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KENTUCKY HANDICAP A 15000 RACE Gross Value of Event Expected to Exceed That Figure Kentucky Gossip Louisville Ivy May 10 The program book con ¬ taining the stake races and the overnight purses and handicaps to be decided during the lirst week of the spring meeting at Douglas Park which be ¬ gins on Monday May 20 and continues twelve days ias been distributed distributedThe The opening day which is featured by the Ken ¬ tucky Handicap shows a greater amount in added inoney for the six races than was ever distributed in a single days racing among horvemen by any Kentucky racing association the amount being 13 oOO With the entrance money and starting fees the Kentucky Handicap is estimated by Manager John Ilachmeister as sure to be worth not less than 13000 13000For For the other days during the meeting the purs and overnight handicaps range from GOO to SOO In added money The other stake events to be decided at Douglas Park are the Memorial Handi ¬ cap with 2000 added to be run on Friday May HO Decoration Day the Speculation Stakes 1500 added which is set for Wednesday June 4 and the Spring Trial Stakes 2500 addud to be run on Saturday June 7 the closing day The program for the overnight purses and handicaps for tlio second weeks racing will be announced during the latter part of the first weeks meeting Manager Hnclimelster announces that In any race that is given as a substitute for a purse or handi ¬ cap which has been declared olT the same amount of money will be added as was to have been added to the race which was declared ofL The entries for the opening day at Douglas Park will close on Sat ¬ urday May 24 at 100 a m The first race each day will be run at 2oO oclock p in inThe The racing ollicials appointed for the meeting are as follows Charles F Price presiding judge W II Shelley associate judge K W Alaginu racing Secretary and handicapper George J Long steward representing the Racing Commission J B Campbell entry clerk and clerk of the course Mars Cassidy starter Dr C C Cann paddock judge Dr T H Stucky track surgeon George Lindcnbergcr timer John Ilachmeister general manager and John T Ireland judgeK patrol judge K W Maginn secretary of the Douglas Park Jockey Ciub after a careful review of the sixty nominations for the Kentucky Handicap hazards the opinion that not less than fifteen horses jiossibly more will go to the post in that rich event The recent defeat of Froglegs J W Schorrs great fouryearold by R J Mackenzies Ituckliorn at a difference of only three iHiujids in favor of nuck liorn wfill make that colt the favorite for this event unless the talent award the place of honor to the Kentucky Derby winner Doncrail of his east ¬ ern threeyearold rival A L ASfiisVlVnflNjJnt It is figured that iu addition to the fiiljr horses named many of the following perhaps all will face starter Mars Cassidy next Monday Adams Kxpress Foundation Gowell Hawthorn Milton B Uudolfo Irish Gentleman Yankee Notions Floral Park Miss Thorpe Flora Fitia The Widow Moon Prince Hermis High Private Manager Mack John Furlong and Christmas Star With good track conditions it is figured that the Kentucky record of 204 for this distance made by Bonnie Kelso at Lexington will IKS reduced The Douglas Park track has been in unusually fast con ¬ dition all spring This has been demonstrated by the trials of various horses Not so long ago the whole course was resoiled and for the coming meet ¬ ing the track Is likely to be faster than ever before v Manager Ilachmeister is making every arrange ¬ ment to comfortably care for the tremendous crowd which will be present to see the Kentucky Handicap As each days card will attract good horses owing to the large amount of money hung up for the horsemen the crowds that will witness the sport throughout the meeting are certain to be large Douglas Park is more beautiful than ever ami nothing has been overlooked that would add to the enjoyment of a season of unusual racing Inasmuch as the railroads have made a low rate for every day of the meeting many will come from all over Kentucky and distant points as well wellThere There will be thirty mutuel machines in use at Douglas Park on the opening day at that track anil a like number of cashiers The machines will K of tin 2 5 10 and 23 variety In addition the mutuel combination form of wagering will be iise l C C VanMeter the former Louisville horseman was a recent visitor at the Downs Mr VanMeter is now engaged in farming near Bowling Green Ky where he has 140 acres of land under cultivation The only horse he owns is the good threeyearold filly Cream a Kentucky Oaks candidate that trainer Jack Baker is handling for him himLady Lady Lightning W C Weaver good tilly lias won live of her six starts this season and the only occasion on which she was beaten was when she was defeated a neck bv Florence Roberts on the lirsl day of the Downs meeting Hie daughter of Dick Welles appears to be In better racing condition now than at any time since her brilliant twoyearol form when she won such stakes as the Iroqiiols al Churchill Downs and the Cincinnati Trophy at Latonia LatoniaTrainer Trainer Will McDanicl fears that he will not be able to give Foundation another race at the Downs preliminary to his Kentucky Handicap engugeinenl at Douglas Park McDaniel said yesterday that la did not care to run the colt in overnight handicaps against older horses as yet nor would he run him in selling races and as there are no allowance races to suit him at the Downs during the present week he figures that the next start of thtjSson of Nastur ¬ tium will be in the big 15000 race raceJ J N Camdens unbeaten Casuarina which has won Ixitli of her starts at the Downs this spring is by Plaudit out of the Englishbred mare Nuns Cloth by the Derby winner Melton sire of the im ¬ mortal Sysonby Casaurlna is a halfsister to the useful tilly Nuns Veiling The latter came from England in utero and was foaled In this country in 100j She was by the English horse St Angelo a son of the great St Simon Casaurina races like a high class tilly and is apparently able to negotiate any kind of going goingTrainer Trainer John S Ward is going slowly witli the good threeyearold Solar Star on account of his sickness of last winter Tlio son of Star Shoot is now apparently in good health but trainer Ward is taking no chances in his preparation He re ¬ grets that it will be impossible for him to get the good colt In condition to start in the Latonia Derby He thinks that It would be impossible to get Solar Star ready to go a mile and a half by Tune 14 He is confident however that he will be able to race Solar Star in a shorter race at Lalonia before the meefing closes there He will not face the barrier here springThree this spring Three stakes are to be decided at Churchill Downs this week The Frank Fehr Stakes one mile wil be run on Wednesday Last season it was won by K R Bradleys threeyearold Brig It has seventy oiglft nominations The probable starters embrace such performers as Hamilton Samuel R Meyer White Wool Joe Morris Bobby Boyer Cash on De ¬ livery Mockler Milton B Gold of Ophir Strenuous Sebago Presumption Helen Barbee Flying Tom Cream and Flying Feet The Juvenile Stakes wii be decided Thursday The distance is five furlongs Tin eligibles are twoyearolds This event is the om in which last spring W A McKimrys Onelda defeated Helios Among the ninety nine eligibles the following are regarded as likely starters Itlack Tonev First Degree John Guild Gladys Y Aunt Mamie Edith W Sosius llyki Dick Dodie Miss Uharcot Billy Stuart Frances M Soiniy Boy Ruby llyams J B Maylow and Little Bit The classic Kentucky Oaks will be the closing day feature on Saturday The race promises to be one of the great ¬ est in the thirtynine years history of the Oaks It will bring to the barrier such good fillies as Gowell Christmas Star Floral Park The Widow Moon Cream Anna Patricia Semprite Silk Day and Bcnanet The distance is one mile and a six ¬ teenth Many great mares have figured as winners of the Kentucky Oaks Its roster shows that it lias been won by such famous performers as Llahtunah Lucy May Modesty Lizzie Dwyer English Lady Soiiflle White Frost Lady Schorr Audience and Kings Daughter Last season Uie winner was Flamma which like Gowell this year ran third in the DerbyThe Kentucky Derby The Gentlemens Cup an annual spring fixture at Churchill Downs will be the feature of Fridays card It will mark the seventeenth running of this event which has always proved attractive t t Louis ¬ ville society The purse is SIMK and the rider c the winner will receive plate of the value of 250 The riders will be gentlemen whose credentials must be approvalloliu submitted for approval loliu H Morris noted broodmare Mary Morris by Victory lias just foaled a handsome bay colt by Samson sire of Jawbone winner of the Palmotto Derby of 1012 The Morris mares have produced six colts this season Mary Morris will be mated this spring to Peter Pan PanLee Lee Christy one of the oldest of living trainers who handled for many years the stable of F B Harper and developed such grent horses as Freehmd Patton Unite and Lnvlnla Belle has been offered i position to take charge of Jake G eenberps stock farm in this county This place in the last few years has been devoted to use as a boarding farni for rueels
