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i 1 1 : 1 z r I . s . : . , f t i, n i 1 e s FALL STAKE DATES AT DOUGLAS PARK. Louisville Cup Date Changed Prominent Stables . Coming West General Gossip of the Tracks. Louisville, Ky.. August 2S. Manager John Hach-meisrer of the Douglas Vark Jockey Club has set the stake dates for the coming race meeting at this course, which begins this fall on Monday, September 18. They are as follows: Monday. September 18 The Douglas Vark Inaugural Handicap; one mile and one-sixteenth. Saturday, September 23 The Louisville Cup; two miles. i Tuesday. September 20 The Beeehmont. Stakes; five and one-half furlongs, Tlie latter day, which is the closing afternoon of the meeting at Douglas lark. Manager Haclimeistt-r 1 has selected as the animal autumn Ladles Day, 1 :;nd on this date all ladies,- accompanied by an , escort, will be admitted to the grounds and grandstand of the Douglas Park Jockey Club free. Arrangements have been perfected on the stake days above noted for reduced rates on all the rail- 1 roads reaching this city from all points in the state of Kentucky. Heretofore it has bfen the rule to run the Louisville Cup on the closing day of the meeting, which has generally occurred on a day otiier than Saturday. After the meeting last fall Manager Hnch-meistre received a number of communications from prominent people expressing their regrets at being unable to see the Louisville Cup run on the day for which it had been set, whereas if it had been run on Saturday they could have enjoyed the sport that afternoon. There are so many stores and business houses that now close on Saturday afternoon that it has caused the management of Douglas Vark to set the big race for that afternoon, coupled with the communications Manager Hacli-nieister received at the tlose of the meeting last autumn indicating that such an arrangement as to this big event would be a popular one. The big string of the Canadian turfman. It. J. Mackenzie, which is trained by his racing partner. Jack Adkins. has arrived here from Saratoga and taken up quarters at Douglas Park. All the nine horses shipped well and will do their first racing here next mouth, as trainer Adkins will ship none of his collection to Lexington, at least that is his present intention. The string embraces a maiden five-year-old and four two-year-olds that art; also iu the maiden list, which are of the band that Mackenzie purchased last spring in California from A. P.. Sprcckels. The. other horses in the stable are the Canadian Derby winner. Faux -Col, I.-o Skolny. Sail Vega and Fan G. All the latter four look unusually well at the present time and, iu fact, all the members of this string can be expected to give a good account of themselves during the meetings at Douglas Park Cuhrchill Downs and Latonia. Manager Hachmeister returned from his eastern trip several days ago and is now nt the Latonia course again. He returned enthusiastic over the prospects of a great race meeting at Douglas Park, as he has the assurance from trainer Walter Jennings that A. K. Macombers crack performers, including the three horses he recently bought from John Schorr, will do much racing at Douglas Park, as well as later on at Churchill Downs and Latonia. Trainer W. C. Clancy also informed him that he would race a number of the members of the big Corrigan and McKinney stable at the Douglas Park meeting. The stake entries at both Douglas lark and Latonia are largely in excess of those of last year. The best work done at Douglas Vark recently was fire-eighths in 1:03 by the two fillies, Carrie Orme and Marjorie I., which an? in charge of trainer Kay Spence and which he is getting ready to race during the coming Lexington meting. Both of these fillies are notoriously bad track actors, but Spence, by training them with a pony in the middle, has made them work unusually generously in the last few weeks and he is now hopeful that their racing disposition is improving. Carrie Orme, es-peciallv when in her best mood, is speedy and when racing to her limit it takes at least an average good horse to beat her in a sprint. Of all the yearlings that J. Livingston has recently imported and which are now in the charge of trainer Louis Tauber at Douglas Vark. no two of the number are by the same sire. There litis never been any youngster coming so long a trip as they have that ever looked better than these richly-bred colts and fillies. Trainer Tauber now daily has the entire aggregation on the track under saddle and they will apparently be as ready for early yearling trials as any of the youngsters in training here that were bred and foaled in this country. A big improvement made at the Downs track recently is the widening out and extending, of the ro in from the Fourth street g to that enters tie stable quarters of the track this ro. d running Up to ami iu a l -nit of .11 ti e st-bles. its win. 11-ing. vith the imiirovenb nt in 1 n Is.-.. ping on th track side, has added much to the beauty of this part of the racing r-lant. The four horses that. II. It. Brandt has at Saratoga, which are owned by J. Livingston, will be shipped here to Douglas Park. These consist of a maiden three-year-old by the. great Colin, anil the voll-known racers Julia L.. Cash on Delivery and Ed Howard. Of these. Cash on Delivery and Julia L. will be shipped from here to Lexington to race "at the coming meeting there, but all the Livingston horses now here in charge of trainer Tauber will remain at Douglas Vark for the local meetings, and these two will be all that go from the Livingston stable here to race there next fall. While in the east recently Manager Haehinel?ter was informed by trainer Walter Jennings, who is in charge of A. K. Macombers good stable, that the reason the English-bred members of this string had raced so little at Saratoga, was because they are just now rounding into their best form and, as a consequence, he is of the opinion that thev are now fairlv acclimatized, seasoned and ready for hard contests and that he expected them to do considerable racing during the coming Douglas lark autumn meeting as well as at Churchill Downs and Latonia. More than probable the members of this stable will figure high up iu the list of money -, winning horses in Kentucky next autumn. Trainer Jack Adkins attributes to the tre-. mendously-warni weather at Saratoga the poor showing made by the western and Kentucky horses. with but a few exceptions. He says many of the horses in these stables, owing to the intense heat and change from Kentucky atmosphere to that of the Springs, lost much flesh and, in some instances, there were some inmates of rarious stables from these sections that fell away more than one hundred pounds. He anticipates that the return of these horses to Kentucky will cause them to soon freshen up and iu the coming autumn maintain the prestige they held last spring anil summer, before being shipped to the Saratoga track. The seventeen yearlings bought in England from .T. B. Joel, which recently arrived from that coun-t try in New York, will be shipped here some time during the coming week and join the band of seven youngsters of this agje that are owned by Mr. Mali comber, which are a present quartered at the Churchill Downs course. The California turfman has, so far, close to thirty colts and fillies, from which to pick the two-year-old members out of his big stable In 1917. The four running races at the State Fair this rear are conditioned for horses of all ages, two of the races being at three-quarters and the other two at one mile. There are four moneys given in each race, the first horse being awarded 25. The entrance fee is free to these running races.
