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GOSSIP AND COMMENT ER0M KENTUCKY. Louisville. Kv.. Ma% 26. Tin- stake il.lt* ■■ have no* b iii -et for I hi big gammer meeting at La t. nig, Jane s to Joly 1. laetaaive, ■ period of tweaty-foar raeiag days. The talrty-secoad re aewal ol the Latonia Derby will take place oa the sixth day of the meeting Jane 13. Maaager John I|i hmeister lias iterfected arrangements with the railroad] leading into Covington and Cincinnati from all partj ol the roantry, for an especially low rate oa the ilaj II la great event is to be run. There i. even indication that all records for atteadaace on I.atonia Ocrhy day will be broken this season. Tin Loiibvilie meetings this season present a plain forecast of what ■ ■ i . i be expected at La toaia, Inasmuch a- all attendance records were hiokea here both for Kentucky Derby day ami Kentucky Handicap day. The book program tor tie Brsl weeks overnight races will be Issued within the nexi few day- for distribution among the horsemen at Douglas Park and also it other tracks in tie east and Canada. I. tike McLuke, winner ■! tin Kentucky Handl cup. probably will •,■. t. the post igain next Saturday at Douglas Park in th Memorial Handicap, six farloag befon be is shipfM-d easl ami then ti. Canada to run In the Dorval Derby. In this latter race he will mi-oi for i1" in i Haw the Kentucky Derby winner, old R id Mr. Schorr il ■ baa I. en I. m and Vandergrift In tl,. lc rial Handicap, bal it t probable that Um record-break-ini Kentucky Handit in winner will ran In. colors in uexl stiuidi- ralnable lake, arhleh ha httv nomiii.itnn ai 5 each, with a :s • lartiag fee and ,000 in added i icy. With Luke bl.nki to go iml Meridian, .ici Britain and Hawthorn among . 11 tie i almost certain ■itartet then I ■ rhanee a iiiit tie Kentucky record at six farloag . I 10%, will in- broken. A. G. Dualap ha received word from Callforala that his good marc. .Mauritania, lias foaled a colt by General Roberts, tin- sire of Florence Roberts, King Sir Hairy ami other us.-ful racers. Mauritania baa been re-awted with this ana of Brutus. This mare K like Ocean Qaeea, also owned bv Mr. Dnulap. a daughter of Canard. A- Dunli i does rot care t caatinue as a breeder, but prefers to bay 1,Ims to race, hi ins decided tn dispose of ibeae two nnir -s. n,. iu.. l:l, ;1I, ..iter of ,, ,5«0 for them, with Maurctaniaa two foals from a Callforala breeder, and it is probable be will close the deal bbortly. Misty Morn, which won the opening race at Douglas Park last Saturday and paid the remarkable price ol s2i,.i. to win ami 64.90 lor place, was secured bv her present owner. .1. .1. Plannigan, at public sale last fall from breeder »• H. Cheaaalt, for 50. I-lanuit:a:i is a local oaraer ami traimr who a tew years ago bad considerable success m California In training a stable for Col. W. E. Apple gat.-. One of the good perfoiawm he developed for Colonel Apple-ate was the speedr mare Kighteasy The performance ol the latter Influenced Colonel Applegate to buy In; great mare Kound the World. as l yearling, she beiag, like Kighteasy. by I.ack-ford lb, victory of Lake MeLake in the Kentucky Haadicap mikes him the leadlat three year-old of tee season tn winnings to date, his earnings aiiiount-iag to 2,150. old Rosebuds earnings so tar are .-. I ...7.i and Bronaewing bis won ,025. Among the two-year olds Lake has won ,300.
