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TIMELY GOSSIP FROM KENTUCKY. Louisville, Ky., October 10. 1014. The meeting now on at Churchill Downs has more than fulfilled eyery expectation to date, lue attendance has been generous and of the highest class, and the races up to the high standard set for racing at the Downs. The next stake event to be run at the Downs is the Cherokee, .,000 added, for .three-year-olds and upward, one mile and one-sixteenth. This event has thirty eligibles and it is anticipated that such popular performers as Helen Barbee, Leo Skolnv. Rohlnettn, Prince nermis. Jennr Geddos, Belle of Uryn Mawr. Christophine, Furlong, Grover Hughes. Itingling. Old Ben, Milton B. and Little Father will be among the starters. This event will be run Wednesday. The feature race of the meeting, the St. Legcr Handicap ,000 added, two miles and a quarter, will form a fitting finale for the fall season or racing at the Downs next Saturday. There are twenty-three entries for this stake. Including the champion four-year-old, Great Britain, which has won four long distance races this fall, including the Toronto Autumn Cun, two miles and a quarter, mid the Louisville Cup, two miles, at the recent Douglas Park meeting. Though trainer John Walters has been quoted as saying that Great Britain would uot race any more this year, the noted son of The Commoner is in such superb condition that it is believed ills trainer will let him go and finish out his long distance engagements. Great Britain is considered lo be the best long distance horse in all America today. Great Britain possesses a wonderfully good temperament. He never shows ill temper. A few days aD when ou the track and with the course alive with horses he laid down and rolled over half a dozen times. In speaking of the report that his owner. G. M. Hendrie. intends to place him in the stud in Canada when his racing days are over trainer Walters says that he does not think Mr. Ilendrle has ever given any serious thought to Great Britains future in the stud. He expects to see him race for several more seasons. Trainer Walters thinks his weanling brother at Kdenwold Farm in Tennessee is as grand a looking youngster of his age ns lives. He is the first foal Touch Not has had since she dropiied Great Britain, she bavin" been barren In the season between the foaling of Great Britain and this youngster.
