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ACTIVITY AT CHURCHILL DOWNS. Trainers Begin to Get Ready for Spring Meeting — Hallenbeck Racers Coming Soon. LowhrviUe, Ky.. March 2. — Battriea elaead today for the following stake events to be run during Hi. spring meeting t lie conducted at Churchill Downs by the New Louisville .l-.-key Club: For Threc-Year-Olds and Over. lark Hand! rap, one mile and a sixteenth. i.-.uisvjiii- Handicap, six fartonga. Churchill Downs Hanifh-ap. ana mile and an eighth. Prank Pehr st;ik-s. aelllng, one mile. Tobacco Stakes, aeiling, six furlongs. Two-Year-01ds. Bashford Manor Stakes to,ir .,,„] ;, ;1:,]f fnilaaj.1 Debutante Stakes, four furlongs. Juvenile- Sta k. s. s.-HinL.. live rBTlOBga. Th.- Jockey crab a. his ,660 to each f thaw cveata. l.vmau II. Davis. r:n iiiLT secretary and handicap |M-r. having fully regained ids health, has resumed his duties. II,- announces that in all probability it will lie March 8 before be is able lo announce :h number of entries In tbene stakes. The delay will be due to the fad that many owners made entii. » at Charleston and Juarez and several days will claps. before thej are received here. Mr. Da via expects ;h -stakes to mi wi 11, notwithstanding the scarcity of bigb cl-lss ! a,-.-: s. eadj there are acenea of activity at the Downa and at Doaglaa Park. Within two w.t-ks it is ■ pected that at hast i5«i borsea will be In training at the Downa. At thla time Pete Coyne has Qeorg. .1 Longs thoronghbreda at the Ihiwiis atul all of them are going well. Aawag the Derby eligible in t h. Long stable are Poxeraft. the ehaatnat son .1 Alvescot and Mvtii.-ne: Pree Lance, another son of Alvescot: sir Giles, Ni.ias. Pellx, Porecaster, and Rudolf... Sir 1 1 ii- .ii is the aire of these eTigibiea with tin- exception of Pelix, which is a brown colt by Alveacot Victoria B. Just bow Poxeraft and Free Lance look the beat of the Long lot. In the opinion of trainer Coyne, tin- pair will have a chance with Worth, ih. lav- lite f..r the Koiiiucky Derbj tins spring. Over at Douglas Park, -I. B. ■aaneaa baa la train-bag twenty -four yonagatera. An even dozen of these are by Dick Welles. Mr. Bespess has several two rear itda bj Marathon. They are the Hist crop sent to tin- races bj this hone. Mr. Bespeaa will open mpaign at /• lington. T. P. Hayea expecta tins aeaaon lo develop aeveral rai.-ls of .-..1 .lass. In all lie has in training SevCU teen horses, the majority of which are two-year-olds. Bighl borsea behauriag ta John w. Bilmrr are at Douglasa Park, anion-- them John Beardon and Star Charter, which are being natoaai Ear long diataace races. U. 0, nallfhtirk if mil of Worth, Hint choice in the Derby, and other Sterling racers, such as Adams Kxpress. Iauntleioy. Prince Oal, Hooasaaald, Mis, Minnie. Az.via.h-. Sir Iii-nrah. Sir Marion and Becompenae, aaya ii -• believea he has in ins eligible to Kentuckys classic. ..in- of the greateal i-olts the turf has se.-n. Barring ill luck, he aaya, Worth will surely win the race. Mr. Hallenbeck, accompanied by Frank Taylor, trainer of the Hallenbeck band, came here lriday evening from Aiken. S. C. the whiter iraartera of the stable, to complete arrange m. ais for the shipment of the horses to this city. Bath own.-r and trainer deem it advisable to get the racers acclimated, so within a short time this premier oatfit will be brought to Churchill Downs. Mr. Hallenbeck does not p am sS any two-year-olds, but trainer Taylor has instructions to purchase horses of this age if he bads any to sail his fancy. The arrival ot Messrs. Hallenbeck and Taylor creates real Interest in th.- ihii Kentucky Derby and in the s;,:in and summer race meetings in tin- Bine Qraas state. Assuredly the stable will be a great factor in the apart. Mr. Hallenbeck expecta his horaea to surpass their achievements of last year from the very beginning r the Downs meeting. Aayiade has wintered well, and will star: in at vera! stake eventa, as win Adams Express, which is iii line condition. Worth has ■oread onl and is said by trainer Taylor t.. l.c up io expectations in every respect.
