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RIVER DOWNS TRACK READY Preliminary Details Completed and Every Stall Occupied. Jack H. Young to Act as Presiding Steward and Harry Allshouse Associate Henry Secretary. CINCINNATI, Ohio. Oct. 10. With all preliminary details completed and nearly every stall filled, officials were marking time at River Downs today awaiting the opening of the fall meeting of sixteen days beginning Wednesday. Early entries for the Columbus Day Handicap, the inaugural feature, gave indication of the six furlongs sprint being an interesting contest. Among those expected to accept the weights at the regular time tomorrow morning are Bernard P., All Lady, Jean Lee, Franks Boy, Whistling Dick, Lady Flash, Miss Bonnie, Skirting Eagle and others. The jockey colony was further augmented by arrivals from Fairmount Park and La-tonia. A couple of hundred horses also checked in from Fairmount Park and about fifty more are expected tomorrow. Peter A. Horbach, president of the River Downs Racing Association, today announced his officials for the meeting. HOD GINS STARTER. Jack H. Young, formerly of Lexington, Ky., and now of South Bend, Ind., will serve as presiding steward and will have Harry Alls-house as his associate. Charles F. Henry will serve as racing secretary, handicapper and placing judge, and in the judges stand he will be flanked by William G. Kelly and Frank Otis. Otis also will serve as clerk of the scales, and Kelly as timer. Jack Hodgins Continued on thirty-fourth page. . RIVER DOWNS TRACK READY Continued from first page. will do the starting. George Peterson will be the timer, and John Brown the patrol judge. Seven races will bo offered daily, with post time for the first race 2;15 oclock. The "Daily Double" will be on the first and second races. Young is a son of the late Col. Milton Young, famous Kentucky breeder. Jack Young was educated in the Lexington public schools and Notre Dame University. In 1931 he aided in organizing the Thoroughbred Club of America and was one of the active organizers of the Keeneland race track. He was one of the first vice-presidents of the Lexington track, resigning when he was appointed steward representing the Michigan Racing Commission. He served for two years in that capacity and since then he has been an associate steward at Detroit, Thistle Down and River Downs. TESTS TOTE. George Lewis, manager of the pari-mutuel department, tested the electrical approximate odds board this morning and pronounced it ready for work. For the past several mornings Wesley Freeman and Val Sulich have been conducting schooling classes, about fifty more visiting the Bahr gate this morning. Jack Hodgins, who will serve as starter, is not new to local patrons. He substituted for George Wing-field during the first two weeks of the 1937 fall meeting and started for more than a month at old Coney Island in 1935. Hodgins recently moved his home from Bunker Hill, 111., to Louisville, Ky. One of the most important sales to be completed in some time was announced this morning. Otto Johr and Mrs. M. M. Johr purchased Satrapal, Derby Dawn, Ajaygee, Stingo, Zingali and a yearling full brother to Napper Tandy from Mrs. H. R. Wilkins. W. Johnson, former trainer of the Wilkins horses, will handle the thoroughbreds. Zingali was sent to the Johr farm, to be retired for the year. Aerialist, Lockstep and Chalapt, which have been turned out at the farm since mid-summer, have been returned to I training. A division of the Johr stable is , now racing at Long Branch, and at the close of that meeting they will augment the divi- sion Johnson has here. I Apprentice M. Quintero departed for Nar- ragansett Park to join the stable of Mrs. William Emerson. Emerson holds the con- i tract on the Cuban boy. 1
