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KENTUCKY AUTUMN STAKES OFFERING. Douglas Parks as Last Year, but Latonias Show Valuable Increases and Additions. Cincinnati, O., July 14. General Manager John Hachmeister has made known his fall stake offerings for Douglas Park and Latonia, the two tracks in Kentc.eky under his jurisdiction. The stake offerings at Douglas Park are- the same as last year, .llthough there will be one day less of racing at that plant. At Latonia, Mr. Hachmeister used part of the extra 5,000 which he agreed to distribute to the horsemen in -adding to his stake offerings, part in a new stake and the remainder will be distributed in overnight races during the twenty-five days meeting, which opens at Latonia Saturday, October 13, and closes on Saturday, November 10. Before enumerating the stake races, it is well to call attention to the fact that there will be fifty-one days racing in Kentucky next fall. Lexington opens on Wednesday, iSeptcmber 12, and runs for ten days. Douglas Park opens Wednesday, October 3, and runs for seven days. Churchill Downs follows with the same number of racing days and Latonia opens on October 13. Last autumn Kentucky had only forty-five days of racing. Five stakes will be decided at the Latonia meeting. The chief stake, of course, is the Iiatonia Cup, which this year will have an added value of ,500, as against $.1,000 for last year. The second big offering of the Latonia Jockey Club is the Queen City Championship Stakes, a handicap for two-year-olds at one mile, to which ,000 has been added. This race will bring together nearly all of the crack two-year-olds of the country and is the event which will go far towards deciding the two-year-old championship jf the year, for there will le no more big two-year-old races after that and the winner may retire to winter quarters with the title of champion. Big Monoy for Special Overnight Races, In addition to these stakes, five thousand dollars will be distributed during the meeting to overnight special races. Five thousand dollars has also been added to the stake races, which equally distributes the extra 5,000 the management offered for the extra six days., This ambitious program practically means thai the autumn meeting atLatonia will not be attended by any huge profits to the jockey club but, inasmuch as war taxes will be levied on all excess profits Of any corporation, the jockey club is desirous of sharing with tlie" horsemen its ordinary profits. During the coming meetings at Douglas Park and Latonia no purse of less than 00 will be on the program, so that any horse which can win a race Dr two at a meeting, can easily last through the long winter months on his earnings. Entries to stake races at Douglas Park and Latonia close on Friday, August 17. Stake offerings for botli tracks are enumerated below: Douglas Park Stakes, Douglas Pnrk Inaugural Handicap, three-year-olds and over, one mile and a sixteenth, ,000 added. Peechmont Selling Stakes, for two-year-olds, five and a half furlongs, ,500 added. Louisville Cup, handicap, three-year-olds and over, two miles, ,500 added. Latonia Stakes. Latonia Autumn Inaugural Handicap, three-year-olds and over, one mile and a sixteenth, ,000 , added. Fort Thomas Handicap, two-year-olds, three-quarters of a mile, ,000 added. Autumn Selling Stakes, three-year-olds and over, one mile, ,000 added. Latonia Cup, handicap, three-year-olds and over, two miles and a quarter, ,500 added. Queen City Championship Stakes, handicap, for two-year.-olds, one mile, ,000 added. ,000 additional will be distributed in overnight handicaps and special races.
