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TIMELY GOSSIP FROM KENTUCKY. Cincinnati, O., October 20. Weights for the Fort Thomas Stakes, .,000 added for two-year-olds, six furlongs, will be announced on Thursday by Secretary .L. W. Maglnn. This event is to be the big feature race next Saturday afternoon fit Latonia and its list of eligible embraces a ma- jorlty of the two-year-old cracks now racing in i Kentucky, including Emerson Coshran, Ed Crump, i Solly, Cnalmers and Liberator. Great interest centers " aliout the Fort Thomas Stakes, as It has in seasons past furnished a line on Derby timber j; for the following season. A race like this will doubtless draw an immense crowd to the Latonia track next Saturday. As a setting for the big j tnnt Secretary Maginu has arranged a great , card of overnight events for that afternoon, three of the races being at a mile and over. R. D. Williams has arrived at Latonia with a band of vearlings, which are to be sold here in the name of J. L. Holland at the yearlings sale ; next Monday and Tuesday. The yearlings Williams brought here are all by the good i race horse Hilarious and constitute the unit of his get, the exception being one colt by Martinet. They are a lusty looking lot of youngsters. Manager Z Hachineister is encouraging the holding of 1 these, yearling sales ill the autunih at the Lu: tonia track and will aid the breeders of Kentucky and elsewhere in making these offerings an annual feature lu connection with the fall meetings at this course. . . , , , , . , Traliier W. Perkins has had bad luck with ills, , string now quartered at Latonia. While several l of his horses, including Luther, were in good form, ilurini the racing at Louisville he had the misfortune to have three of his charges cut down iii j races, they being Talebearer, Flossie Crocket and y Jeft" Roberts. The latters injury is so severe that t he mav not be able to race again this season, but Perkins hopes to get the other two to the iwst before the meeting here ends. He expects to ij W several . other horses to ship to Juarez m ! Mexico, where lie his decided to race a string ? the coming winter. W. H. Frev brought two borses here to race, !, one being the" good tilly Zin Del, and the other the e maiden two-year-old, Subject, which he bought in u .Maryland reeitat?r from William Garth. This s voungster is a brown gelding that has raced twice. As vet Frev knows little about him, but. he is a a good doer and a two-year-old of line disposition. i. He is by Migraine Subjection, by Lenoxlove. He e was bred by .1. IV. Madden and bis diim has to nor r credit two stake winners. This influenced Fiey ? in purchasing him.
