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ALL EEADY IN KENTUCKY FALL RACING IN" BLUE GRASS STATE TO BEGIN NEXT THURSDAY. Successful Meeting Anticipated at Lexington, Where Season Will Be Inaugurated I. H. Wheat-crofts Dispersal Sale Flans. Lexington, Ky., September 9. With the opening of the Kentucky Associations meeting here next Thursday afternoon, the fall season of racing in this state will have been inaugurated. There will be sill told fifty-one days of racing, nine here, eighteen at Ixmisvillo and twenty-four at Latonia. The stake entries that were announced this week for the three meetings indicate splendid contests "and it is to be expected that the sport here and at the other tracks will be of a generally high order and liberally patronized. At the local track everything is in readiness for the meeting, and with the exception of a few that are to come over from Cincinnati and Ixniisville, the horses are all here. In central Kentucky jus-t now money appears to be easy with those who generally patronize the sport of racing and the Kentucky Association probably will score another financial success. Irving II. Wheatcrofts definite announcement that he will take the St. James Stud of thoroughbreds from Kentucky to Australia and disperse them by public auction at Sydney, came this week as another heavy blow to the breeding and racing interests of the United States. Mr. Wheatcroft has been identified with the thoroughbred horse interests in this country only four years, but in that time he has been a sustaining force and to lose him now means a great deal. He came into the sport at New Orleans in the winter of 1907 as a wealthy man seeking recreation and diversion from a world of business matters out of which ho had built a great fortune. He lwught a few horses ami had fun racing them in the name of II. Clark and Co.. the II. Clark being bis sister-in-law. Miss Helen Clark, of New Orleans. In the fall of 1!0S he came to Lexington and invested about 0,0H in stallions, mares and weanlings at the MeGrathiana dispersal sale, taking out of that stud the most choice mares, together with the great sire, Cesarioji. Ho leased a portion of the famous Woodbiirn Farm near Spring hi Station and kept his marcs there for a year. At Tfctlie dispersal of the Millstrcam Stud lie bought the Icase on Oakwood Farm and moved his horses there, in the meantime importing the young stallion, St. Savin, from England and making a number of purchases of choice mares at various sales, including the Senorita Stud dispersal. Ho went in for racing also on a larger scale, maintained a good-sized stable and likewise became a stockholder in the Kentucky Association. It is not because he has lost any of his fondness for breeding and racing that he is now going away to Australia to sell his horses, but it is because of the passage of the drastic laws in many states of this country blighting the sport and making the ownership of so largo a number of thoroughbreds as Mr. Wheatcroft has a burden instead of a pleasure. There are to bo 150 horses in this big shipment. They will leave hero during the first ten or twelve days in October on :i special train for Vancouver. B. C, or Seattle, Wash., and there be put aboard a steamer sailing for Sydney. Australia, October 2S. The shipment" will be made up principally of broodmares, there being nearly one hundred matrons. The others will include thirty-odd weanlings, a dozen yearlings, half a dozen horses in training and five or six stallions, among them St. Savin, Cosarion, Kismet and Don Royal, all imported from England except Cesarion, which now heads the list of winning sires of two-year-olds in tills country as he nas before. The shipment is to be covered by about 50,000 insurance and the cost of transportation from Lexington to Sydney will be about 0,000. Mr. and Mrs. Whentcroft and their young son will sail for Australia the first week in November and will remain until the horses are sold. Upon their return to the United States they will go to Oklahoma, where Mr. Wheatcroft has several state banks and a big mule and cattle ranch. The lease on Oakwood Farm will expire in February, but the probabilities are that Mr. Wheatcroft will make arrangements to turn over this farm to Mrs. Charles P. McMeekin, Its owner, as soon as he takcSjhis horses off it. The turf In the United States will probably never again know Irving H. Wheatcroft. He was a game buyer of the best ldood iri these parts and it is to lie hoped that he will not quit loser on his dispersal sale in the far-away antipodes. There was not a great deal of work at the Kentucky Association track tins morning, the majority of the horses out being given only light gallops or tightening up for tomorrow. Among the more notable moves were: Alice Baird Mile in 1:43. Donau Three-quarters in 1:15. .Ten" Bernstein Three-quarters in 1:151. Raleigh I". I. Three-quarters in 1:15s. Wing Ting .Mile in 1:43J.
