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SOCIETY WILL FLOCK TO THE DOWNS. New Louisville Jockey Club in High Favor with Notable Folks of Kentucky. Louisville, Ky.. October C. Animated was the scene at Churchill Downs today. The morning hours found the great course over whicli so many noted horses have raced brilliantly, literally alive with horses, with scores of turfmen looking on. The track is in superb condition for good racing. It has a good cushion on top with firm- and safe going beneath. President Charles F. Grainger and Treasurer II. C. Applegate are at the course from early morning until late in the evening perfecting every detail for the opening of the big eight-days meeting next Friday. Secretary L. H. Davis, assisted by W. H. Shelley and J. B. Campbell, is looking after the racinn end of the preparations and assigning the horses to proper quarters. Most of the big stables have moved over from Douglas Park and all the strings that raced there now have at least a division of their horses at the Downs. Ev-cue Elrod, who has charge of the betting ring, is on baud with his able assistants putting everything in order in the administration building. The mutuel machines have already been put in place in the betting ring. President Grainger had a delightful trip to the Laurel track iu Maryland, where he went to visit Manager M. J. Winn and see the workings of the twenty-six machines that the local linn of which . he is president manufactured and set up at that course. They are twenty-six in number and of the latest model in style. Mr. Graingers concern is constantly making improvements iu these devices, which are graduallv reaching perfection. As usual the meeting of the New Louisville Jockey Club will apneal strongly to society folks in this city and throughout the state. This track has -been the leader among racing plants in commanding the patronage of the society element in Kentucky and the policy it has thus set has been followed at Laurel to a great extent and much of the flourishing condition of the meeting now on at that track is due to this policy. The New Louisville Jockey has reason to be proud of its magnificent club house. President Grainger and Manager Winn have bent every effort towards making that structure commodious and convenient. Wealthy folks enjoy racing when they can experience little inconvenience and really have a plcasurcable time. Such is always jiosslble at Churchill Downs. When the historic St. Leger was first run at Churchill.,Jowns in 1S7J5, the - club Jiousjr was located ou the 0MHs1te-siile of the track from where it is now. Iu that old"club house Col. AL . Lewis Clark entertained the governor and other notei pub-lie men and President Grainger will do the same thing this fall as he has since he has held the position of president of the New Louisville Jockey Club. N. M. MacFarlaml, an official of the Memphis Jockey Club when racing was conducted in Tennessee, and quite a figure in the management of the sport in that state, has arrived here for the fall meeting at the Downs as the guest of his father-in-law, John W. Schorr. Mr. MacFarland has seen no racing on the big tracks in seven years, having been engaged in ranching in Texas. He speaks hopeful of the sport being revived in Tennessee in the near future, as he says there has been considerable change which is favorable to racing in the politics of that state during the last sx. mouths. He believes that the day is not far distant when Memphis will be on the racing map again and is of the opinion that the sport would flourish there under the pari-mutuel system of betting. He also stales that there is a growing feeling for the enactment of laws in Texas permitting racing again in the big cities of that state with the mutuel system of wagering. Time has dealt kindly with Mr. MacFarland, as he looks about the same as he did when he was prominent in racing. W. M. Wallace has two likely yearlings in his stable here. One is a chestnut colt by Stalwart Miss Peggy, by Box. and the other a bay colt by Duke of Ormonde Gold Lace, dam of the great horse Textile. These are both handsome youngsters, and this good judge thinks they are exceedingly bright racing prospects. Mr. Wallace has The Widow Moon looking especially well this fall, but she does not race as well as she did in her younger days, and retirement to the stud will soon close her turf career. Weights for the Falls City Handicap, ,000 added, to be run Friday, October 1, the opening day of the Churchill Downs fall meeting, were announced by Secretary Lyman H. Davis today. The distance of this event is six furlongs and the greatest sprinters in training are eligible. Buckhom, in the stable of B. J. Mackenzie, is accorded the top weight, while the handicapper estimates Great Britain as the next in Hue. The weights follow: Buckborn, 127: Great Britain, 122; Back Bar, 117: Winning Witch, 110: Helen Barbee. IKS; Leo-chares, lid; Grover Hughes, 114; Bringhurst, 11:5; Leo Skolny, 111; Little Nephew, 110: Hawthorn, 110; Inkle, 105; Prince Heiniis, 105; Sebago, 103; The Widow Moon. 10:!: Wilhite, 103; Presumption, 103; Brookfield, 103; Casuarina, 102; Gipsy Love, 102; Hocnir, 102; Othello, 102: Lady Moonet, 102; Boral Tea. 100; Lady Panchita, OS: Huntress, !7. Winners of a race other than a selling purse nfter the publication of weights will be required to carry live pounds extra. Penalties accrue from 10.SO a. in.. Tuesday, October G.
