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MORE ARRIVALS AT CHURCHILL DOWNS. Louisville. Ky.. September 23. The horses of W. F. Schulte and Henderson and Ilogan are the latest additions to the racers assembled at Churchill Downs in preparation for the opening of the fall meeting here next Saturday. Zieuap and Gliding Belle are the principal campaigners in the Schulte string. In Miller Hendersons string are J. II. Ueed. Captain Morris. Frank G. Ilogan, Henderson and other two-year-olds. The Henderson and Ilogan string will be campaigned in the east again next year. It will then be strong in two-year-olds. Frank Ilogan went east for the sales last spring and bought fifteen or sixteen yearlings, and Mr. Henderson picked up four or five this fall. These youngsters will be broken at Louisville in the course of the next two or three weeks and they will learn the rudiments ot racing next spring at Churchill Downs. Miller Henderson thinks well of Captain Morris, a two-year-old son of Ben St nunc Loot. Already more than sixteen hands high, he will be a remarkably large horse when lie; fills out. lie worked three-quarters in 1:13J for the Futurity, but fell lame shortly afterward and was unable to start. The colt is named for a Louisville lawyer, who was a comrade of Mr. Henderson in the volunteer service during the Spanish-American war. Churchill Downs presents a busy scene these days. Racers are arriving from the east and the Canadian circuit dally, ami Secretary Davis is kept busy from morning until night locating them. There will be a greater number of good-class performers at tin? Downs by next Sunday than has ever before been housed at the historic old course in the fall. The urogram for the first seven days of the meeting has been issued bv Secretary Davis. It provides for six races daily for purses ranging from 00 to 1909.sh00.
