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DISMAL DAY AT LOUISVILLE RACING IS WELL PATRONIZED IN SPITE OF DISAGREEABLE CONDITIONS. Grover Hughes Wins tho Cherokee Selling Stakes and Changes Hands Leochares Has Easy Victory in Overnight Handicap. Louisville, Ky., October 14. Weather conditions today were the severest since Kentucky fall racing began his season at Lexington. A steady rain began at uu early hour this morning and continued without cessation. Considering the impropltlous conditions, tlie attendance at Churchill Downs was remarkably iood. The offering in a racing way was a good one, but the bad track conditions and the heavy fog that enveloped tne oval, making it at times diuicult to distinguish clearly the running of the races, detracted considerably from tile sport. The closing race was run almosc, in darkness, with the starters resembling Meeting shadows uutil they lieured the grandstand. The fractional time in --is race eouid not be obtained correctly, so it was dispensed with. Several run-ups during the afternoon enlivened proceedings. Tne first followed the Cherokee Selling Stakes, one mile and a sixteenth, and worth ,140 net to the winner. It was won by Grover Hughes, entered to .be sold for ,200, and aftei the finish he was advanced to .100 and bought by Harry Fink, who is said to have been acting for J. Umensetter, owner of Lady Panchita. Grover Hughes was acquired at Saratoga last summer from V. U. Weir for ,500, by Weber and Ward, who bid him up 00 over his entered price. Since becoming the property of Weljpr and Ward, he has won three races, including a stake, and finished second several times. He displayed keen speed this afternoon and won as his rider pleased, with Little Father second and Belle of Bryn Mawr third. Morristowii would likely have been a sharp factor m the race but for a bad stumble at the half mile ground, which caused him to skid for nearly twenty yards and eliminated him effectively from contention. The second run-up followed the fifth race, when Capt. Jim Williams, of Governor Gray and Hams Horn fame, advanced Martha Leo from her entered price of 00 to 00. Owner 1anke protected tne filly with an advance bid of . The Yauke establishments Flying Feet made it a double when he led for the entire trip in the closing dash. The Tyler Hotel Handicap at six furlong, eugagej a good hand of sprinters, including Jefferson Livingstons imported Longfellow, Winner of seven races in his last nine starts on English tracks. Marco, jjlis, .rider,, could not make him extend himself at my part of the running and he trailed distantly all Jjlie way. Buekhorn was the favorite of the race. -mt run disappointingly and fulled, to . gut any portion of the purse, Leochares winning us kjs rider pleased, with llodge and The Widow Moon fighting it out for the minor iwrtions of the purse. Hoyal II.. a slashing colt by Your Majesty Lady Ethel, was another English-bred racer that was making his debut on an American track in the jecond race. The colt had been showing to better advantage in his private trials than any of the vtiier imported racers of the Livingston establishment and trainer Brandt confidentially expected to see him win off by himself, but Loftus handled hiin unsatisfactorily and took him out of contention immediately after the start. He claimed that he was forced to do it on account of interference. McAdoo took the purse after coming with a big rush in the last furlong to beat Foxy Griff and Nobleman. In the opener Balgee upset calculations by leadiii" for the entire trip. Many owners erroneoiislv thought that the proposed new claiming rule went into effect today. It will have to lay over for thirty days on account of the amendments made to it since its introduction at Lexington and will as a result not become operative on Kentucky tracks until next Miring, as the Latouiu meeting will be over before the expiration of thirty days from yesterday. E. H. Bradley sold to L McBride, who came here today from Bowie, the yearling colt by Cuuard Melton Mowbray. John W. Schorr will campaign a stable of racers the coming winter and the tempting stake list announced for Havana probably will cause him to prepare Luke McLuke to run in some of them. The Charleston Fair and Itacin Association contemplates announcing at least six stakes to be run at Ialmetto Park during the period of six weeks racing preceding the opening of the Havana meeting.
