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MATCH RACE PROPOSED FOR LOUISVILLE. Churchill Downs Management Will Endeavor to Bring Fitz Herbert, Olambala and Ballot Together. Louisville. Ky., August 13. — For more than a generation the lace here between Ten Broeek and Mottle .McCarthy, on July 4. 1S7N. has Meh regarded as the greatest race in general attraction ever IBSi in the south. Years before it was preceded by the Wagner -Grey Eagle race, which contest was witnessed bv few people who are still living. But after the first of October next these two notable races will be accorded second and third place respectively as compared with the proposed contest which Col. Matt J. Winn of the New Louisville Jockey Club has in view for local turf patrons. This contest is to be between the three greatest racing stars in public on the American turf today, namely. Fitz Herbert. Ballot and Olambala. The event as proponed is to be weight-for-age at eithci a mile and a quarter or a mile and a half, the distance to be decided upon by mutual agreement between the trainers of the three cracks. No such race was ever on the program of a southern or western race track. Nearly twenty years agi Kingston and Marias C. ran two great races at Chicago which attracted the attention of the sport iug world, but they were only two horses of great class competing against one another, while in the race which Colonel Winn propones, three stars will battle for ..000 which the New LoahrrUle Jockey Club will hang up for the big race. Another remarkable feature which will mark this contest as most unique is the fact that the winners are all crowned with the laurels of a Suburban Handicap victory. In all the history of racing no three Suburban Handicap winners ever before com peted with each other in a race. Up to the turn against the sport in New York, caused by tht drastic laws engineered by Governor Hughes, the chances of having brought through to a conclusion such a race on southern or western soil would have been most remote, even hud the prize been of the value of the richest Futurity" race ever run. With the gates abont to close on the big metropolitan tracks and these great turf stars rendered temporarily homeless. Colonel Winn, always alert to the call of the hour, has made inducements to tin owners and trainers of these great eastern race horses to come south and partake of Kentuckys fa r-fa med ttospit all ty . The thousands of people who will be drawn to Churchill Downs the day this $.".0o0 special race is decided will enjoy the privilege of looking upon three of the greatest thoroitghlMeds ever saddled in this country. It will be a son tost from barrioi rise to the finish. Shilling will be on Fits Herbert. Notter oil Ballot and Butwell on Olambala. embracing the three crack jockeys of America today. On every haud praise is being bestowed on the New Louisville Jockey Tub for its enterprise in essaying to bring together these three wonderful horses at Churchill Downs, and that tixi in the fall of the year when the sport is supiiosed to be on the wane. Col. M. J. Winn, who left Louisville early in the Break, reaching Juarez Thursday, had the following to say of racing in the east, the fall meeting in Louisville, and the IPO-days session which will begin Thanksgiving Day at Juarez: ••The twenty -six-days meeting at Empire City coarse — embracing the dates of Empire City and Brighton Beach — was the longest meeting eer held at the Kmpire City track, and it proved the most successful. The Jockey Club was pleased and so was the public." Colonel Winn says the race situation in the east will soon clarify itself. In the meantime Louisville and the other Kentucky tracks will be the really great racing iioints in the United States. •The increase in stakes and nurses at Churchill Downs this fall." said Colonel Winn, "will amount to about 0,000. Last fall the total dailv valuation of races was about SoO. This sum has been increased to ,000 each day. "With fifty-three days of fall racing and the tleetest horses from the metropolitan circuits, along with the best of western racers, it is easy to see what superb sport is in store for turf patrons this fall." Colonel Winns mission to Juarez is to inspect the vast improvements being made to the Jockey Club Juarez plant. He was arrumpaafcfl to Mexico by Harry Breivogel. They will reach Saratoga August 20 to take entries for the Louisville and Juarez meetings. Colonel Winn will also complete arrangements before the conclusion of the Saratoga meeting for the $."..000 special at the Downs. He will also confer at the Spa with President Charles F. Grainger of the New Louisville Jockey Club for a ri. HMi handicap for three-year-olds and upward, to be run next spring at Churchill Downs.
