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I PROGRAM FOR CHURCHILL DOWNS MEETING OUT CRETE, 111., Oct 5. Purses of no less than 00 will be offered during the fall meeting at Churchill Downs, Louisville, which opens on Saturday, October 31, and is tentatively scheduled to run seven days, it was revealed by the condition books which arrived at Lincoln Fields and were distributed among the horsemen here today. The book provides for eight races on each of the two Saturdays of the meeting and seven for week days. The fall meeting at the picturesque Downs will be featured, of course, by. the seventeenth running of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, autumn, fixture at a mile for two-year-olds, which will have an estimated value of 5,000. It is to be run on Saturday, November 7, and is expected to attract j many of the foremost juveniles of the year. Three ,000 handicaps also are contained in the book. The first is the South Louisville Handicap at six f urlong3 for horses of all ages and is down for decision on opening day. The next is the Seelbach Hotel Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward at a mile and a sixteenth, scheduled for Wednes-i day, November 4, and the third is the Brown Hotel Handicap, also for three-year-olds and upward, but at a mile, which is carded for the day on which the Jockey Club Stakes is presented. While the minimum purse during the I Downs meeting will be 00, daily programs offer a number of overnight races of Increased value. I
