at Seattle, Wash., for some tlmu past, has arrived from the west and will rest up until the opening day at the Downs. As a usual thing there is a scarcity of good riding material at the local meetings in the fall, but the coming period of racing will be an exception in this ! respect. AmOng those who will be seen in the saddle I during the thirteen days of sport are A. Walsh. I. Austin. Kennedy, M. McCee. M. Hauuan, G. Warren. W. Obert, E. Robinson, A. Williams, J. Connelly, G. Mountain. C. Burton, It. Goose, B. Burton and others of less prominence. The style of wagering will be the auction pools and the pari-niutuel machines, a -form with which local turf followers have become thoroughly acquainted. The prospects are that the meeting will be the most successful one ever held on a Louisville race course in the fall-of the year. Provided stables continue to arrive at Churchill Downs as fthey have in the last two or three days, by the time the meeting begins every stall in the grounds, . as Well as in the neighborhood of the track, will bo-occupied. The most recent arrival at the course is the string of George J. Long, in charge of trainer P. Coyne. There are now only eight liorses owned by Long in Coynes care, as the stable was reduced in the east bv the sale of three of its members. Sir Cleges, Arcito and Campeou, to E. II. Jennings. The liorses Coyne- now has at the track, are the four-year-old Balbus and seven two-year-olds, in the latter lot being Dolf, Donier. Don Antonio, Cellaret and Rolluf. Turf-goers will never see Longs good mare. AUuda. at the starting post again. The winner of the Louisville Handicap in 1008 has been retired to the Ntud. As she Is by Alvescot, one of the stallions at Bashford Maiior Farm, and out of the dam of Sir Huon, the other horse in stud service there. Long decided to breed her outside of the home place, so she was mated to Senipronius this year. Barney Schreiber will have about as big a string as will l; raced here by any turfman. Trainer Casey is alreadv here with six of Schrelbcrs liorses, which he brought from Fort Erie, while six more are on their wav from Sheepshead Bay and another half-dozen will be in from Seiireibers Missouri breeding farm this week. This will make the string eighteen strong: Those that Casey brought from Fort Erie and that are already at the track are Carondolet, Banvonne,. John Mooney. Banridge and Ed J. Mode Nleoli is another Fort Erie arrival with his string of seven liorses with which lie won nine races the past summer on the Canadian circuit. They arc W. T. Kemper, Mapleton. Many Colors, Fer-rand Cecillan, Clem Beachoy. Crawford and Schra-keu. and all are among the ready-racing division at the Downs. Nicoll used to be one of the big light harness horsemen of the country, but matching horses and teaching saddlers high steps was too slow a business for him and so he joined the ranks of running horse trainers. "I made more in half of one season racing liorses than I did in live years in i the harness horsu business, still there is money in i it the latter- avocation all right," says Nicoll, "but : you have got to buy close and be a sharp trader to lay up much of a bankroll." Nicoll will race in i Mexico the coming winter, but he will take only - the best of his string there. George Gleason, manager of one of the amusement t enterprises that exhibited at the state fair last : week, is an old-time race rider and in later years i trained and raced Flop in partnership with Charlie Bollinger. Gleason was at Churchill Downs Saturday . renewing old acquaintanceships. Since lie has quit the saddle and paddock he has done remarkably - well in the show business.. "I guess I could 1 ride now at 110 pounds." said Gleason,. -"but I 1 would have til undergo a lot of training to put me ; in condition to ride more than one race. I imagine ; Urn jockeys of today, like the ball players, are ; faster than the old riders, as conditions of races have changed a lot In recent years,- but in general J horsemanship all around, in my opinion, the turf f has no rider today that could be compared with such 1 knights of the pigskin as Tod Sloan. Isaac Murphy i "or James McLaughlin, riders that were masters of 1 pact; and skillful and remarkable finishers." . Captain J. L. Williams was at the track yesterday and reports that the yearling half-brother to the r sensational Waldo, that die owns, worked his first I fast quarter for him a few days ago in 24? under double wraps. The youngster is by Garry Hermann I and Captain Williams picked him up as a weanling for 75. It would take thousands to buy him now, as the owner of Rams Horn, Joe Cotton and other stars of past years believes with good luck he will 1 prove the equal or perhaps the superior of his famous . half-brother. Trainer Charles Hughes has readied the track c with a pair of two-year-olds owned by Henry M. Ziegler. ail that is left of the lirst crop of youngsters raised bv the Cincinnati turfman and theatrical magnate, till the rest of the string having been disposed : of by Hughes during the eastern campaign of the stable. The colts Hughes has here are Mennen . and Ashwell. the former being the youngster that 1 recently was barely beaten in the east when the odds against him were 100 to 1. Hughes, expects s to win with both two-year-olds at the coming meeting " here. J. V. Kirby had Romp fired yesterday. The three-year-old : broke- down in ids last race at Latonia last I summer and has not raced since. Hughes, his other cripple, is working soundly again, but may not be L readv for racing Until Lutouia or at the earliest during the closing days here. Like Komp. Hughes has s done no racing since the Latonia summer meeting. S. M. Henderson, of Henderson and Ilogau, shipped 1 sixteen liorses from Gravescnd to Churchill Downs s yesterday. Jack Baker is also sending seven horses s from Gravescnd. He has Crystal Maid, Jeff Bernstein - and Joe M Orris among his string. James Thornton, who is training for John S. Kelly i- of Bardstown, Ky.. has secured the services of f jockey G. Glasuer and in future will make Glas-iiers - engagements. James Laily. who trains for C. V. Mueller and Co., . is due here from Latonia with eight horses. M. J. Winn has arrived from New York, where . he has been in the Interest of the new truck at 1 Juarez, Mexico: M. P. Maltiugly, of Owonsboro. who In 1S02 i, owned Lorenzo, has shipped here a two year-obi named White Eagle, by Inventor -Madeline, that t has been highly tried.
