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DOUGLAS PARK STABLES ARE FLOODED. Racers Removed From Kentucky Track Stalls to i Safer Quarters — Churchill Downs Escapes. Louisville. Ky.. March 29. — The DoughtS Paik stables, containing 150 thoroughbreds, are Hooded. It became necessary hi take the horse- out of t Installs, as the water is two feet deep in them. A part of the big Stable is dry. In Ibis building tie no. is are being cared for. The horses owned by William Gerst. of Na-hvilb : .1 B. Respess. Weber ft Ward, and .1. W. Schorr, of Memphis, are now at Douglas Park. In Hi-Schorr string is Leocbares. a Kentucky Derby eligible. OtbTi stars in the Schorr string are Prog legs and Star Charter. Churchill Downs ha- c-capod the Hood so In through the foresight of the management in pro , xblin;: the plant last fall with a sewer at a cost of 0.OMi. The dehlge, however, ha- washed holes ill the track at several places, but this damage can he . miii. kly remedied. Two hundred and Ifty horse- are at the Downs undergoing training for the thirteea-days* meeting ; which will begin there on Ma 10. Ibe date up.ai which tin- thirty-ninth Kentucky Derby will he •:.• i hied. Before the lb -i of next week about _: o , horses raced daring Ibe winter meeting at Juarez , will hate arrived in Louisville to await the opening . ..i tin- spring campaign. The most valuable hit of raring material now at I ibe Downs i- owned by E. R. Bradley. He ha-twenty-eight . bead, consist lug of Dell Horse. Brig. Volita. ftl nam t and a big band of Pwo year olds. I mi;; t ln-iii a Bock Sand Kairv Slipper colt, or , which 4,000 was paid: a Cell -Handmaid young -lei. which cost ijiil.iKMi. and another by Voter-Cap and Dells, fin which he paid $."i."H . Herman B. Brandts stable is made up of Cash on , Delivery, The Bench, and a three year old l,-, lederstrume. Catesbv Woodford has an even do7.eli at lb" l ..,viis. a- follow-: Deter Grimm. Base of .ledd ill. Christmas Star. Billy Holder. Port Sumter, six two year olds hv Ce-atioii and bj Maria Santa. Lew Marion has Prince Ilcrmi- and twelve youngsters hv Hermis and SI. Sinioinon II. .lames MarManus has sixteen, headed by Die sumption ami George Oxnard. and Including young -til- hv Stalwart. Dearcat.-bei and Hastings. .1. It. Walnwrigfat has -ix. a ii: them being Ibe . areal liiuli Private-, which is in tine condition: All I Bed. also a coll by Orlando I.dlv Prim and another youngster by Star Shoot La Im olio. Way in- .b.piins twelve racers are due al Chnrcbill Downs, lie has several promising two-year-olds. " In claiming name- for them be Complimented wane of h;s friends, members of his family and wound in by humorously reflecting upon his own success a- .. turfman. One he named Rub llvain-. after th daughter of P. Hyam-: another he called Sonnv BoJ typifying the happy disiiositlon of Joolin. Jr.. ami I last, but no hast, comes No Manager, -aid to be ■ , sungster of promise.
