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GOSSIP FROM KENTUCKY SOURCES. Louisville. Ivy., August 19. The program of the , running races for the coining Kentucky State Fair at Douglas Park, September 11 to 10, has been announced. ; There will be five running races, four of which will be worth 00 to the winner. The remaining race is a gentlemens cup contest for a silver trophy. It Is expected that the running races at the fair , tills season will be of Interest, as the stables at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park are filled with horses, and many owners will fancy a preliminary race at the fair to get their horses in condition for the meeting of the New Louisville Jockey Club at Churchill Downs. The Gentlemens Cup race at the State Fair Is set for Friday, September 15, and all riders who desire mounts In the race, must file their application with the racing secretary on the preceding Tuesday. Last year the Gentlemens Cup race was won by Ornamosa, ridden by William Caldwell, and the latter also won the trophy in 1909 011 Adder. Mr. Caldwell will again have a mount in the race this season and R. Pierce and Bert Collyer arc two other riders who will have mounts in the coming race. There will be no running races on Saturday. September 10, that date being given over entirely to the harness horses. With the two and a quarter miles Autumn Cup contest at Lexington, the four-mile Endurance Stakes here and the two-mile Endurance Handicap at La-tonia, long-distance racers will have an inning in Kentucky the coming fall. A horse heretofore not mentioned in connection with the four-mile Endurance Stakes, to lie run here on Saturday, October 7, is being carefully prepared for the rich event at Latonia by that skillful trainer, Henry McDaniel. This horse Is. Polls and recent reports from the Kenton County track state that be is In grand condition, having entirely recovered from a bad shaking up in a jam in his last start at Latonia in the Cincinnati Hotel Handicap. This son of Voter has In all his best races apparently favored a distance of ground, though when at his best he is by no means lacking in speed. R. II. Anderson, the Scott County breeder who owns Joe Morris, the Latonia Derby winner of 1910, and a prominent Endurance Stakes candidate, may conclude to race at Juarez track next winter. Mr. Anderson has six yearlings now being trained for the first time and he may conclude to send some of these youngsters over the border to race In 1911 as two-year-olds. Three of his colts are by Dick Finnell. the brother to Dick Welles and Ort Wells, and he has a colt by Orlando and two fillies by Dick Finnell. The colt 63 Orlando is a chestnut in color and is out of Lnmpover, by Lamplighter. Eugene EIrod is back from his trip to Lexington and is making his headquarters at the Jockey Club office at Churchill Downs. He will remain in the city until next month, when he will go to Lexington to get things in shape in the betting ring at the Kentucky Association course for the coming fall meeting there. He does not think that the abolition of the auction pools will call for the installation of more machines than were operated at the Downs last spring, although he expects the patronage to increase in the higher-price devices in which 5 and 0 tickets are sold. L. P. Doerhofcrs stable at the Downs Is looking well under the caro of Shelby West, aided by the veteran horseman, his father. P. M. West, who lias In the same barn several horses owned by L. B. Newman. The two-year-olds in the Docrhofcr stable are looking and doing well now, and trainer West is especially sweet on the chestnut colt Tonimic Thompson and the unbeaten two-year-old filly, Ursula Emma. The latter is among the few fillies engaged in the Kentucky Derby next year. Pres West, who is aiding his son and looking after the Newman stable. Is one of the veteran trainers of the track. He had winning horses under his care whon the first race meeting was held at the Downs in 1S75, and since that time he has saddled many noted performers. Ho trained the sensational Ply-away and the great three-year-old Jim Gore.. One of his early horses of note was Levant, one of the first two horses the late Louisville turfman. Nick Finzer, owned. He won the Stirrup Cup. two and one-eighth miles, in 3:49, beating the mighty Drake Carter and other noted performers. He also ran third to Drake Carter and Gen. Monroe in the Autumn Cup, with Bluegrass Belle, Fostcral. Ella Warfield, Compensation and Bushwhacker behind him. This Is the race in which the three-mile record was lowered to 5:24, which was the best American mark at the distance for more than twenty years.
