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RIVER DOWNS INAUGURATES 16-DAY FALL MEETING Columbus Day Handicap Main Event on Good Holiday Program Seven Hundred Horses on Hand From Which to Fill Daily Cards Horbach and Strong Believe Session Will Be Success CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 11. The thoroughbred racing will be resumed in this sector tomorrow with the opening of the River Downs third annual fall meeting. It will be run for sixteen days, closing Saturday, October 29. With more than 700 horses on the grounds and thirty-five jockeys and apprentices ready to accept mounts, these departments are well fortified. There will be stakes offerings, and overnight handicaps and allowance races will grace the week-day and Saturday programs of seven races. Featuring the inaugural card is the Columbus Day Handicap, a dash over six furlongs, for which Ike Collins Bernard F. will carry the top impost of 119 pounds.. Pitted against him are Miss Bonnie and Jean Lee, under iuy pounds eacn, Lady Flash and Neighbor under 105 pounds each, and Skirting Eagle, the low weight, under 97 pounds. The Ohio-bred son of Sun God II. needs no introduction to local patrons. He won both of his starts at the recent Latonia meeting, defeating the best bands of sprinters that could be mustered against him. Prior to his local debut he won the De La Halle Handicap at Detroit and owner Collins has received several handsome offers for the horse. SUPPORTING ATTRACTION. Supporting the handicap will be the Santa Marie for better grade two-year-olds. Eleven accepted for the six furlongs dash under allowance conditions and Travel Agent will tote the top burden of 118 pounds. Opposing this colt will be Easy Street, Blue Star, Wee Betsy, Fern Creek, Franks Boy, Busy Man, Boutefeu, Worpoise, Alcedo and Susie Bell. One of the races, carrying a 00 purse, failed to attract enough entrants, and the value of the purse for the first race was raised from 05 to 00. This is a run over one mile and forty yards, and nine entries were received for it. Seven well-matched platers were named for the second race, and plater sprinters also will meet at six furlongs in the third. The sixth and seventh races are one and one-sixteenth miles. The sport will be under the supervision of many of the officials who served here at previous meetings. Jack S. Young will be presiding steward and Harry Allshouse, associates. Charles F. Henry, racing secretary, William Kelly and Frank Otis will serve as placing judges, and all close finishes will be pictured by the Powers Multipli-eye. Jack Hodgins will send the field from the Bahr Starting Gate. REGULAR "DAILY DOUBLE." The "Daily Double" will be used on the first and second races,- and post time for the first race is 2:15 oclock. Many of the stables that participated in Latonia racing are quartered on the Continued on thirty-fourth page. RIVER DOWNS INAUGURATES SIXTEEN-DAY FALL MEETING Continued from first page. grounds with additions from Detroit, Fair-mount Park, Beulah Park and Chicago. Peter Horbach, president of the River Downs Racing Association, and Edward P. Strong, general manager, are very optimistic over the success of the meeting. Expenses have been cut to the minimum, and should clear weather of today continue throughout the meeting, they believe it will be the most successful session since they purchased the plant from the defunct Cincinnati Jockey Club.
