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CLEANING UP AT LEXINGTON TRACK Finishing: Touches Put to Course and Grounds Latest Arrivals and Training Gallops. LEXINGTON. Ky., September 11. Superintendent Joint M. Keegan is putting the finishing touches on the Kentucky Jockey Club course, grandstand and grounds, in preparation for the opening of the annual fall meeting of seven days, Saturday afternoon. He has a large force of cleaners at work all about the premises, and in addition there is a force of men with long-handled brushes and large cans of green stain doing something for which manager It. L. Baker will receive the thanks of the patrons of racing. They are taking the glare front the brick walk in front of the grandstand, and -with the green oleum are making it restful to the eyes, where before it was dazzling and blinding from the afternoon sun. The bricks are receiving the same treatment that the crushed stone at grassless Juarez used to get. Jack McCormack came in today with the Jefferson Livingston horses, thirteen in number, including Prince of Coino and Lillian Shaw, while Borne Bespess is here with eight, six of wliich are two-year-olds. Mose Goldblatt phoned from Cincinnati that his horses have been coughing and it may be that lie will decide not to come here. Henry Hoile, the Latcnia feed dealer, was hero today taking orders for bedding and feed for the horses that will move from here to Latonia. Gallops this morning were numerous, but few of them fast. The only horse moving at a distance greater than a mile was Vulcanite, which went a mile and an eighth in preparation for the Lexington Cup Handicap in 2:00. The fastest at one mile was Sways 1:40. Others were: Huntermann. l:41Vf.; Edna Hermann. 1:41; Begalo, 1:42; Little Marchmont, 1:42; J. C. Stone. Stevenson and Somewhere in France, 1:43. Others from 1:44 to 1:47. Dick Williams worked seven -eighths in 1:30 If, The best moves at three-quarters were: Ocean Sweep, 1:14 Vf.; Tally. 1:14; King Gorin. 1:14; Honor Man, 1:15, and Skcer Face, 1:15. The best at five-eighths were: Sam Beh and Serbian. 1:01:- Pyx, Horace Lcreh and Atta Boy II.. 1:01: Hosier. 1:02; Warlike, Old Dad and Happy Go Lucky, 1:02; Blackie Daw, Travesty, Virgo, Xordeck, VVar Garden, Biflc Shooter. Orlova and LoftusT 1:03. At a half mile the s.est wore: Diana. 49; Little Sandy and Cotton Blossom, 49; Bonstelle and Make Up, 49, and Blaise, 50.
