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ODOM STRING COMES .WEST PRINCE GAL, FOLLIE LEVY AND OTHER GOOD RACERS REACH LOUISVILLE. Horses Continue to Gather at Churchill Downs for Fall Meetings — Budget of Gossip from Kentucky Sources. 5 Louisville, Ky., September 8. — George Odom arrived today at Churchill Downs and his twelve racers, including Prince GaL Nimbus. Ben Lasca. Hesitate and Follie Levy, wyere assigned to stable A. on the south side of the enclosure. The horses shipped in good order from Saratoga. Secretary Lyman H. Davis of the New Louisville Jockey Club received word tislay from George Ham that Douau, winner of this years Kentucky Derby, recently gelded with the hope that his savage disposition might be improved, will be turned out on -the farm id William Gerst in Tennessee anil will mil " be raced until next year. Trainer Ham thinks that x Donau will prove a high-class racer as a four-year-old. Donau is sound in wind and limb. but. for some time he had been displaying au ungovernable disposition and his trainer feared that the colt would he-come a man eater. Herman Kaiser has arrived tit the IHnvns with Cull. He has been winning races in the ••bushes" with this horse and he will start the son of Uncommon at the state fair here next week to tighten him up for the fall meeting which o| en« here October 1. Eddie Kaiser is a newcomer to the jockey ranks. He will do lightweight riding on the Kentucky circuit thfs fall as a free lance. Jockey N. Kennedy iu street attire now weighs but 110 pounds. He is in good condition and expects to do more riding this fall than heretofore. When six horses arrive tomorrow from Latonia the string of twelve racers trained by Tom Hatfield will all be here. Iu this bunch is Edward Alveys onc e speedy Colonel Bob. He is training well this fall and probably will agafn bo coins a useful horse. Henderson and Hogan have engaged stable room at Douglas Park for fifteen yeatiings which the lirtu purchased in tfie east at various times. George Lindenberger. official timer at Louisville and Latonia. has leen spending his vacation attending the rural fairs in Kentucky and Indiana, and says he enjoyed himself more than in the seasons that he went to the mountains or the seashore. , Mr. Lindenberger is a great admirer of tine stock of all descriptions. He will remain at home until the time to assume his duties at Churchill Downs. Lexington employs no official timer, saving the 0 per day paid for this service by accepting the courtesies of friendly horsemen who, to help the Kentucky Association along, do the jvork from day to day without pay. Trainer A. L. Kirby declares that J. B. Respess has as line a bunch of woajilings this season as any br Icr ever raised. The owner of Dick Welles has not begun to break his yearlings yet. He has in view the selling of part of them at the couiing 1 sale in Lexington. He is likely to send a bigger string of horses the coming winter to Juarez than he did last season, but what two-year-olds he may have trained next year will not* race until spring. Raleigh Colston, trainer of Waldo, has sent in the nomination of Princess Callaway for the local stakes, having purchased the Broomstick-filly from C. L. Harrison during the recent Saratoga meeting. She is a half-sister to the high-class Master Robert, and traitcr Colston .nominated her for the Golden Rod and Autumn Staki-s for two-year-olds and the Iroquois and South Louisville Handicaps for all ages. • Jockey W. Knapp will come west for the Kentucky meetings. Bowden Caldwell will again be seen in the saddle at the state fair this year in the gentlemens ctrp race, which is attracting an unusual lot of attention. As yet Mr. Caldwell has not selected a horse to ride in the race, but he will be upon a good one and hopes to land the handsome silver cup which goes to the- rider of the winner. Mr. Caldwell won the state fair event last year, but his friend, Mr. Pierce, beat him for the valuable cup hung up by the New Louisville Jockey Club last spring. Tl«; latter will also have a mount in the state fair race.
