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f , , | | , , | , a , j j i , , , , , j | j j | ; , ; i , , i , , ] . ] . i GOSSIP AND COMMENT FROM KENTUCKY. Louisville. Ky., May 1W. -Manager John Iladi meister has the stage all set at Douglas Park for " the coming, thirteen days meeting at that big plant. On Sumla.v Eugene Fluids administration t| building corps spent the day at Douglaa Park gel ting everything in that department ready for the a opening next Saturday afternoon. Bin* where over tin grounds things ale all in readiness for the hegiiiniii" of Ihe big meeting, which promises to be liiiitaliou of the brilliant season which lias ruled at Churchill Downs this spring and made • i.-iiiisv ille racing Ihe talk of the entire turf world, a With fair weather and last Hack conditions at Douglas Park next Saturday the rich Kentucky j, [Handicap, with its 0,000 in auded money, wilt n call out a Held of striking strength ami quality. v. There are fully half of the original titty iiomiia lions to the stake which can lie set down as souk of the possible staplers under some conditions. These embrace some of the countrys greatest three year- ;l olds, including Old Rosebud. Kools and Saddle. . F.olloo. Hodge and Bronaewing, while the best of " the older division in training greatly swell the geld. Last seasons Kentucky Handicap winner. Badolfo. I i-: being pointed especially for tip- race and Join I W. Schorrs two cracks." Froglegs and Hamilton, f are being s"nt along ju their closing days pnpara- g tion witJi the idea that one or both of them will 0 go to tile |xist for the rich race. It will be a race that, under the weights assigned, cannot be figured | as a sure thing for any horse and it is certain | to tie one of tin- greatest all aged races recently , run in this country at a mile and a quarter. John W. Schorr, who departed Sunday lor Canada. where a division id his stable will begin to race with the opening of Ihe racing season in that country at Toronto, next Saturday, has recently pur- . chased a new ,500 automobile for touring pur- • |N..-es. Mr. Schorr nowadays does little railroad J traveling, but with Mrs. Schorr and their youngest 1 son. motors about from place to place where his horses race. John F. Schorr kept many of tin-stars of the Tennessee turfmans string here to | race during the Douglas Park and Latonia meetings I and Ihe string which was sent to Canada went ; in charge of trainer Jack McCormiCk. Among the i horses in this stalde that will remain in Kentucky t for the rest of the season are Froglegs. Hamilton. David Craig. Luke Mcl.uke. Vandorgrif t. Leoehares ] Fdda and such two -year olds as Fd Crump. Linden | thai and Aunt Josie. From Latonia. the horses John N I. Schorr kept here to race will be shipped to Sara toga. I.. F. Guthrie has had bad link with his stable. now quartered at Douglas Park iu charge of trainer lee Uegers. His horses vv.re alllietid with sick- ness during the recent Lexington meeting and as a consequence Rogers has been unable to send any I of them to the jxist here. The Guthrie string will l c shipped to Toronto this week. lie hopes, while J in Canada, to dispose of all his horses with the • exception of he two-year old colt by St. Savin -The Pet. dam of Maria .. WWch he will return to Kentucky late in ihe summer in care of trainer : Rogers and endeavor to get ready for fall racing I in this state. If Mr. Guthrie succeeds in his plan to reduce his stable within the uexi few weeks, he intends to take a trip to Europe with Mrs. , Guthrie, and while abroad, hopes to be able to pick J up a young ICnglish horse of rich pedigree to place at the head of his breeding stud in Shelby County. . this state. If he can buy the horse he wants, he will Import him next fall and have him in tit con- I ditioo to enter the stud the coming spring. Trainer Frank Farrar has received word that : he had poor luck in Missouri this season with his two good mares. Meddling Hannah, by Itedeck. and , Peal rice Soule. by Ieep o Day. which were retired in the spring of 101:; and bred for the first tine- last season. Beatrice Soule was barren and Meddling Hannahs foal died. lie has mated lnith these mares again this season to the noted race horse. Harrigan. by Plaudit. Both Meddling Hannah and Beatrice Soule were useful race mares and there is no fault to be found with the breeding of either, both having fashionable strains iu their blood-lines.
