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HORSE COLONY AT LOUISVILLE LARGE Close to Three Hundred Thoroughbreds Summering at Both Churchill Downs and Douglas Park LOUISAJLLE Ky August 9 A count of the thoroughbreds stabled at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park today revealed that there are 280 being summered at both tracks The latter course seems to be the most popular with the owners and trainers from a training standpoint as 170 of this number are quartered there With the exception of George J Long all of the larger racing estab ¬ lishments chose Douglas Park for their summer quarters including Jefferson Livingston Kay Spence Williams Bros B J Brannon and C C Van Meter MeterThe The Long stable is the largest at Churchill Do ns there being at present in it twentyseven horses under the tutelage of trainer Pete Coyne Other owners at the old track are Joe Umensetter with thirteen liorses Tom Munford three Otto Rogers five Pastime Stable five Milo Shields and George Barnes four Dan Lehan six E Brown four R Warfield three S Doyle four W L Drake four D B Miller t yo R P Brooks five G P Matttngly one F J Kellcy eleven and Kinncy Pitt three threeThose Those at Douglas Park are Jefferson Livingston with thirtytwo Kay Sjience twentynine Williams Bros twentyone B J Brannon twentyone C C Van Meier ten J Bishopfour W Feuchter two J Huffman one J Coffey one J Russworme four X F portch one John AV Schorr four AV W Dardcn four Roscoc Goose eight J Browsie two Lee OLeary three Charles Heath two J Marcell one ti iPhelps four Uenry Smith one AV F kuebeikamp six AV C Ayeant tlircV James Ever man seven W Covington two J Phillips six and J Anderson one oneEven Even this early applications are beginning to come in for stable room for the autumn meeting chiefly from the western horsemen who are now racing at Saratoga In an effort to avoid congestion and in order to provide stalls for as many horses as possible Uiat are actually ready to race the year lihgs Will he moy d from the Downs to Douglas Park while the local meeting is on from October 23 to November 1 DONATION TO STATE FAIR FAIRThe The Kentucky Jockey Club has donated 500 to ward the purses to be given for running races at the Kentucky State Fair tp be held in this city cityfrpin frpin September 8 to September 13 inclusive It is the plan of the fair management to put on a Kentucky State Fair Derby and a Kentucky Jockey Club purse and this Donation will be aclded to these two races C J Savage will serve as racing sec secr r retary at the Stitte Fair FairPresident President Johnson N Camden of tliQ Kentucky Jockey club came down fr6m his home at Ver ¬ sailles Ky W a brief business trip He is cn thiisiastic over the yearling sales being held at Saratoga and he said that the large prices being realized predicts a new orid prosperous era for the thorqughbrjgd breeder Judge WiitianTH Shelley is just back from Lex ¬ ington He said that the owners of the best stables at the Lexington track assured him that they will run their horses at the Blue Grass Fair this year I never saw horses do as well as those which are summering at Lexington said judge Shelley I did not hear of a single sick Ijorse and those wliich raced hard all spring seem to have benefited con ¬ siderably by their rest i It is reiwrted here tljat James P Ross fonner superintendent of the Lexington track has been given a similar position at Havre die Grace He will take up his new duties immediately immediatelySandman Sandman 1L which Clyde Phillips acquired via the claiming route last springy from John P Schorr is on the shelf with a bowed tendon and it is doubtful if he will fie able to race until he gets to New Orleans if then thenHarry Harry Brclvogel assistant to general manager Matt Winn ai iatohia is on a vacation trip to Niny York lie will return before the entries to the variouHT autumn stakes of the Kentucky Jockey Club close on August 20
