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KENTUCKY RACING TODAY CHURCHILL DOWNS IS READY Prospects Never Better for Most Successful Fall Season. Opening Day Program Promises Glorious Sport with Stars of Turf in Action. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 29. After a cessation of the racing in this city since early in. June, the local racing enthusiasts ia.ro eager for a resumption of the sport and the brief ten-day period that racing will hold sway should find Chui chill Downs generously patronized, notwithstanding the season here is a bit early for fall racing. The early opening is out of deference of the wishes of the Masonic order, which desires to hold its state convention unopposed by racing, as it will insure more hotel accommodations, and manager Winn also barkened to the pleas of several civic organizations that the state fair be given opportunity without competing against a regular race meeting. As a result of acceding to the latter request there will be no racing under the Kentucky Jockey Clubs auspices in Kentucky during the period intervening between September 9, when Churchill Downs closes, and Septemb 16, when the Lexington meeting begins. OPTIMISM IS GENERAL. Optimism with respect to the success of the racing this fall on the "three L" circuit is general. The falling off so noticeable in Canada this summer and on eastern tracks is not expected here. True, there may not be the extensive professional following at Louisville and Lexington as in former years, when the racing at these points were held later in the fall, but the shrinkage will be offset by the increased attendance that is bound to be in evidence at Latonia, where 31 days of racing will be held, beginning September 30, and continuing until November 4. The opening days card furnishes a true barometer on the class of the racing Ken-tuckians should witness during the fall season. The inaugural program contains the names of racers that may rank with the foremost in the land. An additional pleasing factor in this respect is that the program does not contain a shrinkage of stars, but a veritable cluster in each of the better offerings and is indicative that the more noted horses are intended to be pitted against each other with frequency and that patrons of racing in Kentucky will have opportunity to witness the best there is in sport. Conditions for an opening could not be improved on. The Downs plant is at its best, the track the fastest that it has been since the resoiling process it underwent two years ago and track records seem certain to fall by the wayside. There is an abundance of racing material here and additions coming steadily.. Good jockeys will also be plentiful. Nine of the best long-distance performers in the West are named for the 5,000 added Falls City Handicap, the feature attraction on the opening days program. TIRE BRAND TOP WEIGHT. Firebrand, which recently showed a return to his good form at Windsor, is scheduled to carry top weight 123 pounds. Trainer T. L. Pierce of the Jefferson Livingston stable, telegraphed racing secretary William H. Shelley to enter him this morning. The Livingston horses are long overdue and it is thought that they will be in late tonight.. Rockminister, which recently won the Huron Handicap at Saratoga, and Rouleau, another that raced creditably at the Spa, will be in the silks of Montfort Jones in the Falls City. Lady Madcap, which indulged in a workout of one and one-eighth miles in 1 :54 yesterday morning, will represent Desha Breckinridge, Lexington, Ky., publisher, in the stake. Parader, fresh from a successful season at Saratoga, will be T. J. Pender-gasts standard bearer. The next race in point of interest will bo the Seelbach Hotel Handicap, at three-quarters, and in this affair Braedalbahe will shoulder the top impost of 115 pounds. Only five answered the call here, but it is a well matched band, with Braedalbane, Cho Cho, Dr. Clark and Pindar Peel included in it Large fields will rule in a majority of tho races. Two of the dashes are for two-year-olds, one of them being the usual daily maiden affair. The influx of turfmen from all sections Continued on twelfth page. CHURCHILL DOWNS READY Continued from first page. continues. Many more "will come at the conclusion of Devonshire and Saratoga meetings. A division of the E. Tt. Bradley stable, numbering ten head, in charge of trainer W. M. Hurley, arrived from Saratoga this morning. It was composed of JJill and Coo, Bit o Black, Blue Nose, Bodyguard, Bedazzle, Bartered, Gentleman Jouett, Bradleys Tony, Bantam arid Brunell. The others which raced at the Spa will be taken to Belmont Park by trainer Dick Thompson. . Jockey Earl Pool was an arrival from Windsor. He will ride the horses under trainer Perkins care here. Jockey Walter Taylor came in from Saratoga. He is under engagement to the Hal Price Headley stable. Colonel W. E. Applegate arrived from Cincinnati. He recently purchased seven yearlings privately from different breeders and turned them over to C. Van Dusen at Lexington to break. J. C. Milam sent Anna M. Humphrey and Dust Flower to his farm near Lexington to be turned out until next spring. He received a consignment of six horses to race on the Kentucky circuit. They are Chalmette, Big Bertha and Merle, owned by J. N. Camden; Watchful Waiting and White Leather, which race in his own interest, and Muriel Von Der, the property of John E. Madden.
