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BRIGHT OUTLOOK AT LOUISVILLE Success of Lexington Meeting Taken to Foreshadow Brilliant Sport at Other Kentucky Tracks Louisville Ky September I The good racing in progress at Lexington the liberal patronage at thu gate and the satisfactory volume of speculation notwithstanding the insufferably hot weather fore ¬ shadow keen interest in the coining local meetings which opens September 1C at Douglas Park for eighteen days and at Churchill Downs on Monday October 7 for nine days daysThe The Douglas Park meeting opens with the 51000 Inaugural Handicap at one mile and a sixteenth Tlie field of starters will include the cream of the thoroughbreds in training in America and Canada At Churchill Downs the 15000 Kentucky Endurance Stakes affords the stayers an opportunity for win ¬ ning the turfs richest prize In fact throughout the two meetings there will be an abundance of racing trainingTake to lit any horse in training Take the twoyearold contests for example While there are events suitable to such cracks as Haw ¬ thorn Yankee Notions and other stars there also will be an abundance of races for the cheaper grade of juvenilesThere juveniles There are some older horses that will lie seen in action here this fall that have not been raced for i gfxKl while Tlie Turk in K F Carmans barn 1st OIK of these horses He is going promisingly in his preparation If he continues to stand training ho is likely to make it interesting for such older cracks as Star Charter Adams Express and Countless Tho Turk is only one of a number which bid fair to come back to tlie races this autumn in the good form which marked their running when they last raced The fact that several of the threeyearolds notab ¬ ly the great Free Lance are out of training for this season gives other colts and geldings of this age a rosy chance to win the ricli prizes All in all the meetings at Douglas Park and Churchill Downs are sure to prod lice racing the like of which has not before been witnessed in Kentucky in the fall season Throughput seasonThroughput the country interest is greatlv Increas ¬ ing in racing Maryland and Virginia have followed Kentuckys example by giving a long season of fall and autumn sport St Louis seems destined to again become a turf center by introducing as nil opener a short turf meeting this fall California horsemen think that n popular vote on the racing question will restore the sport on the coast Everv where people have awakened to tho fact that the racing of the thoroughbred horse surrounded by safeguards in a speculative way is the greatest it all pastimes pastimesSo So certain are some of the foremost of American turfmen that the sport will again nourish in Amer ¬ ica as It did a decade ago that there is talk now of importing horses from England France and other foreign countries to take the place of the vast num ¬ ber of thoroughbreds sent abroad during the datker days of the sport
