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LEXINGTON STALLS GETTING SCARCE SCARCELexington Lexington Ky April 5 Racing Secretary W II Shelley who arrived here Thursday to take up his duties preliminary to the opening of the Ken ¬ tucky Association spring meeting on April 25 is work on the program for the eleven days racing ai says he will have the book out in al out ten days Judge Shelley says there are now about 375 horsis on the local grounds and that stable room is be ¬ coming scarce Superintendent Koss this afternoon iiad ten stalls bedded down for the C T Patterson string which is expected from Charleston tonight Because of heavy rains on Thursday antl yesterday Superintendent Koss closed the main track and then have been no gallops except on tlie sand track for two mornings morningsThe The horses here are all forward in preparation and will lie ready when tlie call to the post comes The chief topic of discussion unions the trainers is Foundations mile iu 13 run on Wednesday after ¬ noon Many of them think Will VvDaniel is going along too fast in the Derby preparation of this son of Nasturtium hvit then MclvnUl knows the horse better than do the otfiei trainers and McDaniel it also must be remembered has some Derbv scalps dangling to his lielt Judge Shelley expects the Lexingtontrained twoyearolds to be tlie stars of that division There are at least fifteen here that have worked threeeighths in 3 or better betterMajor Major Tims J Carson the veteran thoroughbred horse breeder and master of Dixiana Stud was thrown out of a buggy by the running away of a horse today lie luckily escaped with a few bruises
