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. . FINAL TEST OF SEASON IN KENTUCKY Blue Grass State Will Be Battleground of Thoroughbreds Before Going into Winter Quarters. Louisville, Ky., August 7. When fall racing in this city is ushered In at Douglas Park on Wednesday, September 20, thoroughbred activities will have reached high tide. Most of the star performers of the year will be on hand for the final test of caliber before going into winter quarters. Never has Kentucky offered such a medium for the development of the best as that furnished by the programs at Douglas Park. Churchill Downs and Latonia. Seasoned by competition over the western and eastern circuits, many of the countrys best thoroughbreds will come here fit to the minute for the campaign for the rich fixtures of the Blue Grass state. The first clash in which three-year-olds and over will figure " is the Douglas Park Inaugural Handicap, the opening day feature. This race; at a mile and a sixteenth, with 000. added, will bring together the cream of the stake division. Old Rosebud, Kentuckys pride, will defend his laurels In this race, and with an adjustment of weights defined by the results at Saratoga, it promises to prove the best test of the year of the claim of Ham. Applegates gelding to the championship in the older section. Boots, Midway, Cudgel, King Gorih. Liberty Loan, Pif Jr., Colonel Vennie, .Manager White, Hodge, Marion Goosby, Franklin, Berlin and others of like caliber, are expected to face the barrier. Cudgel, especially, is expected to prove formidable in all kinds of competition next fall. Late in his three-year-old form he should be much lustier than in his summer racing and even then he showed ability to carry considerable weight and beat older horses. Long Distance Races to Be Featured. This field will also fight it out in the valuable handicaps at Churchill Downs and Latonia. A number of them doubtless will be among the starters in the longer distance races, which will be featured in Kentucky next fall. Starting with the Louisville Cup, at two miles, the long distance performers Will meet again at Churchill Downs in the St. Leger and- then wind up their campaign in the Latonia Cup, which this year has ,500 in added money. The older division, however, will not monopolize interest next fall. The offerings for the juvenile brigade eclipse anything previously attempted in this line. With ample opportunity for high-class competition at the local tracks; the two-year-olds will march on to Latonia for two most important events. The Fort Thomas Stakes, at three-quarters, which heretofore has been considered a kind of preliminary for the Kentucky Derby of the following year, occupies its usual place on the program, with ,000 in added money, but this season it is eclipsed by another juvenile race that follows it. The Queen City Championship Stakes, at one mile, witli ,000 added, will provide a real line oil the route going ability of the younger division. In addition to a number of other fixtures, the fall racing in this state will be featured by numerous overnight handicaps with liberal added money. No purse of less than 00 will be offered at Louisville nr Larnnin.
