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KENTUCKY CIRCUIT OPENS OPENSPATRONAGE PATRONAGE OF SPORT AT LEXINGTON IN EX ¬ CESS OF LAST YEARS OPENING DAY Attendance and Betting of Satisfactory Volume in inSpite Spite of Insufferably Hot Weather Duval DuvalWins Wins Feature Race of Inaugural Card Lexington Ky August The Kentucky Aswo fiat ion was not favored with an ideal afternoon f r Hie opening f its fall meeting of thirteen days at its liistoric race course The weather was insuffer alily hot Yet tin attendance was good and when tin1 irate receipts and the commissions from the purl miiliitls were turned over to Treasurer Alexander his report lo Secretary Wilson and Racing Secretary Slulloy showed that the total was greater than on lilt first day last fall The track was fast and the nilill of a really high order even though the hones Iurniihing tlie keen contests were not of the first rank in the matter of iiality So it may IK said without exaggeration that Hie opening was a sue tess Speculation was brisk throughout the after noon the machines handling 27010 or M0 more ilmiii on the first day last fall fallThe The opening race brought together a field calcu ¬ lated to try the patience of a starter and when Mars Cassidy released the harrier Ethel I wheeled and was left at the i st stDuval Duval the Lissak colt which carried Gallaher Bros colors to a hanguii second to SVorth in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs last spring and with which they hope to win the Kentucky En ¬ durance Stakes of four miles at tho same track October 7 wore down Mary Davis through the Mretch in tin mile nice and heat her by half a length lengthSpindle Spindle was a hot tip for the fourth rare and was favored by tho falling of the favorite Supple which went down with jockey Callahan The boy was kicked in the hack by some horse and was consider ¬ ably bruised necessitating the cancelling of his remaining engagements Ia Mode had no trouble in viiiiiing from Silver Moon in the fifth race raceapt apt Thomas 1 Clay was the presiding judge with Messrs G 1 Wilson and W II Shelley as his associates Starter Cassidy was in good form formJohnson Johnson K Camdtli was tho only niember of the theKentucky Kentucky State Uacing Commission present today Chairman Milton Young has been at Columbus all allweek week attending the Ohio State fair Maj K A ADaingeriield Daingeriield has not returned from the Julius Hop Hopjins jins Hospital at Baltimore and both of the Louis ille members President Charles 1 Grainger of the New Louisville Jockey Club and George 1 Long master of Bushford Manor Stud were both detained at home by business of importance importanceSuperintendent Superintendent James Hoss was the recipient of many congratulations upon the splendid appearance of the grounds groundsSuperintendent Superintendent Ed Kane of the Nursery Stud said this afternoon that under instructions from August Itelmont he will ship to England next Wednesday Hie twoyearolds Black Walnut Yuba JJill Drago ¬ man and Sand Glow and to France the broodmares White Thorn dam of Hawthorn Half Sovereign and Field Mouse These three mares are in foal t Kock Sand and they are going to France that their foals may he eligible to race in events for French bred horses Watson will train the yearlings at Xewmarket XewmarketJohn John Haclimeister who headed a Louisville dele ¬ gation to attend the opening was agreeably sur ¬ prised by the volume of siieuulatloii and gave it as his opinion that all the Kentucky courses would show a Mihstantiai increase tins season over former meet ¬ ings Mr llachmoister returned tonight to Louis ville and will go tomorrow lo Windsor for the clos ¬ ing days racing racingThe The tumble sustained by Callahau from Supple was responsible for the withdrawal of Cream in the ucceeding race as no good rider was available fir the tilly tillyJudge Judge 1 A Brady was among the visitors hav ¬ ing come from St Louis He reports that the man ¬ agers of the Universal Exposition Company are go Ing right ahead with plans lor the sixdays mixed meeting lo be held in the Mound City beginning September I and that the protect is arousing con ¬ siderable interest interestPrincess Princess Callaway came out of her race in a bad way due to being jamined at the post before the start She bled considerably from a cut on her Iilu IiluJames James MacManus secured today a contract on the services ot 1 Henry for the Kentucky season seasonO O A Bianchi who brought Rearcatchcr and sev end broodmares from California will place his stul lion at Piatt Carrs establishment
