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, . , ! ; ! : , ! SOME DOUGLAS PARK EXPECTATIONS Cudgel and Harry Holly Doing Well King Gorin Improved Horse Track Now Beady. Louisville, Ky., September 15. The Douglas Park fall meeting will get under way in ten days, the opening date being September 25. On that day the Inaugural Handicap will be the stellar offering and the feature will be surrounded .by six other races befitting to the occasion. Many of the cligibles for the Inaugural have been racing at Lexington and a race or two at that place will just fit them for their engagements here. Racing Secretary J. B: Ciimpbcll has opened his office at the Beeehniont -track and he is rapidly getting things in order for the meeting. Campbell will have more horses to work with this fall, than last autumn and in his opinion, there will be far more races with an also eligible list than there will be races that will not fill. He has been busy since lie arrived here registering horses for the meeting, but the real work will begin when the thoroughbreds commence arriving from Lexington this week. General Manager John Hachmeister "spent several days in Lexington during the past week, and while there he was besieged with applications for stable room. Track superintendent C. Nolte went over to the Kentucky Association course to allot stalls to the owners and trainers, but lie soon found out that there was not stalls enough to go around, despite tlie fact that Douglas Park has larger stabling facilities than any other Kentucky track. EXPECT GREAT" THINGS OF KING GORIN. From the way he started the fall racing season at Lexington, it seems R. L. Baker is destined to cut quite a figure in the long route stakes in Kentucky this autumn with his good colt King Gorin, which won the 0,000 added Kentucky Handicap at Douglas Park last spring. The son of Transvaal Ethei Simpson Avon the Phoenix Hotel Handicap, the feature of the opening day and showed that his summers rest done him a world of good. King Gorin is one of the most useful horses in training, as he runs to suit the occasion. When there is little or no speed in the race, he can go to the front and set the pace and when there is plenty of speed he can come from behind. Jockey Mack Garner is doing the riding for tlie Baker establishment this fall. King Gorin is in the-Douglas Park and Latonia Inaugural Handicaps. John W. Schorrs trio- of crack three-year-olds Cudgel, Harry Kelly and Butterscotch II., which were left here in charge of trainer J. T. Mooney, while a division of tlie stable was sent to Lexington in charge of Louis Tauber, are going along well in their work-outs and it is more than probable that at least two of them will go to the post in the Inaugural Handicap. In the event that the track Is fast, Harry Kelly and Cudgel will, in all probability, sport the Memphis turfmans silks in this race, but if the going is muddy or slow, Butterscotch II. is a certain starter. Many horsemen contend that Harry Kelly is a sprinter pure and simple, but owner Schorr still clings to the belief that he will go a considerable route. George M. Hendrie has in his stable a good-looking filly named Alyssium, which is a half-sister to his good stake horse Rancher. The filly was sired by Ballot and she is endowed with plenty of speed. The Hendrie string numbers fourteen and will remain at Douglas Park until both of the local meetings are over. At the conclusion of tlie Latonia meeting trainer John Walters will ship the horses back to Douglas Park f6r the winter. J. O. Keene reports the loss of Betty Gray, a twenty-one-year-old bay mare, by Fonso Betty Blaise, at Keeneland Farm Tuesday night. She appeared simply to have dropped dead. She was the dam of Tetan.
