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ALL READY AT LEXINGTON HISTORIC COUBSE OF KENTUCKY ASSOCIA TION SCENE OF CHEAT ACTIVITY Directors of Association Bequest State Racing Com Commlcsioa mlcsioa to Modify Its Buling Under Which WhichTelegraph Telegraph Wires Are Barred from Track Lexington Ky April 25 Two days in advance of the opening of the Kentucky Associations annual spring meeting the historic old racing ground pre ¬ sents a scone of great activity Racing Secretary Shelley completed this afternoon the distribution of badges to all save tlie late coiners and he lias everything In his department in readiness for the I opening Track superintendent R ss has the grounds course and stand in the l est iiossible condition lie reports every available stall within the enclosure and near the grounds taken Gene Elrod the capable supervisor of the parimutucl machines and betting enclosure has everything in his department ready to begin work as soon as the entries close tomorrow morning racingThe for the first days racing The directors of the association at a special meet ¬ ing today adopted a resolution embodying a request to the Kentucky State Racing Commission that the rule forbidding telephone or telegraph wires on th ground be rescinded This request will be presented to the commission at Us meeting Saturday morning Secretary Garrett Wilson says he believes the com ¬ mission will modify Its ruling when it is made ap ¬ parent to its members that the taking of the wires Troni the grounds has proved a great inconvenience and annoyance to the newspapers and individuals and has not prevented the poolrooms and hand ¬ books in various parts of the country from getting the racing information informationThere There were many horses at exercise on the track this morning but there were few sensational moves Archie Zimmcrs Caugh Hill ran fiveeighths in 100 the half in 47 and this was the best trial nt that distance Hound the World showed a half In 48 The Manager galloped a half in 51 and looked as if he could have run in 47 had lie been called upon for speed Coppertown Inquicta and King Stalwart broke from the barrier and ran a half the former in 49 and the latter two head aud head in SO This fastest mile of the Feason was shown by Jack Weavers good threeyearold filly Lady Lightning a candidate for tbe 1lioenlx Hotel Spring Handicap and the Kentucky Oaks when she ran it in 141 Fashion Plate from W II Karricks string worked a mile in 14235 He pulled up lame btjt walked out of It ItThe The Hallcnbeck stable which embraces the much nduiired threeyearold Worth suffered another de Jay Trainer Frank Taylor wired Charles II Hughes today that he would be here tomorrow morning morningThomas Thomas P Hayes and C C Van Meter brought their strings from Louisville this morning the former having twelve and the latter nine horses horsesThe The stables of L P Doerhoefer George J Long Miller Henderson Ban Lchau and others will be in from Louisville tonight or tomorrow morning morningCaptain Captain P M Walker and G W J Bissell have left Jamestown with sis horses each and will be lierc tomorrow tomorrowKolwrt Kolwrt Davies the wealthy Toronto business man who owns Calgary and other good youngsters that Charles T Patterson is training this season was here today He came from Norfolk and left tonight for Pimlico whither his string was shipped from the Virginia track Mr Davies purpose in stop ¬ ping off here was to see his trotting stallion Jude Parkrr 210 in Clem Beacheys string and inci ¬ dentally to get a line on any good threeyearold thoroughbred that he might buy He went to tin track and saw The Manager looked also at Sonada and made fiome inquiries about Worth He talked as If the best is what he wants if their owners will price them not too high
