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i FREE FIELD FOR DERBY DAY MANAGER WINN OF NEW LOUISVILLE JOCKEY CLUB ANNOUNCES INNOVATION Same Flan to Be Followed That Marks Running of ofHistoric Historic English Classic at Epsom Downs Bright Prospects for Kentucky Louisville Ky March 12 A free Held will rule on Derby day at Churchill Downs this spring Colo ¬ nel Matt J Whin manager of the New Louisville Jockey Club has made this announcement Said Colonel Winn WinnRealizing Realizing that this season the Kentucky Derby bids fair to be the most extraordinary race in the long history of the event the executive committee of the New Louisville Jockey Club at my sugges ¬ tion decided to make it jtossible for every person in the Falls City to see the big race even though they lack the usual 150 admission fee feeWe We purpose to make the great race in this re ¬ spect on a par with the English classic for which it is named There the running of the event can be seen by all regardless of their financial condi ¬ tion and as a result the English Derby has become the most fashionable and popular sporting event in the civilized world We will have the center field of the track reserved entirely for those unable to pay to see the big race and we expect a record breaking crowd at Churchill Downs on May 10 I have long been in favor of this innovation and have at last got my associates in the management of the jockey club to look at it in the same light My mind was made up as soon as I saw the brilliant list of entries that had qualified for the big event I saw at a glance we were on the eve of the greatest Kentucky Derby ever run and I at once decided that I wanted every man woman and child in the state to have a chance to see such a contest even though they pocketsI are without a penny in their pockets I want the general public to get a glimpse of the plant we are operating and show to the world at large what a real highclass horse race is That as a sport it stands preeminent and knows no rival I know for years we have had cited as a record breaker the crowd that saw the Ten Brocck and Moilie McCarthy match run here in 1S7S but mark tt yword next May that enormous concourse of people will be eclipsed by the crowd which gathers to see the Kentucky Derby of 1910 decided I look for every inch of space to bo occupied and I know when that is accomplished all records in this line in this country will be broken I want to make the grounds of the New Louisville Jockey Club on May 10 next resemble Epsom Downs in England and a tree field Derby day in my opinion will do it I am much pleased that I have won my associates over to my way of thinking and I know now we will have the biggest race meeting ever held in this city cityFree Free Derby field was introduced at Churchill Downs by the late Colonel M Lewis Clark first president of the Louisville Jockey Club at the In auguml meeting of the association in 1875 It was abandoned some years afterward for business rea ¬ sons It was long a popular feature and one of the chief attractions to the crowds who paid to see the big race as the gathering in the inner enclosure could not be duplicated elsewhere in all the world Commercialism accounted for the passing of the cus ¬ tom inaugurated by Colonel Clark but Colonel Winn has always maintained that the first jockey club presi ¬ dent had the right conception of the big racing day Secretary daySecretary Lymau II Davis has received in de ¬ layed mails from California thirty entries to the various stakes of the New Louisville Jockey Club from Colonel W E Applegate the wellknown local turfman who is at present on the Pacific coast lie has also received eight more entries for the Ken ¬ tucky Derby of 1911 this event now having the recordbreaking number of 128 nominations The total number of entries to all the stakes now foots up 935 an average of about eightyfive to a race Secretary Davis assistant Ed Jasper is expected from Mexico tomorrow and on his arrival will be ¬ gin at once the compilation of the usual hook oC entries entriesThe The applications for stable room far exceed those of last year when over SOO horses were quartered here and both Secretary Davis and Colonel Wiun figure on not less than 1000 horses being in Louis ¬ ville for the coming meeting meetingEugene Eugene Elrod who will have charge of the betting ring is here and will remain in the city until the meeting winds up here except during the week when the racing is going on at Lexington he bar ¬ ing also been engaged to take charge of the betting ring there
