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SELECT BATES FOR STAKES SCHEDULE ARRANGED FOR DECISION OF IMPORTANT RACES AT LEXINGTON. Quality Rather Than Quantity Expected to Be Feature of Entry Lists That Closed Yesterday Gossip of Blue Grass Region. Lexington, Ky., September 2. Entries to the five stakes that closed today for the Kentucky Associations fall meeting will probably "not be numerically heavy, but. "judging from those that have already been received, Racing Secretary Shelley is of the opinion that an abundance of quality will be represented in the list for each event and that splendid contests will result. The dates upon which the .stakes are to be decided havo leen fixed as follows: Thursday, Septemlier 14 Autumn Cup, a handicap for three-y ear-olds and upward, 1,000 added; two and one-tjnarter miles. Saturday. September 10 Senorita Stakes, for two-year-old fillies, $."00 added; six furlongs. Tuesday. September 1! Phoenix Hotel Fall Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, 000 added; one and one-eighth miles. Thursday, September 21 Idle Hour Handicap, for two-year-old colts and geldings, 00 added; six furlongs. Saturday, September 23 Brewers Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward, 00 added; one mile. As a feature for Wednesday, September 20. it is announced that there will be u race for amateur riders, the horses to be threo-yeai-olds and over, and to carry welter weights. In addition to a purse of 00, the winner is to receive a silver cup valued at 50. The field is limited to eight starters, the limit being placed for the safety of the riders. It is expected that the majority of the riders in this race will come from the ranks of the Lexington Polo Club, though it is open to all comers who are jtititlcd to classification as "gentlemen riders." The program book foe the meeting is in the hands f f "ithfs. printer and will- be Teady for distribution - among the horsemen next Thursday or Friday. Tliero has been nothing out of the ordinary in the work of the horses here this week. They did not have a really dry track over which to gallop until today, because of heavy rains earlier in the week. Truck Superintendent Ross has the barns in good shape for the reception of the horses that will begin coming in from Saratoga, Canada, Louisville and Ijitonia next week. Among the latest applicants for stable room are Lon Jones, C. C. Van .Meter, George M. Odom, A. V. Bellew, .7. F. GalTney, Grover Baker, K. It. Brvson, A. I. Worley, A. .1. Gorey, .7. B. Respess, John O. Ferriss. "William Wallace and II. II. Selby. Alexander Grant left here Thursday night for Oak Kidgo, Va., to take charge of the thoroughbred broodmares and yearlings at Thomas Fortune Ryans great farm. Mr. Grant has the reputation of being one of the best broodmare men in the Vnited States. He was for a number of years employed by James 15. Haggin and Col. Milton Young. John Miller left Thursday morning for Brookdale Farm. New Jersey, witli twenty-four yearling lillies that Harry Payne Whitney purchased from James B. Keene. This leaves at Castleton Farm eight yearlings belonging to Mr. Whitney and they are to go to w York whenever trainer James Itowe is ready to receive them. A car load of thoroughbreds came from the east "Wednesday night and were taken to John K. Madmens Hamburg Place. It is presumed that they :ire the animals that Mr. Madden had in training at Gravosond during the summer. George J. Stoll sold the yearling sister to Mary Emily to Gallaher Brothers Friday morning and earlier in the week he disposed of the chestnut colt liy Nasturtium Meddlesome She to Charles Me-Kenna. The sister to Mary Emily -worked a quarter :i short while back in 2:51. The Meddlesome She colt lnis not been broken. The catalogue for the thoroughbred yearling sale that is to be held here under the auspices of the Kentucky Sales Company during the fall meeting went to press today. It contains ,I0S head. The last consignment listed was that of W. OB. Mac-Iouotigli, who will send five of his California-bred yearlings from the Ormondalo Stud. They are by rslni and Ossary and will arrive in Lexington next Saturday. Secretary Walker lias kept track f the ierforinances of the thoroughbreds that were sold here as yearlings last September and he says that out of 1S head that went under the hammer, forty-eight are winners of 112 races and an aggregate of 2,827. The principal winners are American Girl. Worth, Orlando Lady, Mary Kmily and Working Lad. A meeting of the Kentucky State Racing Commission will be held within the coming ten days to pass upon the deferred measures intended to do aiway with auction pools and forbidding telegraph or telephone wires within the racing enclosures of Ibis state. It is expected that at this mucting resitonses to inquiries addressed to subscribers to ihe Kentucky Endurance Stakes of four miles will be nvailahle and that the commission will then be :ible to ascertain whether or not former Secretary Bidwell received casii with all the subscriptions or extended credit in some instances.
