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KENTUCKY RACING SEASON TO CLOSE IN A BLAZE OF GLORY AT LATONIA SATURDAY Cincinnati, O., November 4. Last Mondays mile and a half race at Latonia was a sort of preliminary to the two mile and a quarter Latonia Cup race, the big feature event scheduled for next Saturday, when it will be run; with six other races, including a handicap at six furlongs, iu which it is expected one of tne greatest fields of two-year-olds that has started iu Kentucky this season will face the barrier. The program as arranged by Secretary 10. W. Maginn for next Satuday is one of the greatest ever carded at an autumn meeting in Kentucky and there will be more racing stars go to the post that afternoon than have been seen under colors on the same day this season. It is designed with the idea of furnishing a fitting close for the greatest, autumn meeting ever held ;at Latouia. Of the nine horses that went to the post in the mile and a half handicap Monday, seven are eligible for the Latonia Cup, with its ,500 added anil a beautiful silver loving cup as a trophy to the winner, and it seems a certainty that all seven will go to the post. The seven includes Expectation, which finished secoud to Short Grass, and Hash, which ran third, in addition to Christophne, Disparity, Coy Lad, Any Port and Sir Catesby, the winner of the Latouia Cup last season. With Verena, San Vega. Bonne Chance and Lady Errant also engaged in the race, one or two of which will likely go to the -post, it seems likely that the Latonia Cup may have the largest field that lias ever started in this race. Secretary Maginn has adjusted the weights for this event skillfully and it looks like an open race. Weights for the Latonia Cup race, were announced by Secretary Magiin, as follows: Horse. A.Wt. Horse. A.Wt. Great Britain 4 133 Coy Lad 5 107 Free Lance ....... .5-127 John Furlong 7 105 Rudolfo 5 122 Sir!Catesbv S 105 Solar Star 4 117 Jenny Geddes 5 104 David Craig ......3 115 Christophine 3 103 Little Nephew ...3 112 Botine.Cuance 5 103 Lahore 0 112 Verena. 4 103 Kleburne 4 111 Manager Mack 5 100 Gowell 4 111 Any Port 0 100 Uonerail ....4 109 Lady-Errant . . 3 07 Sleeth 5 108 Nannie McDeg 5 07 Clubs ..5 JOS Roliinetta ..3 07 Samuel R. Meyer. .5 10S Disparity ,.....,-;. 91. Dr. Samuel .1 3 1 OS Decathlon ..........3 - Hash 0 10S Expectation 3 95 San Vega 3 10S Bnck Keenon 3 95 Ivan Gardner 3 107 Brickley .,..: 94 At the close of the Laurel meeting M. J. Winn was called to New York City to transact considerable business iu relation to the various tracks which he serves as mauager, and this will probably prevent him from visiting Latonia while the present meeting is in progress.- It is likely -he. will go from New York to his home in Louisville. Ky., to spend a few days before proceeding to Juarez for the winter. His assistant, 11. F.. Breivogel, has left for El Paso to attend to the preliminary details of the coming winter meeting of one hundred or more days at Juarez, opening on Thanksgiving1 Day. George Swain will have several horses to take from here to Juarez, including the two-year-old Briny Deep, which is at present out of racing for a time. This gelding ruptured his tendons In his last start here, but the injury is not sufficient to lay him up for more than five or six weeks, and Swain expects to be able to race him again at Juarez soon after the first of the year, when he will be a three-year-old. J. O. Keene is sending in the string he is shipping to Juarez in charge of trainer Taylor the gelding Osmonde, a son of Oddfellow that he believes will prove a good winner at the Mexican course. He is a two-year-old that Is improving and It looks as if he will develop into a three-year-old of some quality. James Riley, of Lexington, may decide to send his six-year-old gelding, Allen, to Juarez for the winter This performer has started but twice, having experienced hard luck in training ever since he was a two-year-old, but those who are familiar with his recent work-outs say he may make a useful racer. Ife Is by Bridgewater Miss Mary., that produced that good race horse Maribert. Riley has a two-year-old that he thinks may develop into a fair three-year-old, but this youugster will not race this winter. He is by Out of Reach Ethal Thomas, the dam of South Trimble and Mamie Worth. Ills dam died soon after he was foaled. Trainer Will McDaniel has shipped nine horses to William Gersts farm in Tennessee. One is a mare purchased recently by the Nashville turfman for stud purposes, while the others embrace the three-year-olds Brickley and Alador, and six yearlings, the get of Jack Atkiu, Hanbridge, Peter Pan, Ben Trovato and Cyclades. All will be turned out until the time comes" to take them iq for training next spring. Freeman, which ran in the second race at Latonia last Saturday in the colors of George J. Long, is a half brother to that great Latonia Derby winner, Free Lance, and is one of the Long youngsters that will be entered for the Derby races of next season. Saturdays race was the first in which he has ever carried colors, he having trained off in the early spring after showing high speed as a yearling. He is just the sort of a horse that may develop into a good three-year-old. The get of Sir Iluon. seem to come to hand late, but some day, iu the opinion of. good judges, he will reproduce himself and sire a Derby winner. CapL.C F. Ciscj. .will race.no horse- the coming-winter and will quarter his string at one of ttio Louisville tracks until spring. His reason for this is that he has several likely yearlings that have not been developed to any extent as yet. Trainer Al. Kirby will take a string of horses to Juarez this winter. J. B. Respess may send a division of his stable to New Orleans. Kirby has in view the securing of several good horses in the next few da-s for shipment to Juarez on the Llrod Special, which leaves for that track at noon next Monday and if he is successful in securing these horses, he will have the biggest string of ier-fonuers he has yet taken to the Mexico course. Kirby did exceedingly well there last winter. Hi won witli most of the horses he took there and made several good sales before he returned to Kentucky last spring. One of the . performers he sold was Scarlet Oaks, for which he received, all things considered, as good a price as was paid for any horse s.old last winter.
