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EDWAED CORRIGandNS HORSES. Mr. Corrigan has seventy horses in training at the local track. This is the largest training stable ever quartered at Churchill Downs. Mr. Madden has forty-two thoroughbreds at the Downs, as he brought twenty-four in with him yesterday from Lexington. Both turfmen will bo in Louisville on and off during the entire winter and spring. Mr Madden will go oast before the Louisville meeting begins with a fine string, which will race on the eastern tracks, but Mr. Corrigans horses will remain here, at least most of them, and he will point four or five for the coming Kentucky Derby, which will be run at the Downs on May 2. "I have four or five youngsters which I will try to get ready for the Kentucky Derby," said Mr. Corrigan at the Qault House last Friday afternoon. "Three o2 these are by Riley, and the other two are by Artillery, out of good mares. I dont say that I will win the Derby next spring, but I will say that I have some likely youngsters entered in that stake, and I will not start one of them unless he is in shape and has a chance to win the race, "I have now over seventy horses at Churchill t Downs. This is the biggest stable I ever had here or anywhere else, and -while I -will weed them out before spring enough will be left to make np a big stable. No, I am not making any claims as to what I will do next season, but I will say that I have the nicest looking bunch of yearlings in this country at present. What they will do next spring and summer is, of course, problematical. There is no tolling what they will amount to. I will remain in Lexington only one day. My wife is there, but she will soon go to my southern place in Alabama, across the river from Mobile. I will come back here and leave Sunday noon for New I Orleans with fifteen horses. I will stay in New Orleans but a day or two, and then go to Kansas City, where I am at the head of the syndicate which is building a new racetrack there. Ho never, I will spend all my time this winter between Louisville and New Orleans. "No, I have no particular plans for New Orleans, except that I am going to race some of my horses there this winter, and, of courso, expect to make expenses." "What about that new track you are interested in at Kansas City?" was asked. "Well, it will be a good one," replied the ex-xnaeter of Hawthorne. "A civil engineer has been at work there for some time in levelling and making a profile map, and, I think, the grading will begin at once. Wo expect to expend something like 00,000 on improvements. The track will be xip to date in every way, and the granditand. stables, etc., will be as fine as money can make them. "We will not give a race meeting over the new track until next fall, say in August. My idea is to give a three weeks meeting, as I think this is long enough for any city of 200,000 inhabitants. Of course, the racing will be done under the auspices of the Western Jockey Club, and our dates will not conflict with those of any other track, because we aro too far west to do any harm. I expect to hang up valuable purses, and that horses of high class will conteat for them, for the prizes will be worth racing for. "My home is in Kansas City, by the way. I own a nice home there, but have not lived in it for something like thirteen years. This was because I have been running around all over tho world, in England and elsewhere, wherever my business called me. We will have all this winter and next spring in which to build the track there, and it will be ready in plenty of time for the races. " No, I cant say much about the horses. I will winter here at Churchill Downs. While it is true -that I have over seventy head at the local tracks, many of them are untried youngsters. Of course, I have Scintillant II., winner of the Ceearewitch StakeB in England ; Fancy Man and other high-class thoroughbreds there, but for the most part the horses are untried. I have thirty-five yearlings at the track and the same number of older horses. Joe Hays has charge of the youngsters, while Dan Yea-ger is in charge of the older horses. Of course, I superintend the work of all. As yet the colts have been given only enough exercise to keep them in a healthy condition, but I will ask them some questions later on." Louisville Courier-Journal.
