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,000 MINIMUM FOR FEATURE Two Opportunities Daily for Better Class at Latonia. Eight Races Each Day During Coming Meeting More Than One Thousand Horses Available. LATONIA, Ky., Oct. 5. No feature event of less than ,000 value and no purse of less than S600 is programed in the first book of conditions for the Latonia Jockey Clubs annual autumn meeting, opening October 12 and closing November 12. A race of at least .,000 value is carded daily, including stake days, and this purse schedule assures horses of the handicap and stake class from one to two opportunities each afternoon during the meeting. Additionally, horsemen will benefit by the inclusion of an extra race on each program during the meeting and, while eight events were offered daily during the closing weeks of the last summer season, the forthcoming meeting will mark the first in Latonias history during which each program will comprise eight races. Several horse shipments reached the Latonia chute this morning. They came from Lincoln Fields and Canada and inaugurated an influx of racing material which promises to fill every one of the more than 1,100 stalls on the grounds. At this time stalls for 1,050 horses have been set aside and requests for more than 300 over the remaining fifty have been received. Quarters for many of the larger stables that will participate in the meeting are in order. They include those for the large strings of Mrs. Payne Whitney, E. R. Bradley, Mrs. E. L. Swikard, Albert Sabath, Howard Oots, Laffoon and Yeiser, Edward Haughton, C. V. Whitney, W. H. White-nouse, Charles T. Fisher, C. H. Ferguson, Reichert Bros., C. H. Knebelkamp and others. A division of the C. V. Whitney stable got in this morning. Thirteen will carry the Whitney silks here. Mrs. Whitney will race seventeen, in charge of Jack Middleton, and Bradleys colorbearers will number eighteen. Trainer Clyde Van Dusen is bringing on fourteen fdr Mr. Fishers Dixiana Stable from Lincoln Fields. Track officials are greatly pleased with the manner in which the probable fields for the various stakes are shaping up and anticipate large fields for the 5,000 added Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes and ,000 added Breeders Futurity, the fixtures for two-year-olds. The Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes was worth 4,040 to Kakapo, the winner last year, and The Bulls victory in the Breeders Futurity last fall was worth 7,325. The 5,Q00 added Latonia Championship Stakes, for three-year-olds, and the ,000 added Latonia Cup Handicap are other events on the program of stakes.
