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HORSES FROM CANADA REACH LOUISVILLE Part of Consignment of Fifteen Carloads Goes to Lexington Kentucky Gossip Louisville Ky September 4 Heavy going pre ¬ vailed at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park today as a result of a downpour that did no damage other than to Hood several stalls at the Downs No fnst work was attempted by this trainers although a good many horses were exercised exercisedSix Six carloads of horses shipped Tuesday night from Windsor arrived today Six additional cars are due tomorrow from Windsor Three carloads passed on to Lexington In all llftccu carloads of racers liavo come to the Kentucky circuit from Canada The turfmen who came from Canada include F I Pons with twelve horses J W Fuller twelve Frank Brown four II II Hewitt four R P Marshall and W M Wallace seven E W Moore one T Flynn one W F Cisco one Jones Shields six Mackenzie Adkins six E K Brad ley eight W W Darden seven II Oots four D Fisk two F D Weir and E E McCargo six S H Kuuz seven Adair Baker six J OBrien one W E Applegate six sixIn In tho shipment were Bell Horse Brig and John Furlong Font Pliant Injury Toy Boy The Widow Moon White Wool Buckliorn Helen Barbee Mellon Street Little Father Carlton Club Any Port Creme de Menthe Impression Miss Edith Leopold Uuartormaster and Hound the World WorldJohn John Hachineister manager of Douglas Park baB returned from Canada where he found much satis ¬ faction over the reopening of Douglas Park On account of previous arrangements made by J W Schorr that turfman will not race in Louisville this fall with the exception of sending Star Charter to run in the 15000 Kentucky Endurance Stakes at Churchill Downs on October 7 Mr Schorr wiil race bis band at Montreal and Toronto this fall fallR R F Carman and Fred Luzader are in attend ¬ ance at tin yearling sales at Lexington They ex ¬ pect to mako several purchases purchasesAll All of the parimutuel machines specially built for Douglas Park are being placed in position there All will be in working order before the end of tho week Each machine will be operated by a clicker and a ticket seller sellerEdward Edward W Maginn secretary of Douglas Ifark is due Thursday lie will distribute the program books i f the meeting on Friday FridayR R F Carman thinks his filly Horizon is in foal to Watiiboy The colt she will drop from this mating next spring will be her first foal Mr Car ¬ man considers Horizon one of the best twoyear olds hi ever owned Slu vas cut down in a race but was not bred until last spring in tin hope that sin could be raced again Mr Carman is proud of Horizon as slu is tho cheapest good racer hi evei bought He paid August Belmout 170 for her as a yearling yearling1apt 1apt William Brown the last of the famous old guard that made the Turf Exchange in this city so noted two decades ago has arrival hero to stend the remainder of his days Until the last two sea ¬ sons when illhealth prevented him from coming ho never missed a race run in Ixmisville since Churchill Downs was opened in 1S75 Captain Brown says he is going to end his days here be ¬ cause Louisville has ixjcome Americas greatest turf renter Tom Kiley rider of Spokane which defeated Proctor Knott in the Kentucky Derby has taken rlmrgN of two vnaiden twoyearolds owned by an Illinois breeder These are the lirsl racers Mr Kiley has had in training in several years Mr Kiley intends to race a pretentious band later on
