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INAUGURAL FEATURE Falls City Handicap the Opening Attraction at Louisville. Large and Representative Field Rain and Heavy Track Arrivals from Latonia. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 5. From present indications a field of a dozen will start In the Falls City Handicap, at one mile and an eighth, which stake will be the main attraction of the opening days program at Churchill Downs Wednesday. The probable starters, with their weights, are as follows: Ilorse. Wt. norsc. Wt. Wliiskaway 123 rindar Peel 102 Audacious 122 Oul Oui 100 la Mcmorlam 120 Jeanne Bowdre ....100 Cherry Tree 1U Alice Blue Gown.... 93 Cho Cho Ill IxirJ Granite 96 Guest of Honor 103 Tip Toe Inn 90 Dream Maker 100 Piince K 90 Lady Madcap 102 This and the other races on opening day will bo decided on a heavy or slow track. The going at Churchill Downs Monday morning was very heavy and it is hardly possible that the course can dry out and be- in first-class condition by Wednesday afternoon. The unfavorable track Monday morning precluded any possibility of ambitious training gallops and trainers were content to send their charges along at a slow clip. Guest of Honor displayed the most pretentious gallop when he covered a mile in 1:46. Oul Oui also traversed the mile route, but in the slow time of 1:51. Jeanne Bowdre galloped five-eighths in 1:05. LATONIA SPECIAL GETS IK". Horses that will participate in the meeting continued to arrive in large numbers Monday. A special train from Latonia comprising twelve horse cars pulled in late in the afternoon and among the stables represented were those of Will Perkins, M. and J. Low-enstein, Pete Coyne, T. P. Hayes, J. C. Fer-riss, J. S. Ownbey, G. V. Barnes, Jack Baker, J. M. Goode, W. K. Rowe, J. O. Whitlow, T. V. Montjoy, W. L. Lewis and R. P. Marshall. The stable of Rome Respess will not leave Latonia until Tuesday. Early morning arrivals from Latonia included fifteen that Cal Milam brought from that track and about the same time George Land got in with twelve cf the Milam stable horses that he had been racing at Huntington. Racing secretary J. S. Wallace arrived from Lexington Monday morning and lost no time in opening up the secretarys office at the track for the transaction of necessary business with the horsemen. The stable of S. N. Holman, in charge of Cecil Howard will leave Latonia Tuesday bound direct to New Orleans, where he will await the opening of the Jefferson Park meeting, J. Pevic, the stables jockey, will not accompany the stable to the southern city. Instead he will remain here and ride for the stable of Cal Milam, who will make his engagements. Rome Respess will have second call on the boys services at the Churchill Downs meeting. TO RACE AT HAVANA. Theodore E. Mueller, well-known business man and turfman of Louisville, will race a small stable at Havana during the winter in charge of J. II. Moody. The horses that the latter will handle will be Silvergrift, Ran-del, Ooralette and Foul Weather. Jockey A. Yerrat will continue to ride for the stable this winter. Leon Shea, a Louisville youth, who has been galloping horses for Moody, will shortly take out an apprentice riders license and will enter upon his riding career at Havana under the direction of trainer Moody. The latter has four fine looking" yearlings at Churchill Downs which will carry the colors of Mr. Mueller next spring. The most highly regarded one is a colt by Magneto Last Leaf, a half-brother to Wida, which Mr. Mueller bred himself at his Pinecrest Farm near Louisville. The others, all of which were secured at the Lexington sale, are a chestnut colt, by Master Robert Ruth; bay" colt, by Spanish Prince II. Louise K., and a black filly, by Sir John Johnson Niko. The two-year-old Roldgold, which has started in the Mueller colors this year on numerous occasions, has been sent to tha farm to be turned out for the winter. . Williams Brothers, who have raced a portion of their stable at Havana with much success every year since that track was first opened, have decided not to take in the meeting during the coming winter. Instead they will keep all of the horses at Douglas Park in winter quarters. The stable has already quartered at that track ten fine-looking yearlings, the produce of Dominant. Iron Cross II. and Hilarious, which recently arrived from the Williams Farm at Black- Continutd ou twelfth page. INAUGURAL FEATURE Continued from first page. well, Okla. The youngsters will be broken and trained and gotten ready for the Kentucky spring races. Ten horses belonging to the Idle Hour Stock Farm Stable, in charge of trainer W. Hurley, arrived at Churchill Downs Monday from Latonia. All of the horses shipped in good condition. The stables new rider, E. Blind, got in at the same time. T. M. Murphy, well-known breeder and owner, whose farm is situated at Crestwood, near Louisville, has consigned nine yearlings to J. J. Flanagan at Douglas Park, where they will be quartered all winter. Unless they are disposed of before the next spring meeting in Kentucky Flanagan will race the youngsters for Mr. Murphy. Probably the best looking one of the number is a filly by Golden Maxim Lady Lexington, a sister to Paul Weidel, winner of the Hamilton Derby. "Bud" Fisher has in winter quarters at Douglas Park a band of twelve good-looking yearlings that he secured at the eastern sales. They are at present in charge of Johnny Jones, but Alex Gordon will assume charge of them upon his arrival next week. H. C. Murnane, owner of the Four Oaks Farm Stable that has been racing on the Kentucky tracks all year, arrived from his home in Mobile, Ala., and will remain until the close of the Churchill Downs meeting.
