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TRACK IN FINE CONDITION SUPERINTENDENT ROSS COMPLETES IMPROVE ¬ MENT OF THE LEXINGTON RACE COURSE Reselling Ruditching and Regrading Most Important Features of tlic Job Trainers Begin Fast Work in Preparation for Fall Meetings Lexington Ky July 27 The Kentucky Associa ¬ tions mile track will be in line condition for the racers run over during the thirteen days meet ¬ ing sehcdnleil to open August Superintcndcit Ross lias completed the v irk of resoiling reditch ing inl regradlng the eotirse and it is now in better dupe than at any time since the plant passed froiii i he iHlate of Captain Sam Itrown to the present as ¬ ocial ion which is ellieiently ollicered by President atesby Woodford Secretary Garret I Wilson Ex ¬ ecutive Cinnmittecmcn O II Chenault Hal Prior Jlendley and It I linker and Treasurer Younger Alexander AlexanderSuperintendent Superintendent Hoss has put new soil on the track wherever needed and he has been liberal in the fill ¬ ing and spreading For about a quarter of a mile along the liackslivlch approaching the half mile post and in its vicinity the new soil vis spread to an average depth of about me inches This was the worst place in the track Much of the soil that was put upon the i rack came out of the ditches into which it had been vashed The ditches are now aiHillt three feet wide and ver one foot deep all the way around The nirns have also been shaped up and greatly im ¬ proved The hill in the intiehl at the head of the homestretch has been scraped down about two feel er an urea of several hundred yards and dumped uto the low swampy place near the halfmile iiMind A quantity of tiling has been put in so that the low places of the infield will be letter Iralnml Ten carloads of sand have been ordered r r delivery within the coming fortnight and this uill be spread upon the inside track which is to be i d for winter exercise exerciselire lire re are now quartered at the Kentucky Asso ¬ ciation grounds 1 K horses of which fortylive aiv yearlings Until this week the twoyearolds and oider horses have had only moderately fast work since their return from Latonia It really has been loo hot to work horses fast except whore absolutely iecess ry This week however a few have been Bollix halves in about 51 and threequarters in about I The best work reported was threequarters in 15 by lohn K Madden s Flora Fina a tbreeyear itid filly by Ogden Flora Pomona PomonaThe The Madden horses are not usually trained over the Kentucky Associations track but last spring Hie master of Hamburg Place rented several stalls in one of the barns and instructed Chuck Walker to twin in every day whatever lie hail ready and work them out using the stalls meanwhile and for fooling mt purposes The track at Hamburg Place I being regraded and widened widenedGeorge George J Stoll owner of The Mcad nys Stud has tialf dosseii yearlings of his own breeding in traili ¬ ng at the Kentucky Association course They are iir colts and two fillies all by Nasturtium Th pick of the lot apiwars to be a brown colt out of iialy of the West and he is the only one of her Joals that lias really seemed to M ssess the qualities T a good race horse since she threw Ilermis Katy 1 1 the West is now the pn i crty of Mr Stoll having been presented to him something more than a year JIK by Ills fatherinlaw II A Kngman who grew tired of paying the bills on so irregular a breeder Katy of the West missed again this year but Mr oll says he believes she is now safely in foal The iiestnut colt out of California is a good individual ind is the last of the produce of that good mare California died last spring while foaling The brown oit out of Aunt Bet is the first of his dam and is hapeiy The bay filly wit of Scattercash Is a sis er to Nash Cash but looks nothing like him The firolhcr to Yemassee out of Highland Princess is i toipy looking chestnut colt The other member of MerrilyMr I he string is a brown filly out of Merrily Mr Stoll has eight marcs and four sucklings it TJi Meadows The sucklings are all by Nasturtium and the one most highly prized is the sister to Ros fnrtiiim a chestnut filly out of Pink Rose The t thers hers are a chestnut colt out of Highland Princess i liruwii filly sister to Sylvestris out of Annul ind a chestnut filly out of Aunt Ilet Merrilys foal iied and Seattercnsh trampled and killed her handsome brown colt The other mare at The Mead ¬ ows is Dutch Uarbara by Flying Dutchman DutchmanThe The raciestlooking of the yearling fillies that have come to the track to be broken is the sister to G M Miller by I issak Subdue by Star Ruhr Tins illy is owned by Hart Brown of this county and is ii the public stable that has just been opened by Kimliall Patterson Mr Brown believes that she is the best individual yet produced by her dam and he lias made up his mind that she shall race for him lie lias already refused 1800 for her and it is 10 be bolted that he will not meet with such bad luck as he had with her halfbrother R G Miller by St Leonards II This was the fast colt that Charlie Patterson was training in the spring of 3011 He hud a collision with another horse after unseating lliis rider and died of a broken back backiolonel iolonel Milton Young chairman of the Kentucky j tite Racing Commission has accepted the invita ¬ tion of the Ohio State Fair Association to judge the birses to be shown during the annual exhibition at ColumhuK i A Blanchl will arrive here Monday from San Francisco with the stallion Bearcatcher and four other thoroughbred They will be quartered at The Meadows Tames McManns was here during lie week had a look at his horses and left for fliicago fliicagoAllan Allan Steelc came here from Canada Tuesday and l ouht from William Steele the threeyearold John J Wakelield He says the son of Jean Bereaud is a good prospect
