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LEXINGTON MEETINGS PROGRAM BOOK. To Bo Distributed Among Horsemen Today and Is Extremely Liberal in Money. Lexington, Ky., August 10. The program book for the full ten days of the Kentucky Associations fall meeting September 0 to 10, will be issued to horsemen by racing secretary W. II. Shelley tomorrow. It calls for seventy races witli added money of 0,000. The only purse of less than 00. is one of 00 for a race for gentlemen riders. Conditions of only two races are unwritten. They are reserved for the disposal of runup money, should tii.re be any. Thirty one races are for 00: thirty-two for 1916.sh00; three for 00; one for 00 and two for ,000. Nineteen races are for two-year-olds, ten for three-year-olds, thirty-four for three-year-olds and over and five for four-year-olds and over. Three races are at five-eighths, eleven at five and one-half furlongs, twenty-six at three-quarters, four at one mile, three at a mile and seventy yards, eleven at a mile and a sixteenth, five at a mile ::nd an eighth and five at a mile and a quarter. The book represents one of racing secretary W. II. Shelleys best efforts and fine sport at the Lexington course next mouth is assured. Horsemen returning from Saratoga today stated it is rumored there that Henry McOanio! is soon to succeed Frank M. Taylor as trainer of the racers owned by Willis Sharpe Kilmer of Ringhanipton, N. Y.
