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LONG DISTANCE RACES AROUSE INTEREST. Royal Report and Fireman to Be Shipped from Louisville to Lexington for Autumn Cup. Louisville, Ky., September 11. Trainers, were never quite as busy as they are at present at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park. The near approach of the fall racing campaign in Kentucky, which begins at Lexington next Thursday, Septem-lier 14, is the cause of this activity. While many of the horses at Douglas Iark and Churchill Downs require only a little training to lit them for a race, they are in the condition that calls for the closest care and attention. There will not be many of the ."00 horses now here that will go to Lexington. The large majority of them will remain here for the opening of the eighteeu-days meeting, which begins at Churchill Downs -Monday, September 25. Stables, for instance, with "ten horses in training will send two or three to Lexington, though there are several strings which will go to the Kentucky Association track in their entirety. Among the horses which go from here to Lexington are two candidates for the four-miles Kentucky Endurance Stakes, to be run at Churchill Downs on Saturday, October 7. These are Royal Report and Fireman, which are engaged also in the Autumn Cup, two miles and a quarter, which will be decided at Lexington the coming Thursday. George M. Odom. owner and trainer of Fireman, Hatters himself that this three-year-old has a royal chance of winning one or both of these rich events, lie believes he will go a route as well as any horse in training and. standing In his stall yesterday, lie looked as fit as hands can make him. George Land, who trains Royal Report, thinks as well of his chances as Mr. Odom does of Firemans. There never was a race which lias caused more discussion at the local tracks than the Kentucky Endurance Stakes. The fact that it will be worth more money than any event decided on the running turf tliis year carries some weight, but the trend of the arguments has been as to the ability of the various forty-one entries to stay the distance and the methods their trainers will pursue in fitting them for the big race. It is surprising how the horsemen are searching the old-time "dope"lon longdistance races and they eagerly listen to any story having a bearing on such contests. This race has become, in fact, the talk of the track and has aroused keen interest. The horsemen figure that there will be at least ten starters in the race, and they regard it as a foregone conclusion that if weather and track conditions are favorable the fastest four-mile, lace ever ran will that day be decided. In the old days in such contests many of the riders used to wait with their horses until the final half mile, when they would make their run for the itrize. There is not a trainer today at Churchill Downs and Douglas Iark who does not believe that the Kentucky Endurance Stakes is one four-mile race in which there will be no waiting tactics and that the horses will run their best from the rise of the. barrier. Riders of today know little about the waiting game. Their instructions generally are to "get back here as quick as you can," and they invariably do that, so it is safe to say tills great race will ho run as old John -Harper said, "from eeud to eend." Trainer Shelby West will take eight horses to Lexington to race for L. P. Doerhoefer, including Mary Davis, Tommie Thompson, Ursula Emma and Danger Mark. He may also take along the noted mare, Melisande. which goes to the stud, and will likely be turned out at II. P. Headleys La Belle Farm. Mr. West has the Doerhoefer horses in grand condition and expects the, string to make a good showing this fall. Trainer 1. Coyne will ship to Lexington six horses belonging to State Racing Commissioner George J. Long. They are mostly two-year-olds. Oiin Johnson has arrived at Churchill Iwns with Shapdalo, which lias been resting at Latonia.
