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MANAGER MACK SHOWS STAYING ABILITY Beats Volthorpe in Mile and a Half Race at Louis ¬ ville Grover Hughes Handicap Winner Louisville Ky September 23 Deceptive track conditions probably accounted for the failure of sev ¬ eral choices at Douglas Park today About the worst disappointment came with the running of the lifth race a mile and a half affair in which onlv three of the live originally carded went to the post Volthorpe ruled an overwhelming favorite but was decisively beaten by Manager Mack The latter was favored by the soft going and running in his best form held the Respess racer safe for the en ¬ tire journey and won commandingly Manager Mack gave every indication of being a great stayer and if his owner sends him to the post in some of the long feature events slated for decision at Churchill Downs and Latouia he may be a trouble ¬ some factor factorBuckhorii Buckhorii met defeat in the handicap at six fur ¬ longs in which be tried to concede much weight to his opposition The winner turned up in Grover Hughes which was in snugly at 110 pounds not withstanding that he has at times taken the measure of such cracks as Worth The Manager Adams Ex ¬ press and other noted racers lie showed a high dight of speed from the start and won well in hand He was a slight betting favorite over Buckhorn The latter made a game effort but succumbed tj Caugh Hill for second place placeThat That good tilly The Widow Moon again showed a sterling performance in beating Floral Park aiul Silk Day The disappointment of this race wts Silver Moon which finished beaten off last lastTransports Transports failure in the opening dash was chiefly due to interference from which he suffered He be ¬ came involved in a jam at the start when Baldoyle was steered in front of him and he could never get clear Captain Heck landed the purse by virtue of being able to got through along the inner niil when Goose on Blue Jay carried Gold Color out in the stretch stretchThe The consistent Labold enabled bis connections to protit handsomely in the closing dash when he easily disposed of Vmir and Pliant with several other good platers trailing trailingYork York Lad was the medium of a betting coup ac ¬ cording to reports and proved much the best The favorite Beautiful showed a poor performance though hard ridden by Koerncr the entire way wayThe The possibility of rain did not deter a good crowd from witnessing the racing The betting was also of goodly proportions its volume exceeding 00000 00000Major Major Foxhall A Daingcrtteld representing th Kentucky Stale Racing Commission as the steward here stated this afenioon lliat there liHciy will be a meeting of the commission shortly to consider sev ¬ eral turf matters 1 P Koss superintendent of the Lexington course was among the afternoons visitors He re ¬ ports that over 100 yearlings are housed at the Kentucky Associations course and that thirtyone of this number is under Kimball Pattersons care careW W W Harden has had two yearlings shipped here from Nashville One of the youngsters is a brother lo Littie Father and is said to be as promising as his relative relativeBeginning Beginning Wednesday the closing time for entries will formerlyThe be 10tO a in instead of 1100 as formerly The program book for the last nine days of the racing will be distributed tomorrow tomorrowJockey Jockey Steele met with a painful accident while dismounting front Tom King after the last race when the horse kicked him on the knee kneeC C II Patton lias been tired for splints and an effort will be made by his trainer to get him to the post during the Latonia meeting meetingPit Pit ai t is another that will be laid up until the opening of the Latonia meetinjr meetinjrThe The veteran trainer Peter Wimmer will try to rehabilitate his fortunes abroad and will depart in a short time for Germany where he expects to secure a position as trainer for some good stable He carries with him a personal letter from August Belmont to Baron Oppenheini r He will go with the large consignment of thoroughbreds being shipped by Catesby Wood ford and Phil T Chinn Since the opening of Douglas Park Mr Wimmer lias been employed as a clicker in the 25 machine He will carry with him the good wishes of every prominent turfman turfmanThe The twohorse combination comprising The Widow Moon and York Lad paid 1050 and the three horse consisting of Grover Hughes Manager Mack and Labold paid 722 During the afternoon liorses from the It F Car ¬ man establishment worked out as follows Meridian threequarters in 120 Semprolus half mile in 52 Camjjeon half mile in 54 Bonnie Kclso half mile in 55 55Few Few liorses were worked over the heavy track that prevailed this morning The following were among the hest of the trials trialsCapitan Capitan Bravo Seveneighths in 141 141Couipton Couipton Mile in 133 133Countless Countless Threeeighths in 087 087Fellowman Fellowman Fiveeighths in 100 100Hanly Hanly Threequarters in 121 121Jacob Jacob Bunn Fiveeighths in 100 100Mazor Mazor Fiveeighths in 100 100Merry Merry Lad Mile in 151 151New New Haven Mile in 149 149Oreen Oreen Threeeighths in 40 40Phil Phil K Half mile in 52 52Sam Sam Hirsch Threeeighths in 38 38The The Turk Mile in 150 150Treadlightly Treadlightly Fiveeighths in 1W 1WYorkviile Yorkviile Fiveeighths in 104
