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HORSES ARRIVING AT DOUGLAS PARK Many Owners Who Raced at Saratoga Bringing Their Stahles to Kentucky Latest Gossip. Louisville, Ky., September 3. Kentucky turfmen who raced their horses at Saratoga during the mouth of August are arriving here in large numbers each day ind the stables at the Douglas Park race track, where the first meeting in this city next fall will be held, beginning on September 20, are rapidly tilling up. The shortage "of horse cars in the east has detained several stables, but all will be here by the end of the week, to remain until after both meetings in this city are finished. General Manager John II. Hachmeister lias not yet announced the dates for the running of the three stake races the Inaugural Handicap, the Beechmont Selling Stakes and the Louisville Cup but he is expected here within the near future when he will unfold his plans. The meeting at Douglas Park does not open until after the Belmont Park fall meeting is over and this will give the easterners who have their horses nominated to the Inaugural Handicap a chance to run that meeting out before shipping here. With the exception of nine horses which Louis Tauber will take to Lexington to race at the Kentucky Association . meeting, the entire John W. Schorr stable will remain at Bouglas Park until time to ship to Latonia. Trainer J. T. Mooriey will stay here with the horses and the stable will be in one division again when the Lexington meeting is over. Jockey Jack Hanover, who will ride the Schorr horses, is expected from Saratoga within a day or so. Owner Schorr has his fast colt, Harry Kelly, nominated in several of the big stakes on the Kentucky circuit and, as he showed at Saratoga that he is sound again, he expects him to give an excellent account of himself. The Schorr establishment has always had a good share of luck at Douglas Park, as it was at this track lie won the 0,000 added Kentucky Handicap witli Luke Mc-Luke and the last two runnings of the Spring Trial Stakes with Harry Kelly and Jas. T. Clark. Jockey Roscoe Goose is on a pleasure trip to St. Louis and lias mended completely from his injury which he sustained last sprint; in a fall off Kenward at Latonia. Goose has not been astride of a horse since that time and lie said- that he will go slow when he first starts to galloping horses again to "feel himself out." He is confident, however, that his Injury did not impair his usefulness in the least. II. J. Sargnant and Bob Allen came in from Grand Rayidswithsthe two useful race mares, Lady Mildred and Clumsy Kate, which they own respectively. They were the only two owners to remain at the Furniture City track after the meeting clospd and neither of their horses has had a saddle on in more than a month. Allen is remembered as the man who developed the lightweight jockey. R. Troise, and for whose contract he received 85,000 from A. A. Reilly at Hot Springs last spring. Eugene Elrod Taking Well-Deserved Vacation. Eugene Elrod, who has charge of the pari-mutuel departments at all of the Kentucky race tracks, has been taking a well-deserved vacation since Kenil-wortli closed, witli the exception of a week, when lie managed the mutuel department at the Grand Circuit trotting meeting at the North Randall track, Cleveland, Ohio. Other than that they may suffer a little inconvenience, owners of race horses on the Kentucky circuit have nothing to worry about regarding a horse car shortage, once they reach the Blue Grass state. The entire circuit can be made by boat and trolley, as horses could be shipped from Lexington to Frankfort by the latter route, and thence down the Kentucky river to Louisville by the former. Daily boat service is maintained between Louisville and Cincinnati and the shipping to Latonia would be easy. As soon as Racing Secretary J. B. Campbell finishes his duties at Maxwelton Park, St. Louis, lie will come here and begin on his program book fur the Douglas Park meeting. Charles F. Price, steward at Douglas Park, Churchill Downs and Latonia, is spending the off-season at his home in this city, but he is chafing under his inactivity, as he says he feels out of place unless lie is in harness. Judge Price, who is one of the best-known and most highly respected racing officials in the country, toop a trip to a watering resort at the close of the Kenilworth meeting and he was much benefitted in health by his visit. The division of the Jefferson Livingston stable, that has been at Douglas Park all summer in charge of W. Covington and which is comprised chiefly of English two-year-olds, will not take part in the Lexington meeting. The youngsters will remain at the Beechmont track until both of the local meetings end. Trainer Mose Goldblatt, who has charge of the division of the Livingston stable which is actively engaged in racing, came over from Lexington yesterday to look over the horses in Covingtons care. "They certainly look fine," was Goldblntts comment anent the young horses, which have been summering at Douglas Park. Lou Marion now has only his old standby Prince Hermis, but he has been more successful in recent years witli a small stable than many owners witli a band of horses. A. J. Moora, better known as "Tony the Mex," a former jockey and for several years one of Jimmy Howes chief exercise boys, was exempted from the United States army after he had been drafted, because of being under weight. He is no.w engaged in galloping horses for several stables at Douglas Park.
