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FAVORITES THE PURSES FOUR FIRST CHOICES ARE AMONG DAYS WIN ¬ NERS AT LEXINGTON Rain Falls While Card Is Being Decided and Track TrackBecomes Becomes Slow Joe Morris Is Returned ReturnedWinner Winner of Handicap Lexington Ky September 7 At the Kentucky Association course this afternoon the backers of fa ¬ vorites fared well sinee four of the six choices lii ished in front Sureget in tin third race and Working Lad were those bowled over There was a variety of weather during the afternoon and for four of the races the track was slow The long porijii of excessive heat was broken witli a rain and wind sforni at just about the time the horses were going to the post for the second race but it did not reach its full force until l etwoen tins second and third races The rain however was not torrential and the track was not rendered muddy cxcout ill one place about threeeighths of a mile from the linin iug mark The attendance was good and the betting was brisk and voluminous Tills was the seventh day and it seems that the meeting is just getting good goodThe The feature race of the card was a handicap t OIK milt and a sixteenth Jallahor brothers with ¬ drew Dnval leaving only Joe Morris Melton Strn and Leamence to go and that is the way they fin ¬ ished Joe Morris was in front all the way and had little trouble in stalling off Melton Street when h challenged it the head of the stretch stretchSun Sun Queen led all the way in the first race ami won easily There came near being a bad spill in this nice Just after the horses turned into the strelch a little white dog that belonged to nobodv in particular and tiiat had been hanging abour J O Keenes stable ran out upon the track and dodged about under the feet of the racers For innately no horse struck him A policeman wen to the barn and killed the dog dogSleeth Sleeth won the closing race after a drive witii Daingertjeld and llanly Daingerfield carried the colors of Thomas Fortune Hyau and ran an impres sive race llanly was messed about George limes l he owner of Joe Deibold bid Sleeth up to 700 but 1 C Calm retained him witli the customary 5 ad vance mootingFrank It was the lirst run up of the mooting Frank ISrown the wellknown New York trainer arrived here today to take charge of the sixteen thoroughbred yearlings that James It Keene re ¬ cently sold to a wealthy friend of E It Bradley whose name at least hereabouts has not been made known H is stated however that the buyer 01 the yearlings is a new man in the sport Major Foxhall A Daingerlield who since his treatment in the Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore looks bet ¬ ter than he lias in years was at tin track during the afternoon and said that he had been informed by Mr Itrowii that the idea was to train eight and sell eight of the yearlings Mr Keene would not give anyone a choice of the youngsters and the hiiver took them all allCharles Charles It Ellison was among the visitors this afternoon afternoonJudge Judge Charles F Price General Manager John llHchmeisfer of the Latonia and Douglas Iark tracks his assistant Frank Union Harry F Brei vogol assistant to Matt J Winii and Messrs Me Goodwin Iowmnn and llanlon constituted a party who motored over from Louisville last night to be In atleudaiicc at the track this afternoon Mr llnehmeister announced that everything would bo in thorough readiness for the opening at Douglas Park Sepjember li and that when the many improvements are completed it will be the ideal plant of the coun ¬ try where the niutuel style of betting is in vogue I look for a really highclass and successful meet ¬ ing and there will be plenty of good horses to star in the different contests All our stables hav boon spoken for and the overflow will have to be aecon modatod at Churchill Downs said Mr Hach meister lie returned to Louisville tonight tonightFrank Frank Union circulated among the owners dunk ¬ ing up the stable allotment for Douglas Park and distributing the program book for the lirst nine days Secretary Maginns effort was praised and the managements liberal policy in the matter of purse offerings favorably commented on onTho Tho most recent arrivals at Douglas Park were n big consignment of racers from Itnttc including those handled by Archie Zimmer Green B Morris Mose Goldhlatt J L Brovn and W E Scott ScottHarry Harry Broivogcl stated today that Matt J Winn is U present in New York conferring with Messrs Itntler and Follansboe and other directors of the Jockey Club Juarez relative to details concerning the opening of the Juarez track on Thanksgiving Dav Mr Winn will make known the plans fully and also announce the list of stakes on his return to Louisville LouisvilleStarter Starter Cassidy suspended jockey Griner for three days for insubordination at the post in the second race1
