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J I , i i i t c ; i ? i i , HEADING FOE LOUISVILLE BIG WICKLIFFE STRING OF HORSES TO OCCUPY QUARTERS AT CHURCHILL DOWNS. Schorr Racers Coming to Douglas Park Korscs Now-Doing: Sharp Work at Both of the Falls City Tracks. Louisville, Ky., August 21. The recent close of the Windsor meeting and the wind up in a few days of the racing at Saratoga will result in a number of stables reaching the local courses hen; late in this and early in the coining week. Among the big strings coming in is the AAickliffe Stable of Corrigan and McKinney, which will take up quarters at the Downs track in charge of trainer AV. C. Clancy. This firm has quite a number of Morses that have been resting up at the AVickliffe Stud, near Lexington, and it is presumed that these vill join the band that trainer Clancy is bringing :iere from Saratoga. This stable, it is reported, will finish out the season on the Kentucky tracks and rainer Clancy will, of course, winter all the big aggregation at tho Downs course. The racing string of John AA Schorr is scheduled to come to Douglas Park and there are a half dozen ither big strings that are pointed this way. These Uablei; will quarter the bulk of their horses at one or the other of the local tracks here and, then when the meeting comes on at. Lexington, end a representation of their strings to race at the Kentucky Association autumn meeting. At both Douglas Park and Churchill Downs iu the last few days, especially at the former course, there lias been some sharp work done by a number of the horses in training and they are all going along well in their preparation am! will, to all appearances, be fit and ready for the opening of the Kentucky campaign at. Lexington on September 0. Those which will not go to Lexington ind will wait for the opening at Douglas lark on Monday, September 18. have not been forced along as rapidly iu the last few days, as the other horses that will race earlier than the inaugural day of the local racing season. But they all look as fine as care can make them. The string of two-year-olds that C. C. Van Meter lias in his care will be ready from the beginning to show their best form in racing. Jockey Joe Kederis is getting in condition for riding in exercising the youngsters of the Van Meter stable and will ride for that turfman in races this fall, whenever he can make the weight. Thomas M. Murphy has now at his AA-iideck Farm, near this citj", a coming weanling filly that he regards as one of the finest foals he has ever bred. She is by Golden Maxim and is out of Lady Lexington, the dam of that good two-year-old filly of this year. Old Miss. AVIiile Mr. Murphy has generally disposed of all the thoroughbred stock he raises in their yearling age. he has announced that he will never sell this filly, but will have her developed and trained and retain her for the stud. A yearling sister to this filly and a half-sister to Old Miss, lie sold recently with two yearling colts by Garry Herrmann, which comprised all the yearlings he raised this year, to .losepli E. AVidener, the Philadelphia turfman. Old Miss was the first foal of Lady Lexington and so the weanling filly he is retaining is the third foal of this young mare, which was retired to the stud as a two-year-old. Lady Lexington is out of Lady Languish, by St. Simon Lady Reel, the dam of Hamburg. As a weanling, at auction, Lady Languish brought the record sum of 5,000, she being purchased by August Belmont at tha closing-out sale of the Bitter Root Stud of the late Marcus Dalv. It is no wonder that with this breeding the" first foal of Lady Lexington, Old Miss, has done such good racing. Trainer Frank Rector, who lias charge of W. E. Phillips racing string at Douglas Park, has hopes of getting the three-year-old Lindly to the races again, but thinks it is doubtful if he will be able to race him until the closing two weeks of the Latonia meeting. Lindly threatened to bow in his left foreleg during the last meeting at Latonia and, to prevent this, he was severely blistered. He is doing slow cantering exercise now and bodily looks iu the best of good health and condition. Rector thinks with careful care that his threatening leg will not trouble him in racing late next autumn and the coming winter. AV. AA Wardens two-year-old filly Lady Ivan has arrived at Douglas Park from Windsor and joined the other members there of the stable owned by this Tennessee turfman. Lady Ivan looks good. Darrlen thinks a let up for a while will remedy her disposition to dwell at the post. This explains whv she made such a poor showing in her races in Caiuula, as compared with the good form she showed in Kentucky before being shipped to the Windsor Charlie Nolte, the superintendent of the Douglas Park track, has a stable of three horses in training at that course. One is a two-year-old filly by Sempronius, which lie bought from George J. Long, while the other two are the well-known racers Our Nettie and Lockland. The latter is now a six-vear-old and looks better than he has since he was in tiio youngster class. Nolte got these three horses at what may be considered bargain prices and he is sure to reap a fair profit on his investment in them, even if they never win a race before lie concludes to dispose of them. B. F. Guthrie, the Shelbyville turfman, has sold all his yearlings and has only raised one foal thii year. The yearlings Guthrie sold are now at La-: touia. They are owned by an army man, whose home is in Pittsburgh.
