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, ; i i i i l ; i I I I I i NO WINTER RACING FOR LIVINGSTON Reservations at New Orleans Canceled Because Majority of Horses Are on Ailing List. LOUISVILLE, Ky., November 3. Churchill Downs presented a busy scene today, as most of the horsemen are -getting ready to send tiieir charges to winter tracks, and by the end of the week, only the thoroughbreds intended for wintering at the local course will be left. There will be iuitc a number of the latter at that this year, and the horsemen who raced in this section and intend to stay here all winter will be augmented by quite a few who have campaigned their strings in the east, liotably John E. Madden. As per custom with him he will winter most of his yearlings at the Downs and send them east next spring. General manager Matt J. Winn of the Kentucky Jockey Club will remain here until Wednesday before departing for his home in Covington, Ky. He will divide his time tjiis winter between the three cities in which the tracks of the Kentucky Jockey Club are located, supervising the improvements at each of the courses. Former United States Senator C. W. Clark departed last night for his home in. Montana. He took in the entire race meeting at the Downs, and while here acquired not only the good horse Sway, which won at the first asking for him, but three yearlings as well. He bought the latter from J. C. Milam, and they are well-bred youngsters. One is a chestnut colt by McGee Sweet Charlotte, another a bay filly by The Curragh Cnyudetta, while the third is by Golden Maxim Yankee Tree a half-sister to Lady in Blaek. Trainer George Barnes plans to send the Clark horses to New Orleans about November 10. lie recently had Escovar and Cobweb fjre,i anj they will be turned out for the winter. Senator Clark expects to be on hand for the opening of the season at New Orleansy and he will spend considerable time iu the Crescent City during the coming winter. John Whitlow sent his horses to Lexington yesterday, and from there they will be shipped to New Orleans about the middle of the month. Before leaving he sold Mistress Polly to B. C. Greenbaum and she will go direct from here to the Fair Grounds. Jefferson Livingston departed yesterday for Lexington, where he expects to purchase twelve sucklings. Ile.hns eight yearlings here and twenty-nine .honSes.DfUiacing age. Tjyentyj-.fiye of .the-joutfit. art, on the ailiiig list, according to LivIiigToliamtie: has canceled his stall engagements at New Orleans for the coming winter. v KISTRESS POLLY CHANGES HANDS. Dr. C. R. Richards has charge of the horses temporarily, Jack McCormack having surrendered his position as trainer of the Livingston stable. "I do not know of a stable that needs a veterinarian worse than mine does," said Livingston, "as I have more cripples and horses unfit to race than any man in the business. Dr. Richards is only temporarily in charge of them, and I will select a permanent trainer between and now and the middle of January. I will leave all of my horses here for the winter, as botli Dr. Richards and I are of the opinion that they will come around all right with a long rest." Lillian Shaw, winner of the Kentucky Oaks last spring, is a hopeless cripple, and she was sent yesterday to Rome Respess farm at Erlanger, Ky., to be bred to Royal II., which won a Latonia Derby for Livingston". Jockey Cliff Robinson departed last night for his home in Toronto, Out., where he will spend a few weeks with his parents before going to New Orleans. Today was moving day at Churchill Downs, quite a few stables leaving with New Orleans as their destination. There will be a general exodus of horses tomorrow, when the special train pulls out for Havana, twenty-five cars being scheduled to make it up. It will be the latter part of the week, however, before the bulk of the thoroughbreds get away for the Cresent City, due to a shortage of express cars. Among the stables which went to New Orleans today was that of Mose Goldblatt, and included in it were a number of horses belonging to Harry Payne Whitney, which will be campaigned all winter. Like most of the other stables leaving iiere now the Goldblatt horses willl be quartered at. the Fair Grounds. T. P. Hayes disposed of Selinn. a three-year-old maiden, to T. W. Callahan of this city. She will be taken to New Orleans by trainer S. J. Kelley. TO WINTER AT DOUGLAS PARK. Because of its excellent training facilities many of the horsemen plan to winter their thoroughbreds here, having chosen Douglas Park as the place to quarter their horses during the cold months. The establishments of George .1. Long, F. .7. Kelley and B. J. Rrannon will, however, remain at Churchill Downs. As troon as all of the details of the recent fall meeting at the Downs are cleared away work will be begun on the vast improvements contemplated. Starter A. B. Dade went to his home at Henderson, Ky., where he plans to rest until about Christmas, when be will go to New Orleans to wield the barrier at the Fair Grounds meeting, That there will be no scarcity of two-year-olds at New Orleans during the coming winter is Indicated by the large number of yearlings which will be taken sbuth by the Kentucky owners. There is hardly a stable leaving here but what will have a few youngsters iu it. The same is true of a majority of the racing establishments going to Havana. H. 1. Brown, general manager of Oriental Park, will depart from here soon after the special train leaves for that place tomorrow. He plans to go from here to Haltimore on missionary work eon-i necteil with the track. The- Havana stakes, which closed today, received an unusually large number of entries from horsemen here. Julius Reeder of the racing secretarys office force at the three Kentucky Jockey Club tracks, and who is employed in a similar capacity at Jef-I ferson Park and the Fair Grounds, left for the Crescent City yesterday. Sam C. Nuckols, Jr., who will serve for the first time In ithe stewards stand at the Fair Grounds next winter, plans to spend a few weeks at his home, Versailles, .Ky.. before going south. He is a member of the license committee of the Business Mens Racing Association of New Orleans, the other two members being J. B. Campbell and Joseph A. Murphy. Several carloads of horses which remained at Latonia while the Downs meeting was on are scheduled to leave for New Orleans tomorrow. -
