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LOUISVILLE FALL RACING UNDER WAY TODAY I. ! m DERBY FESTIVAL CARD Precedes Regular Meeting of Seven Days Beginning Saturday. Gentlemens Cup Race With Amateur Riders Features the Benefit Program. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct 29. Autumn racing returns to Derby town tomorrow afternoon with the annual program of the Kentucky Derby Festival Association, which will serve as a prelude to the regular seven-day meeting at Churchill Downs. Clear, although cool weather and increased interest generally indicates success on behalf of the association, which is in charge of the many activities staged during the Derby week. Col. Matt J. Winn, executive director of Churchill Downs, was beaming with optimism today as he spoke of the regular meeting, which will be culminated a week from Saturday with a program featured by the seventeenth running of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, which has always been won by a ranking two-year-old. Tomorrows racing is in charge of James Henning, president of the Kentucky Derby Festival Association, and M. Lawrence Aron-son, the managing director. All officials and track employes are donating their services, and the net proceeds, after the payment of purses and incidentals, will go to this organization. The first Derby Festival was held in 1935, and the money to be obtained tomorrow will be used for the entertainment to be offered. in conjunction with the 1937 Derby, which "is scheduled for early in May. TROPHY FOR RIDER. Featuring tomorrows program is the Gentlemens Cup race, a dash of seven furlongs, with the horses to be ridden by amateur riders. The winning rider will receive a trophy, the presentation to be made by Mrs. Henning. She also is serving with Mrs. Sam Lazur, Jr., and Mrs. Henry Stouse, as the official hostesses for the association. Practically all of the stables at Churchill Downs are filled with horses and with more arriving daily from River Downs and Sportsmans Park, more than a sufficient amount of racing material will be available for racing secretary Robert S. Shelley. The latter arrives Sunday from Chicago and in hi3 absence Fred Burton is in charge of taking the entries. Although numerous eligibles for the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes already are on the grounds, the principal candidates for the ,000 added event over the mile course are expected from the East. Heading the list 13 Jerome H. Louchheims Pompoon, winner of the Belmont Futurity and generally acknowledged as the champion of his division, although conquered in the New England Futurity Wednesday at Narragansett Park by the Milky Way Farms Reaping Reward. Churchill officials are hopeful these two colts will clash again in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, as it would add much interest to the meeting here. These are not the only better-known youngsters among the 111 eligibles, however, and it is very likely that the winner of the Pimlico Futurity on Tuesday will come here for the race. OUTSTANDING ELIGIBLES. In addition to Pompoon and Reaping Reward, outstanding candidates for the race i?c " Calumet Farms Privileged and C. V. Whitney s Flying Cross, which finished second and third to the Louchheim star in tne Belmont Futurity. Greentree Stables Tattered, E. R. Bradleys Billionaire and Brooklyn, and J. W. Parrishs Dellor are other well-known youngsters expected to compete in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, previous runnings of which include the memorable battle between Twenty Grand and Equipoise when a new worlds record for a two-year-old running a mile was established. With ten starters, the event will have a gross value of more than 3,000. The racing will be in charge of presiding steward Chas. F. Price, dean of American racing officials, and Ms associates. C. Bruce Head and Sam H. McMeekin. R. S. Shelley will serve as racing secretary and in the placing Judges stand will be Fred Burton, Harry Llndenberger and James T. Clarke. William Hamilton will do the starting, I Continutd on thiity-ldurth page . i : ; i , LOUISVILLE FALL RACING UNDER WAY TODAY Continued from first page. Thomas Oliphant is paddock judge and Quinn Cogar, timer. Many prominent jockeys have been regis-, tered; including Basil James, who is leading in the race for national riding honors. He arrived from Chicago today. George South, leading rider at the recent Keeneland meeting, will see service here, as well as R. Dotter, J. Cowley, T. Dickinson, E. Legere, H. Schutte, R. Cheatham, R. Yelton, W. Kern and C. C. Compton. Seven horses have been named to start in the Gentlemens Cup Race, the riders being J. Jacobson, E. E. Major, Bo Hickman, J. B. Hilliard, A. Monroe, H. S. Linker and Scog- gan Jones. Good-sized fields have been arranged for the seven other events, for which the purses are. 00. Post time for the first races throughout the meeting has been set at 1:30 oclock, central standard time. o
