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BIG RACING STRINGS AT LOUISVILLE. Hodge Taking Slow Exercise Soundly Livingston and Macomber Horses Coming. Louisville, Ky., August 22. The nineteen horses which embrace the big stable of Kay Spence, now quartered at the Douglas Park track, which are being fitted for the racing on the Kentucky circuit tracks this autumn, are all doing well in their preparation and fifteeii of the number are at present of a racing age. Mr. Spence has only four yearlings under his care. One is a chestnut filly by Cunard Itedlight, by Tammany, while all the others are by Ivan the Terrible and are as follows: Chestnut colt Miss Crawford, by Fenny. Bay colt Skeptical, by Ilimyar Bay colt Pom dam of Pedro, by Ilimyar. The older horses in the string are Hodge, Red Cloud, Kgmont, Joe Blair, Money Maker. Com-mauretta. Blarney, High Gear. Lady Worthington, Ware-more, Margaret D., Hocnir, Carrie Orme and Miladi Ann. Seven of the number Spence will ship to Lexington about September 4 to z-ace at the coming meeting there. This meeting marks the opening of the autumn season of racing in Kentucky and is followed by the eight days of racing at Douglas Park, which begins on Monday, September IS. Those that Spence will take to Lexington are Egmont. Com-mauretta. Blaiaioy, Lady Worthington, Hocnir. Miladi Ann and Carrie Orme. Hodge is going along at present soundly in his slow work, but will do no racing to amount to anything until the close of the Douglas Park meeting. Spence has entered him in the Falls City Handicap, the feature race of the opening day of the Downs meeting. lie will endeavor to fit him for this three-quarters dash and then race him at intervals with the hope of getting him ready to run in the Latonia Cup. On account of Hodge going wrong last .spring and being so long out of training, explains why Spence only entered him in the Latonia Cup of the long-distance races on the big tracks next fall, as he figured that at best he could only hope for him to fill an engagement in a race at this distance by the hist of October. Last year Hodge won the Louisville Cup of two miles at Douglas Park aud ran second in the St. Leger at two miles and a quarter at Churchill Downs. Had he not gone wrong last spring he would have been a factor in all these long-distance races again. Spence has faith that he will stand training with proper care ami run many good races before he-goes into winter quarters after October is ended. C. Hunt, the promising rider which Spence lias under contract, has been a bit" sick since his return here from the recent Chicago meeting, but is now about well and expects to begin exercising horses in the next week at the furthest. Hunt expects to he in the best of condition to take mounts by the opening of the coming fall racing campaign in this state at the Lexington track. His brother, T. Hunt, the apprentice rider in the Spence barn, is daily on the track exercising the various horses of the big string and seems to be constantly improving in riding ability. Many good judges of jockeys think that in a short time he will be running his older brother a close race for jockey honors. All the horses owned by A. K. Macomber, in charge of trainer Walter Jennings, will be shipped to the Downs track at the close of the present Saratoga meeting. What racing the big string does next fall will be on the tracks at Douglas Park, Churchill Downs and Latonia. The Macomber horses will winter here and trainer Jennings has engaged two big stables at the Downs track in which to quarter them, not only during the Kentucky fall meetings, but throughout the coming winter. The California turfman has made liberal entries in all the stakes here. All the horses owned by J. Livingston will clso be in Kentucky next autumn. Louis Tanner will keep at Douglas Park the twenty head owned by this turfman, which he now has in his charge, while the string H. R. Brandt has at Saratoga and the horses Mose Goldblatt has in his care in Canada will be shipped to Lexington in the next two weeks. The bulk of the Livingston stable, now more than forty horses strong, will also winter here at the Douglas Park track. From the present outlook it seems, more than probable that fully six hundred horses will winter at the two Louisville courses, going into quarters at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park for the cold season, when the Latonia meeting ends the latter part of the coming October. At any rate there will be more horses wintered at the Louisville tracks .in 1910-17 than ever before occupied quarters at the courses here during the cold mouths of the year. The three-year-old bay gelding Burcham by Hamburg Eugenia Burch, owned by W. P. Reed, had to be destroyed at the Harthill Sanatarium for horses in this city last Saturday. The gelding, a promising maiden that was bred by Harry Payne Whitney, while running out in a paddock after he was brought here from Chicago, was kicked by a filly running in the same inclosure and what is known as a stiff hock joint formed after the accident. Reed had, at first, hopes of at least saving the three-year-old for riding, purposes, but ascertaining that even this could not be done aud the horse was in every way useless, on the advice of the veterinary surgeon, he had him destroyed to put him out of misery. He is a total loss to his owner, as the latter carried no insurance on him at the time of his fatal accident.
