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LATE KENTUCKY GOSSIP LEXINGTON, Ky., August 5. For the five races to be decided Monday, the opening day of the Lexington Colored Fair, there are forty-two entries. The purses are only 00 each, so this showing is all the more indicative of the desire of those who have made entries to run their horses. All of the yearlings from Harry Payne Whitneys Kentucky farm now are cn their way East. Twenty were shipped to Brook-dale Stud, Red Bank, N. J. ; sixteen to Ran-cocas Farm, Jobstown, N. J., and three to Saratoga Springs, N. Y. The last mentioned are to be sold at the sales, two of them being by Peter Pan, for the joint acount of Harry Payne Whitney and Al Smith. Charles H. Berryman, who is the manager of the Harry Tayne Whitney farm, as well as of the James B. Haggin estate and his own Saghonet Farmi likewise president of the Tri-State Fair and Racing Asscciation, left this afternoon for a short vacation in Michigan. The yearlings belonging to John H. R s-setter of San Francisco were shipped from here this morning to Saratoga in charge of George IT. Strate. There are fifteen in the car. Ten yearlings, the property of Edward Cebrian, in charge of George Brooks, all foaled and raised at Keenland Farm, will leave here Sunday morning for Saratoga, to be sold August 10. In the car with them will go four, the property of Dan W. Scott, Arrow Point Farm; two owned by O. D. Randolph, one the property of Mrs. H. G. Herring of Castleton and one owned by E. L. Davis and Jack Murray.
