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LEXINGTON PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT. Certainty That Officials Will Be Confronted with Problem to Provide Stalls. Lexington. Ky.. August 20. — Racing Secretary William H. Shelley will come here from Louisville next week to take up the detail work preliminary to the Kentucky Associations fall meeting of nine days. September 10 to 2S. The most serious prob lem with which be will have to contend will be stabling accommodations for the horses. There are only 590 stalls within the enclosure of the racing grounds and no more than lf 0 available outside. The indications are that there will be requests for 1.009 or more stalls. Consequently some line discretion will lie necessary in making allotments. Just now there are about 250 horses at the track and of these about 100 are yearlings sent in from the farms to be broken. The directors of the association have ordered that stalls now occupied by yearlings lie vacated by September 5. Some of tin youngsters will be sent back to the farms to remain until after the meeting, but others, including those intended for racing at the southern tracks next win ter. will have to be kept going, none of them now being more than bridlewise. and they will be sent over to the Ceorgetown and Versailles fair grounds. The older horses at the track are getting regulai exercise, but nothing of a sensational nature was observed in the work of this week. The work of cutting down the hill that obstructed the view from the grandstand of the horses as they made the turn for the homestretch has been completed and in needed places the track has been resoiled. Workmen are now engaged in enlarging the betting shed and pari niutuel office and making some necessary repairs about the grandstand. Secretary Garret D. Wilson said today that from letters and expressions of the horsemen he is satisfied that tlie five stakes for the fall meeting will be liberally subscribed to. "Some of the best racing ever seen here ill tlie fall of the year is. chiefly by virtue of the situation in New York and the paucity of racing in Canada at tlie time of our meeting, assured." said Mr. Wilson. Charles Thatcher has taken up twelve horses of the St. Jaaaes Stable and will remove them from the farm on Clays Mill road to the Kentucky Association track next Saturday. They are not to be trained at Louisville, as was reported in a recent dispatch from that city. The string comprises Miss Sain. Green Seal. Wooiwinder, Alfred the Great, Starover. Marlborough. Anderson. Fnion Jack, Grande Dame. Hasty Agnes. Bed Lass and The Whip. Edwin Ruff, flic stable agent. these horses have all improved by their long rest and are in splendid condition for training. Miss Sail- • , s nr..,| ,,,] .. spreader was put into her injured foot by Dr. Bryan , who says he is now satisfied that she will stand training. Lew Marion, the regular trainer of this stable, is still in Canada and probahlv will not come to Kentucky to take no his duties until October 1. Chiiles Thatcher has until now occupied the position of foreman to Marion and at the last meeting of tlie State Baring Commission was treat fid a trainers license. Irving H. Wheateroff js expected here from British Columbia September 2. Mr. Wheatcroft has regained possession of Lotus Eater and the horse Is now at the farm. He came in from the east last Sunday. .1. P. McAdams. who was recently ruled Off, had bought Lotus hater. p«t had not paid for him and put tlie St. James people to considerable trouble by permitting him to be attached for a feed bill at Baltimore. Otto Dagloy. of hit. Yernon. 111., came here Wednesday and bought the two-vear-ohl filly. Cheeky, from the St. James Stud "and she was shipped that night to aft Yernon to join the Bnghry string, which is to be shipped shortly to Oklahoma City. Bagley said that the fillv, Mvrtle Crown, which he purchased several weeks nan, had worked three-eighths in 39 seconds at Mt. Yernon and that she is a mighty good prospect for Oklahoma racing. There is much speculation hero as to what the Kentucky State Baeing Commission will do in tlie -se of II. ;. Bed well next Wednesday, but tlie commissioners are saying nothing as to their intentions and no one has an accurate line on whether or not the affidavit of the negro. Keil Williams, will be considered sufficiently substantia tory to permit the reinstatement of the Colorado horseman. Mr. Bedwell has been a busy man lately and numerous political dlgmtaries have poured into the ears of the ei mmissioners appeals in his behalf. The track owners have been invited to have representatives here next Wednesday to discuss with the commission the question of an equitable commission on pari-mutuel and auction pools ami it is presumed that these representatives will attend. Jn the light of recent discussion of the subject of commissions and breaks, it seems safe to make the prediction that the commission will finally determine that the associations can charge no more than 5 per cent, and that only fractions of five cents can be taken as breaks. This will mean fractions of five cents per ticket ami not per dollar, as has been the ease under the system of calculation originating in Kentucky.
