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FASTER WORK AT CHURCHILL DOWNS. Trainers at LouGvillc Track Become Wore and More Active as Opening Day Approaches. Louisville. Ky., September 2;!. — Whether trainers at Churchill Downs anticipated rain or whether they decided that the time had arrived for real lesis of sjieed. the trials over that court* today demon-mated thai the track is lightning fast aud that the bones quartered there are about ready for the races which will begin here Saturday. October 1. The Fad ami Topland worked together seven-eighths of a mile, and while they were pulled up in 1:302, the first part of the trial was fast, with The Fad as pacemaker. The Fad went the first eighth in 12. the quarter In 2:!ji. three-eighths in : 4». a half arils In 47,!. five-eighths In 1:01| and thatt -quarters in 1:15. Topland then overtook hitn and the pair finished together. Other work-outs today: Alberta H . — Three-quarters in 1:10. Barley t horpe — Half mile in 50$; three-quarters in l is.: seven-eighths in 1:33, pulled up. Black Magic Half mile in -!"J£. chas. F. Graiager — .Mile in l:44. Csai —Mile in 1 :4T|. Follie Levy Three eighths lu 34ft; half mile in 4S*. !. L. Doyle Half mile in 51. Gliding Belie — Mile in i :Hi*. inflection — Half mile in 51. L. vino — Five-eighths in 1 06. Little Ba jab — Three-quarters in 1:23. May Amelia I ; ve-eigh I lis in 1:0.".. Mockler— Three-quarters in 1:17*. Nimbus —Half mile in 50. PIt-a-Pal Thrri qiisrtcm in 1:18. lrlnce Cal Ouiiricr in 25-; half in .".0;: live-eighths in 1:03|; three quarters in 1:19, eanter-lag. Princess Industry Three-quarteTs in 1:15. Southern Ltkhl and Scarlei Pimpernel -Quarter in •27t ; thie. eigiitiis in 38*; ball ill 51; five eighths in 1 :M». Syz.vgv -Five-eighths in 1 :l 4. The Pippin— Three-quarters in 1:21. Trance Three-quarters in 1:17j. Wool Baadals— Mile in 1:4:;. Max Hlrsch is en route to Churchill Downs from Bhecpahead Bay with seven banes. Jockeys Have Nicol and V. Powers are at the Downs. Today Nicol exercised The Pippin and Powers galloped Barleythorpe. The* are working like stable hoys and the fal is coming off rapidly. K. Henderson, who at one time rode 6r Wayne Lewia and William Gent, and Steve Morrison, who i:sed to ride for "Umbrella Bill" HcGntean and later for E. Corrigan, nave signified their intention of retaining to tin- saddle ibis fail. Several horse, al t.e DUwOB have been suffering, team colic, bat Dr. Talbot lias brought all of them around. He says the trouble is caused by the eating of new oats. All Kentucky railroads announced today cheap fares for he fall niceting. The rati- applies to all cities and toaraa in the stale.
