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HORSES HEADING FOR SPOKANE. Spokane, Wash., July 20. So anxious are some horsemen to quarter their stables near the Alan track, which will be the scene of a thirty-days program commencing September 11, that the half mile track at Coeur dAleue will be used before the new Idaho track is ready for work-outs, which will be about August 15. Carroll Davis has wired from Vancouver regarding quarters for his string of six horses and has been advised to ship his horses to Coeur dAlenc immediately. Waldo G. Paine, traffic manager of the Spokane and Inland railroad, reports that he has been notified that eight carloads of 1 horses will leave Vancouver within a week, bound for the Lake City track. Phil Kellly, who is booking horses at Vancouver for the now Idaho track, reports that two tralnloads. or over 225 horses, will be in Idaho three weeks before the formal opening. The pavroll of the new racing association is now ,000 per month, eighty-five men being employed on construction work. Frank St. D. Skinner, handicapper and associate judge of the new course, writes from Butte that he will be in Spokane for a day next Sunday. He reports Unit Butte horsemen are planning to invade Idaho in a lxxlv for the September-October meeting. .Mrs. Harry Green, wife of the well known turfman Who died last winter, was a reeont visitor at the Alan track, talcing much interest In the work which is nearing completion. Harry Green had much to do with giviug. .SuvUane a place on the racing map many years ugo
