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PRAISE FOR CHURCHILL DOWNS RACING. Concerning the recent meeting at Churchill Downs, tiie Louisville Courier -Journal makes the following Interesting comment: "What is considered to have been the most sne-eeraful race meeting fiiai ever took pince in the south hai come to a close at Chill I hill Downs. The snectatora witnessed twenty-three days of the best racing thai the west or the south has ever aeeat, and al the end there was s long cheer of appreciation for what had transpired. Manager M. .1. Wins and liis associates, ill their wisdom, had agreed during the winter thai twenty-three days oi the sporl aras sufficient for town the size of Louisville, lnit outsiders, basing their opinions entirely on the dally increased attendance, and the volume of money wagered, were of the opinion that the meeting eo ill 1 hive continued at leant thirty days longer vvitij profit to the racing association ami to that popular port in which thoroughbreds measure strides to determine which is the fastest or lias the greatest endurance. The result of tiie meeting proves con elusivelv that Louisville, growing to be a large city, will support a longer meeting. If there was a spec tator who was dissatisfied with the entcrtaiiinienf offered he could not he found. The sport was of high class throughout and free from the nasty talk which is usually indulged in hy men who wag. r their money and lose il."
