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LOUISVILLE OPENING Churchill Downs Autumn Meeting Begins This Afternoon. Palls City Handicap and Six Other Races Constitute Attractive Inaugural Day Program. LOmSVTLLE, Ky., Nov. G. The annual autumn season of racing at Churchill Downs will be inaugurated Wednesday afternoon with the running of the Falls City Handicap, at one mile and an eighth, and six other attractive races. The inaugural purse of ,500 value, at three-quarters, will provide a most worthy secondary feature. Predictions are for clearing weather for the opening, but there is no possibility for a fast or even good track. Intermittent rains of the past three days have left the course in bad condition and blasted all hopes for a favorable track Wednesday afternoon. This however, is not expected to detract from the sport as the fields for the seven carded races are filled with hcrses of well known mud running ability. With a fine brand of weather a large and representative crowd is expected to be on hand to welcome the thoroughbreds back to Louisville. The lateness of the season. Col. Winn does not believe will mar its success, for local race goers are evincing more keen interest in the sport than they have displayed in any previous fall meeting of recent years. Should fine weather prevail during the period of ten days. Col. Winn believes the meeting will prove a highly successful one. PLAX EARLY START. The first race will be called at 1 :45 p. m., and it is believed that this arrangement will afford ample time to run off the last race each day before darkness sets in. Practically all of the stables that participated in the Latonia meeting have been shipped here and the horses are ready to race to their best form. That there will be more than a sufficient number of thoroughbreds to fill the daily programs is evidenced by the fact that all of the stables at Churchill Downs are filled, while the overflow is amply taken care of at Douglas Park. The Falls City Handicap, which has an added money value of ,000, has attracted a field of eight good handicap horses, including In Memoriam, the recently crowned three-year-old champion, which Avill carry 123 pounds. This weight includes a penalty of three pounds for his victory last Saturday. The presence of the crack son of McGee and Enchantress in the stak will add considerably to its attractiveness, and his performance in the race will be watched with extraordinary interest. The Wiedemann colt will have as opponents Audacious, with 122 pounds, and Whiskaway, which is asked to shoulder 123 pounds. In Memoriam will be the public choice in the race, while Audacious his most to be feared rival will probably go to the post a good second choice. The field is completed with Cherry Tree, Oui Oui, Lord Granite, Guest of Honor and Tip Toe Inn, all well known mud runners. The Inaugural Handicap will bring out a fine field of horses with a penchant for the mud, the list comprising Pindar Peel, Great Jaz, Post Haste, Marvin May, Crayon and Moss Fox II. All of the other races bring out evenly matched fields that promise keen contention in all of them. EVERYTHING SPIC AJfD SPATT. Everything at the picturesque plant is ready for the opening and the place presents an appearance rivaled by but few other tracks at this season of the year. Col. Andrew Vcnnie, the efficient resident manager, has been busily engaged for some time attending to the many details connected with the opening and he has been assisted by a capable corps of assistants. Horses continued to arrive all day Tuesday and when twilight fell practically all of the horses that will participate in the meeting were on the grounds. Tuesday arrivals included the stable of Will Perkins, J. M. Goode, John Lowe, Frederick Johnson, It. McGarvey, E. Trotter, H. Oots, It. T. Watts. J. C. Ferriss, T. F. Dever-eaux, W. H. Hail. W. E. Caskey Jr., Mose Goldblatt, T. L. Pierce, C. E. Patterson, N. A. Michelson and G. V. Barnes. The stable of "Bud" Fisher arrived from the East Tuesday in charge of trainer Alex Gordon and secured commodious quarters at Douglas Park. The consignment included the two-year-olds Mr. Mutt, Nellie Morse, Comic Artist. Little Jeff. Mirthful and Satire and the older horses Evil. Dream Star, Dartmoor and Billy Waters. Tho consignment that Will Perkins brought includes his complete stable of thirty horses, including Translate, Honor Man and Boots and Shoes. Perkins has also in his charge the Great Britain two-year-old Okee- Con tinned on twelfth pascj LOUISVILLE OPENING Continued from first page. chobee, which Will Overton bought last Saturday from George M. Hendrie. Jim Everman brought fourteen, including I. Weils Tip Toe Inn. Everman has had four fine looking yearlings stabled at Douglas Park for some time. Kay Spence will ship a carload of horses to the Audley farm at the conclusion of the Churchill Downs meeting and take the remaining horses of the stable to New Orleans for a campaign of winter racing. Mose Goldblatt shipped only a portion of his extensive stable here from Latonia. The list embraces. Dr. Clark, Cherry Tree, Revenge, Triumph, Good Night, Links, Uproar, Waukulla, Patrician and Miss Fortune. Goldblatt is arranging to. ship all of these to New Orleans for the racing there. Cal Milam will dispose of fifteen of his two-year-olds at public auction in the Churchill Downs paddock on the morning of November 14. For the convenience of horsemen at Douglas Park, Pat Galliger will be at that track every morning to accept entries. C. E. Patterson is a late arrival from Latonia, bringing E. B. McLeans good two-year-old Horgan, Phil Chinns Poland and Guisseppe, Miss Kate, the latter the property of Senator J. W. Bailey. Ex-jockey Harry Lunsford, now a full-fledged trainer, got in Tuesday from Latonia with the horses he is training for N. A. Michelson, the Cincinnati owner. The stable includes Madame Vennie, Extra Edition, False Alarm and Sunny Dale. The hordes that Frederick Johnson shipped here included Dream Maker, Rag, Dare Say and Rip.
