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LEXINGTON TRAINEES BUSY PREPARATIONS GOING FORWARD FOR FALL RACING IN THE BLUE GRASS REGION Some of the Horses Already in Sharp Training for forthn thn Blue Grass Fair Races Next Week Budget of Gossipy Items Lexington Ky August Since the rejuvenation os it were of the mile track the horses stabled ii lhi old Kentucky Association course have begun i move along in preparation for the fall meeting i thirteen days that is to open here on the last day in this month Superintendent Ross has had utting harrows on the track this week and the piling is now better than it has been in many years flu new soil that was sr amply spread has become assimilated with the old and the result is a lively course courseTin Tin liest move of the week was threequarters in 114 by A It Lowes Miss Thorpe last Thursday uioining This mare is getting ready to run at the riiu Grass Fair which is to he hold at the trotting i nick here the week after mxt and for which super it nndent Koss has arranged an interesting program running races There will be eight races during i lie live days beginning Monday August 12 Inci i utilly this program will Include the first all aged race of the year It will IK run on Thursday August 1 The distance will l e threequarters of i mile Twoyearolds will carry eightyright minds threeyearolds 112 pounds and fouryearolds Superintendent Koss said today that IIP is assured tf g l iields for all these races Purses of l iO livided 7 per cent to the winner 0 per cent to second and 10 per cent to third are not to be rie iilseil in these days of high feed and long waits ietwien meetings when all that it is necessary to inning them is to go about a mile across ivu said he A number of the trainers at the theiHk iHk have told me that they regard going after i hose purses equivalent to working out for they have to give the horses exercise anyhow There will JK more horses for the fair this year than ever in fore and the racing will be correspondingly more innresting t s UocJsi tlw Hen Brush horse with which John sou N Camdcn hopes to win the second running of the Kentucky Endurance Stakes of four miles at htirchill Downs October 7 worked a mile in 145 Ticsjlay morning for Tiny Keezick who is Jack Keeucs assistant trainer The Camdcu yearlings s ventecn in number and probably the bestlooking Collection ever turned out from the Hart land Stud sure to the track from Wood ford County Thursday u iirning to be broken Tiny says he expects to tuve them behaving nicely and looking sleek by the tuie trainer Kteue returns to Kentucky from the i St He is due hero about August 2 Helios the a is ns champion twoyearold is still running out i HarllMud Farm He will not be raced again this ar Mr Canidcn is saving him for the Kentucky Iieiby and wants him to get all the development id strength possible possibleTin Tin fastest move for any distance since the spring i reling was a quarter in Tuesday morning by hrrlcs McKeimas twoyearold Nasturtium colt Foundation in the public stable that AVill Mc Hiiuiel is training traininglu lu some quarters there has been considerable leculation as to whether or not there will be a scarcity of horses for racing in Kentucky this fall ID so far as Lexington is concerned superintendent Ituss thinks nor There are now at the track ex lusive of the yearlings about 150 horses Applica ¬ tions for stable room for the meeting have been received from J S Ward and J F GalTuey who are now at Latonia W H Kirrick who is at Saratoga with tin Hitchcock and Knapp horses F I Weir liues Fitzsimmons and W M Wallace who are Hi Canada There have also been numerous inuuiries ts to dates etc indicating that stalls will be wanted There are numerous horses at Louisville Hint will come here hereThe The real scarcity of thoroughbreds is going to be found when the time comes in September to market the yearlings W J Treacy who is com ¬ piling tin pedigrees of the youngsters already listed for the Kentucky Sales Companys auction during the fill meeting here said yesterday The yearling crop is short as to numbers but from what I gather of the opinions of those who have inspeetd the youngsters pretty generally in this section they ire of a better quality than usual Last September the number of yearlings offered at our auction was something over 00 This year there will be about 100 less In the event of increased racing in 10i the values on racing stock will advance greatly Mi Treacy said that the yearlings already listed for this sale are by such prominent and successful sires as Star Shoot Yankee Hamburg Cesarion Maria Simla Voter Celt Hastings Goldcrest Kryn Mawr Mi7agan Cunard Stalwart Miller Orlando Box Dick Finnell and McGce and among them are many new relatives to racers of the highest class classThe The Vancouver newspapers have some complimen ¬ tary expressions over the victory of Henry Mc Danicls twoyearold Stout Heart in the principal juvenile race at Miiiorn Park Stout Heart is by Stalwart Two Heart and was bred in partnership by Messrs G D Wilson of Lexington and Walter son Showalter of Georgetown He was sold here last fill is a yearling for 250 Another Stalwart that Ts iimning well in the northwest is C W Pelhams Itepublican ItepublicanA A I Woodman arrived here this week from Tulsa Okhu with Hiram Louise K Elfall and Calash ill said the meeting at Oklahoma City was a splen ¬ did one The parimutuels were in operation and I hey made a big hit with the people lie predicts wonderful and rapid improvement in Oklahoma jic ing under the French system of betting bettingCaptain Captain Thomas J Clay returned this week from Montreal where he served as presiding judge at the King Edward Park meeting It was one of the best meet ings I ever attended or at which I ever oilieiated said he Of course the running was over a halfmile track but it was clean and the people I met were delightful and enthusiastic about the sport The stand will seat 000 and there is simple room for the construction of a mile track This I understand is to be done The plant is lo it d on a beautiful island in the St Lawrence river riverFred Fred A Forsythe was here tills week and arranged with Ilnlelgh Colston to handle three yearling fillies that are to be sent over from his Fountainbluo Tarm in Mercer County right away These fillies are all ly the dead sire Oddfellow and out of Hlmyar mares There is a sister to Bon Homme and Merry Beau out of Belle of St Louis a sister to Fountaiiiblue Twilight Queen and Shooting Spray out of Ferrol iud a halfsister to Knights Differ out of Indiffer ¬ ence Tho Ferrol filly is in the Breeders Futurity for lOtll and Mr Forsythe wants to get her started in training trainingJ J C Milain purchased during the week from Cctosby Woodford the chestnut colt brother to Al ¬ bert Star by Star Shoot Lady Alberta and the buy fllly sister to Lens by Star Shoot Queen Dixon DixonClaude Claude Ryley of Versailles has purchased from Harry Stanhope the chestnut fllly by Yankee Gun Dcnr Maria and has turned her over to Kimbnll Pittersou to be trained Tames C Rogers sent to trainer Patterson last Wednesday the yearling chest ¬ nut colt by ITermis Emma Goodrich GoodrichO O A Biauchi has fllcd a claim against the trans portalion company for 7iO for the loss of the wean ¬ ling thoroughbred colt by Salvation Torsido by Torso which contracted pneumonia en route from California to Kentucky in a car witli ten other thoroughbred horses and died at Ogdcn Utah last week Tho bill for the transportation of the horses was 785 but Mr Bianchi succeeded in getting the horses off the car when they reached here last Monday without making payment He now offers to nay the agent 5 and give him a quietus on the claim It is quite likely that the matter will get into the courts before it is definitely settled Mr rianchi says the colt contracted pneumonia through the action of the transportation company in putting ice into the tank out of which he was watered and that after he did get sick which was at Sparks Nevada he was not able to get any medicine or company attention or aid until Ogden wits reached and that the colt was dead within twenty minutes after the companys man came to gee about him himOne One of the most admired yearlings at the local track is Fletcher Drivers chestnut colt by Meelick Floreal daughter of Alloway and Anyday sister to Caiman by Locohatchee This fellow is said to greatly resemble Meelick In big coloring and con ¬ formation and he has through his coat a scattering few roan hairs just as his sire had By a triple Derby winner and out of a winner of the Ken ¬ tucky Oaks ho looks as if be should be a race horse lie is goodtempered and has a pleasing way of going He has not been long enough in training to be asked to show anv speed
