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FENSACOLA OPENING THANKSGIVING DAY. Lexington, Ky.. He pt fiber 0. — W. H. Fizer was here today and made airangi im iits tor live stalls for the tall meeting. He will send his horses here Mai Louisville next week. Comment iug upon winter racing plans in Florida Mr. Fizer said : "Oar association will open at Iensacola Thanksgiving Day. race thirty days there, then move to Tampa for sixty days. Tampa will not stand 10o days of racing. Our experience there last winter cost us 2,500. -T. I. Strode is now at Iensacola converting the half-mile track into a three-quarter mile course and he will come north in a few days to make stake a ■nowreawta, etc. I feel that we will recover our loss of last winter by racing at both Icnsarola and Tampa." While here Mr. Fizer. in partnership with Fletcher Driver, closed a deal with Irving H. Wheatcroft for the two-year-olds Marlboro and Union Jack. The price was not made public but it is known that Mr. Wiieatcrolt held Marllmrough at ,500 and i liion Jack at .*2.5 n . James It. Keeae and physicians after consultation this afternoon gave the following to the press; ■•Mr. Kecnes condition today is good and he is apparently doing well. There has so far been no Indication of any extension of the pneumonia anil It may be said that his general condition is favorable." Foxhall Kcene and Major Daingertield spent a few minutes with Mr. Keeae this afternoon and found him cheerful, they said. Charles F. Hill, manager of Clarence II. Xlaekays Kingston Stud, is ill and it is doubtful if be will In- able to leave for New York Friday to meet Iharhs Carroll, who is coming from Europe for a consultation concerning the giving up of the lease ou Kingston Farm ana tin- transfer of the Xlackay Stud of thoroughbreds to France. The lease has yet live years to run at 0,000 per year.
