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KENTUCKY STAKES CLOSE THIS WEEK. Liberal Offerings Tendered by the Now Louisville. Douglas Park and Latonia Clubs. Louisville, Ky.. August 15. On Friday coming, August IS. the stakes for the coming fall meeting of the Douglas Park Jockey Club and the Latonia Jockey Club close for entries. Tin; dates of these meetings are now not far off, Douglas Parks eight lays of autumn sport beginning 011 Monday, September IS, and concluding on Tuesday, September 2t, while the nineteen days at Latonia begins 011 Saturday, October 7, and ends on Saturday, October 2S. There are three stakes, which close 011 next Friday for the Douglas Park fall meeting, namely: The Douglas Park Inaugural Handicap, with ,000 added for three-year-olds and over; one mile and a sixteenth. The Beechnioat Stakes selling, with ,500 added for two-year-olds; five and a half furlongs. The Louisville Cup, with ,500 added for three-year-olds and over; two miles. The events at Latonia are: The 1-atonia Inaugural Handicap, with ,000 added for three-year-olds and over; one mile and a sixteenth. The Fort Thomas Handicap, with ,000 added for two-year-olds; three-quarters mile. The Autumn Stakes selling, with ,500 added for throe-year-olds and over: one mile. The Latoni-i Cup, with ,000 added for three-year-olds and over; two miles and a quarter. These are seven rich events for aut.uuri racing at these two tracks this fall and should call for a big array of entries. They are fixed events at these courses and have always been productive of brilliant races participated iu by classy fields. By increasing the added money in the Latonia Cup from ,500 to ,000. Manager Hachmeister had in view the making of this race the richest of all stakes run on the Kentucky tracks at this season of the year and of more value than any event decided 011 the American or Canadian turf in the month of October of the present year. With the list, of entries he expects to secure during his present visit iu the east, he anticipates that tna gross value of this race this year will total between ,000 and ,000. Both Douglas Park and Latonia are sure to have brilliant race meetings next autumn and the card offered at I.;itoni:i has never been equalled at any autumn meeting iu this state, inasmuch as there will be during that meeting a race program at a mile for two-year-olds with ,500 added, and on all days in which no stakes are decided, one of the races during the afternoon will have ,000 added money. There will be no purse either during the Douglas Park or Latonia meetings of less than 1916.sh00. Last year Latonia led all the tracks in America. Cuba, Mexico and Canada in the distribution of money among horsemen. In forty days racing 34,250 was hung up by this Kentucky Jockey Club. In tho last nine racing seasons, covering the period manager John Hachmeister has presided over the destinies of the Latonia trick, ,S25,930 has been distributed by this jockey Club among the horsemen. Tho recent soring and summer meeting at this track and the coming fall meeting at this course will round out the money distribution to horsemen iu ten years of over ,000,000. The stakes for the autumn meeting at Churchill Downs, which is of eight days duration, and begins on Wednesday, September 27 and concludes on Thursday. October 5, are to close next Tuesday, August 22. They are all the old fixtures of the autumn season of racing at this most popular Kentucky track and are as follows: The St. Leger Handicap, with ,000 added, for three-year-olds and over; two miles and a quarter. The Falls City Handicap, with ,000 added, for Ihroc-vcar-olds and over; three-quarters of a mile. The Golden Rod Stakes selling, with ,000 added, for two-year-olds; three-quarters of a mile. The Cherokee Stakes selling, with ,000 added, for three-year-olds and over; one mile and a sixteenth. This gives a stake next fall at the Downs for every other day of the sport then; and on the days that no stake is run manager M. !. Winn will h:.ve 011 the card a feature overnight race, either of a purse or handicap variety, of high value in added money. During the eight days of racing at the Downs next fall there will be no purse of less than 1916.sh00. Manager Winn, who is now in the east, has the assurance of many prominent turfmen of that locality that they will make liberal entries at the Downs and he expects a record-breaking number in the St. Leger, which has always been one of the most popular of stakes run in the autumn. Among those who have signified their intentions of making entries in the long-distance stakes in Kentucky is Mrs. L. A. Livingston, whose Ilancocas Stable won two of the three Kentucky Endurance Stakes at four miles at the Downs course. Among the yearlings in F. D. Weirs string this year, the famous trainer who campaigned Itoseben and developed such great stars as St. Maxim. Jim Gaffney and the sensational Kentucky Derby winner. Old Rosebud, is a brown filly by Jack Atkin Helena, by Hermis, a mare that Weir raced successfully and has always been a great favorite with him. Hi; is proud of this filly because he bred her and she is the first produce of Helene. The latter mare ranks as the best of all the daughters of the great race horse Hermis. winning as a two-year-old among other races the Brighton Junior Champion Stakes. She raced for five years and was each year a good money winner for Weir. In her career she won all told fourteen races and earned 1,205 on the turf. This yearling daughter of Jack Atkin and Helene is as flue a type of a filly as can be found in a days travel throughout Kentucky. Weir has set high hopes in her and. while it is a long time yet, there is a .chance for her to be enrolled among the Kentucky Oaks winners. One good judge who recently looked her over remarked: "That is a filly that might even reach beyond Oaks honors and, as Regret did in 1915, "win the Kentucky Derby in her three-year-olo. form."
