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! i , I I GREAT STAKES THIS WEEK. The present week is vested with much of portance and interest to patrons of the turf both west and east. At Louisville the twenty-fifth renewal of the Kentucky Derby seems likely to be marked by a alarger field than has contested for its honors for quite a number of years past, while the opening of the great spring meeting at Morris Park next Saturday will be signalized by the decision of the valuable Metropolitan Handicap in which the west will be prominently represented by the flying mare Imp, the almost equally speedy but unreliable Box, Mr. Schorrs good horse Algol and Messrs. Bromley and Cos Previous and Heliobas. As a rule of recent years the Kentucky D6rby has had small fields of starters, but this year it seems probable that Manuel, Corsini, Mazo, Hapsburg, His Lordship, The Barrister, Billy House, Fontainebleu, False Lead and The Ken-tuckiau will go to the post. Nine others are eligible including Schorr and Sons Sea Lion, W. Overton, Ordnuug and Albeit Swind, but it is probable that the starters will be confined to the ten named, Mr. Schorr, it is reported, will pass the Kentucky Derby by and try to capture the St. Louis Derby later on. With such a good field in prospect Darby Day at Louisville will I this year possess a measure of interest in ex- of the average and will no doubt be the Icess occasion of a very great assemblage. Amid all the excitement and jubilation incident to such a gathering will be the inevitable tirge of ead-■ ness because of the absence of the familiar figure of Col. Clark from the judges stand for the first time since Aristides won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875.
