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JUDGESHELLEY ARRIVES IN LEXINGTON Will Bo Placing Judge and Racing Secretary at Blue Grass Fair Kentucky Purses Discussed, LEXINGTON, Ky... August 2S. Judge William H. Shelley arrived here last night from Louisville to assume his duties as racing secretary and placing judge for the Blue Grass Fair Association, which will open next Monday. Judge Shelley will remain in Lexington until after the Kentucky Jockey Clubs fall meeting of seven days, which will open September 13, and at which he also will be racing secretary. A number of the horsemen at the local track today announced that they will bo ready for tlie fair and that they will enter liberally. The action of the fair association in giving purses averaging 00 is counted by the horsemen as progressive and generous and they have agreed to do their best to make the daily cards interesting. "Five hundred dollars at the Blue Grass Fair is more generous than the proposed ,200 at Latonia," said one horseman, who asserted that he had written a letter to members of the Kentucky State Racing Commission opposing a reduction and asking for an increase in the purses at Latonia and Louisville "I have received a number of marked copies of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Daily Racing Form and New York Morning Telegraph containing an announcement credited to Senator Camden to the effect that purses at Lexington will be 00, same as last spring, and that purses at Louisville will be reduced to ,000 and at Latonia to ,200," said Senator Thomas A. Combs, also a member of the Kentucky State Racing Commission. "I have sent some of these papers to Senator Camden and have told him that it is not my understanding that the Kentucky State Racing Commission lias fixpd. the purses for the fiill meetings. Personally, Iain opposed to any reduction in the purses. They at least should be as large as the purses given at the spring meetings." J. O. Keene, who returned to Lexington this morning from Saratoga, said that he had not seen the article credited to Senator Camden and that in so far as he isuware, the Kentucky State Racing Commission has not fixed the purses., He did not say what his attitude will be when the .subject is presented to the commission, which probably will bo called to meet at an early date. J. S. Wallace, who returned home today from Cheyenne, Wyo., stated that he was engaged to go to Havana next winter as patrol judge at Oriental Park and that he will supervise tho shipping of horses to Cuba for the winter meeting. He was asked to officiate as presiding judge at Reno, but returned to Kentucky to assume his duties as entry clerk at the fall meetings in the state. The fastest three-quarters yet observed here recently was Cotton Blossoms 1:1414 this morning. Ham Keene arrived today from Saratoga with Spectacular Girl. Lui-Meme, Barenka, Brimful and Dona Roma. James Ackerman, one of the Kentucky Jockey Clubs official morning trial observers, arrived from Saratoga and will report for duty to W. L. Lewis Monday.
