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KENTUCKY BREEDERS ARE ENCOURAGED. Lexington. Ky., August 1.1. — -The announcement of the track managers that there will be nine weeks of racing in Kentucky the coming fall, beginning here .oi September 10 and ending at Latonia on November 10, and further that there will be stakes and unexpectedly liberal purses at each of the three meetings, has had a stimulating effect apoa horsemen and turf followers generally and there is a manifest "get-together" spirit with a view to making the most of the greatest opportunity Kentucky has ever aad for ascendency in the sport of racing. There is no doubt that the best horses in training under western ownership and many of those owned in the east will be attracted to Kentucky for these meetings and as a natural consequence racing of a superior order, more largely patronized than ever, will result. The opening of five stakes to be decided here in September came in the nature of an agreeable surprise, it has been twenty years since there was a fall stake at the local track. At the six-days meeting in October. 1000, there was out — the Bed Stakes, for two-year-olds, six furlongs. 0$ added. 0 on t rauci — and it was won by Byron McClellands Bermuda. This stake was given with the late D. D. Bell as its pa trim. It has been the custom for a numlier of years for prominent breeders to add 1910.sh00 to stakes that were named for them and decided at the fall meetings here. Another unexpected announcement by the directors of the Kentucky Association was that there will during the nine days be a number of purses with 00 added. The horsemen were not tigu: ing on more than 50 to any purse lure. On top of this came the announcement that Louisville will give M. 00 and 1910.sh00 purses and ten guaranteed stakes, four of them for ,000 and six for .51.500. during a meeting of nineteen days, beginning October 1. This was followed by the statement of a racing official who has lately had a conversation with John Ilachmcister to the effect that Latonia will have a program in keeping with that at Louisville. The breeders have found much to encourage them in the past few days. Until these announcements came they were in a quandary as to a market for their yearlings. But. on Wednesday it was announced that there will lie a sale of yearlings and horses in training here and over 200 bead have already been booked. F. A. Forsythe has consigned twenty-live yearlings by Oddfellow. Out of Beach and Filigrane and sixteen horses in training for the sale. Irving II. Wheateroft has booked twenty head of youngsters by Cesarion. Woolsthorpc and Sentprualus. George II. stoll will sell ten youngsters. Other consignors are Williams and Bad-ford. Hinde ft Baker. Balgowaa Stud. Idle Hour Farm. G. D. Wilson. J. L. Tarlton. Dr. J. D. feet, M. D. Bichardson. Romulus Payne, H. P. Headley. A. L. Smiths, Edward Frazer. J. B. Vilev. B. II. Anderson. J. E. Delph. Fugene Bucker ami J. W. Showalter.
