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LEXINGTONS OLD TRACK A BUSY PLACE. Program of Nearby Meeting in Press — Many Horses in Active Training. Lexington. Ky., March 28. — Secretary W. R. Letcher placed with the printer this afternoon copy for the program book for the spring meeting of the Kentucky Racing Association, which is to open Wednesday. April 22. and continue ten days. There are to lie six races each day. but no stake races. The purses will be 00. with an occasional 00 for handicaps. "There will be no steeplechasing this year, at least not this spring." said secretary Letcher, in speaking of the program. "I had the plans for the course prepared, but because of the bad weather we were unable to lay it out until now. To get it ready by April 22 would rush us too much and there would be the chance that the footing would not be perfect, so we decided to abandon the project for this spring, and during the summer wc will take our time and put in as good a course for cross-country racing as any western or southern track ever had." Secretary Letclier is in a dilemma over the question of stable room. Ev. ry stall at the track is taken and he has applications for nearly 200 more. Among the applicants are Louis A. Cella. W. II. Fizer. T. C. McDowell. W. J. Young. Mode Nicoll. J. S. Ward, J. C. Milam. J. C. Everman, William Steuve and Jesse Everett, the former jockey. Everett is training six horses at his home in Indiana. Secretary Letcher says he can find quarter* for many of these outside th • track and that the probabilities are that quit. a number of the horses now in training here will be moved out to the farms or shipped elsewhere to make room for others ready to race. Wednesday was the first really good day the trainers have had for work in the last ten and advantage was taken of the opportunity to send th ■ horses along. Quarters in 25. and halves in 53 seconds were the order of the day. but Thursday brought better weather and a better track and the niov. s were from one to two seconds faster. The time until the meeting opens is brief, but if the weather holds good, the horses here will be ready. Otherwise the horses coming up from the south can be deluded upon to win the majority of the races. W. J. Young, it is expected, will cut a very considerable figure iu the racing hTc. His horses have been at Memphis all winter and reports from Montgomery Dark are to the efTect that he has some real runners in his collection. J. C. Milam, too, can be depended upon to furnish a goodly share of the winners. His horses have had the advantage of southern training and racing at New Orleans. The horses in training h re are to have thorough schooling at the barrier in advance of the meeting. Secretary Letcher received on Thursday a brand new Yokes starting gate and it will b;- put up Monday with a competent man in charge. A colt much in the ey.-s of the work-watchers here is "Bub" Mays Datriot. by Ben Brush — Sandfly. This one ran four races at New Orleans in January and. though he is still a maid n, his performances were creditable. In his initial start he was second to Shone and the third time out he was thinl to Sea Swell and Tom Holland. He did not have a fast track for any of these races and from th- manner in which he worked a quarter in 23J seconds Thursday morning, it is not hazarding much to say that he will take the measure of the kind he wili meet here next month. French Cook and Sempronium are apparently the best of the two-year-olds in the string of Milton Young, and they will do to remember. In a trial Wednesday morning Semproniuin beat French Cook half a length a quarter in better than 24, but the son of Monsieur de LOrme was carrying every ounce of 135 pounds and was giving Sempronium at least twelve pounds. Sempronium is by Sem-pronius. out of Tody Smith. Shv Anne is the name of a chestnut filly by Iledi — Chagrin in the string of S. K. Hughes that will bear watching. She belongs to E. C. Hopper, the presiding judge at Oakland, who owns and raced her dam. a mare by Blue Eyes out of Rebuke. This is the only two-year-old by Uledi, a bread-winner in the colors of Joe Dugh. the former chief of the Covington police department. Shy Anne stepped off a quarter in 24 Thursday morning in a manner that caused the trainers to ask one another what they thought about it. D. J. Millett is not certain that Cottontown will stand training this year, but he has decided to find out whether he will or not. The five-year-old son of Captain Sigsbee and Lauretta Burke has been galloping at the farm for about ten days and is shortly to be sent to the local track to go into the string that is being handled by Frank Grosche. In his string is Cotton Gown, the two-year-old half-sister to Cottontown. She is by Carlton Grange and is a brown in color. In addition to being blind in the left eye. she is small, but withal she has a very racy appearance. Drahably the largest two-year-old in Kentucky is in this stable. He is a brown gelding by Orlando, out of Lena Myers, therefore a full brother to Jim Myers, the speedy gelding with. which John Rodegap had so much bad luck last spring. This fellows name is Orlet. and he belongs to Martin Doyle, of Farls. Another big two-yearK Id in this barn is Friend Harry, the half-brother to Dink Coat. He, is a chestnut and is by Orlando. out of Alice Brand. He is the property of J. H. Woodford and looks every inch a race horse. Lee Darnaby. the former trotting horseman, who trained the good racer. Old Honesty, has a string of fourteen in which there are four especially attractive two-year-olds. They are Anemonella. bay colt, by Kilmarnock — Anemone: Miss Crittenden, chestnut filly, by Royal Flush III. — Dainteous: Brownie B.. bay colt by Arkel — Shibeen. and Is-trouma, bay filly, by Hastings — Shansheen. The first-named three of these were bred at Elmendorf Stud and are out of young mares. The last-named is a half-sister to Shillelah, a mighty good jumper, and the first horse Harry Fayne Whitney ever owned. She is far above the average in size and appearance, and if she will run as well as she looks, there will be no question about the payment of her feed bills. Miss Crittenden, barring mishaps, is certain to be a race winner. Anemonella closely resembles his sire and he was a winner in three countries. W. A. Smith, Charles Hughes. John Ireland and S. K Hughes spent an afternoon at Millstream Stud this week and came back to the city singing the praises of Adam as a sire. "Adam, in my opinion." said Mr. Smith, "is going to have a wonderful future in the stud. There is no question but that he will make a great breeder. I never saw a finer foal anywhere than is the colt by Adam out of Durlty." Manager McCracken expects a visit from Mr. Miller to Millstream Stud in a few days.
