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LOUISVILLE TRACK IS BAD PROMISING RACE IS DECLARED OFF BECAUSE OF ITS CONDITION. Ten Stakes Announced for Forthcoming "Winter Meet-ins at Juarez Raleigh P. D. and Bettic Sue Beat Favorite in Handicap. Louisville. Ky., October 10. Track conditions today were the worst of the meeting ami served to detract from the racing. Many of the races suffered materially from withdrawals and the third, in which only four were named to go, -was declared ii on account of the scratching of Granite and Swannauoa. A substitute race at three-quarters was hastily arranged and completed the card. Favorites and second choices again accounted for most of the races, the exception coming in the opener, in which Lucky Wish downed the short-priced favorite, Iteautiful. The latter was backed with great confidence, but was decisively beaten throughout. The handicap at six furlongs went to Italeigh I. D.. with the outsider, Bettie Sue, in second place an.- Housemaid, the favorite, third. The .winner profited during the running by the tactics employed by the rider of Housemaid and Little Father in racing each other into exhaustion Juring the first half mile. .Silver Knight scored his third succes.ve victory when he came home far in advance of Discontent, Longhand and Sigurd in the closing dash. Matt J. Winn, general manager of the Juarez track, announced today that ten stakes would be run at the Mexican course the coming winter. Six will have ,000 added, three ,200 and one ,500. Colonel Winn will leave on Monday next for Mexico i.ity and -will be accompanied by William H. Shelley and Tom Brown. They will stop one day at Juarez on their way to the Mexican capital. Jockeys C. Turner and A. W. Booker were suspended by the starter for the remainder of the meeting for disobedience at the post. T. W. Flynn is contemplating shipping his string if racers to Mexico City at the close of the Churchill Downs meeting. J. W. Schorr shipped Aylmer to the Hartland stud near Lexington to be turned out for the winter. Lucky Wish and Henry Hutchison paid ;t7..7 in tho successful luutuel combination. Koy Dillard, representing Eugene Elrod, will leave for Mexico City next week and will have charge of the betting ring there. It. F. Carman will ship sixteen of his horses to Latonia on Saturday next. Twelve others of his ftable will follow on Monday. H. C. Hallenbecks horses, in charge of trainer Frank M. Taylor, will be sent to Latonia on Saturday. There is little likelihood of Follic Levy and Worth meeting in a special race at this track because of the present unfavorable track conditions. George Odom will offer Nimbus and Fireman for sale by auction on Thursday next in the Churchill Downs paddock. Dr. Phelps, who is serving as paddock judge here, and who will serve in a similar capacity at Latonia. is a member of the Kentucky Veterinary Association. Secretary Edward Maginn of the Latonia Jockey Club left today for Cincinnati to take up the preliminary work attending the openimr of the meeting on Monday next. Applications for stall room for about six hundred horses were received by him during his brief stay here.
