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XATONIA CUP A RACE OF PROMISE Cincinnati O September 28 Three weeks from Today on Saturday October 19 the fall meeting of the Latonia Jockey Club will begin to contiuue for si period of nineteen racing days ending on Satur day November 9 9The The success of the recent Lexington fall meeting uud the racing now going on at Douglas Park Louisville is an assurance that the sport at La ¬ tonia this fall will be perhaps superior to any autumn meeting ever held it this beautiful track Virtually all the stars of the racing world will be at Latonia this fall This includes not only the horses now racing at Louisville but some of the good horses that have been rounding out the season on the Canadian tracks tracksThe The feature of the opening day of the coming Latonia meeting is as usual the Autumn Inaugural Handicap 1500 added for threeyearolds and up ¬ ward one mile and a sixteenth Among tho c likely to start in this race are such good ones us Bell Horse Meridian Starbottle Princess Callaway White Wool Little Father Mary Davis Winter green Adams Express Buckhorn Any Port Pre ¬ sumption John Furlong Star Charter Froglegs High Private and Countless CountlessThis This race has always furnished a great contest tit Latonia in the fall though run under various names With the promising Held that will contend for it this season it will undoubtedly prove one of the greatest LatouiaOne opening stakes ever run at Latouia One of the great feature races to be run at Latonia Mils fall is the Latonia Cup two miles and a qua1 ter to which 2500 is added by the Association This event will wind up the Kentucky longdistance races which have come to be considered fascinating attractions In this event the cracks contending in the fourmile Endurance Stakes at Churchill Downs will have another chance to contend for a rich long distance prize prizeFor For many years two miles and a quarter has boon considered the proper distance for a cup race The historic Jerome Park and Saratoga Cups were for a long time run over this distance and in late vears the Champion Stakes at Sheepshead Bay was also a twomile and a quarter race In the early days at Latonia and Churchill Downs the cup races were at this distance and they were productive of many thrilling contests between great horses like Hindoo Checkmate Thorn Lida Stanhope Hidalgo Irish Pat Ballankwl and Janet JanetThe The trnck record at Latonia for this distance was made by Xcversttch a fouryearold with ninetynine pounds up in 1901 he running the distance in 357Ji This is the longest race ever ruu at Latonia and Neversuchs time over this route of ground has never been beaten in Kentucky The American record for this distance Is held by Ethelbert a foil 1 ¬ yearold with 121 pounds up which made a mark of a49 at Brighton Beach in 1900 1900Last Last year the longest race at Latouia was the twomile Endurance Stakes in which Star Charter defeated Governor Gray John Rcardon Azo Cherry ola High Private and Stone Street at two miles which In ran in 332 Star Charter is one of the entries In the Autumn Cup this season Other good horses now racing well which are engaged in thi rich event are High Private Labold Brig Boola Boola Starbottle White Wool Swaunanoa Duval Countless Worth Any Port Melton Street John Furlong Volthorpe Edda Colston and Manager Mack There are thirtyseven nominations for this race which will bo the richest event at Latonia this fall fallThe The other events to bo decided at Latonia arc th Kentucky Stakes 1500 added one mile and seventy yards the Rosedale Stakes for twoyearolds 1000 added five furlongs and a half Criterion Stakes for threeyearolds and upward six furlongs and the Fort Thomas Stakes for twoyearolds six furlongs both the latter events also having 1000 in added money each The Fort Thomas Stakes will see tin great Hawthorn in action at the Kenton County track opposed bv the best twoyearolds now in training in the west westWith With the usual rich array of purses and overnight handicaps to attract high class fields Latonia will present as good racing as any track in America dur ¬ ing the season of 1912
