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LOUISVILLE PROGRAM TO BE ATTRACTIVE. Fall Fixtures of Last Year to Be Renewed, with Kentucky Endurance Stakes Additional. Louisville, Ky., August 15. Edward Jasper, acting secretary of the New Louisville Jockey Club, has arrived "here and, with Manager M. J. Winns assistance, will begin immediately to compile tlie list of stakes for the coining meeting at Churchill Downs. Mr. .lasiier has been at his home iu Cincinnati since the Latonia summer meeting closed, but from now on will have his hands full looking after affairs in the secretarys ollice here, besides, getting the list or stakes prepared for the long winter meeting at Juarez. The stake program for the coming meeting at Churchill Downs will be more attractive than ever. All the big feature events of last fall will lie renewed, with tlie additional attraction of the four-mile Endurance Stakes. The $:!.O0O added by tlie New Louisville Jockey Club to this event probably will make- it the richest stake run in America this season, and it will no dbuht draw a record crowd to the Downs on the day it is decided, reviving as it will memories of the famous long-distance races of years ago. Following the usual rule, the purses and handicap races will Ik; announced in weekly books, so that, as the racing goes on from day to day, conditions mav lie framed to fit the occasion. The Endurance Stakes probably will be run during the closing week of tlie meeting, more than likely on the last day. which is Saturday, October 11, in order to give all the candidates the necessary time for preparation. Some preliminary races will be provided at distances ranging from a mile and a quarter to two miles. T. Hatfield will bring his speedy horse Emperor William to Churchill Downs early In September, and looks for the son of Sain to give a good account of himself on tlie Kentucky tracks the coining fall. This good-looking horse lias been greatly atllicted with lameness. Senor Alexandre de la Arena, the wcaltliy Mexican turfman, has departed for Mexico City, having fulfilled his mission to Kentucky and New York, lie was accompanied to Mexico City by V.. G. Yanke. owner of Hound the World and other horses. Mr. Yanke will remain in Mexico City for a few days and will then return here, where his big string in training is quartered. Carroll B. Keid. who trained The Picket when that great horse won the American Derby and the Brooklyn Handicap, and who until and including last season raced a string of. horses, campaigning lien Tro-vato, Third Kail and others, has taken up farming and is doing well on an estate he purchased near Houstonville. Kv. He says he is trying to get back some of the 0,000 he lost at racing in the last few years. Someone made this remark in the hearing of Fat Dunne. "He only lost 0,000. you sayV Well, he got off cheap, according to my experience, is all I have to say." said Dunne. Mr. Keid now has only one thoroughbred colt. Morris and Hamilton are new arrivals here with their string of horses, the star of their stable being the speedy old gelding Gemniell. Jockey George Glasncr, who was injured when Tritoma fell with him in the summer of 1910 at Latonia, may try training a stable of horses the coming fall, hut it is said at his home in Tennessee that he will never attempt to ride again.
