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EXPECT FROGLEGS TO RUN RUNCOLT COLT COUNTED UPON AS CONTENDER IN DOUGLAS PARK INAUGURAL HANDICAP With Free Lance an Absentee Star of Schorr Stable May Rule Favorite Douglas Park Improve ¬ ments Wearing Completion Louisville Ky August 20 Tho superb form shown In Canada by John W Schorrs great tluvo year old Froglegs adds greatly 1o the interest in the running of the Douglas 1ark Inaugural Handi ¬ cap which will bo decided on tin opening day of the touting fall meeting at lliat course on September It With tin great Tree Lance out of tin race Frog legs will surely be one of the strong favorites for this race no matter what impost Secretary Magiui mav ask tlic crack threeyear old to rarry It is prolalily that in this ran Froglegs will In pittei against the best horses he has yet met but his rac ¬ ing in Canada all season has loen so hrilliant that he must he reckoned upon as a dangerous factor in any field that can lie hronght together at a mile or over The Douglas I ark Inaugural Handicap now looms up as one of the greatest handicap contests of the entire year It will IK worth ahout 4000 lo the winner which will make it a prize eagerly Nought NoughtThe The Improvements under way at Douglas Park are advancing rapidly Manager Ilachmeister is rush ¬ ing the work in order to get the betting ring finished by the last of the week so that he can take ses seslon lon of the ollices lie has already begun to beautify the plant with lower beds and within ten days or two weeks the grounds will be as complete for a iiat race meeting as any track in the land landSecretary Secretary Lyman II Davis at Churchill Downs is cigerly waiting lor September 2 to come around that being the dato for the final naming of the burses for the rich fourmile Endurance Stakes h constantly in receipt of letters from all over the country asking for information as to the probable i larters in the long race Of course the list of nom ¬ inators practically make it ixssihlo to guess what the probable entry list will consist of but it is known that several of the subscribers are endeavoring to cure horses to represent them in this event which an not at present in their stables The Mexican horse Tecoac is expected to arrive here early in September from Mexico City Trainer Alex Melvin f if Diving this racer a careful preparation for the Endurance Stakes and he really liolicvcs that IVcoic will be able to hold his own with the Amer ¬ ican horses in a fourmile race raceA A number of tho stables now racing in Canada will be shipped to Kentucky as soon as the coming Windsor meeting is over Few of the horses to be behipped hipped from Windsor will go to Lexington They will come direct to Douglas 1ark and Churchill Downs DownsX X It Davis has changed his mind relative to ship ¬ ping his good twoyearolds Nash Cash and Ros turtium to Havre de draco in Maryland and will willi i ml them to Douglas Park the lirst of next week S Kelly who is also at Iitonia today wired Man ¬ ger Hachmeisler for stall room for his horses He i ar Attentive Flirting and a couple of twoye r Ills The Kelly string will come with the Davis hipincnl hipincnlDave Dave Vititoe arrived today at Douglas Park with the noted old performer Old Honesty This racer looking well anil Mr Vititoe t xpocts him to race in winning form at Douglas Park and Churchill Downs this fall Mr Vititoe savsi that the stables f 1 T Weaver W 1 Speirs James S Kvermail ind lames Grillin will all go to Lexington during tin latter part of this week and will lie shipped to Douglas Park when the Lexington meeting is ovi r rW W F Schulte arrived home today from Hamilton Out and arranged with trainer Dan Lehaii who lias been handling his horses King Olympian Armor and Capital Iravo to ship the trio to Ix xingtou early next week The other horses Mr Lehan will take to Lexington are Casey Jones Harriet Spauld ing and his Kentucky Endurance Stakes candidate Sir Catesby CatesbyThe The program book for the first seven days of the coming meeting at Lexington was distributed today at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park There are no stake events and the purses rango from 00 to 00 in value valueShelby Shelby West will take seven horses in L P Doer hiifers stable to Lexington to raw They are Mary Davis Tillics Nightmare Ursula Emma lad Kills Danger Mark Senator James and In ¬ diana The horses in this band arc still at the Downs Trainer West will leave in charge of his father P M West those of his horses now at the Downs that he will not take to Lexington P M West will be here in a few days Ho has been racing in Canada on the half mile courses coursesA A representative of the German government was a visitor at Douglas Park and the Downs today in earch of thoroughbred horses for the Herman cav ¬ alry service lift has so far been unsuccessful in his mission here as there are few horses now in training at the local tracks which arc not consid ¬ ered good enough to have a chance to win a race this fall in the opinion of their owners ownersW W O loplin arrived today from Canada to look over his string at Ihe Downs which is in charge of Neil Knright He will return for the Windsor meeting and then come back to Kentucky for the fall racing season seasonDr Dr Robert Pryan tho Lexington veterinarian is expected to arrive tomorrow to investigate tho in ¬ jury to the right foreleg of Fm Lance On the opinion of Dr Itryan will hinge the decision as to whether or not Free Lance is to go into training again this fall Trainer Peter J Coyne is in favor of putting the great colt in training again if he continues to do as well during tho next week as he hay during the last few days At this time there is no perceptible swelling in Free Lances leg George J Long owner of tho Latonia Derby winner favors the throwing of his sensational threeyearold out of training Mr Long does not want the horse to race again until 11I Free Lance now walks without showing the least sign of lameness
