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SEEKING HORSES FOR HAWTHORNE MEETING. Louisville, Ky., August 24. T. W. Flynn, owner of Starry Night, Rubia Granda, Lotta Creed and other useful horses, was at Churchill Downs yesterday and secured " stall room for his stable of nine horses, which lie will ship here from Chicago during the second week Jn September. Mr. Flynn came from Chicago with John J. Brit-tain, secretary and treasurer of the Chicago Business . Agents Association, and John MastersOu, who are active in the promotion of a three-days race meeting at Hawthorne, Chicago, including Labor Day. with purses rangiug in value from 50 to . The mission of the men who accompanied Mr. Flynn. here is to secure sufficient horses for the races at the Chicago track. They offered to stand the shipping expenses of the horses and guaranteed that the purses would bo promptly paid. Mr. Flynn says such race meetings will be given at various times in Chicago to show the present generation what a drawing card a race meeting is. He believes that within a few years racing will be legalized in Illinois under a State Racing Commission Law such as aow governs the fcport in this state. The horses Mr. Flynn will bring here to race next month are all .training well. Rube Varing, a Cincinnati breeder, has sold to 1 ! i i f i ; ! : Robert Davies, of Toronto, OnL, the yearling filly by Dick Welles Flash of Lightning, by Prince of Monaco. This youngster is a sister to Lady Lightning, winner of the Cincinnati Trophy. A Canadian turfman has liought of Dr. J. D. Ncct, the Woodford county breeder, the two-year-old bay filly. True .Step, by Handsome Independence Day. by Spendthrift, for 00. Trainer W. II. Karrick has asked for stall room for twenty horses here this fall, and he will bring that number to the Downs to race in the colors of II. K. Knapp. J. E. WIdener and F. R. Hitchcock. Trainer Karrick will ship to Churchill Downs from Saratoga during the first week of September and will bring his entire string of twenty horses here. IJc figures on shipping from the Downs to Lexington some seven or eight horses to race during the coming Kentucky Association meeting, but the bulk of the string will do no fall racing until the Louisville meeting begins.
