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HORSES WORK WELL AT LOUISVILLE. Louisville. Ky., September IS. There were some fast trials today by horses in training at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park. While the courses were good, they were not fast. The 0,000 Worth worked an eighth In 12, quarter in 24. three-eishths iu 302. half in 50, live-eighths In l:03g and three-quarters lu 1:19, pulled up. He was in hand throughout. The best mile was by High Private. He started from the quarter post on the back-stretch and ran the mile in 1:43s. Other -work-outs: Adams Express Half mile in 50; could have run faster. Al Muller Five-olgbths In 1:032; looks fit. Bettie Sue Five-eighths iu 1:04. Fractionals: 24J, 3S. 50i. Carlton G. Three-eighths in 40, easily. Falcada Mile in 1:49. slowing. Fauntleroy Five-eighths in 1:10, cantering. Jim Gaffney Mile in 1:55, easing. Lady Reif Quarter In 25, handily. Little Father Five-eighths iu 1:03J; first half in 50. Melton Street Mile in 1:472. Mockler Three-quarters in 1:1S?. Nadzu Mile in 1:50, cantering. Pajarolta Quarter mile in 20. cantering. Pinkola Half mile in 52. cantering. Prince Ahmed Quarter mile in 25, handily. Recompense Five-eighths in 1:052; first half in 51?. Rue Quarter mile in 20i: looks good. Slrngo Three-eighths Iu 38J; has all his speed. Sir Marion Half mile in 51g; worked with Recompense. Spindle Seven-eighths in 1:332, easily. Stinger Half mile In 40; worked with Adams Express. Tom Hayward Quarter mile in 20, cantering. Turret Mile in 1:55; worked with Jim Gaffney. Jockey Willie Dale Is here to resume riding. He has applied for a license. Dale forniely rode for Grover Baker. Lou Johnson and others. Ho can ride at 100 pounds. Dale has lieen getting In condition at the farm of Crowley and Lemp, near St. Louis, where he spent last year breaking yearlings. Crowley and Lemp have a two-year-old and. a three-year-old, the latter by Pentecost, that will be sent hero to race. Dale has broken in all nine yearlings, the get of Wounded Knee, Pentecost and a former crack of the Belmont stable, Mizzen. Among the many improvements made at the Downs Is the substitution of larger posts at the quarter, eighth and sixteenth. The eighth and quarter posts will be of one color and the sixteenth of a different color. R. F. Carmans ten racers, which he shipped to Lexington, have been returned to the Downs. He made no explanation as to why he curtailed his stay at Lexington. The supposition is that track conditions did not suit his trainer. Elijah Rrewster announced that Fulfill will be sent to the stud at the conclusion of the fall racing season in Kentucky. She will be mated with Cu-nard at E. R. Bradleys Idle Hour farm. J. W. Schorr, owner of Fulfill, also has at Idle Hour Farm the mare, Woodlane, which Is now iu foal to Cunard. Turfmen from Missouri visited the Downs today and stated that a party of racing men and others Interested in the turf had formed a Jockey Club and secured a lease on the track on the Rock Road leading from Wellston, not more than fifteen minutes by trolley from St. Louis. The track has been used recently as a course for automobiles. It is one and one-eighth miles in circumference. The club members are reported to le hopeful of lu duclng the next Missouri legislature to enact a law similar to that which governs racing in Kentucky, and if so. it is proposed to hold a summer meeting in 1912. There will be no conflict with racing in this commonwealth. If the plans materialize a costly grandstand will be erected. The program book for the first week of the Churchill Downs meeting is belug distributed.
