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GROWING LIVELY FAST AT LOUISVILLE. Many Horsoe Already Stabled There in Preparation for the Coming Meetings. Louisville, Ky.. August 9. Stables at the Douglas Park track are rapidly filling up with racing strings for the coming autumn meeting at that plant. As is customary preceding any meeting at Douglas Park, manager John Hachmeister has much improvement work at present going on at the big plant. A majority of the stables are being roofed anew and many of the stalls are being torn out and the old lumber replaced with new material. The great plant is now most sightly with its new-flower beds, in addition to the grounds that were taken into the confines of the course last winter and spring. He has in contemplation the erection, next fall of a receiving barn with a sufficient number of stalls to bring the stable capacity at Douglas Park up to 700 stalls, there now being 048 on the grounds of the Douglas Park Jockey Club. Kay Spcnee is back in charge of all the horses he has in his care, twenty head, which are now quartered at Douglas Park. He is now at his home on Bonnycastle avenue in this city, a handsome place he purchased last spring, anil will remain here until the local racing season is over. He has Hodge once more in training, as well as the two-year-old Waremore, which was the crack youngster at Juarez last winter, and. both of these arc now looking good and going soundly. The same can be said also of Red Cloud, Egmont and the speedy Joe Blair, all of which are looking, exceedingly well since their summer rest-up. The present string Spence now has under his charge is the largest in numbers that -he has ever essayed to train. Carroll B. Reid has added, by purchase for a private price, to his string now at Douglas Park, the chestnut two-year-old colt Jimp, by Hilarious Erma, which he secured from Williams Bros., and which reduces the hitters stable, now at Douglas Park, to twenty horses, seventeen of which are yearlings. This string is in charge of trainer Pete Williams, his brother, R. D. Williams, having twelve members of the string at Lexington, where they will remain until after tin; fall meeting at that place. This will make the Williams Bros, have thirty-two horses in their entire stable. The two-year-old Jargon, which was here in the stable of this firm is dead, he having never recovered from a sickness that attacked him at Latonia last June. Mr. Reid has an exceedingly fine yearling colt in training here, lie being a son of Ben Trovato, out of tht! dam of that good mare Emerald Gem. lie has a four-year-old brother to this yearling" that, through bad training luck, he has never been able to get to the races, but tiie horse is now lookin well and training favorably. The racing string of W. W. Dardeu is now at Douglas Park, with the exception of Lady Ivan, which is still in anada, and will be brought here, at the close of the coming Windsor meeting. The Dardeu string here at present consists of six horses Converse, Elizabeth I., Margaret E. and Gray-beard, and two yearlings by Ivan the Terrible. Both the hitter art; colts, one being out of Bewitched and tin; other out of Moulin Rouge. They are both bays in color and are fine specimens of yearlings. C. C. Van Meter has his six two-year-olds in training at Douglas Park. They are composed of Eveline V.. Bourbon Beauty, Hester Smith, Robert Rhodes, Jack Lalfin and Charlie Malum. Three of the number have never raced and tine of these. Jack Laffin, Van Meter thinks a great deal of, believing he has in him the making of what may prove a Derby colt as a three-year-old. He is a brother to Tetan, which just missed winning the Latonia Derby in the year Royal II. won that event. Jack LalTin is not as yet fully developed, though he is Hearing the autumn of his two-year-old form, but he is coming to hand now more rapidly than in the spring and, if looks go for anything, will soon be out of the maiden class the coming fall. Stalls an; being bedded down at Douglas Park for eight yearlings owned by J. Livingston, which are expected to arrive here tomorrow from Lexington in charge of Louis Tauber. The latter has also engaged thirty stalls at Douglas Park for the horses of the Livingston string which will probably be congregated here at the close of the present Saratoga meeting. The yearlings which Livingston recently purcased in England will also come to Douglas Park as soon as tUey land in America. There are quite a number of strings limited in horses now also quartered at Douglas Park. Frank Rector has three in his charge, owned by W. E. Phillips, patrol judge of the Kentucky tracks, they being Almeda Lawrence. George Roesch and Lindly; C. M. Cisco has HulTaker and M. Bert Thurman in his care; J. Snllee has Surpassing; W. 15. Snarley has Business Agent; AV. Covington has in his string Harry Gardner, Money, Trusty and Prince S.; S. M. Henderson has also six horses at Douglas Park, including the well-known Langhorne, Oakland Boy and Lukemae. The latter expects to increase his string somewhat before the fall racing season in Kentucky begins. Jockey J. Kederis is an arrival hero after spending a month at his home in Seattle. Wash. He will ruuiain here until the meeting at Lexington begins, when he will go there to ride as a free lance, though it is understood that several turfmen art; anxious to secure his services now that he has severed connection with the J. Livingston stable, which had him under contract in the early part, of this year. Kederis appears to be in the best tif health and condition and will be able tti ride at his usual, scale weight the coming fall.
