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PRESAGE BRILLIANT RACING EIGHTEEN STAKES TO BE DECIDED ON KENTUCKY TRACKS DURING COMING FALL. List Is More Attractive Than Ever Before Offered for Fall Racing in Blue Grass State Kentucky Gossip, Lexington, Ky., August 22. A total of eighteen stakes will be carded at the three tracks comprising the Kentucky circuit this fall, and seventeen of these events will close for entries September 2. The only event which has already closed is the Kentucky Endurance Stakes, at four miles, to be run at Churchill Downs Saturday, October 7. The fifty-one days of fall racing in Kentucky will be divided as follows: Lexington, nine days, Thursday, Scptcmcbr 14 to Saturday, September 23. Louisville, eighteen days, Monday, September 25, to Saturday, October 14. Latonia, twenty-four days, Monday, October 1G to Saturday, November 11. The seventeen stakes of these associations which will close on Saturday of next week are as follows: Lexington. " Autumn Cup Two and one-quarter miles. Phoenix Hotel Handicap One and one-eighth miles. Idle Hour Stakes Three-quarters of a mile. Scnorita Stakes Three-quarters of a mile. Brewers Selling Stakes One mile. Louisville. St. Leger Handicap One and one-sixteenth miles. Shawnee Handicap one and one-sixteenth miles. Fall City Handicap One and one-eighth miles. Cherokee Stakes One mile and twepty yards. Iroquois Handicap Three-quarters of a mile. Golden Rod Stakes Three-quarters of a mile. Latonia. Autumn Inaugural Handicap one and one-sixteenth miles. Rosedale Selling Stakes Five and one-half furlongs. Criterion Handicap Three-quarters of a mile. Kentucky Handicap Oue mile nnd seventy yards. Fort Thomas Handicap Three-quarters of a mile. Endurance Handicap Two miles. With the rich Endurance Stakes at four mUes added to the above, it is a fine array of stakes that is presented for this falls racing in Kentucky. A few years ago it would have been regarded as highly improbable that such rich stakes would ever be decided during a fall racing season in this state. They ensure n highly successful period of sport in Kentucky during September, October and November. Beginning this week many of the horses In training at the two local tracks will be sent along again in their work, and in the next few days trials for speed will begin to bo in order once more. Any number of horses at Douglas Park and Churchill Downs are even now ready for fast trial with little tightening up, and in a few days things will be unusually lively at the two local courses. Beginning next week arrivals will be the dally order at both Churchill Downs and Douglas Park. Some of the stables in Canada are already packing up to come here and several eastern strings will be here within the next few days. J. J. McCalTerty is looked for here within a few days to take up several two-year-olds he has hail turned out near Lexington. One is a colt ho thinks highly of by Russell, out of his favorite mare Cleora. The latter is the dam of Charley, a horse which Mr. McCafferty raced with success. Mr. McCafferty will try to get most of his youngsters well seasoned in Kentucky the coming fall for winter racing.
