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KENTUCKYS FALL RACING CAMPAIGN. Notes of Attractions offered and Improvements in Progress at Louisville and Xatonia. Louisville, Ky., August S. M. J. Winn, manager of tht Churchill Downs track, is home from the Oilst for a short stay before he returns to Laurel,, at which place vast improvements are being made. Since his arrival here he has been superintending the improvements now under way at the Downs and attending to the details of the coming fall meeting there, which begins this fall on Wednesday, September 27, and concludes after eight days of racing on Thursday, October 5. The stake blanks for tiie St. Leger Handicap and other stake events at the Downs are now being mailed out by Secretary Applegate. these events being set to close for entries on August 22. The improvements at the Downs, which will be all completed long before the date of the fall meeting, consist of two new barns below the clubhouse, which contain sixty-eight stalls and increases the stable capacity at this plant to 730 stalls. Tiie old shed row, known as number three on the Fourth avenue line of the track, has been torn away and, a new blacksmith shop set up at that place. A new fence, now miming even on the Fourth avenue line, has also been put up. There are quite a number of horses at present in quarters at the Downs track and many more will be shipped there in the next few weeks from the various racing points of the country. A. K. Mncombers band of yearlings by Uncle, which horse sent Old Rosebud and Little Nephew to the races, are now there in charge of William Iteed, who was formerly connected with the training stables of J. O. Keene and T. P. Hayes. There are seven of these youngsters, four colts and three fillies, and they have gone through the breaking process in good condition and are highly promising as racing prospects. Tiie seventeen head of yearlings that the owner of Star Hawk purchased in England recently, will upon their arrival in this country be shipped to the Downs track and join the youngsters by Uncle that Reed has under his care. Another big stable at the Downs is a division of George J. Longs racing string which contains fourteen horses, twelve of which are yearlings. In the next few days five other yearlings owned by Mr. Long, and now quartered at Bashford Manor Farm, are to be brought to the Downs and will join his stable now there. It had been hoped that it would be possible to again attempt to train Ralph and Rochester this fall, but Mr. Long is exceedingly doubtful if either will ever be put in training again. He now thinks that neither one of them will stand preparation for racing. Among the yearlings in the Long establishment are two colts, the first of the progeny of Free Lance and they have attracted as much attention as any youngsters now in training here. One of them is an exact image almost of his great sire and seems almost certain to be a sensational youngster if he meets with no mishaps in his preparation as a yearling and a two-year-old. This colt has the easy way of going of his sire and seems in fact just the type of a youngster that can be expected to develop into a Derby winner. Free Lance was such a great race horse and is so richly bred that there seems no doubt that he will be a successful sire. The yearlings by him now in training show that he has stamped his impress on his sons. John Ilachineister, manager of the Douglas Park and Latonia Jockey Clubs, will leave Latonia the last of the week for a trip to Saratoga and Canadian tracks for a couple of weeks or more, to solicit entries for the stakes at Douglas Park and Latonia. The chief events at these two courses are the two big cup races, the Louisville Cup at Douglas Park with ,500 added and the Latonia Cup, at the latter track with ,000 added. He looks for horsemen to patronize heavily the longdistance races in Kentucky, as he lias increased the added money to both these events and, in fact, doubled the amount heretofore hung Hp for the Latonia big race. He looks for a marvellous meeting at the latter course as all the Canadian tracks will be closed during the Latonia meeting, which begins on Saturday, October 7, and concludes on Saturday, October 2S, a racing period of nineteen days. On his return to Kentucky from Canada and the east he will bring his force at once to Douglas Park and open the office there to prepare for the coming fall meeting of eight racing days at that course. W. II. Shelley while at the Lexington fair this week will begin the preparation of his book program for the coming meeting at Lexington, which oneus the fall racing season in Kentucky on Wednesday, September 0, and concludes on Saturday, September 10. During the racing at Lexington he will put on several long-distance races one at a mile and a quarter and another at a mile and a half as preliminary trials for the longdistance races at the other tracks, embracing the Louisville Cup, two miles, at Douglas Park; the St. Leger Handicap, two miles and a quarter, at Churchill Downs, and the Latonia Cup, two miles and a quarter, at Latonia. He will also have on Continued ou second page. KENTUCKYS FALL RACING CAMPAIGN. Continued from first page. the Lexington program several races of a mile and an eighth. The Kentucky Association gives no oone but Manager M. J. Winn has any authority to make, any announcements in regard to racing at the Jockey Club Juarez track in Mexico. He is the president and manager of that plant, which is one of the finest and most expensively laid out courses in all North America. The Jockey Club Juarez track has held annual "winter race meetings of long duration since it was first completed in 1909 and has the distinction of having distributed among horsemen in purses and stakes to date close to a million and a .half dollars. In recent years the Jockey Club Juarez course has proved a financial success.
