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Show FALL RACING IN' ' LEXINGTON, KY. Lexington. Ky., Sept. 14. The fall racing season opens here this afternoon after-noon with a nine-day meeting Nearly five hundred horses, including some or tho best in training, are stabled at the local tracks. From hero tho horses go to Louisville for eighteen days, and then to Latonia for twenty-four days. The richest stake in Amorica will be run at Churchill Powns, Louisville, Louis-ville, October 7. when the "Kentucky Enduranco" stakes, worth $8,400 to the winner at four miles, will be run. This will be tho first long distance race in Kentucky in twenty years. The Lexington track also will carry out a now ordor of the state racing commission that no auction pools shall be sold at the Lexington, Louis-vlllo Louis-vlllo or Latonia tracks. The commission will decldo today whothcr news reports of the betting will be allowed. The commission, it is said. Is In favor of cutting out the telegraph wires ou the grounds and declining to allow reports of tho racing to be sent out The newspapers havo asked that such drastic action ho not takon, but that tho commission place a censor cen-sor in the telegraph officeB on the grounds. This action Is to prevent pool rooms from getting Information. |