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LAUDABLE PLANS FOR DOUGLAS PARK Louisville Ky August 31 Two weeks from the coming Monday on September 10 will Iwgin the fall meeting of the Douglas Park Jockey Club It will continue for eighteen racing days and will mark the first sport at this beautiful racing plant since the fall of 1908 1908Racing Racing at Douglas Park the coming fall will be on a par with the notable improvements made in the plant It will be strictly first class and upto date In every particular No purse of less than 500 will be offered during the meeting and the overnight handicaps and special feature races will greatly exceed the ordinary purses in value Doug las Park has not been re0i t ea with the idea of being the producer of a fortune for the owners of the plant They want to have prosperous meetings of course but Manager John llachmeister and his aids also want the horsemen to share in the pros ¬ perity So If the Douglas Park meetings are stic cessful the horsemen will get their share of the profits The track management desires to make it a plant that Louisville will be proud of and that the racing world will acknowledge as providing a class of sport unexcelled by any course in all America No money is being spared in the im ¬ provements now nearly completed at this course These improvements are all being made with a view of giving comfort and convenience to the public Several meetings mav be conducted before the outlay expended on the track this fall in iui provements will be recovered But this will have no effect on other improvements which the coming meeting may suggest to Manager Hachmeister He only usks that the public show its appreciation of the efforts of the management to give one of the beat meetings the coming fall ever conducted in Louisville by daily attendance He intimated re ¬ cently that if the eighteeudays meetings this fall proves as successful as he anticipates it will be In the spring he will not hesitate in giving a 10000 race as an opening feature He hopes the day will come when the Douglas Park track can afford to give 1000 purses and he declares this will be done ItDouglas whenever the profits of the course justifies It Douglas Park in its new dress will appeal to the public as one of the most beautiful plants ever used for racing purposes in this country The grounds are spncious and have l oen beautified by the gardenerIt art of the landscape gardener It is conceded that there Is sufficient population In the Louisville Metropolitan district to hand pornely support two high class race tracks conserva ¬ tively conducted Churchill Downs has set the pace liere as n high class racing plant and Manager HacU meister intends to maintain Douglas Park on tho same high plane He will never consent to the over doing of the sport in Louisville and will always be willing to divide racing dales with Churchill Downs The two courses will work in harmony each year to bring more fame to Louisville as a racing center and add to the prosperity of the thoroughbred inter ¬ ests of Kentucky which In some parts of this com ¬ monwealth have made whole counties prosperous and IndependentThe their citizens Independent The tracks at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park were safe and fast today and as a consequence pome fair work was done by the horses now in training The best work was by Hawthorn He went five furlongs in 102 pulled up The best mile of the morning was by the Douglas Park In ¬ augural Handicap candidate High Private which galloped a mile in 147 Other work Included IncludedAll All Red Half mile in 49 49Capitan Capitan Rravo Threequarters in 119 119Duchess Duchess Daffy Half mile in 51 51Gold Gold of Ophir Threequarters in 120 120High High Star Half mile in 51 51Jimmle Jimmle Gill Fiveeighths in 100 100Joyance Joyance Quarter mile in 25 25Merry Merry Lad Threeeighths in 39 39Rogon Rogon Half mile in 50 50Rossini Rossini Mile in 147 147Royal Royal Captive Threequarters in 118 118Semprolus Semprolus Half mile in 50 50Sherlock Sherlock Holmes Half mile in 54 54Sir Sir Alvescot Threeeighths in 39 39Toy Toy Threeeighths in 41 41The The wellknown threeyearold gelding Puck bowed a tendon in his left foreleg this morning at Churchill Downs He apparently struck himself while work ¬ ing ingSeveral Several of George J Longs yearlings by Sem pronius and Sir Huon were worked eighths at Churchill Downs this morning in about 14 and a shade better
