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CUTS A LEXINGTON RECORD RECORDJOE JOE MORRIS RUNS A MILE AND A SIXTEENTH IN 145 IN WINNING HANDICAP Is One of Two Successful Favorites at Kentucky As ¬ sociation Track Joseph Murphy Interests Horsemen in St Louis Racing Project Lexington Ky Soptomlior 13 It II Andersons consistent racer Too Morris accounted for the uiilo lid a sixteenth handicap Hint featured todays j rogram sit the Kentucky Associations course Inci ¬ dentally lie reduced Hie track record for the distance i 1 45 lie was the lietting choice in the race showed much the most speed for the entire trip and liiiislied two lengths in advance of Brig with Ieanicnce the only other starter ihree lengths further hack hackThe The big operators again met with disappointment as only two of their choices proved successful E It Rradleys Rallyshe and Joe Morris being the nly winners at a short price In two instances they were unlucky to lose as they pinned their faith t the best horses but poorly judged rides brought siliotil the failures In the opming dash Old Woman as much the best but her rider handled her poorly and Hosemary lasted long enough to win the purse iiy a close margin Black Mate in tin third race was another starter that was decidedly best hut ho ilso suffered defeat as a result of the ride be re ived from jockey Cross The Plack Mate con ¬ nections had designs on two imrses and their well laid plans would have succeeded had Black Mates rider not allowed Supple to heat him a nose The tiler representative from the Karl Linnell stable i hat made good was Love Day which beat Yanker in the dosing dash There was a groat deal of btting activity in this race on Elfall and the old fellow flattered his backers for the first threequar ¬ ters hut tired thereafter and brought up far back backThe The frequently disappointing Artesian again came into the limelight by reason of fractions acting at the post in the second race and a runaway before the start This eliminated him as a serious factor The linish in this race was close Ethelda just last ¬ ing to win from tlie fast finishing Helene HeleneIdeal Ideal weather was responsible for another gener iiis attendance Todays speculation exceeded in volume that of any former day during the meeting iver 38000 being wagered wageredJudge Judge Joseph Murphy who has charge of the icing end of the Universal Exposition at St Louis as among todays visitors and was given much en mragament by owners hero relative to the pro ¬ mised racing to he hold at St Louis from Monday September 23 to Saturday Scptcmlier US All we need is about 1OI horses to give us a successful meeting Wo contemplate three or four races daily and expect that every prominent horse ¬ man in the country will have representation in our racing as a matter of course to aid in the revival if the sport in Missouri Weights for the St Louis Cup which carries with it a gross value of 3000 will he announced tomorrow and I anticipate a good list of acivptan es as it will be an ideal trial for i he Endurance Slakes to be run at Churchill Downs The St Louis Cup will be decided September 20 ami His Honor the mayor of St Louis will declare a half holiday on that date We have already dis ¬ posed of 30000 tickets and I expect that the greatest i rowd that ever witnessed a horse race to be on hand to MX the running of the feature event Meforo leaving Judge AHurphy made arrangements with Tony Wallace to look after the interest of iho St Louis project at Louisville and arrange for the shipment of horses E It Bradley W J oimg and J I Ross are among the owners who inieiid to race some horses at St Louis LouisThe The horses of W J Spoils and James Gritlin will be SundayThe transferred to Louisville next Sunday The good racer Countless is said to be out of miming oa account of a spread foot footWoodford Woodford Clay was among the visitors Ills horses are at present at Toronto Canada and will transferred from that priint after the Woodbine meeting to Laurel to engage in the Maryland racing for the remainder of the season seasonThere There is a persistent rumor that racing will be attempted at Charleston the coming winter but no illicial announcement to this effect will be forth oming for the present
