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BRINGS THOROUGHBREDS FROM CALIFORNIA. 0. A, Bianchi Reaches Kentucky With Band of Yearlings and Weanlings. Louisville, Ky., August 0. A. Bianchi has reached Churchill Downs from Sacramento, Cal., with a string of horses and is now quartered at the Fourth street entrance of the track. Mr. Bianchi has recently been alllcted with rheumatism, but Is much improved now. His horses shipped well from California and met with no mishap en route. The older horses Bianchi brought to Kentucky include Jim Gaffuey, Keep Moving, Turret, Tender Bloom and Oaklaud, the other members of the string being four yearlings and two weanlings. Mr. Bianchis yearlings include a bay colt and a bay lilly by Tim Iayne, and a bay colt aud a chestnut filly by Bearcatcher, the sire of Oakland. The Bearcatcher colt is out of Resignation II., by Racine, while the filly by Bearcatcher is out of Maid of Fennoy, by Trcntola. They are all nice sized vearlings and have been broken to ride. The weanlings that Mr. Biancri brought with him he will let run out in Kentucky next winter and take up for training as yearlings in the summer of 1912. Both are fillies and are by Bearcatcher, one being out of Resignation II. and the other out of the noted race inure Torsida, by Torso. Another colt which he brought from California is n yearling that W. G. Yanke recently purchased in that state and which is now in the latters stable t the Downs, lie is a handsome black colt by the siiccssful sire Orsini and out of Dora I., the dam of tin spcodv Jim Basey. This is the only yearling I the owner of Round the World has purchased so far this season. Mr. Bianchi will race his horses here and at Latonia during the coming fall and then gb to Mexico to race at Juarez next winter. That Iks brought all of his yearlings and weanlings to Kentucky shows that be has little hope of the restoration of lacing In California in the near future. Mr. Bianchi for years confined his racing to California and bred a number of good horses at his Sacramento establishment. , Acting Secretarv Edward Jasper of -,.,. the Louisville Racing Association lias received a request for six stalls from the eastern trainer, F. I. Weir. The latters string has been resting at Latonia since the summer meeting ended, while Mr. AVeir lias been at his home in Now York. The Weir horses are expected to reach Churchill Downs within a few days. He has in his string the well known performers Heleue, Bat Masterson, Galley Slave and Barley -thorpe. The recent death in Canada of James "Soup" Perkins removes, save A. Clayton and Monk Overton, the noted colored riders who rode successfully in the, days of Isaac Murphy. Pike Barnes, Tony Hamilton and AVillie Simuis. The big feature ot the Churchill Donws fall nieet- ing. the four-miles Kentucky Endurance Stakes, scheduled to be run Saturday, October 7, will be the richest event of the American turf this season, and probablv will be worth close to 0,000 to the winner. It will be the first four-mile race decided at Churchill Downs in over thirty years. The last race run here at that distance was in Septomlwr, 18S0, when Jim Malone, a three-year-old chestnut colt by Hiawatha Mollie AV., with ninety-live pounds up and ridden by Downing, was the winner. The race was called the Merchants Purse and was worth ,000, of which 50 went to the winner, 25 to the second, 5 to the third and 0 to the fourth horse. The six-year-old Gen. Phillips, US pounds up and ridden by AVolfe. finished second, and Belle of Nelson, live years old, carrying 115 pounds aud ridden by Stone, third. I
