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+ WEIGHTS FOR THE ST. LEGER ANNOUNCED Fitz Herbert Assigned Post of Honor in Stake Feature of Saturdays Opening Card at Churchill Downs I 4, —4. Lonisville. Ky.. Soptemlier 2S.— Weights for the St. I.eger Handicap. $£,666 value, to be run at Churchill Downs Saturday, distance one mile and a sixteenth, were announced today by Handicapper Lyman H. Duvis. As was to have lieen expected, litz Herbert occupies the post of honor. His impost is l.ST. The list of the weights follows: Horse. A. Wt. Horse. A. Wt. Fitz Herbert 4 137 Taboo 4 107 Jack Atkin li 163 *Harrigau 4 107 "Ocean Bound . . . .3 12.I * Emperor William. 4 106 Priscillian i 125 *Czar 5 146 Countless 1and! *Norbitt •" 100 Firestone ."1 128 Woodcraft S UK! Kestigouche ."1 119 Jacquelina :i 105 •Nimbus 5 11S J. H. Ueed 4 104 MrllssnOV 4 1 17 Old Honesty ti 104 •Helmet 4 117 Kingship :i lo-l Glorio 5 lit! "Milton B 3 103 •llanbridge ."1 llti Zienap 7 IflS Pinkola 5 110 Jupiter Joe 4 103 •Kings Daughter. .7 115 Great Heavens ...4 108 Hampton Court . .: 113 Leamence 4 103 Tom Havward ...4 113 John Furlong :l 102 Joe Morris - 112 Carlton G :! 108 Guv Fisher 4 112 Jack Right 4 100 •Mary Davis 4 112 Miss Naomi 4 100 •Cherrvola •! 112 Adalia 3 loo Tonv Booero 0 112 *The Peer 4 loo Friend Harry 4 llo Claudia :: loo Sager •! 110 Keiluf 3 100 Green Seal ti no *Buyal Report 100 Wool winder 4 110 Chas. F. Grainger. a 100 Barley thorpe :J 108 •Probable starters. routes Bat . Ky., S ptenilMT 28. — Round the World arrived today at ".mrchill IKiwns. together with Jupiter Jim* and Tlie Hague and two yearlings, which now constitute the stable of W. O. Vanke and Co. Swish. Lackrose. Dig Claim. Leopold. Artesian. Frog ami OHpy of the Tanks string have been turned out until spring;. Bound the World will start at the Downs next Tuesday in the Autumn Stakes. Among the entries for this race are Governor Gray and the Futurity winner. Novelty. Round the World is in goixl condition following her defeat at Lexington, when she was Jumped ttiMin. Tlie injury was slight and its effects have entirely disappeared. The Downs course was drying out today. The st notable trial was three ipiarters of a mile by Bye White in 1:17|, handily. The Peer cantered a mile, pulling up, in 1:45;. Other work-outs were as follows: Agility — Half mile in 51?. Ben Trovato — Three uuarters In 1:23. Candleberry — Throe-quarters in 1:23. Chas. F. Grai aster — Half mile in 54. Crash — Fire-eighths in 1:03. Diction — Mile in 1:48. GaUtota — Three-quarters in 1:24. Cunstock — Half mile in 54. Jack Dennian — Three-quarters in 1:20s. Itomp — Mile in 1:50. StaHwold — Half mile in 53J. Taboo — Three-quarters in 1:222. The Pippin — Three-quarters ini 1:22. John Haehmeister. manager of the Latouia Jockey Club, arrived to remain until the Downs fall meeting ends. He says that everything points to a tine session at Latouia. The program will be ready for distribution by October 10 and the four-weeks meeting at the Kenton County track will open October 24. Stalls have been bedded at the Downs for the reception of ten horses owned by T. C. McDowell and twelve horses trained by J. W. May. Both strings will lie brought tomorrow from Lexington. In this shipment will he Melisande. Mary Davis. Kings Daughter. Danger Mark. Miss Nett. Premier and other winners. Governor Cray, with the horses trained by Capt. J. T. Williams, live in all. will roach the Downs Friday morning in a car with W. S. Houses string and tlie racers owned by W. I. and L. E. Fine. The Finos own Clorio. On the same train J. P. Koss will ship twelve head. J. C. Ferriss will bring Ten. W. Gerst and G. II. Holle ten, W. G. Young eight and II. H. Selby live. W. F. Schulte has decided to quit the turf. On October 15. in the Downs paddock, lie will dispose of his entire racing stable, his yearlings and his weanlings. He will also sell his stallion. P.atts. and all of his broodmares. Mr. Schulte succeeded Col. M. Lewis Clark as president of the I»uisville Jockey Club and has been a prominent factor in American racing for upward of twenty years. Among the horses he will dispose of will be Zienap, Hiding Belle and King Olympian. The deatli of his wife and son and a desire to seek rest is the cause of his decision to quit the sport he loves so well. Mr. Schulte contemplates a trip abroad. Already the hotels are noting tlie effect of the race meeting, us many easterners are on the scene for the inauguration of the sport Saturday afternoon. Judge Price was at the Downs this morning and visited the stables of several noted horses, lie says that the fall meeting is going to Ik- the liest held here in years and that it may prove to be the greatest of all. Judge Price expresses the belief that tin St. Leger Handieai. which brings together such bones as Ocean Bound. Helmet. Pinkola, Mary Davis. Countless. Kings Daughter. Jack Aakin. Chorryola ami llanbridge. will be a splendid contest. This race was a feature of fall racing at the Downs when Judtre Price was tin- racing secretary. A new time indicator has reached Churchill Downs and will be installed at the suggestion of official tinier George Lindenberger. It is a unique device, working on a pivot so it can lie turned around and the line thus exhibited to every patron of the enclosure, it makes no difference from what point a spectator witnesses a race. All he will have to do will lie to stand stiil tin instant and the machine whirls in front of him. showing the official time. This fall timet Lindenberger will furnish to the public official fractional time in each race and tlie form sheets compiled 011 the track will use this official time in their compilation. William Crater received it letter from his brother. Walter Grater, in which the latter stated that the two-year-old lilly. Golden Kgg. went sore in her last Wnrft-OUt and that it is doubtful if she will till her stake engagements here and at Latonia.
