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FALL RACING IN KENTUCKY SPECULATION AS TO DATES THAT THE TRACKS WILL ASK FOR. Louisville Likely to Have an Eighteen Days Meeting and Latonia Twenty-Four — Lexington in Doubt. |f . Louisville. Ky.. July 20. — Though nothing definite is known nor will lie known until Malt J. Winn returns from New York early the coming uioutli. it is Knurled ii| o]i good aulliority tliat the fall meeting at tlie Mew Louisville Jockey Club will begin on Moinlay. September IS, tbe seeonil day alter tbe State Fair closes at Douglass Park, on Saturday. September 17. Tbe meeting of last season began at Churchill Downs on Saturday. September 25, si days later than the proposed opening dates tbis fall, and continued to and including October 9, a period of thirteen racing days. According to report tbe New Louisville Jockey Club will ask tbe Kentucky State Racing Commission for tbe privilege of racing eighteen days tbis fall, running up to and including Sarurdav. October N. Man-agor loin UachmeUter is credited with regarding twenty-four days as sufficient for tbe fall meeting at tbe Kenton county track. Older sucb an arrangement Latonia could begin about as early as it did in 1908; When the Louisville fall meeting was held at Douglass Park and did not open until Septemlicr 25. Lexington bad a fall meeting that season preceding Louisville and there is some talk of tbe Kentucky Association cutting in for a seven-days meet-iug this fall. It is suggested that Lexington could Open its meeting on Saturday. September i, and run seven days to tbe 10th. With such a program the horsemen could then rest during tbe week of tbe State Fair. A numlier of turfmen interested iu tbe Kentucky Association track, it is said, are unfavorable to the Idea of bidding a fall meeting there and bold to the opinion that what energy is expended by that organization should go to making the 1911 spring meeting a sucess. Lexington, with all tbe talk of its financial profits last spring, only raked oil something over . mki above running expenses, and tbis is hardly 0 per cent, on the investment. Will J. Shelley, who bad the meeting in charge, thinks that Ix-xington could make more money hy holding a ten-days meeting, as the attendance and tbe patronage iu tbe niutuel machine Improved daily. It is up to tbe race tracks to have in Kentucky this year be greatest fall meetings since the times when the St. Legcr stallion stakes and similar events were run on the courses of tbe old commonwealth. The horses to insure brilliant contests are all within reaching distance of these tracks for fall racing and the state all around is more prosperous than in a najunber of years. The Kentucky State Racing Commission stands ready to aid the tracks in what they desire iu lawful dates, so upon tbe management of the courses rests the responsibility for tbe success or Endure ol tall racing iu Kentucky. Tbe success of the pari mutuel system of liettiug on the Kentucky tracks is giving one contingent of race track followers some concern, and that is the men who have depended Upon the apart as a means of livelihood by acting as clerks in the betting ring. Many of these men who drew 1 per day as sheet and ticket writers for tbe lxtokinakers get only per day now in the employ of the racing associations and there are more applicants by far than there are positions to be lilbd. The porithms filled by the men in the operation of the parbuiutocl pools are those that any man of average intelligence could fill, and the work is unlike what hookmakiug called for. which, to accomplish successfully, called for experience and required men of | eculiar talent and ahility. Of course, tbe direction of pari-nnituel pools on a BO0e track calls for sosne high-priced men. lightning calculators, for Instance, demanding more salary than was paid tiookuiakers. block men or cashiers iu the olden days. What was supposed to he the best of Col. W. B. Applegate and V. G. Yankes two-year-olds has rerer raced as yet. owing to a muscular lameness which virtually threw him out of training just prior to tbe Churchill Downs spring meeting. The colt is Leopold, a son of Woolstlioipe and Leopoldina. by Pi blue Leopold, she out of licightonia, by tbe English Pet by winner. Favonius. In early spring Leopold was regarded as good as Rig Claim among the J an IT two year olds and even Bound the World was supposed to have no edge on this pair. Itig Claim, a son of MeGeo and Lucille Murphy, by Lord Murphy has not yet made good on tbe track. According to report Miller Henderson has bad ■inch bad luck with lie Henderson and Hogan purses which he took east from Churchill Downs soon after the siniiig meeting closed at Churchill Downs. "It seems his two-year-olds have never entirely recovered from the couching epidemic they went through here, and in the enat .1. II. Bead has at no time raced up In the goad form he showed here in the spring. There is some talk that Henderson will ship home at the close of the Km pi re City meeting, though be may conclude to go through Saratoga, hoping that at tbe Fprings some of his horses will round to. When in training here last spring Albeit Wolf. Star Rlaze and Lavender Lad were three juveniles in the Henderson Ai Hogan barn that looked like good prospects.
