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DOUGLAS PARKS AUTUMN STAKE RACES. Louisville. Ky. August 14. The Louisville Cup, with ,500 added by the Douglas Park Jockey Mull, will probably be richer in value this year than at any time previous since it has been the bigjeature race of the autumn .meeting at this flourishing local race track. The Douglas Park meeting opens the local racing season on Monday. September IS. and covers a period of eight racing days, winding up on Tuesday, September 25, which will be the date of the running of the cup race, which will be at two miles in distance. The stake this year should draw a fine array of horses in ages ranging from three-year-olds up to the real veterans of the turf. It closes for entries, as do all tin? other stake races for the fall meeting 011 Friday, August IS. There are many horses now in training that are available to run in races of the distance of tin: Louisville Cup." Recent importations from Eng land and France add interest to the fall races over a long distance of ground to be run in Kentucky, the iAinisville Cup being the first of these big races in date of running. The Louisville Citp being at a distance of two miles is over a route of ground that has marked the running of races which fill many pages of interesting turf history. Some few old-timers who are still patrons of the race track recall readily many stirring contests at two miles between horses that will live forever in the racing guides. It was at this distance that the famous True Blue and the scarcely less distinguished Hubbard fought their famous duel at Saratoga in 1872, when for the first time two miles was run in better than 3:33. The : last quarter of that race the sons respectively of Lexington and Planet, fought out every foot of the ground inch by inch, and it was only the superior jockeyship of George Barbee that enabled True Blue to get his nose in front in the final stride of the great race. It was a two-mile race that set the seal of greatness on the mighty Falsetto, when at that distance, lie lowered the colors of that superior race horse Spendthrift, after he had beaten the latter at a mile and three-quarters. It was then that 1. Lorillard paid a huge sum for the son of Enquirer and sent him to England to race in the great cups of that land as a four-year-old. The horse Went wrong in England and never raced there, but was returned to his native land to make a record in the stud as a sire of brilliant racers, not excelled by any horse of his time. Of all the brilliant races . captured by Fitz Herbert, one of the champions of recent years on the turf, his two-mile race, when he beat all records up to that time, will perhaps ever add the chief glory to his name as a wonderful race horse. The coming meeting at Douglas Park, featured by such an event as the Louisville Cup, is sure to be highly successful. Manager Hachmeister continues all the other usual stake races for the autumn meeting and on days when no stake race is decided, there will be feature purses and handicaps in overnight races that will make each day of the meeting a real holiday of sport. The Douglas Park plant is today one of the most beautiful in the west and improved facilities to reach the . course in recent years has made it more accessible to the heart of the city. The racing then; will lie of the highest class, featured bv a card of races to which no purse of less than $; is offered by the Douglas Park Jockey Club. It is the youngest of all the big Kentucky race tracks in years, but it plays second fiddle to none in its offerings of up-to-date racing attractions.
