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LATONIA MEETING NEAR Twenty-Eight Days of Fall Racing Begins on Wednesday. Approximately 1,000 Horses Available to Fill Daily Cards of Eight Races. LATONIA, Ky., Oct. 10. With the opening on Wednesday of the Latonia Jockey Clubs annual fall meeting of twenty-eight days, less than forty-eight hours away, activity was "bullish" here today. Including several shipments that reached the Latonia track siding late yesterday, fifteen cars of thoroughbreds were unloaded here since Sunday evening. Eight cars reached the chute Sunday morning and with five or six more due tomorrow the number of horses received here in forty-eight hours will approximate 450. At the time this great influx of equine performers got under way about 400 horses were on the grounds and adding one hundred or so late arrivals, approximately 1,000 horses will be in the Latonia stables by Wednesday or Thursday. Almost witnout exception the numerous week end arrivals came from the Lincoln Fields course near Chicago, where a successful meeting closed Saturday. Others from the same Illinois track are listed among shipments getting in tomorrow and hardly a stable of importance campaigned at Lincoln Pields will not be represented here. Included among the horses now in quarters on the grounds are those of many of Americas foremost owners. Stars in all d--isions are numerous and the racing material assembled is a guarantee of high class racing throughout the meeting, which concludes on Saturday, November 12. Some of the leading patrons represented are Mrs. Payne Whitney, E. R. Bradley, Charles T. Fisher, Laffoon and Yeiser, C. V. Whitney, Nash Brothers, A. B. Hancock, J. B. Respess, Albert Sabath, F. M. Grabner, J. G. Lang, Desha Breckenridge, C. B. Shaffer, W. R. Coe, J. D. Norris, Jr., W. F. Axton, S. S. Combs, A. B. Gallagher, E. Haughton, J. O. Keene, T. E. Mueller, W. E. Smith, R. C. Thatcher, Le Bus Brothers, Young Brothers, George Collins, Jack Howard, J. W. Parrish, Howard Oots, Reichert Brothers and many others. EVERYTHING READY. Preparations for the meeting inaugurated some weeks back, reached virtual completion several days ago and aside from a few last minute details and putting away of the late arrivals, everything is in readiness for the opening bugle. All of the racing officials are on the scer.e and the office of racing secretary W. H. Shelley formally opened this morning. Judge Charles F. Pi ice, steward in charge of the racing, has called a meeting of the board of stewards for tomorrow. The principal stakes to be renewed are the 5,000 added Lr.tonia Championship, for three-year-olds, at a mile and three-quarters; the 5,000 added Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, for two-year-olds, at one mile, and the ,000 added Breeders Futurity, also for juveniles, but at the short Futurity distance of 170 feetless than three-quarters of a mile. The latter fixture will be renewed on Saturday, October 15, while the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes will be run Saturday, October 29, and the Championship Stakes on Saturday, November 5. On the closing day of th meeting the ,000 Latonia Cup Handicap, for older horses and at two miles and one-quarter, will top the program. GUSTO AN ELIGIBLE. Eligibles for the Championship are headed by Gusto, leading money winner of the year, Gallant Sir, Mad Frump, Mad Pursuit, Faireno, Big Beau, Marmion, Cathop, Cee Tee, Our Fancy, Byzantine, Sunmelus, Oscu-lator, Rehoboth and others. With ten starters this race will have a gross value of 1,-055. St. Brideaux, last years winner, earned 0,420. The field for the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, which in 1931 was worth 4,040 to R. S. Clark, whose filly Kakapo was the winner, will come from among the following, Caterwaul, The Barb, Dynastic, Union, Sun Archer, Sun Alley, Technique, Ladysman, Hilena, Barn Swallow, Esseff, Snaplock, Pomposity, Pomposo, Thistle Play, Charley Continued on twenty-fourth page.l LATONIA MEETING NEAR Continued from first page. O., Loro, Trace Call, Jungle King, Caesars Ghost and possibly others.. Hinetyltwo are eligible for the Breeders Futurity and the list is much the same as that for the Jockey Club Stakes. Last fall C. V. Whitneys The Bull accounted for the twenty-second running of this former Lexington event over Air Pilot, Kakapo and others and it was a score that added 7,325 to the Whitney stable earnings. The "daily double," that- popular combination betting feature sweeping the American tracks like "wild fire" will be introduced here Wednesday. As at other tracks, the second and third races wil be used. The minimum feature purse will be ,000 and no event will have a value of less than 00. Eight races will be run daily.
