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PROGRAM OF LEXINGTON S FALL MEETING. Lexington, Ky.. August i. The book for tin Kentucky Associations fall meeting of nim- day-. beginning Thursday, September !t. was issiu ,1 to day. The hook was written bv Judge William 11. Shelley, ami it provides at tirst glance an as-ur aace that sport ,,f the u-ual high order i- certain to be seen at Lexington. The program is for sixty-three races, seven Oa each of the nine days. The aggregate of the money provided :s 1,500, an average of f£L500 daily, while to twenty of the races an entrance fee of *io is exacted of each ik i ■-,-. This will tiring the total of the money io be Itetributed among the winning horsemen to* approximately 2,800. Sixteen of the purses are for 0D. thirty-seven for 00, six for 1915.sh00 and two for SToo and two for 00. Thirteen of the races are handicaps. Four of the lacs are named for the principal hotels of Lexington —tin- Phoenix, Leaanurd, Leland and Head and a race has been named for each of the bre I ing farms producing thoroughbreds in this vicinity. Eighteen of the races are for t w - en r old-, right for three- eat - dds. and iweiity-nine for three-year olds and over, four fir foar-year-olda and over and four for all ages. Judge Shelley has taken care to have a race for maidens on each of the nine days, in accordance with the rule of the Kentucky State Racing Commission. All of the maiden races are for two year-olds witli the exception of one whii li i-for three year-nhls and over. In the matter of li-tan-,-. live are at five eighths, I en at live and a half fariongs, twenty-seven at three-quarters, four at i ne mile, six at one milo and seventy yards, live at a nUie and a sixteenth, fiv,. at a mile and an eighth and one at a mile and a qaarter. Judge Shell y will return to Louisville at the end of the week to remain until about August 20, when he will come her,, to open his office at the track.
