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FREE LANCE IN GOOD CONDITION G J Longs Crack Horse Will Not Be Raced at Saratoga However Kentucky Gossip GossipLouisville Louisville ICy August 18 W S Hopkins who has a division of George J Longs horses in train Ing at the Downs has received word from trainer Pete Coyne that reports to the effect that the great colt Free Lance had been ailing at Saratoga were erroneous Trainer Coyne has not raced Free Lance at Saratoga because he could not get him ready to race there The Latonla Derby winner of 1912 and Mr Longs eligible for the 15000 Endurance Stakes this fall is now practically ready to race but trainer Coyne said that tho track at Saratoga not having been raced over for several years until this season has been somewhat cuppy and as Free Lance has no fancy for that sort of going he decided to defer starting him until tho local meetings here this fall fallBefore Before leaving Latonla for Saratoga trainer Coyne worked Free Lance a mile and he went the distance under restraint In 141 Had his rider made any effort he could have worked a mile that day In 130 or 140 though he was not then up to a race While Coyne regrets exceedingly not being able to race Free Lance at Saratoga he has made up his mind not to risk the great fouryearold over a track which he does not like likeFree Free Lance will IM shipped to Churchill Downs with the rest of the Long horses at the close of tin Saratoga meeting and probably will race several times at Douglas Park before the Kentucky Endur ¬ ance Stakes is run on Wednesday October 8 Trainer Coynes decision not to race the son of Al yescot at Saratoga Is in keeping with Mr Longs instructions when Free Lance was shipped east The Louisville turfman told trainer Coyne that If he was at any time in doubt at all as to Free Lance liking tin track he had been entered to run over ho was to scratch the colt and return him to Ken ¬ tucky to run over courses for which he showed a liking as a two and threeyearold The fact that Free Lance Is in the best of racing condition will be welcome news to turf patrons throughout the country as the Latonia Derby winner of last season is one of the most popular horses iu training and Is regarded by many as the host race horse in all America todayTrainer today Trainer Hopkins now has at the Downs among Longs band of yearlings a halfbrother to Free Lance that is a most slchtly youngster He is hay SemproniusThe In color as was his sire Sempronius The racing stable of Hickey Cloher trained by Klijah Brewster will be shipped here as soon as the Mineral Springs meeting closes at PorterVIiul oil1 September 0 The members of this stable are all twoyearolds and include the winners Violet May and Iambs Tail T B Maylow which twoyearold was credited with being a sensational youngster last spiihg is also in this stable and is said to have improved greatly in disposition since he was re ¬ cently gelded geldedJohn John Hachmelster manager of the Douglas Park and Ijitonia tracks Is expected to arrive here within a day or two to look after the improvements now going on at the local plant and to arrange for the opening of his track oflice in preparation for the coining fall meeting of eleven days which will be ¬ ing at Douglas Park on Tuesday Septem er 23 His assistant Frank Bruen will also be here as soon as the Windsor meeting ends Bruen is acting as auditor this season for the Windsor Jockey Club Mr Hachmelster is now at Latonia LatoniaA A horseman at Churchill Downs received a letter a few days ago which brought word of the once famous jockey J Lee who Is now iu business In Louisiana Tile famous rider left the turf on ac ¬ count of mental trouble but he has long since re ¬ covered Lee holds the worlds record made by him at Churchill Downs in riding every winner on a days program of six races When he quit the turf he had saved and laid by some 40000 besides owning a farm in Ixjulsiana Ho ranks as the richest living negro race rider and except the late Isaac Murphy no rider of his color ever quit the turf in such good financial condition conditionWhile While II P Whitney did not name Whisk Broom II among his entries for the 15000 Kentucky En ¬ durance Stakes trainer James Bowe Informed Colo ¬ nel Winu at Saratoga that if Whisk Broom II comes out of his recent soreness all right Mr Whit ¬ ney would enter him for the big race on September i the date on which the naming of the entries for the race have to be made Of course many of the subscribers have already named entries but each subscriber has the right to name three horses As Mr Whitney has only named as yet All Gold and Prince Eugene ho still has an opening left for the sensational winner of the three great handicaps this season and one of the most spectacular horses which lias raced in this country in many years W yearsW C Clancy has engaged stall room at Churchill Downs for the string of horses he has just shipped from Canada to Mineral Springs which embrace the wellknown performers Gemmell Fern L Little Jane Garter Kenneth aud Cosgrove Clancy has turned out here at Dan Lehans farm the chestnut lilly Harterle by Hastings which twoyearold he will take up upon his arrival here hereThe The study of Milton Bs pedigree on tin dams side Is of sonio moment now considering the fact that he has been entered by J W Johnson for the Kentucky Endurance Stakes and according to trainer James Everman will probably be a starter in the 15000 fourmile race Milton B is out of Ville Marie by Onondaga and she Is out of Tendency by Ten Brocck and his next dam is Susan Queen by Asteroid This Is surely fourmile blood W Moss who has been out of the saddle for some years is here getting In condition to accept mounts again this fall While he is now twenty four years old lie can still make 102 pounds Moss will go to Lexington to ride during the meeting which will open the fall racing season In Kentucky on Septemlx r 11 Moss first rode in 1903 for I J Miles and was later on connected with the racing stables of P J Miles S II Kimz W Gerst T Burns and J Sturgis For the latter he rode many winning races on that famous iterformer Ethoii EthoiiAnother Another oldtime rider now here who is talking aliout taking up saddle work again is J Higgins who rode many winners in 1005 and 1JOC Higglns now weighs l0 pounds He thinks however that he can easily reduce so as to ride at 108 or 10 pounds poundsTrainer Trainer Shelby West will begin working the threeyearold Jimmie Gill this week that racer having no track exercise since he was gelded last July The son of Fatherless is now in fine condi ¬ tion for active training but trainer West will go slowly with him He will hardly have him ready to sport colors before October He Is one of the horses he Intends to take with Gold of Ophir to Juarez next winter The latter is now training well wellSjMaking SjMaking of tho approaching winter meeting at the Jockey Club Juarez track in Mexico Manager M J Wlnn said that while in the east recently lie received assurances from many of the important turfmeu there that representatives of their stables would be shipped to Juarez JuarezJames James Butlers big band of yearlings purchased from the estate of the late James II Keene early this year will be shipped to Juarez by trainer R Benson during the month of October Mr Butler hopes to be able to see these youngsters nice freely at Juarez during the early months of 1914 Lynian 1914Lynian H Davis secretary of the New Louisville Jockey Club made the statement In conversation with some horsemen at tho Downs that he had nol made a wager on a horse race or any other letting proiiosllion for over thirteen years Mr Davis father will shortly celebrate his seventyfirst birth ¬ day He Is the oldest pilot on the Ohio river having been continuously iu service for fiftythree years He went on the river when h was ten years old and became a pilot before he reached the age of twenty twentyMiles Miles Mattlngly has arrived at Churchill Down with the maiden threeyearold filly Ella Curry which raced a time or two last fall at Douglas Park He reports that the only mare M P Mattlngly now has in the stud at his farm at Bardstown Ky Is Autoline which he mated with Plaudit this sea ¬ son The famous old maro Madeline was not bred this season on account of her old age Her last foal dropped In 1912 by Plaudit unfortunately died Mattingly thinks well of Ella Curry ami looks for her to prove a good breadwinner the coming fall She is a goodlooking filly with an abundance of sio So many useful horsi s have come from the Mattlngly farm that trainers keenly note any arrival from that place
