The St. Louis Republic., 1903-10-25

EIE7"rF-N G1DE THE SUNDAY E:fI' 'I iiLi'-
Captain sam Brown of Pi.;sbrr= has
3rs.gh--ol Tho famous old k,ItUol.- ASso-
cation ruasz. ami afi.- wears az iGlr1asz
20 is t0 De- brought fa ,iGa as "a race track.
Nn meeting has been hold there since
f>sS arI fh. .azs several meetings he'd
u"rr financial failure. Tpon closing an"
5osI fer IN" course C8ptain Brown ap-
ruiuted W g. Scott of Lexington man
aErr and Scott has appointed !. H. Mu--
r8v suparintendent.
The grand stand. clubhouse a-I betting
Shrd are now and only need "a coat Il
paint 10 De attractive The judge stand
las fallen down. SO has the timers stand
and these Will have ,o be replaced The
fencing is entirely gone and for the last
few years crops of hemp have Eesn grown
in the inneld. This viii be ceased and
The ground sowed in bluegrass. The
fencing viii al have 10 be made new as
viii most Of the stables.
WISHAHD SINGLED STABLE.
On one OF the stables are now ihe shin
giles nailed there ly Eaoch Wizhard when
that now noted trainer was a helper
around the barn in which Dan O'Brien had
a stable Of horses The famous old baIu
occupied Tor many yeaIS by The horses Of
Byron McClelland Is stil standing as is
me barn il which John Madden. James
Murphy. E q. Thomas and Others an
uually quartered their racing strings. All
IhCse viii have TO come down and new
ones built in their stead
taptain Brown, Il is said has set aside
s57pt Tor improvements on the course. and
It Is th" opinion Of Manager Scott that
ms amount Nil put the improvements in
elegant shape. The track will have To he
resoilcd and built up IN places and the in
Held track laid out and levelcd up. There
are quaTteTed on the place now sCme %
head Of horses. mostly 3-year-OldS being
broken and trained preparatory to next
seasons racing.
This course is the Oldest in the South
and is the second race course Captain
Brown has purchased. he having secured
the track at Mobile. Ala. which h. has
been using as private training grounds
Tor his horses I'm the winter season.
TRACK SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD.
The Kentucky course is a little more
than three-quarters OF a century old The
front gate plate bears the date Of lSai.
this being the date OF the organization Of
the old association. The history of the
course Is resplendent with great races be-
tween great horses and witnessed by men
who loved racing for the sport without 4
thought Of making money out Of Il as is
the custom Of to-day. Among the prom
lnent kentuckians who presided at vari-
Gus times in the judges stand we're Cen
eral John e BreckinridEe Colonel VIII
nam 9 GoOdlos, Senator James r. Beck
Tom Marshall. Henry Clay and Senator J.
g. S. Blackburn
Among the men who raced their horses
over the course were James A. Gr.ns:ead
Price McGrath. General James F. Robin
SON General Abe BUfOrd. Colonel John
Harper and John ". Clay. Among the
Sreat horses that took their first lessons
or raced over the course at different times
were LOngfeliOw. Ten Brock. n ndoo
Luke Blackburn. Miss Woodford Him
var. FOnsO. Falsetto. I,eonatus,
Spendthr1ft Ornament, Waveriy. Yer
Sailles. Pompey Payne. Enquirer, BeveIer.
Day. Star. Vagrant Joe Cotton. Bersal
Herzog, Troubadour Aristides Creedmore.
Vera Cruz, F'reeland, Buck Aiassie. Wary
and .Tyrant-
The time was when II was great honor
TO capture the Phoenix Hotel Stake or
the Ashland Oaks. and horses winning at
a meeting here were considered fit to race
anywhere in America. Races were run
here for various distances. After leaving
the three-Quarters. an eighth was up hill
and the remainder of the Journey down
hill, making the finish a beautiful one
Since racing was discontinued the course