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ACTIVITY AT LEXINGTON PREPARATIONS FOR OPENING OF KENTUCKY RACING SEASON GOING FORWARD. Approximately 400 Horses Already Quartered at Historic Kentucky Association Course Twelve Foals Reported at Nursery Stud. Lexington. K.r., April S. The spring meeting of Die Kentucky Association, which is to inagurate what probably will go down in history as the most successful period of racing ever known in this commonwealth, will open just three weeks from today, and in preparation for it there is great activity at Hie historic old course in the north-eastern suburbs of this city. That the grounds may present a niore inviting appearance to the iatrons of the sport, superintendent Ross lias had for nearly a fortnight a force of men engaged in painting the stables all a dark red whitewashing the fences, making necessary carpentry repairs, removing the winters accumulation of debris from the stable grounds, beautifying the lawns and approaches, overhauling the drains and harrowing, Moating and otherwise working the track. Secretary Garrett Wilson, having during the winter looked after the closing of the seven stake that are to be decided during the eleven days and other kindred preliminaries, turned over all of the lwoks. letters, etc., to William. II. Shelley, who arrived from Juarez yesterday and took up his duties as racing secretary. The preparation of the program, which is to carry six races each day with no purse of less value than 00 added money, lias already been begun by Secretary Shelley and he expects to have it approved by the executive committee and in the luuids of the printer by the ,end of the coming week. The assignment of weights for the Camden Handicap, for three-year-olds, at one mile and a quarter, which are to be announced next Saturday, will claim some of his time and attention the coining week. With the arrivals from Jacksonville and Juarez yesterday and today there are now approximately UK horses stabled within the race track enclosure. Counting-those used as tack and equipment rooms, there are 570 stalls and of these there are now less than 100 vacant. Applications for double this number aro now in hand and quarters on the outside close to the track are scarce. The stables now here are those of J. X. Camden and J. O. Keene. 17 horses; T. C. McDowell. 12; W. J. Young. 11; J. .Milam, 12; T. 1 Hayes. 12: C. T. Patterson. 12; W L. Lewis including Col. Milton Youngs string, 1H; John Rodogap. VI: Jack linker. 12: Will Me-Daniel, 11; J. W. May, 10: Walter Grater, 10; Callaher Bros.. 0; E. It. Bradley, 0; -T. T. Ireland, !i; Logan Denny, 0; J. S. Ward. !; James S. Ever-man, !; George I. Chinn. S; Irving II. Wheatcroft, N; II. McCarren. S: F. 1. Weir. S; Mode Nicoll, S; Gene Lutz. S: William H. Steele, S; Robert Frakes, !: S. K. Hughes, S; Howard Oots. 7: James Stevens, li: John ichoIs. i; Jack Williams, : fieorge limes, 5; William Ierkins, 5: J. I. Taylor, ; Dory fierce, I; Talbot Bros., 4: Dillard Hill. 1: P. II. Donnelly, 4; Martin Doyle, 4: Tom Irvine. 4; A. It. Lowe, :; AVilliam AVallace. 3; John 15. Kaufman, 15: Milton Dates. :; June Collins, .!; Luke Le Blond. 2: C. D. Chenault, 2; K. C. Christian, 2: Grover Hughes, 2; Tom Harmon, 2; Allan Steele. John Simpson,- Ln-clen Johnson and Ed ftlass. one each. Among other stables that will come here are those of J. 15. Bes-pess. It. L. Thomas, Applegate and Yanke, A. L. Kirby, I. Colston, It. F. Carman, Clay Bros... Henderson and llogan and G. J. Long. There will be others from various points. As matters now stand the horses that were wintered in the south have an advantage over those wintered here in the matter of condition, but if the weather continues good and the track is avail-abb; for work during the coming fortnight, the situation as regards winning probabilities will be somewhat altered. The horses wintered here are all well seasoned, and. with everything propitious, can be made ready to race by the time the meeting opens. fi To date there has been nothing sensational in the way of work and little speculation as to what horses may win the slake races, but with all probable starters here and at I.oiiisville, it is to bo expected that from now on until the races are decided there will be much said by way ot comparison with a view to selecting those most likely in win the coveted events, the richest of which is the Breeders Futurity for two-year-olds. A barrier for the schooling of two-year-olds will be put up Monday and every afternoon until the meeting opens the youngsters will be given some education at the tape and in starting. It has been decided that seven parl-mutuel machines are to be operated here this spring. There will he one 0 machine for straight bets, three machines and three machines, one each for straight, place and show .bets. The stalls and the walking ring tinder the shed in the saddling paddock are being enclosed with a light picket fence, chin high. This is to prevent visitors to the paddock froiii entering the stalls or crowding into the walk and to prevent their being kicked. At August Belmonts Nursery Stud to date there are twelve foals out of eleven mares, Nineveh, the dam of the winners Nitrate, Namtor, Nine Spot, Nancy. Ninepin and New Star, having twin fillies- by Fair Flay, the lirst of the get of that good son of Hastings ami Fairy Cold. Seven of Hie foals are colts and live are fillies and they are all of good size and conformation and doing well. There arc live by Hock Sand. Hie triple crown winner for which Mr. Belmont paid 25,000 and whose get have shown so well in racing in this country and on the other side of the Atlantic. The young Itock Sands are a chestnut colt out of Sprite, a daughter of llenrv "f Navarre and Lady Madge dam of Madman: hay tilly out of Lady Violet dam of Lady of the Valley. Lady Viola. Lord of the Valley. Lord of the Vale, Lord of the Forest and Lady Vincent, all good winners, by Ill-Used; chestnut colt out of Fizgig dam of Left, by Hayon dOr; chestnut colt ont of Half Sovereign sister to Sou and Souviguy and half-sister to Sagapauak, by Hastings, and bav lllly out of Chiukara. a daughter of Galopin that Mr. Belmont bought from Clarence II. Mackay. Aside from the twins out of Nineveh, there are two bv Fair Play, one a chestnut tilly out of Miss Hanover dam of the good two-year-old Worth in the string of Gallaher Bros., and also of the winners Great Jubilee and Brown Thistle, and the other a M byy colt from St. Kudoni dam of Eustacian, by W St.. Simon. 9 Tie only foal by Ethelbert in this country is numbered among the dozen at the Nursery. It is a chestnut colt out of the young Octagon mare Ferment, which was sent to England as a yearliug in June, 1SHK5. She was a good winner in England mid was mated with Ethelbert in France last spring, coining over here last fall. Superintendent Ed Kane is much pleased with the youngster. The remaining two aro a bay colt by Hastings Linda Stone, by Hanover, and a bay colt by Singleton Lady Rayon, by Hayon dOr. which was the lirst foal of the year on the farm. Superintendent Kane says there are about thirty other mares, some of them turf celebrities nnd the dams of good racers, yet to foal. Ho reports no losses this year and says 1 lie general .health of the stallions, Itock Sand,. Hastings, Fair, Play and Singleton, as well as that of the mares "and yearlings; is excellent. There are forty yearlings at the farm. Mr. Belmont has not indicated as "yet what disposition will be made of these. It is regarded hereabouts as likely, however, that he will send the best of them to England to be trained. A new matron in the stud is Field Mouse. She has been mated with Kock Sand. Fletcher Driver says he has a filly of more than ordinary merit in his Breeders Futurity candidate, Floral Day, two-year-old half-sister to Floreal, winner of the Kentucky Oaks iu lJOO. Floral Day is by Nasturtium, out of Anyday, sister to the tleet-footed Americau horse. Caiman, which holds the utile record of l:;::!i in England. Floral Day showed speed at Jacksonville and her owner believes her to have an excellent chance to win the richest stake to be decided in Kentucky this spring. Floral Day is. in the stable of W. II. Fizer at Louisville and will remain there until a few days before the opening of the Kentucky Associations meeting when she will be sent here along with Mud Sill, a candidate for the Blue Grass Stakes, Boca Grande, Eye White, Plutocrat, Judge Walton and Al Longfellow, which latter is eligible to the Brewers Selling Stakes. Kloreal is due to foal shortly to Meelick, winner of the California. Los Angeles and Crescent City Derbys of 100S in the colors of S. C. Hildreth and now in the stud at Denison, Tex. Kloreal is at the farm of James Stevens near this city. Every horseman who has arrived- here from Jacksonville has had something good to say about the winter meeting at Mouerief Park, particularly as- to the management of the track and the conduct of the sport. This is all the more noticeable since there was scarcely a man coming up from .Florida in the spring of 1010 who seemed satisfied. Bain fell constantly today and there was no work except over the seven-eighths mile sand track, which was extremely heavy.
