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KENTUCKY AUTUMN RACING Prospects Excellent for High-Class Sport at the Downs. Crack Field for Falls City Handicap, Opening Day Attraction Many Arrivals. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 28. Churchill Downs is wearing its finest autumn garb in preparation for the opening of the Kentucky fall racing season at the local course Wednesday afternoon. A number of ments have been made since the close of the spring meeting and when Colonel Matt J. Winn, vice-president and general manager of the Kentucky Jockey Club, arrived Saturday from his home in Covington; he found everything in readiness for the bugle. A great term of racing is Colonel Winns prediction. He has spent much of the summer in the East and has the promise of most of the big eastern stables that they will send star racers to Kentucky for the rich stakes to be decided on the Blue Grass circuit. "From the standpoint of high-class sport I look for the coming season to be second to none in the history of Kentucky racing," said Colonel Winn. "Our stakes have all filled well, and, what is more, the stars of the country entered will be here to face the barrier. The Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, at one mile, for two-year-olds, unquestionably will be the best two-year-old race in Kentucky this year. Our own star youngsters will go to the post and they will be met by the best the East has produced. The winner of this race well might be considered the winter favorite for next years Kentucky Derby." A high-class field will face the barrier in the Falls City Handicap, winch will feature the opening day. Firebrand, Lady Madcap, Dr. Clark, United Verde, Thibodaux. Rock-minister, Minto II. and other cracks are among the candidates. This race is at, one mile and an eighth. PL EXT Y OF KACIXG MATERIAL. The Golden Rod Handicap, for two-year-olds, also will be decided. It will serve as a fine preliminary for the Jockey Club Stakes. The daily programs will bring together leading performers in overnight purses and handicaps. More than 500 horses are now tered here and several hundred more will be added by late arrivals from Saratoga and Canada. A number of the eligibles for the Falls City Handicap were given their final trials this morning, but the most impressive by far was that of Lady Madcap. She covered the mile and an eighth in 1 :54 in good style and ran the final eighth in 13. The Desha Breckinridge mare was under restraint the first part of the gallop. She ran the first quarter in 25, half in 50 and three-quarters in 1 :15, then she began to increase her speed and ended up the mile in 1 :40. Neddam, Jake Greenbergs hope in the Falls City, ran the same distance in 1 :5GM;. the first mile in 1 :i2. He was never extended. Parader, from the T. J. Pendergast stable, galloped a mile in 1 :45 in preparation for this stake this morning. TRACK AT ITS REST. The Downs course was at its best today and many fast moves were noted. Braedal-banc worked three-quarters of a i.-lc in 1 :14 and he was eased up in the last eighth. He covered the first five-eighths in 1 :00. Racing secretary William H. Shelley opened his office at the Downs today. Judge J. S. AVallace and Julius Reeder reported for duty this morning and spent the day registering horses that will participate in the coming meeting. Trainer Kay Spence of the Montfort Jones establishment arrived last night from Saratoga. He stopped off at his employers Audley Farm, Berryville, Va., for a day en route. Danny Moriarity was an arrival from his home in Hot Springs, Ark., where he spent the summer. Track superintendent Tom Young received a request from E. R. Bradley for twenty stalls from Saratoga. Part of the Bradley string will go to Belmont Park from the Spa. The stables of John M. Goode, C. T. Worthington and Robert C. Frakes came in from Lexington at noon today. Trainer R. N. Vestal brought only five horses down from Latonia for the Churchill Downs meeting. They are Centimeter, Maxi-mac, Kinsman, Chief Curry and Tex. All belong to G. L. Blackford. The remainder will be ready for the Latonia meeting. R. T. Watts brought jockey Johnny Owens down from Canada.
