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TIMELY GOSSIP FROM KENTUCKY. Cincinnati, O., October 27. The Autumn Stakes, one mile, which is set for next Saturday at La-toia, is likely to have among its starters several horses that may also start in the Latonia Cup. two miles and a quarter, on the closing day of the present meeting, Saturday, November 7. There are forty-seven nominations for the Autumn Stakes. A big lield will go to the post in this event, which has always been productive of a high class contest. The yearling sales at Latonia this fall have again demonstrated as they did last season, that in the autumn there is no better market for youngsters which are old enough to begin racing early the following season. There were perhaps more general buyers as well as bidders at the sales here than have been in attendance at auy of the other yearling offerings this year and it is almost a sure thing that next season many other breeders of Kentucky and other states will reserve their youngsters for the offering during the fall meeting at Latonia. While the demand was as great for choice stock as at any yearling sale held in this country in 1914, there were at Latonia many more bidders willing to pay good prices for a youngster that was not in the first class. Some of the buyers at the Latonia sales this fall only asked that the youngsters show soundness in wind and limb. In other words there were horsemen willing to take a chance on any colt or filly led into the ring. Undoubtedly the sales of yearlings at Latonia in future falls will grow more and more important and the time may come when such offerings will extend over a longer jieriod than two days, which was the case this fall. The latest recruit to the ranks of the horsemen who will race at Juarez during the coming winter is P. M. Civill. who will take his entire stable there, headed by his consistent three-year-old gelding. Mockery. This will be the first shipment Mr. Civill has made to the Mexican course. The eight stakes so far announced at Juarez will close for entries Thursday. The events which close on this date are: Juarez Handicap, for all ages, six furlongs, value ,500. Navidad Handicap, for all ages, one mile value ,500. Ano Nuevo Handicap, for all ages, one mile and a sixteenth, value ,500. Dos Republicas Handicap, for all ages, seven furlongs, value ,500. El Paso Stakes, for all ages, one mile, selling, value ,200. Rio Grande Stakes, for all ages, selling, six furlongs, value ,200. Chapultepec Handicap, for now two-year-olds, six furlongs, value ,500. Chihuahua Stakes, six furlongs, for now two-year-olds, soiling, value ,200. All horsemen racing here have been requested to file their entries with Eugene Elrod at the Latonia track. Information from the East is to the effect that several Important stables now racing at the Laurel track in Maryland will be shipped direct from that course to the Juarez track. The owners of a nura- her of these stables have never until this season raced their horses in the winter at this track and one or two have never liefore patronized any winter meeting. A brother of the Texas turfman, John W. Parker, who is now here attending the raws. reorts that trainer is now able to get around without a cane. Parker stepped on a piece of broken glass in Canada and, as a result, was on crutches during most of the Canadian racing season. He has already shipped all his horses to Juarez. Frank Clarkson of Florida, who is now a daily visitor at Latonia. has but one yearling this season, a colt by Migraine, which he will place in some competent trainers hands for a campaign next season as a two-year-old. The youngster is out of one of Mr. Clarksons favorite mares and he expects him to make good. There is remarkable demand at present for any horse capable of winning a race wliich is in anything like a sound condition. There are more than a dozen horsemen now at Latonia keen to invest money in any horse that looks as if he can soon win a race and the prices offered for such horses are greater now than in the last twenty years on the Kentucky turf. As to the real first class performers they are mostly in hands of owners who will not sell at any price. Buyers are not as particular as in former years and will take a mare almost as quickly as they will a colt or a gelding. There lias also been a great advance In the price for breeding stock. For instance, F. J. Pons, who now owns a stud of twenty-six mares, twenty-live of which are young stud matrons, could lisose of the entire lot today for 25 or 30 per 1 cent more than be invested in them.
