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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Manager Price has. issued the program book for the coming Louisville meeting. It is one of the handsomest pamphlets ever gotten out by the New Louisville Jockey Club. The cover is done in orange and black, with pictures of the heads of McChes-ney and Hermis facing each other. The conditions of the stakes and purses are presented, with no purse of the value of less than 00, and no handicap of the value of less than 00. There is an index to all the horses named in the book arranged in alphabetical order. The dates on which the stakes will be run are announced as follows: Kentucky Derby, three-year-olds, Saturday, May 2. Debutante Stakes, two-year-olds, fillies, Monday, May 4. Clarke Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, Wednesday, May G. Bluegrass Stakes, three-year-olds, Thursday, May 7. Nursery Stakes, two-year-olds, Saturday, May 9. Louisville Steeplechase, three-year-olds and upward, Tuesday, May 12. Bashford Manor Stakes, two-year-olds, colts, Thursday, May 14. Frank Fehr Stakes, three-year-olds and upward, Saturday, May 1G. Gentlemens Cup, three-year-olds and upward, Saturday, May 16. Juvenile Stakes, two-year-olds, Monday, May IS. ! Kentucky Oaks, three-year-olds, fillies, Tuesday, May 19. I Steeplechases through the center field, with six fences to each mile, including a water jump, have been programmed for the following days: Monday, May 4; Thursday, May 7; Saturday, May 9; Tuesday, May 12; Thursday, May 14; Saturday, May 1G; Tuesday, May 19. Several days ago at Churchill Downs, John E. Maddens derby candidate, Onatas, worked an easy mile in 1:50, while Cooks Linguist and E. Corrigans McGee both got useful gallops. These three are at present among the most promising Kentucky Derby eligibles. Derby candidates have all had plenty of slow exercise. They have speeded half miles around the 50 second mark, and if the track remains good, trainers will begin to send them fast in the next few days. Reports from Nashville say that Runnels has improved greatly. He has let down and muscled up, and is now a lengthy but stout, sturdy horse. As a two-year-old he ran some sensational races at St. Louis in the fall, and turfmen there considered him a better colt than McChesney. He was certainly a far better two-year-old, by seven pounds at least, than Wyeth. He is just about as fine a type of the high-class racehorse now as one would care to look at.
