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KENTUCKYS FALL SEASON OF RACING BEGINS TODAY - JX M. Twenty -Eight Days of High Class Sport at Picturesque Latonia Latonia Championship, Kentucky Jockey Club Stake and Breeders Futurity Big Features of Meeting Plenty Racing Material LATONIA, Ky., Oct. 11. Picturesque "Fair Latonia," scene of so much important 4 racing during the near half century that has elapsed since its opening in the early 80s that it needs no introduction to enthusiasts, young or old, is in complete readiness for the annual autumn meeting of the Latonia Jockey Club, opening tomorrow. This is one of the more important meetings of the year and, with three such rich and coveted fixtures as the 5,000 added Latonia Championship Stakes, 5,000 added Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes and ,000 added Breeders" Futurity among the principal features programmed, turf historians will glean much from the racing during the season extending 3 over twenty-eight days, concluding on Saturday, November 12. Cincinnati and northern Kentucky, alive with racing interest, await the opening with characteristic eagerness and the thoroughbreds will be welcomed back with the same warmth and enthusiasm that has marked their receptions here for many years. Col. M. J. Winn, executive director of the Latonia Jockey Club, and his associates, always optimistic in their Latonia predictions, anticipate a successful season. They venture that with a good break in weather, the meeting may prove one of the big surprises of the year and more successful than any held here since 1929. MUD RUNNERS OPPORTUNITY. Considerable rain fell here yesterday afternoon and last night, but the weather man turned another variety today and, with the sun streaking through between scattering clouds as entries for the inaugural program closed today, there was promise of sunny skies and cool, pleasant weather for the morrow. Of course, yesterdays rain left its effect upon the racing strip and those of the 1,000 horses on the grounds that will be under silks tomorrow, will find the footing slow and holding, if not heavy. The Columbus Day Handicap, which was open to horses of all ages and will be decided over six furlongs, tops tomorrows holiday and initial offering. My Dandy, that remarkable gelding whose turf accomplishments stamp him nothing short of an "iron horse," heads the field of seven named for the sprint. This scintillating seven-year-old will carry top weight of 120 pounds in this, his first appearance before Latonia patrons and will oppose Jimmy Mo-ran, Gold Step, Cathop, Playtime, Our Cherrycote and his stable companion, Brown Wisdom. In the Santa Maria Purse, the secondary feature and for two-year-olds, Head Play, Le Bruyere, Bubbler, Sun Gros, Mike Reynolds and St. Jensund will do battle at the three-quarters distance and other of the races on the card of eight will engage closely matched fields. BREEDERS FUTURITY SATURDAY. The first stake of the meeting will come up Saturday in the twenty-third running of the Breeders Futurity for two-year-olds while the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, also for juveniles, will be renewed on Saturday, October 29, and the Latonia Championship Stakes, Americas premier fall fixture, for three-year-olds, will have its fourteenth running on Saturday, November 5. On the closing day of the season the Latonia Cup Handicap for older performers and at the testing roue of two miles and a quarter will be run. With but few exceptions the long lists of eligibles for the Futurity and Jockey Club Stakes include the more outstanding youngsters of the year and such of the leading three-year-olds as Gusto, leading money earner of the year; Gallant Sir, Osculator, Mad Frump, Clotho, Byzantine, Cathop, Big Beau, Cee Tee, Rehoboth are among the probable starters for the championship which will be decided over a mile and three-quarters. Word was received here today that invaders for the Breeders Futurity will include C. V. Whitneys The Darb and Caterwaul and W. R. Coes Old Baldy. They also are eligible for the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes and may remain here for two weeks to race Continued on thirtieth page. KENTUCKYS FALL SEASON OF RACING BEGINS TODAY Continued from first page. in that even richer mile event. Mr. Whitney won the Futurity last fall with The Bull, a victory that was worth 7,325, and his father, the late Harry Payne Whitney, won the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes with Try-ster in 1920, Enchantment in 1922 and Valorous in 1926. In 1930 Mrs. Payne Whitneys Twenty Grand had to run in worlds record time of 1:36 for a two-year-old to defeat the younger Whitneys Equipoise in the last running of this race at Churchill Downs. Others after Futurity honors Saturday may include Barn Swallow, Levaal, Le Bruyere, Spartan Lady, Charley O., Jungle King, Dynastic, Technique, Sun Captor, Northgalis, Union, Iseult, Bubbler, Ocean Flight, Glynson and Thistle Play. The Futurity distance is 170 feet less than three-quarters of a mile. In addition to the stakes and handicaps the program calls for from one to two handicaps or allowance races, fashioned for the top-notchers in all divisions, daily and with, much high-class material in almost all of the scores of fashionable and prominently owned stables on the grounds, patrons will not want for inviting and attractive programs. Among new features to be introduced tomorrow is the popular daily double and if inquiries can be accepted as an accurate guage of interest it will find popular approval here. Post time for the first race will be 2 oclock daily. The twenty horses W. F. Axton has here will be campaigned in two divisions, Wayne Lewis handling eleven and Harry Van Ry nine. Walter Taylor is looking after Marse Chan for T. P. Hayes and Sabula for the Warm Stable.
