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• ! . I i ■ , J , . , j | t GETTING READY AT CHURCHILL DOWNS. Louisville, Ky.. August 25.— Already preparations are being made at Churchill Downs for the coming fall meeting at that track, which begins Wednesday. September 29, and winds up Thursday, October 7. a racing period of eight day-. The wonderful success of the various race meetings through out the country portends a prosperous and successful fall meeting at Churchill Downs. The coming autumn meeting at Churchill Downs may be a record-breakiag one from the fact that the entries for the stakes of the fall meeting, now in the hands of Secretary H. c. dpntegate, exceed by a considerable number the totals iu similar events of last year. These entries embrace a majority of the best horses of various ages now racing in this country and in Canada and are a representation of the leading racing stables. While the fall meeting at Churchill Downs only .alls for eight days of racing, it will be a wonderful meeting, as half of the dates have a stake race down as a feature and the off days will be marked l.y special purses. which will have in added money- nearly as great a value as many stakes run elsewhere. Already many of the stables are now occupied by horses at Churchill Downs and. by the first of Ihe coining week, many other barns will be filled by arrivals from Canadian and eastern tracks. Some of the horses now racing at Saratoga are coming in here a bit early, and all the strings westward bound fr m that racing point w ill be housed here earl] in the coming month. Col. M. J. Winn, general manager of the Downs, will not be here for quite a spell yet. but in his absence all the little details are abiv looked after i.v secretary Applegato ami superintendent Young. CoL Winn will lie here in due season to prepare* for the opening of the coming meeting at the Downs and. while it will not be possible on account of the meeting at Laurel, ltd., of which course ha is al-o manager, for him to be here, secretary Applegato and his assistants can operate the Course during the meeting with entire success. One of the stables imw at the Downs is that of Lew Marion, who has in his barn the g.KMl racer Prince Hernia. Thia gve-year-old horse never looked t.etter than at ihe p resent time. He is strong and lusty and to all appearances seems to have done no racing at all this ear. Marion has only entered him in the shorter distance stakes in the Kentucky fall campaign. He thinks the horse is gixnl for two or three more vears of average racing, up to a mile ami a sixteenth ami. while in another ear he maj conclude to let him race over a cap course, he will, for the present, .nlv let him race as lie has been doing since he turned into his three year old form. Marion has four other horses in training, namely, Helen Thompson. lie-Adam*, Oda May and English Maid. Several of these he may send to the Lexington race meeting. but Prince Hermis will not make his bow to the public until the local racing season lx-gins. Jockey E. Bool, who is under contract to Marion, will go to LexingKn about September 3 to exercise tin few horses on that track, so as to lie in his best condition to begin taking mounts when the meeting oiiens there on September 9. Pool is In excellent condition at the present time, having completely recovered from the long spell of sickness that kept him from riding during the greater part of the last summer meeting at Ln-tonia. The lad is a great favorite with Marion. Who thnks him the only rider than can intelligently pilot Prince Hermis at all times. This trainer re-1 eiitly said Pool was ten pounds in Prince Hermis favor whenever he had the leg up on the horse. He believes he lost three or four races this year that Brim.- Hermis would have won, had Pool been iu the saddle.
