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RACING PROSPECTS AT CHURCHILL DOWNS. Louisville. Ky., August 12. The autumn meeting at Churchill Downs, which closes the local fall racing season in Kentucky, begins this year on AVednesday, September 27, and covers eight days of racing; The St. Leger Handicap, which is over the full cup course of two mile and one quarter, is the big feature race of the coming autumn meeting at the Downs and is one of the most popular of races among the great fixed events annually raced for on any American track The Kentucky St. Leger was first run at the inaugural autumn meeting at the Downs course in 1875, and it was in the fifth year of its running before a Kentucky Derby winner earned the honor of capturing this event. Of recent years the race has been for three-year-olds and over, and to give the horse of all the ages and sexes an equal chance it has been made a handicap. Since the race has been over the two miles and a quarter course it has once been won by a three-year-old and once by a four-yearrold. The four-year-old to win the race was Ringlihg, while the three-year-old victor was Raincoat last year. Much history centers around the early running of the St. Leger when its winners embraced such crack three-year-olds as King Alfonso. Creedmoor, Aera Cruz. Leveller. Lord Murphy. Luke Blackburn. Fel-lowplay, Apollo. Aanguard, Loftin. Ten Booker, Sir Joseph, Montrose, Long Chance, Heron. Uncle Bob. Rudolph. Semper Rex and Sabine, while the placed horses were such as Ten Broeck, Aerdigris. Heretog, Bombav, Felicia, Lizzie Whips, Fortuna, Momentum, Bucktie, Aureolus, Kinkead, Hegiaz, Lizzie S., Boatman. Monarch, Musk, Beechenbrook, Powhat-tan, Trollope, Irish Pat, Lewis Clark, Libretto. Pro-crastinator, J. B. Clay. Frankfort, Long Dance, Outbound, Riley, A G. Morris, Tarquin, Irish Chief, Buck McCann and Elizabeth L. Many of these names shine out brilliantly in the racing calendars and stud books as they embrace some of the most spectacular racers that have appeared on the American tracks in the last forty years. The race this year bids fair to be as brilliant as ever, as it is sure to draw in entries an array of the greatest horses now in training. The entries for this event, as well as the other stakes at the Downs next fall, will close on Tuesday. August 22. Secretary II. C. Applegate is now in the east distributing stake blanks among turfmen at Saratoga and elsewhere in that section of the country. Churchill Downs never fails to have a brilliant autumn meeting. Its opening day feature will be the popular Fall City Handicap, which always brings to the post the best sprinters in training here to contend over its three-quarters of a mile. The St. Leger Handicap will, as usual, be run on the closing day of the meeting. The other events at the Downs of the stake variety are the Golden Rod and Cherokee, which gives four of these races for the eight days meeting, making a stake race on every other day of the card. On the off , days extra attractions in overnight events in purses and handicaps will feature the program and no race during the meeting will have less than 1916.sh00 in added money. All the many expensive improvements now under way at Churchill Downs wNl be completed long before tins opening day of the coming meeting and these additions add still further to the sightliness of the great plant, which is one of the most beautiful of modern race tracks.
