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ENDURANCE STAKES TO BE RUN OCTOBER 7. Louisville, Ky., August 10. Acting "Secretary Edward Jasper has opened the track offices at Churchill Downs and with the assistance of Manager M. .7. Winn has begun the preparation of the conditions of slakes for the coming fall meeting of the New Louisville Jockey Club, which begins September 125 and ends October 14. It has been decided to close the stakes on Saturday, September 2, the date on which the stakes for the fall meetings at Latonia and Lexington will close, all three tracks using the same date of closing. It has been decided to run the Endurance .Stakes, four miles, on Saturday, October 7, the twelfth day of the meeting. At last accounts Secretary W. K. Bidwell of the Kentucky State Racing Commission had twenty-two subscribers, who have the privilege of nominating one, two or three horses to this stake, only one of which can start. Secretary Bidwell was not present at the meeting of the racing commission at Lexington last Thursday, and it is therefore not known if he received any extra subscriptions to the big race. The complete list of subscribers will be announced as soon as Secretary Bidwell can be located, as well as the horses the different nominators have entered. Already trainers have begun to get the long-distance champions of their stables into condition by gallops at a mile and a half and two miles in preparation for the big stake. George Land cantors Royal Report two miles slowly at the Downs daily. A horseman from Latonia says that W. J. Spiers has already worked Markie M. two miles and that the Watcrhouse Cup Winner never looked lietter and is training soundly. Joe Morris is mentioned as a probable contender for the rich r.icc and among other noted horses which are expected to go to the Iost are Bonnie Kelso. Countless, CherryolUi Meadow, Cintrella, Boola Boola, Superstition and Governor Gray. For the first time in several seasons George J. Long lias no mature horses in his string at the Downs iu charge of trainer Pete Coyne. While there arc now sixteen in Ids barn, only one is a three-year-old, while six are two-year-olds and nine are yearlings. Five of the latter are by the Kentucky Derby winner Sir Iluon and four are by Semprouius. The latter bunch of youngsters are further advanced than any other yearlings in training at the local courses, and the entire nine head have already been worked for speed an eigiith of a mile, and several have gone slow quarters. There arc two fillies and two colts in the hunch that are most precocious. Mr. Long has ten more yearlings at Bashford Manor Farm which will be taken up later on this season, and some of them are also credited with being promising. So with his one three-year-old and six two-year-olds the Louisville member of the Kentucky State Racing Commission will have a training stable of twenty-six horses. Trainer John Huffman has three extra good looking fillies in his barn at the Downs by the American Derby winner, Pink Coat, one a three-year-old and the others two-year-olds. Tlie three-year-old i a chestnut, out of the good race, mare Fieuron, and is named Pink Cheek. She went wrong when W. II. Fizer was training her as a two-year-old, and has been turned out for nearly a year. Mr. Huffman thinks well of her, but hardly expects to race her before the Latonia fall meeting. One of the two-year-old fillies Mr. Hoffman has is a bay out of Calculation, by St. Florian. W. II. Shelley probably will go to Mexico at the conclusion of tlie fall meeting at Churchill Downs, to act as presiding judge at a race meeting in November in Mexico City that Senor Alexandre dc la Arena is promoting with the assistance of the Mexico Jockey Club. He will go if he finds it will not interefere with his preliminary duties at the Juarez track. According to tlie present program there will be ten days intermission between the close of the proposed meeting iu Mexico City and the opening of the Juarez meeting on Thanksgiving Day.
