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; 1 ; ; 1 ; i : . ; . , ; r 1 l l . : , . , ! GOSSIP FROM KENTUCKY SOURCES. Churchill Downs to Have Good Array of Fall Stakes Eugene Elrod Recovers His Health. Louisville, Ky., August S. Most of the horses at Douglas Iark are in regular training, though the majority are only as yet cantering and galloping slowlv. There is more activity among the horses at that track at present than there is at Churchill Downs, as at the latter plant the track has been undergoing improvements, while at Douglas Iark the going never was better. The coming fall meeting at the Downs will be marked with the usual big array of stakes. From now on events of the guaranteed sort are prohibited and an association must state the amount of the monev added, as the rule passed by the Kentucky State Racing Commission covering this point went into effect when the recent Latonia meeting ended. From July 15 to December 1, however, a cluli is compelled to give only 00 purses, a provision that will not be taken advantage of by the New Louisville Jockey Club, as Manager M. J. Winn will likely hang up an average of ,500 per day during the coming Tall meeting at Churchill Downs. Acting Secretary Edward Jasper is expected here in a few days and. soon after his arrival, the fall program will be announced. The stakes will be as attractive as usual and conditioned so as to secure all the best horses now in training as contestants. II. H. Brandts smart two-year-olds, Cash on Do-livery and The Reach, are looking exceptionally well at Douglas Iark and attract much attention. They have filled out considerably since they came here. Mr. Brandt will race at Juarez the coming winter and is likely to make as early a start for there this year as he did last season. lie thinks the climate and weather conditions at Juarez cannot bo improved on for horses. George J. Long is not so sure that some of his vearling fillies of this season will not outshine his colts. He has a likely bunch of fillies this year and more than one trainer at the Downs has been casting "wistful eyes" at them. The Louisville member of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, according to reports, has a grand bunch of sucklings this season, they being considered by good judges to be as fine a lot of foals as were ever produced at Bash ford Manor Farm. Trainer Ieto Coyne has as vet taken up only nine of the Long yearlings and there are eight other youngsters of this ago now at the farm. These, however, he will take up shortly, as the ones he now has in charge aro giving him little trouble in their first training. Ed Alvevs 1inkola lias not been taken up as yet and is still running out on a farm. The Latonia Derby winner of 100S is now apparently in perfect condition and seems as fit as possible to go into training again. Mr. Alvey has not as yet decided m whose stable he will put the son of link Coat when he brings him in from the farm within the next week or ten days. George Land will be a new recruit for Mexican racing the coming winter. He will take Royal Report and his Qther horses to Juarez when racing ends on the Kentucky circuit. Jockey J. Deavenport will go to Mexico with liiiu. Leslie Combs Bruce died recently at Greenville. Conn. He onco raced a stable of thoroughbreds and in the lifetime of the late Col. M. Lewis Clark was a frequent visitor at Churchill Downs. lie was associated with his father, Col. Sanders D. Bruce, in several of the hitters racing ventures, and at one time was with him in his publication business, ciiief of which was the American Stud Book, which was finally purchased from Colonel Bruce by the Jockey Club. Mr. Bruce was a nephew of Benj. G. Bruce, long secretary of the first Louisville Jockey Club. Kugene Elrod. manager of the betting rings at Lex- inglon, Louisville, Latonia and Juarez, has arrived home from a lengthy stay at Mt. Clemens. Midi., much improved in health. Mr. Elrod at once conferred with General Manager Matt J. Winn and together they journeyed to the Now Louisville Jockey Club grounds to inspect the improvements being made there in the pari-mutuol department. He will be able to resume his official duties when the fall sea-sou of racing opens in Kentucky. He is among the best known of the racing officials of today, hav-i ing been in constant service on the track since the early eighties, lie came to the race track after a successful career in connection with the theatrical business. Mr. Elrod has aided Colonel Winn in the last few years in perfecting the details of the pari-mutuel pooling. He has always contended that wherever introduced it only took time to make the mutuels the most popular system of race track betting and the success with which they have met at Churchill Downs has fully verified his judgment. It is likely that Louisville race-goers would not now accept any other mode of betting. Lon Jones has Azyiade and his other horses turned out at the National Stock Farm, but is preparing to take them all up within the next ten days and begin training them again. Former jockey W. J. Buckuoldor, who is now at his home in this city, may return to the Argentine Republic, having had a good offer to act as an as- sistant trainer for one of the most successful Ameri-. can horsemen racing there. Luke Rrodhcad, a resident of Woodford County. who is now out of racing and breeding, was a visitor to the city yesterday. Mr. Brodhead was for years manager of tho famous Woodburn Farm in Woodford County, when conducted by A. J. Alexander. Such mighty horses as Kingfisher, Harry Bassett, Foxhall, Salina, Joe Daniels, Poteen, Duke of Magenta. Aero-I bat. Springbok, Counter Tenor. Chant, Lizzie Dwyer, Cape Race, Gray Planet, Lizzie Lucas, Katie Pease, Hubbard, Don Fulano, Franklin, Troubadour, Joe Cotton and Bob Miles were all bred when Mr. Brod- head managed tho place. II. G. Bedwell will have one of the most preten-j tious stables at Juarez the coining winter. Earlier in the summer ho figured on coming to Churchill Downs the coming fall, but ho lias since changed his mind, and during the coming Louisville meeting he will be represented by only one horse, that being his starter in the four-mile Endurance Stakes, probably Nadzu.
