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IMPROVED CONDITIONS AT LOUISVILLE Douglas Park Track Dries Out and Excellent Brand of Sport Is Furnished Louisville Ky Scpteml er 24 Vastly Improved conditions prevailed this afternoon and resulted in tMellcnt sport at Douglas Vark The attendance was again large and the crowd siiowed a keen inter ¬ est in the racing The track dried rapidly and was in good condition Quality was well represented in all the races and the contests were close and ex lting ltingHigh High Private again raced brilliantly and scored a handv victory in the handicap at one mile and seventy yards lie was giving away much weight to all the other starters but shouldered his impost without much lKther and won as his rider pleased from Starbottle and Jenny Geddcs in time that almost equaled the track record time for the dis ¬ tance The secondary feature a mile dash for tliivcycarolds went toDuval after a hard and sen ¬ sational drive Duval apeared to be a beaten horse a furlong out but stood a hard drive in resolute fashion and passed Coy Lad in the last stride or so soThe The worst upset of the day came in the closing race when Effendi was led home by Wander an outsider The winner showed high speed for the entire journey and held his opposition safe through ¬ out Chilton King and Yorkville lKth favorites failed respectively in the first and second races the former barely saving third place Flying Tom accounted for the opener with Sam Hirsch in sec mid place Foundation showing a suddenly im ¬ proved performance took the second witli Nobby and Pericles following him closely Wintergreen proved himself much superior to his opposition in Hie third race and scored handily from Reciprocity and Morristown MorristownWintergreen Wintergreen High Private and Duyal were all pronounced choices and the only favorites to score scoreJockey Jockey C Turner who came with the Amos Tur ney stable of fourteen horses from Havre de Grace bad some mounts during the afternoon afternoonJockey Jockey McCabe who sustained an injury at Lev ington by a fall from Milo resumed riding this afternoon i iThe The program books for the last nine days of rac ¬ ing at Douglas Park was distributed to horsemen by Secretary Magiiiu today todayThere There was no one lucky enough to solve the three horse combination ending with Wander and the pool went to the field backers at lo20 for 2 The twohorse consisting of Foundation and Win ¬ tergreen yielded 2000 2000The The vagaries of the mutucls were shown in tho third race when Wintergreen paid more for place than lie did straight straightOwner Owner W J Young announced today that bis good colt Manager Mack would be u starter iu the Kentucky Endurance Stakes to be run at Churchill Downs October 7 Duval is another certain starter starterMose Mose Cossman returned today from Chicago after a trip to Porter Ind where he went In the inter ¬ est of some of the horsemen here to note tbe progress in the building of the plant where racing is scheduled to begin October 12 He brought back n favorable report and stated that the grandstand was almost threequarters finished and that tbe track only needed rolling and fencing He thought hat it could be finished with a full force of work ¬ men in a weeks time timeThe The Churchill Downs management will during the coming meeting inaugurate the steward system of supervision of the racing The stewards will con ¬ sist of Messrs Charles F Price Charles F Graing ¬ er and Maior Foxhall A Daingerlield The placing judges will be Messrs William U Shelley Harry F Brcivogel and Edward Jasper The horses formerly running in the name of C j Harrison will in future race in the name of T S Harrison a brother of the deceased turfman The horses were all transferred to his brother by C i Harrison before his death deathThe The following jockeys holding licenses from the entucky State Bacing Commission are accepting uounts at Douglas Park at the following weights I Loftus O Fain and J Conley 108 pounds C Sorel and T Koerner 10G R Goose J Deavenport Pope and J Shea 105 J Henry 104 M Griner Winglield W Andress W Williams G Moles vorth W Obert C Gross H Jones and V Hight nire 1K 1C Estep 101 A Cragin M Buxton E Jahusen G Spell man and J Adams 100 B Steele OS J Callahan and F Paul OC II Dennler W French and II Skirviu 02 M Nathan J Daniels and W W Taylor 00 00Many Many horses were given preliminary trials this morning Among the best works were wereAlooha Alooha Threequarters in 122 122Campeou Campeou Threequarters in 118 118Chart Chart ier Mile in 144 144Clubs Clubs Threeeighths in 5 5Console Console Threequarters in 120 120Creme Creme de Mentbe Mile in 151 151Duquesne Duquesne Fiveeighths in 105 105Dynamite Dynamite 118Eleusis Threequarters in 118 Eleusis Half mile in 50 50Elizabeth Elizabeth Ilarwood Threequarters in 1 20 20Gowell Gowell Threequarters In 118 118Hawley Hawley Seveneighths in 1 Helen 1716Idleweiss Barbet1 Threequarters in 1 1716 Idleweiss Mile in 145 145Island Island Queen Quarter mile in 24 24Jeff Jeff Bernstein Half mile in 52 52Joe Joe Deibold Threoquarfors in 1 18 18Lady Lady Lightning Threequarters In l10 l10Letourno Letourno Mile in 145 145Little Little Father Fiveeighths in 107 107Mark Mark A Mayer Fiveeighths inlii inliiMelton Melton Street Mile in 145 145Mockler Mockler Mile in 140 140Ozana Ozana Threeeighths in 10 10Sister Sister Florence Mile in 145 145Smoke Smoke House Threeeighths iu 4H 4HSolar Solar Star Fiveeighths in 105 105Spindle Spindle Threequarters in 118 118toison toison dOr Half mile in 5 5Walter Walter B Mile in 148 148Workbox Workbox Half mile in 50
