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Show LONG RACES AREPOPULAR Wentucky Bugs Enthuse; Churchill and La ton. a , . Meets Next LOITIftVIM.R, Ky. Oct. The fall raring season In Kentucky, wM h Started Hrptemher I at DoiiRlaa I Park, will be fotlnwM by a aimiiar ! meeting at Churchill tHwna. I .a ton la will I then wind op the Kentucky aeaaon with a I more ei tended session. Three more Important stakes ara te be ae-ldd at the Churchill Oowns course, which began flepUmber Including the l. Iegr, which will have Its twanty-foiirih twanty-foiirih annual running the closing day. Ijong diatanca raoea are popular wdh Kentucky racegoers, and the HI. Leger, at tws and a quarter miles for 1-year-iJOe and up( always has been a big feature. The eiuo adds ISous to the slake. The Oolden Rod stakes, the Kalis City handicap and the Chsmkee stakes are tha ether big event to be contested. The Falls City Is for 1-year -old a and up at ats furlonss It has an added money value ef 1.0ft. The Golden Hod stwkes for !-yearoids, HOOO, has attraotsd a fins Hat of entries. The Cherokee completes ths Hat of stakes. It Is for the older divisions of herees) and Is over a eouree of a mile and a sixteenth. Probably ths most radical reform affecting af-fecting racing this yesr waa the announcement an-nouncement By Juha Hackmetater, man-agar man-agar ef the Iougise park and I-aUmla tracks, that geldings In future would be harred from the lAtonla lerhy. The great Inroada into all classes of horses by war needs. It has been Indicated, has made a decided conservation of thorougTi tired stock a prime necessity. The preservation preserva-tion ef ell fine ooita for possible future aervloa as sires la considered a pair lo tie duty. looking toward the season, opinion seems to be that racing faoee a probable reduction, unless ths war then shall be In Its final stage The sport protiehly will not be affected by a call for horse, power, but many man connected wltfc the turf In the paat are now enrolled with the oolora. |