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LOUISVILLES BIG FALL RACE Crack Two-Year-Ofds to Contend Next Saturday in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. When the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes for two-year-olds, at a mile, with 0,000 added, had its first closing last year no announcement of the track over which it was to be run was made, but. it was generally supposed it was another Latonia attraction; However, it was made known this year that it was assigned to Louisville. Thus It comes about that on next Saturday Churchill Downs will be the scene of the decision of the most valuable race of the western turf for horses of that age. It was intended to be to the West what the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga and the Futurity Stakes at Belmont Park are to eastern racing, prizes that all horse owners covet exceedingly. In value it will rank next to the two big races named, the added money and accumulated sweepstakes now amounting "to 5,715. Each starter must pay 50 additional. There is, every prospect of a good field, so the toal value. . should be somewhere between ,8,00.0. and 0,000. There are no penalties or" allowances" so colts and geldings will carry 122 pounds o,nd fillies 119. If. P. Whitneys undefeated crack Tryster is one of the eligibles, as also are his Prudery, Broom-spun, Princess Pandora, Dartmoor, Ararrat and Exodus, but they are still in the East. Grey Lag is at Churchill Downs. Apparently the field will come, from Brother Batch, Blowing Bubbles, Behave Yourself, Balance Wheel, Colonel Baker, Rangoon, John S. Rcardon, McGoodwin, drey Lag, .Bruce Dudley, Sir Lawnfal, Hildur, Gold Digger, "Uncle Velo, Gossip Avenue and Sporting Blood, without taking into account possibilities from the East, among which are the Whitney horses named, besides Smoke Screen, Brigadier General. Star -Voter; Bon Homme, Serapls, Ten-Lec and others credited with good racing performances.
