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LOUISVILLE STAKES TO CLOSE TODAY. Ixuisvillc. Ky., August .:• . -Fnt lies for the ten •takes to be decided at the tall meeting at Churchill Downs, beginning October 1. will clone tomorrow at midnight. Nearly 200 entries have so far been received. Secretary Lyman II. Davis is of the opinion thai Hie list will equal any of Other seasons and on BfTfflaal ot tlie horses coming from the east the class of entries will tar surpass in quality those of the past. The even is to be decided arc: St. Leger Handicap, for three-year-olds and up ward. 1 l li; miles; value ,000. Frank Fear II lieap, for ail ages, 1 mile and 20 yards: value 92,999. Lreqaois Handicap, for all ages. 1 mile; value """Falls City Handicap, for three year olds and upward, 3-4 mile: value 12.090, South Louisville Handicap, for all ages. 5-4 mile; value ,900. Khawnee Selling stakes, for three year eldi and ■pward, 1 1-10 miles; value 91,599. Cherokee Selling Stakes, lor three-year-olds and upward, 1 mile; value ..Too. Maple Selling Stakes, for throe year-olds anl up ward. 5-4 mile: value ,989. Autumn Slakes, for l wo-vear-olds, 5-4 mile; value 1QB9 iolden Rod Set hug Stakes, tor two year-olds. 3-4 niile; value ,910. The exact number of entries received for than Makes ap EUday is 1*2. Tnis is an average of more ttian eighteen to the slake and an excellent showing oasuddering thai these events will not dually close until tomorrow Bight. A majority of horsemen wail until the last lnoiuen. to make entries and it is believed now by Secretary Davis that the entry lis; to the ten Stakes will exceed expectations. At this time, dough toe beginning of the awet- ing is more than lour weeks off, every stall is booked at Clm rchHI Downs and those now applying ale listed for Douglas I.irk. The nominees for stakes are of course givon the preference in the aahortioamenl ot stable quarters and that accounts for Churchill Down* being crowded at this time, in - convenience of the latter track when the race meeting i on is the only cause for owners preferring to stable there, as it is a well-known act that whenever a trainer lias had experience al both pin ins he invariably selects Doug la* Park on his return here. Trainer C C. Van Meter affords an illustration of this. Last spring he had quarters at the Downs, but on his return from his summer cam-paign ho selected Douglas Park, though al the EMae be arrived here he eoaM have had aearlj the pi.-k of any stable at the track which lies closest t the city. K. It Bradley wind loda* for stalls ror fifteen horses laatrrad Of twelve thai he had previously spoken for. the increase being for bones that he receuilv purchased in the east, including the 97,999 Love-Not ami the 9U.5O0 Helmet. t— thfT siring booked for stabling at the Downs todav was thai of Woodford Clay, who comes here with the seasatloaal BUy Ocean Pound and nine other horse*. , , From the west come applications for stable room nt Douglas Park by the veteran Missouri breeder. S, I- Cheney, who this season raced a string ot harsea is Kentucky for the tirst time. He is bring iug here the get of Tin- Puritan and Loci, once a s;a - In Mie Cincinnati stable Of "Doc" McLean. A. It Lowe has eulereil Foxy Mary for lour slakes at Churchill Downs for the tall meeting. Karl I inn.ll will come to Chnrchii! Downs from Saratoga with a i.soful stable. He has one or more entries in every stake event here. Gay Garner, who loads the American ysekey list for 1*19, will ride his horns. W. K. Applcga! o. whoso racers will he brought from Baratojn, will Bead six horses to the neat at the I. ill meeting at the Downs. The remainder of his string will be turned out at Lexington. W. M. Wallace will bring four horses from Saratoga In Churchill Downs. A. B. Steele, of Lexington, has written to Secretary Lyman It. Davis that he has eleven homes, nine of which will be raced here this fall.
