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LOUISVILLE TRACKS SLOW RECENT RAINS PREVENT FAST TRIALS AT CHURCHILL DOWNS AND DOUGLAS PARK. Jockey Kennedy Abandons Idea of Going to Germany and Will Rejoin the Wainwright Stable Gossip from Kentucky Sources. Louisville, Ky., August 29. More than 200 horses worked yesterday at Douglas Park and Churchill Downs. Because of track conditions, due to recent rain, fast trials were out of the question. Among; the horses which were out were Harrigan, Round the World, Pinkola. Angelus. Any Port, Cash on Delivery, Royal Report, The Reach. Quartermaster, Jenny Geddes. Lackrose, Eye White, The Hague. . Robert, Artesian. Sauce, Mary Davis, High Private, Tommy Thompson, Al Muller, Parkview, Royal Captive, Discontent, Johnny Pitts, Jndgc Sale, Sigurd and Indian Maid. Today there was again much activity at both tracks, practically every one of the 350 horses in training here being on the tracks. Most of thent cantered over the extreme outside of the course, as other parts of the track remained decidedly heavy. Among the horses that worked impressively warn Tom King, Turret, Splendid, Sir Kearney, Garden of Ophir, Administer. Mud Sill, Nannie McDee, Ben Catlett. Judge Sale, Zienap. King Olympian, Captain Bravo, Delthorpo, Dixie Hart, Pink Cheek. Egglestine. Eland, Rompie, Free Lance. Royal Captive, Short Order awl High Private. Such stars as Round the World, Pinkola. Harrigan and Quartermaster were all on the track, but most of them did slow work. O. A. Bianchi returned from Latonia today, bringing with him the crack two-year-old Presumption, and the two three-year-olds Star ORyan and Tay Pay. The other horses in James McManus string, in which Mr. Bianchi has an interest, were to have been shipped to Lexington today in charge of trainer Steve Judge. They will be brought here asvsoon as the Lexington fall meeting Is over. They include Silver Knight, Rocky OBrien. Golden Agnes, Alta-rec, Jeanne dArc. Portarllngton and Rosslare-Messrs. Bianchi and McManus have in contemplation the purchase of a blue grass breeding farm. They have not as yet dacided whether they will buy hero in Jefferson county or locate near Lexington. When the place is secured all the breeding stock owned by both of these turfmen now in California will be transferred to this state. Raleigh Colston is expected to arrive here with his string of horses from Saratoga early the coming month. He still has Colston. Princess Callaway and some two-year-olds in his barn, but he has disposed of the three-year-old Silver Brush and one or two of Ills younger horses. Mr. Colston shipped to Saratoga from Latonia more to give his string the benefit of summer training at that place than in anticipation of doing any eastern racing. According to reports his horses are all doing well. A carload of horses were shipped from here to Chicago today to participate in the two days meeting at Hawthorne. September 2 and 4. About the best in the collection were John Griffin II., Spalding and G. L. Doyle. All these horses will be returned to the Downs immediately after Labor Day. William Walker, a colored trainer who developed the great tilly Round the World, reached here from Canada today. . lie will go to Lexington, where ha expects to pick up several youngsters at the coming yearling sales to race in Mexico next winter. Mr. Walker says most of the big stables in Canada will bo heading this way. J. Hal Woodford, the Bourbon County turfman, was a visitor today looking over the horses in training here In which he has an interest. Mr. Woodford has horses in two stables here, one of which in trained by W. H. FIzer and the other by John Huffman. J. C. Cahn. owner of Mockler. also returned from. Canada today, nis horses have been quartered here, while he went to Canada with the view of buying a horse or two to strengthen his stable. He was unsuccessful in this mission, as he says good horses are not obtainable at reasonable figures in Canada just now. J. R. Wainwright has eleven horses in his training stable this fall. One is a yearling chestnut colt by Star Shoot La Pucelle, by Eshcr. The others are older horses, including Al Muller, High Private, Sigurd. Indian Maid, Janio Ware, Royal Captive, Short Order, Trance, Johnny Pitts and Polly Pucelle. Two or three weeks ago jockey N. Kennedy requested his release by Mr. Wainwright so that he could accept an offer to ride in Germany. Mr. Wainwright consented. A few days ago trainer Luzader received a letter from Kennedy saying that he had concluded not to go to Germany and desired to renew his contract with Mr. Wainwright. Trainer Luzader wired him to come on and the jockey will join the stable here at the close of racing at Windsor. Mr. Wainwright is now in Yellowstone Park, accompanied by Cliff Westfall. Mr. Wainwright will return to Kentucky for the opening of the fall racing season at Lexington, wliero several of his horses, now at the Downs, will be raced. Trainer Luzader hopes to bring Trance back to the races. Several of the old stantlbys of the Wainwright stable, notable Dr. Waldo Briggs and Gypsy King, have been sold and are off the turf for good. Trainer W. II. Fizer, who has twenty-five racers at the Downs, has at last succeeded in getting disease out of his big string. The horses most seriously affected Boca Grande, at one time valued at 0,000, and Plutocrat are now taking their work. Eye White, Judge Sale. Discontent and Sauco are looking unusually good. Mr. Fizer has several maiden two-year-old youngsters of real promise. He has been in Lexington for several days looking1 over yearlings which he will shortly take up. At present he has but one of this age in his barn at tho Downs. Lon Jones has not as yet transferred his horses, in training at the National Stock Farm, to Churchill Downs, but will bring them to the local track early next month. His good two-year-old filly, Azyiade. has grown some and spread out considerably since her return from Latonia and Mr. Jones expects much of this daughter of Cactus II. J. C. Milam has a yearling brother to Dick Baker which is reported a promising youngster, and ho also has a likely filly out of Fonmate. A colt by Knight of the Thistle and a fillv by The Scribe-Elizabeth B. are also promising. It is expected that eastern turfmen who will race in Kentucky this fall will be among the .bidders at the Hildreth sale at Sheepshead Bay September 7.
