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GREAT RACE FOR KENTUCKY FOUR MILE SWEEPSTAKES OPEN TO WORLD PROPOSED FOR DECISION NEXT FALL. Major Daingcrficld Takes tho Initiative After Discussing Subject With Other Blue Grass Horsemen and Several Subscriptions Arc Made, Lexington, Ky., April 11. A four-mile race, open to the world, will bo decided at one of the Kcntueky traeks next fall under conditoiis framed today by Maj. Foxhall A. Daingerlield after a conversation with J. O. Keeue, Green B. Morris, Fletcher Driver and others on the subject of long-distance racing. The conditions will lie as follows: "A sweepstakes for three-year-olds and upward; weight for age; distance four miles; .00 to.nomi-nate; 50 additional to start. Each nominator to have the privilege of naming three horses, only one of which to start; the racing associations in Kentucky to bid for the race, which is to bo run in the fall of 1!11 over the track of the association bidding tho greatest sum; said sum to be added to the stakes, of which seventy per cent. to . the winner, twenty per cent, to the secoud and ten per cent, to the third horse." Subscriptions have already been taken by Major Daingerlield for James R. Keeue, Fletcher Driver for his father-in-law, Thomas II. Stevens; J. O. Keeue, for Johnson N. Camden, and by Irving H. Wheatcroft and Barney Schreiber. Entry blanks are to be printed at once aud may be had upon application to John O. Keene. A number of horses worked at the Kentucky Association course this morning. The track was about four seconds slow to tlie mile and the average clip was three-eighths in I!S and halves iu 52. Boola Boola worked a mile in 1:47:; Joe Morris a mile Iu 1:50 and Foxy Mary the same distance in 1:481. Jockey Charles Akcr lias signed a -contract for one year with Robert Profiit of Winchester. Tho Protlit horses are trained by. Robert FTakes- - Will McDaniel today snipped Barn Dance to Pat Dunne at Louisville. In the same car went Douiinick OMalleys two-year-old by Wadsworth Gold Rose, to be trained by T. II. Stevens, and W. H. Laudo-mans Portia Swett, to be mated with George J. Longs Semprouius. This union produced Scbago. Barney Schreiber left here this afternoon for his Woodlands Farm iu Missouri.
