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SUCCESS ALREADY ASSURED NEVER DID RACING IN KENTUCKY PRESENT MORE PROMISING ASPECT. Preparations for Meetings Practically Completed Far in Advance — Budget of Gossip from Kentucky Sources. Louisville. Ky.. September 7. — There never lias lxcii a fall meeting at Churchill Downs the imcces* of which was assured so far ahead of the opening !ay -October 1 — as the canton ninoteoii-days session. Though more than three weeks distant, the meeting seems to lie at a point that needs only starter Mais Cassiily to call the horses to the i»ost. It is one meeting which calls for little in the way of preliminary labor, as the great horses tiiat have been nominated in the ten stakes would make a successful mee meeting anywhere. Secretory I.yman H. Davis has everything at both tracks in perfect appoint mi at for the arrival of horses, which are coming almost hourly now. Every stall at the Downs and at IKmglas Dark lias been disinfected and any improvements that are necessary to be made in the stables can lie completed within a brief time. Secretary Davis reason for scattering the disinfectant so profusely over the enclosures js "t" avert the introduction of any disease, as among the hundreds of horses now at the two courses there is not at this time a single sick thoroughbred. Though the meeting is three weeks away, already rooms and apartments are lieing engaged in the principal hotels of the city by horsemen, and The di mand for such quarters is said to lie even greater this fall than during the meeting last spring. F. J. Dons, the Florida racing magnate, is here conferring with trainer W. C Westmoreland, who lias charge of his string at Douglas Park. Mr. Tons came from Windsor and states that his horses that have been in training in Canada in charge of H Trotter, consisting of Rockcastle. Tony Bo-nero. Abrasion. Louis des Iognets. Dolly Bultman and Lady Ormicant. would reach Louisville tomorrow. With trainer Trotter will come Lon Johnson, who has the t wo-year-olds Bad News II. and Hux-ter. Mr. Johnson recently sold Tom Hay ward to J. W. Schorr. Mr. Pona also sold one horse in his Canadian siring to James Arthur. Mr. Pons officially announces that Joseph A. Murphy will preside in the judges stand next winter at Jacksonville and that D. A. Brady will be his associate. Mr. Pons has in his possession authority from the Jockey Club at New York to conduct a meeting for the Southern Maryland Racing Association at Marlboro. August Belmont assured him that if the property should be improved ami a mile track built for next season the number id racing dates would be increased to llfteeu days. Arrivals today at Churchill Downs included the stables of Pat Knebelkamp and John Walters. Mr. Knebelkamp brought St. Ilario and Molly Mog. He lias sold Lily Paxton. Mr. Walters has Mclvor and tdx others. Col. M. .1. Winn, general manager of the New Louisville Jockey Club, arrived here today after a sojourn at Saratoga and Thousand Islands. 1 1 is vacation worked wonders with him and he is in tine condition to plunge into the manage teat of the fifteen-days fall meeting which opens October 1 at Churchill Down*. He says that the greatest horses raced in New York and Canada will be here. S. C. Hildreth lias assured him that his stable will be sent from Canada to Louisville ami Colonel Winn says that many notable eastern turfmen will be here to attend the fall races. Miller Henderson brought twelve horses from Saratoga to Churchill Downs, including .1. II. Reed. Snap. Captain Morris and Outpost, and the two-year-olds Lavender Lad. Star Blaze. Allien Wolf, Dr. Hodine. Colonel Hogan. Ed Morgan and Mrs. F. G. Hogan. J. II. Reed was the stables only eastern winner, the two-year-olds in the string being sick and out of commission all season. Will McDaniel took Sorrowful. Placide and Prank G. Hogan to Lexington with Ills stable when Latonia closed and he will probably transfer this trio to trainer Hendersons care when lie conies here to race his stable. It is understood that the Henderson A: Hogan string will race in Mexico the coining winter. A number of horses owned by this firm were campaigned by trainer Henderson in Jacksonville. Pis,, last winter with fair success. The resl of the string were cared for here by trainer Louis Tauber. The latter has quit the turf for a time, being now the manager of the Hopkins Theater in this city. Trainer Fred Luzader is back at Churchill Downs alter a flying visit to J. R. Wainwright at West Baden. While in the east trainer Luzader had Short Order gelded, and the son of Sir Dixon now seems much improved. In the last few days he has had such good reports from the La Belle Farm at Lexington in regard to the superb condition of Dr. Waldo Driggs. Spooner and Bon Ton. the trio which he turned out last spring, that he has now concluded to tike them up and begin training them again when lie goes to Lexington. He understands that Dr. Waldo Kriggs is entirely over his navicular trouble, while Spooner and Bon Ton are in fine fix. seemingly sound in wind and limb. As a little diversion. Luzader will run one or two member* of his stable in the stale fair races next week, and has consenled to aepnl| the two jockeys of the Wainwright stable, N. Kennedy and II. Jones, to take mounts. A. F. Dayton, whose stable has arrived at Douglas Park from Latonia. is still confined in a hospital at rrlpiiiH, »».. in which he was placed during the late summer meeting at Latonia. Mr. Dayton was on his way to the Kenton County track from Canada when his train was wrecked and he came near losing his lifp. His injuries were sever. ami have kept him in the hospital two mouths. He hopes, however, to l.e able to get here to see his horses race during the coming fall meeting, one of the horses I wns is the noted Jack Nunnally, which is looking unnsnally well this fall. Col. W. E. Applegate has concluded to keep Round the world in training the coming winter. She will n.it be raced to any extent during the first foar months f 1911, but will be given a careful preparation for the Kentucky Derby and Oaks, in botb ..f which events she is engaged. Her owners believe she will break the traditions of the past by winning the Derby, a leal to the credit of no other Idly in the history of that great race. John W. Schorr, who had booked tweaty-tWO hois s with Secretary Lyman H. Davis for stall room at Churchill Downs, has countermanded the Order. Hi wrote that he hail decided to ship his siring 1" Foil Erie ami would not come lure at the opening of the meeting on October I. He expects, however, to race out the la si leu days of the tail meeting here with his big stable and then go hi La-touia for the fall meeting at the Kenton County Hack. Trainer William Grater will put a race into l.exo-Hne at the slate fair and then go to Lexington with the son pf Lisas k. Lexoline is training this fall as Satisfactorily as any horse al the local tracks. Jockey T. Koerner went with hi Ira el employer. Wayne Jopiin. and will rest here until the fall meeting ai Lexington begins, t hough * ho may ride In a race or two at the slate fair, next Week.
