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PREPARE FOR 1,200 HORSES OFFICIALS OF LOUISVILLE RACING ASSOCIA. TION EXPECT STABLES TO BE FILLED. Prospects for Fall Meeting at Historic Churchill Downs Exceedingly Bright Racing to Be Provided by Best Horses in Training. Louisville, Ky.. Augtist 30. The fall meeting of llii! Louisville Racing Association will open at Churchill Downs on September 25. to continue eighteen days. Edward Jasper, acting secretary, has stables prepared for the reception of 1,200 horses and it is believed that fully that many will be here. Already there are at the Downs and Doug-las Park more than ."50 racers. This is a greater number than has over been housed here before at this time. Never before have prospects been so promising for brilliant racing at a fall meeting. The best stables in training, both east and west, will be hero. In fact, some of these mighty strings of racers are already here and in active preparation. The best of the older brigade and the cracks among the two-year-old stars of the year, such as the 0,1100 Worth, the California crack, Presump Hon; T. C. McDowells sensational youngster. The Manager; the Cincinnati Trophy winner. Lady Lightning; the unbeaten Oakland, and others will meet here in stakes and special races. lioyal Report is training grandly for the 8.000 Kentucky Endurance Stakes, at four miles. Trainer Ceorge Land lelieves he has a good chance to capture this prize. Mr. Land will send Royal Iteport to Lexington to run in the Autumn Cup, at two miles and a quarter. This will give Royal Report a real tryout for "the four-mile race, which is to be derided" here on October 7. Many horses worked at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park today. Both courses were still a little slow and no sensational time was recorded. The best work-outs were: ..utter Rail Half mile in HI J. f hnpullepcc Quarter mile in 25J; looks extra good. Wlout Five-eighths in 1:05; slowing down. 1 Harrlgan Half mile in 52J. easily. High Private Half mile in 52: is at his best. Imprudent Throe-eighths in 38: under a pull. Joe Knight Three-Eighths in 30J: is rounding to. Ladv Ormieant Quarter mile in 20; will soon be tit. Mary Davis Milt; in 1:50, easily. . Miss Juneau Quarter mile in 20, cantering. Iinkola Three-eighths in 40, cantering. Quartermaster Five-eighths in 1:04$: looks good. Rose of Jed da It Three-eighths in 3S: is good. Round the World Half mile in ."2.. cantering. Royal Captive Five-eighths in 1 :05. cantering. Royal Report Mile in 1:4!; done impressively. Snap Three-eighths in 40, easily. The Hague Mile in 1:55; cantering all the way. The Reach -Three-eighths in 38: looks good. y anker Three-eighths in .".!; is much improved. Other horses on the course seemingly capable of working fast included Jim GnlTney. Mockler. Tomniie Thompson.. Al Midler, I.aekrose, Angelas. Jack Den-man. Cash on Delivery, Presumption, Judge Sale, Pilain aud Star Blue. .1. W. Frye has a string of twelve horses at Douglas Park and all are taking regular work. Princelike has apparently recovered from the serious lameness which atllicted him at Latonia and is doing as nicely as any horse possibly could. Others in 1!ie Frye string include .Toe Knight. Star Blue, Colonel Cook. Colonel Holloway. Cheer Up, Itose of Jeddali, W. II. Ford, Colonel Brown, County Chairman and Lewis. The latter, since his purchase from R. L. Thomas, has been gelded. II. R. Brandt has only four horses now in his stable, Ilarrigan. Angelus. The Rush and Cash on Delivery being the quartet. Nethermost, which he let go to Chicago last summer from Latonia, he has since learned, is dead. Mr. Brandt acquired Nethermost at Juarez last winter in a trade with J. II. McDonald, the latter securing the speedy sprinter Crestou by the deal. Nethermost was a frequent winner a season or two back, but he did little suc-ressful racing for Mr. Brandt, having evidently seen his best davs before Harrigans owner secured liim. F. J. Pons has a dozen horses at Douglas Park doing nicely. They consist of Edna Collins, Jack Denman. ireat Heavens, Grace Ale, Pliant, Font. Jim Milton. Rockcastle, Lady Ormieant, Louis Dos Cognets and Busy Miss. It is not likely any of this string will be shipped to Lexington. They probably will do their lirst racing the coining fall at the :uitumn meeting here. In removing the old records of the Louisville Racing Association from the city to the track office, a remarkable volume was dug up. It Is a diary kept ly the tirst president or the Louisville Racing Asso-elation, the late Col. M. Lewis Clark. It shows the wonderful character of this noted turfman and how careful lie was in every detail connected with racing. The book minutely gives every happening, day in and day out in his life on the race track and In the same volume he kept an account of the business of the course. -Its historical features, if published, would prove a notable addition to the annals of the Kentucky turf. W. G. Yanke is expected to return from Mexico City in a few days. He went there witli Signer Alexandre de la Arena, the present head of the Mexican Jockey Club. Upon his arrival here he will at once begin to actively train the racers he owns in partnership with W. E. Applegate. Mr. Yankes Round the World looks grand just at present. She is galloped every day at the Downs. Mr. Yanke will point Round the World especially for the St. Leger Handicap, which is to be run on the opening day of the meeting September 25. This race is at one mile and one-sixteenth. It will be an unusually Interesting contest owing to the fact that in it will be such contenders as Pinkola, Ilarrigan, Ocean Bound, Countless, Cherryola, Round the World and Swannanoa. . Having three nominations Watervale, Flint Rock Lind Trap Rock in the Kentucky Endurance Stakes, August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club, is expected to be represented at the coming meeting at Churchill Downs bv a select string of horses, several of which are the get of the .25,000 English Derby winner. Rock Sand. Acting Secretary Ed Jasper has forwarded to Mr. Belmont stake blanks for the meeting and looks for other entries from his stable in the events which will close here on Saturday next. Another big eastern stable that is expected to nrrive here early the coining month is that of Thomas Fortune Rvan, in whose string are such jrouiising two-year-olds as Daingerfield. Belle Hampton and Wondawhy. According to latest reports "Wondawhys trainer, W. M. Carter, looks for the daughter of Sempronius to come back in the fall to Hie good racing which marked her early perfonn-tinces here last spring, when she raced like a filly of considerable class. Trainer J. O. Keene will bring nine horses to race at the coming fall meeting at Churchill Downs for the "Woodford County member of the Kentueky State Racing Commission, J. N. Camden, and ali of them are two-year-olds. Thej will not be shipped here until the fall meeting at Lexington is over, but Acting Secretary Ed Jasper has already assigned a stable for their occupancy at the Downs. They embrace Wheelwright, Merode. Batavia. Tirzna. M.V-cene, Agora, Bonne Chance, Tonga and Belgian, the last two named having not as yet faced the barrier. Wheelwright, Tonga, Batavia, Belgian and Mycene are all 1912 Kentucky Derby eligibles and Agora is the stables candidate for Kentucky Oaks honors next year. R. F. Carman will ship thirty-five horses to Kentucky at the close of the present Windsor meeting and "the headquarters of the big string will be at Churchill Downs, though the New York turfman will race a division of his stable at Lexington. Among the noted horses Mr. Carman will bring to race at Churchill Downs are: Bonnie Kelso, his Kentucky Endurance Stakes candidate; Meridian, winner of the 1011 Kentucky Derby: Magazine. Campeon. Sherlock Holmes, Merry Lad, Dynamite. Rogon. Sly Lad, Ar-cite. Sir Alvescot. Pasadena Queen, Sir Cleges, M. Cambon. Diamond Buckle. Colonel Ashmeade. Inspector Lestrade. Stepfather. The Turk, Horizon, Semprolus, Starbottle. Dr. Watson. Lady Sapphire, California Queen, Stare and Conipton. After this fall the inner track at Churchill Downs will be converted into a turf course and sowed in bluegrass. Its conformation will not be destroyed and at some future time the horses may be allowed to race over it as a turf track. Just beyond the inside track in the field a landscape gardener will beautify the grounds in front of the grandstand. A bed "of growing plants with the inscription "The Lonisville Racing Association," will be a feature of this improvement.
