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WET TRACK FOR OPENING HEAVY RAIN GIVES MUD RUNNERS CHANCE AT LEXINGTON COURSE. Fall Season of Racing: on Kentucky Circuit to Bo Ushered in This Afternoon with Good Card Fireman Favorite in Stake Feature. Lexington, ICy., September 13. Rain fell heavily here this morning and the Kentucky Association will have a heavy track for the inauguration of the fall season of racing in Kentucky tomorrow afternoon. The skies, however, cleared during the afternoon and the prosiects are that tomorrows weather will he fair. The card for the opening day is, considering the track conditions, considerably above the average for fall meetings here. Horses possessing mud running qualities are predominant in each of the six races. The inaugural dash at three-quarters is a particularly attractive race, calling out, as it does, Cherryola. Raleigh P. D., Old Honesty, Quartermaster, Bobby Boyer, Nimbus, Old Honesty and Helono. The feature of the card is the Autumn Cup Handicap at two and a quarter miles, to which the association adds 50 and a cup valued at 50. The race elosed with eleven nominations and ten have accepted weights and probably will start. Countless, which was given the top impost of lis pounds, is the only horse declining. Fireman, from the string of George Odom, is the one most talked about and the probabilities are that he will be the public choice. The second race failed to till and this necessitated a split of the lifth. The otticials for the meeting will be the same as in the spring Capt. Thomas Clay, presiding judge; G. 1. Wilson, secretary; AV. H. Shelley, racing secretary, clerk of the course and haudi-eapper; -Mars Cassldy, starter; Tom Brown entry clerk and John Walsh, paddock judge. Kiigene Elrod will be superintendent of the betting ring and his erew for the pari-nvutuel machines will be practically unchanged, unless it bo in the mattT of clickers. The Kentucky Association executive . committee, when it was made known to them that f the pari-mutuel machines that were sent hero from k Lauisvillu Had not been equipped with the electrical attachment permitting the ticket sellers to operate I the registration of tickets sold, decided that they would pay tlie clickers only .50 per day. Heretofore they have received per day and some of the old hands declare they will not accept the cut. The expectation that the Kentucky State Racing Commission will at its meeting tomorrow morning adopt the amendment proposed thirty days ago to abolish the auction pools, caused the oliicials of the Kentucky Association to announce an increase In the daily admission to .50 for gentlemen and 1 for ladies, and this has created considerable public dissatisfaction and may have the atfect of greatly decreasing the attendance. The price of admission to the Lexington track has never been more than for men and 50 cents for women. The jockeys who are here and ready to ride are fl. Archibald. Kennedy, McTaggart, Mountain, Moleswortk, Ganz, Goose, J. Allen, Dishman, Skir-vin, B. Steele. C. Turner, D. Austin, R. AValcott. .7. Moore, T. Koerner, J. Patrick, R. Hoifman, J. Deavenport, F. Jackson and O. Fain, All of the oliicials are hero, with the exception of starter Mars Cassidy. who is due tonight from Brooklyn, N. Y. His assistants arrived last night. There are about 500 horses on the grounds for the meeting, the latest arrivals being from Saratoga, Louisville and Latonia today. AA. II. Karrlck Ill-ought sixteen head from Saratoga. They include Rouncer. Dust. Fumeur, Puck, Wyandot. Kaiser, Igloo and Snare, belonging to F. R. Hitchcock; Sickle, Sprite, Gates and Sandspit, the property of II. IC. Knapp: Rapacious and Rouncing Lass, the ! proportv of Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., and Rossoni. owned by Harry I Stone. Raleigh Colston arrived xlso from Saratoga with Colston, Princess Callaway, Steeplejack and Fillibeg. From Latonia Hugh McCarren brought Camel, Red Rob and others. J. T. Weaver brought .Markic M.. Lady Lightning, Foxy Mary, J. II. Patten, Labold and Jack Rain. George Land came with Royal Report, Colleta and Coletter. Fred Luzader sent over Sigurd and Royal Captive of tlie J. R. Wainwright stable. There was a report current this afternoon that T. C. McDowells crack youngster. The Manager, had sustained an injury that may throw him out of training for the rest of the season.
