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SAM FREEDMAN RETIRED FOR THIS YEAR Crack Pataud Colt Has a Bowed Tendon Latest Gossip from Louisville. . LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 30. Sam Frccdman, Oscar Kelnus two-year-old Pataud Fcmesolc colt, winner of the Bashford Manor Stakes at Churchill Downs last spring, and early in the year regarded as one of the most promising youngsters in the country, will not bo seen in action in a race again until next year. The colt lias bowed a tendon and lie will be turned out for the winter hero. Ho sustained an injury during the Latonia spring meeting and running him in the Cincinnati Trophy served to aggravate it. Trainer Joe Umensetter is confident that the colt will be as good as ever next spring. With the exception of Sam Frcedman and several yearlings, the remainder of the horses under Umensetters care were shipped to Lexington today. A recent addition to this trainers stable is Bigtodo, which he purchased from Kay Spence.. Jockey J. Grotli, who lias been here the greater part of the summer exercising horses for George J. Long and Tom Munford, left today for Lexington. He will ride at the Blue Grass Fair and during the Kentucky Jockey Clubs meeting he will pilot the Long horses. S. C. Xuckols, Jr., secretary of the Kentucky State Racing Commission and one of the Kentucky Jockey Club stewards, spent yesterday here. He recently returned from a motor tour which included Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Montreal, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore and several other eastern cities. "There is a whole lot of interest in New York in the 0,000 Latonia Championship Stakes," said Nuckpls. -and a great many easterners plan to make the trip to the Covington course to witness its running." SCHORR TO RACE AT LEXINGTON. Trainer Louis Tauber lias arrived from Saratoga with the John W. Scliorr horses. He will take them to Lexington September S. Luke Dillon, two-year-old son of Luke McLukc Frances Dillon, and a winner here last spring, has been extensively nominated in the stakes for youngsters to bo run at Latonia and Churchill Downs in the autumn. Wi Fcuchter, whose horses have been summering at Douglas Park, has returned from his home in Illinois, where lie spent several weeks. His chief breadwinner, Skiles Knob, seems to have benefited considerably by his long rest, as he never looked better in his life. R. L. Baker, moving sniri.t of the Lexington division of the Kentucky Jockey Club, motored down from that city to confer with horsemen who intend to race there at the coming autumn meeting. Mr. Baker impressed it upon the owners and trainers that stalls can be provided only for horses ready to race, and then witli difliculty. "There never were as many horses at the Lexington track as will Ue there for our fall meeting," said Baker, "and it has been absolutely impossible to provide stabling facilities requested for all the horses. The Lexington Cup Handicap, ,000 added, at -one and one-half miles, drew quite a few racing establishments that heretofore did not-come our way in the autumn, and I understand that a number of two-year-olds will be sent down from New York to run in the Breeders Futurity. We will have only seven days of racing, but -you can bet that . they will be seven big ones." - T
