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TIMELY GOSSIP FROM KENTUCKY. Louisville, Ky., October 14. All the probable starters in the St. Leger. the big feature of Saturdays card at the Downs, are working well for the big two and a quarter mile event. That it will be a most attractive and keenly contested race is assured. One great feature of such a race is that the contestants will pus the stand three times, and as a consequence the spectators grow highly enthusiastic The Churchill Downs management anticipates a big crowd Saturday. This opinion is based on the box reservations for that afternoon, which are close to the record of last Derby day. A special rate has been secured by the New Louisville Jockey Club from all the railroads leading to Louisville for that day. Saturdays card will be as attractive as it is possible to make it, and aside from the big feature race, the fields will be made up of the best horses in training. Saturday will undoubtedly bring the local racing season to a close in brilliant style. 17. H. Bradley, o Idle Hour Farm, who has raced no horses at the local meetings this fall, will have at Latonla during the eighteen days of racing which begins there next Mondav. a string of five horses in charge of trainer Cliff Hamnion. These include Brick and Mortar, Benanet, Loveland and Bayberry Candle. All the other horses in the Bradlev stable have gone into winter quarters at Idle Hour Farm, with the big array of yearlings, which will -carry the Bradley colors in the two-year-old events of 1015. Mr. Bradley thinks Black Toney will come back to the races next season a brilliant four-year-old. and he is looking forward to a most successful season, as his yearlings are promising. John Lowe, who is now here, lias already shipped tlie four horses he raced in Montaua last summer to the Juarez course in Mexico and he anticipates shipping part of a carload of horses from here to that course at the close of the present meeting at tlie Downs, including some of the two-yearolds owned by James Butler. Lowe will also have sent to him at Juarez several two-year-olds which are now in California, as he will have a big stable of horses at the Mexican course tlie coming winter. Lowe did extremely well with the division of the Butler stable that he had at Juarez last winter, two of them, Last Coin and Climber, developing stake quality. The Juarez track is a great "lace for the development of two-year-olds. Short Grass, the imported horse with which trainer Phil Chiun won yesterdays handicap at the Downs, gets his name from the fact that he was foaled in countv Kildare in Ireland. On what is known as the Curragh of Kildare the grass grows short. An argument as to the relative merits of horses of the long ago and cracks of the present time was started at Churchill Downs List week. Tlie adherents of the former contended that they were superior to the great horses of today, and found many supiiortcrs. Finally, trainer Bill Phillips came along and was appealed to to settle the argument. As Phillips passed on down the back stretch he threw a liomb among the supporters of the old-timers by remarking that they were trotting and pacing horses at Lexington this week as fast as race horses used to run. He also added that the crowds in the betting ring at Churchill Downs nowadays would look like the entire assemblage that saw Mollie McCarthy and Ten Broeck run their famous match race nearly forty years ago. Pointing to the site of the old club house, Phillips said. "That looks like a small lot compared with the inclosure around the present splendid building. Even G. B. Morris, who has saddled many great, horses, thinks that as far as the general run of performers is concerned. Phillips is aliout right, but in his opinion the really great horses of the long ago were like tlie famous statesmen of their era and would have been really great in any age. "We have seen no better horse than Hindoo." said Morris, "and ho proved it by leaving Hanover on the turf to represent him. and now Great Britain, the champion of the season, is from his line."
