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NOW FOR CHURCHILL DOWNS MEETING. Season of Surpassing Brilliancy Looked For at New Louisville Jockey Clubs Track. Louisville. Ky., October 3. Next Friday the animal fall meeting of the New Louisville Jockey Club Will begin at Churchill Downs, to continue for eight days, ending Saturday, October 17. Judging by the success of the Lexington and Douglas Park meetings, the coming meeting at Churchill Downs will be, a most brilliant one. Since that track lias been under its present management, with Charles F. Grainger and M. J. Winn at the head of affairs, its race meetings have been the talk of the turf world. The meeting will open this fall with the Falls City Handicap, six furlongs, with ,000 added, as the inaugural days feature. This event has been run four times at the Downs, but was never before set for the opening day. It lias been won in the past by Melisande, High Private, Buckhorn and Wllhite. Manager Winn and President Grainger expect a great race and a big crowd when the big feature event of the meeting, the St. Leger Handicap, ,000 added, two miles and a quarter, is run on the closing day of the meeting. In reviving this once popular race it is the intention to make it a feature of future fall meetings at this course as In the earlv days at this track. On Saturday, October 10. the Golden Rod Stakes, for two-year-olds, six fnrlongs, will be decided. This vent, inaugurated in 1!10. lias always provided a Kood race, the previous winners of it lieing Helen Barbee, Kaiser. Gowoll and Edith W. Another stake to be run is the Cherokee, one mile and a sixteenth which also was first run in 1010. The winners of it have been Cherryola, Col. Ashmeade, Volthorjiei and Sleeth. The overnight purse races and handicaps throughout the meeting at the Downs are attractive and arranged so as to constantly bring together the best horses in training. Quartered at the Downs is the biggest stable in the United States, that of Jefferson Livingston, which string, including thirty-one iniMrtatious from England, gives trainer .Brandt lifty-three horses to take care of. No less than thirty-three are of racing age. Everything at the Downs is ready for the opening next Friday. The improvements made there .since last spring as planned by Manager Winn have been completed. It is the belief of every one that the meeting at the Downs this fall will bo the greatest autumn season in the long history of this famous course, which held its first fall meeting in 1875, when that great horse. King Alfonso, defeated tho noted Ten Broeck in the inaugural Kentucky St. Linger.
