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RACING AT BLUE GRASS FAIR. Lexington, Ky., August 5. There will Ik? some interesting racing running, trotting and pacing at the annual Blue Grass Fair here next week. Superintendent James P. Boss of the Kentucky Association is in charge of the running races and will likewise do the starting. He lias announced two races for each of four days Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and says, the fields will be made up of horses now in training at the Kentucky Association course. Such horses as John Grillin II., Leamence. Bob Co. Alice Baird. Otilo. Maid Militant. J. W. Carter, Ethelda, Lady Bereaud, Going Some, Filnioro, Balronia, Cowdin. John Furlong, Grover Hughes, Betty Lester, Agnes Wood, Prosper, etc., will participate in the races for three-year-olds and upward, while there are sonic twenty-live or thirty available two-year-olds at the track. The running program is as follows: Tuesday First race; three-year-olds and upward: one mile and an eighth: subscription 10 each and 00 added. Second race; two-year-olds, live-eighths, subscription . each and 00 added. Wednesday First race; for three-year-olds and upward: three-quarters of a mile; subscription each and 00 added. Second race; maiden two-year-olds, live-eighth of a mile, subscription each and 00 added. Thursday First race: three-year-olds and upward: one mile; subscription 0 and 50 added. Second race, maiden three-year-olds and upward, three-quarters of a mile; subscription each and 00 added. Friday First race; all "toges, three-quarters of a mile; subscription each and 00 added. Second nice, three-year-olds and upward, one mile and a quarter: subscription 0 each and 150 added. On .Monday there will ,be a couple of novelty races, the lirst for ponies under fifteen hands high at one mile to lie ridden by inemliers of the Lexington Polo Chili, the winner to receive a silver cup and the second for mules to be ridden by members of the Elks lodge. The entrants for this race are to start at the stand, run a quarter of a mile the reverse way of the track, turn around a barrel and run over the same quarter mile the correct way of the track to the finish. The winner will receive a silver cup. and Secretary Shouse agrees to pay the hospital bills. On each of the first livC days there will lie a cup race for light harness horses to wagon open only to members of the Gentlemens Driving Club, and on four days there will lie light harness races to sulky for professional drivers.
