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LEXINGTON DIRECTORS TO MEET TODAY. Lexington, Ky., August 28. A meeting of the directors of the Kentucky Association will be held tomorrow to take action on matters concerning the coming fall race meeting of nine days, which will begin here on September 14. At this meeting the directors will have before them for approval the conditions of the races that arc to make up the program. These conditons were written during the past week by Racing Secretary William Shelley. The directors will also fix the amounts of the purses. There will be no race for less than 00 added money, the Kentucky State Racing Commission at its meeting on August 10 having adopted a rule requiring that the minimum sura for added purses to be the same as in the spring, consequently the distribution of money among the horsemen who will participate in racing here this fall will be greater than at any autumn meeting at the local track in the past. J. W. May has wired from Windsor for ten stalls. He will come here- with Countless, Mary Emily and others after the close of the Windsor meeting next Saturday. Superintendent James P. Ross of the Kentucky Association track left last night for Windsor in the interest of the Lexington stakes. R. F. Carman wired from Detroit that he will ship thirty-five horses to Louisville after the Wind-tor meeting and that he will race twenty of them at Lexington. , Green 15. Morris wired from Butte, Mont., that lie is leaving for Lexington with his horses. Henry McDaniel, now at Latonla. has made application for twelve stalls for the Lexington meeting. John Miller will leave here Wednesday or Thursday with twenty-four of the yearlings that Harry Payne Whitney bought from James R. Keene. They are to be broken by James Rowe at Brookdale Farm iu New Jersey.
