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DONERAIL WORKS CREDITABLE MILE. Training at Lexington Going Forward Preparations for Meeting Proceeding Satisfactorily. Lexington, Ky., Alarch 2S. Preparation- for the spring meeting of the Kentucky Association, which is to open here Friday, April 21, for twelve days are going forward as rapidly as the weather will permit. The two new forty -stall barns contracted for last week are now in course of construction on the hill at the head of tlie homestretch and just bcyoml the stable in which Johnson X. Camdens horses are quartered. Racing Secretary Y H. Shelley, who arrived at Louisville Thursday evening from Juarez, notified Secretary G. D. Wilson yesterday that he will come to Lexington .Monday morning to take up his duties. His first work will be the preparation of the racing program for the meeting and the publication of the book. It is intended that the cards for the entile twelve days will be arranged in one book. No arrangement of the dates upon which the stakes are to be rim has as yet been formulated. This will be determined after the coming of Secretary Shelley. The stakes are the Blue Grass, for three-year-olds, one mile and an eighth: the Ashland Oaks, Tor three-year-old fillies, one mile: the Camden Handicap, for three-year olds and upward, one mile and a quarter; the Brewers Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward, one mile; the Idle Hour Stakes, for two year olds, roue and one-half furlongs, and the Breeders Fu turity, for two-year-olds, five furlongs, the richest" race "of the year Tor the juveniles. Before the coining of tlie rain Thursday night, the track was fast and many horses were exercised upon it that morning. The most startling performance of tlie season was a half mile in :50 by tho one-eyed chestnut colt Luke from the Camden string. This fellow is a son of Peter Quince and Amy J., and he will probably be the one ujkui which owner Camden and trainer..!. O. Keene will pin their hopes for a third successive victory in the Breeders Futurity. Work-wutchers say that ho Is the fastest two-year-old that has ever shown on the Kentucky Association course and that Is saving something. The Camden string numbers 23 ami, in addition, trainer Keeno has six really good horses of his own in hand. He says there are live or six really gooili horses among the two-year-olds, but he is dublousMbout the quality of his thrrc-year-olds. The first move of the season at one mile was made Thursday morning by . I. Hayes Kentucky Derby winner Donerail, and lie galloped around the oval in 1 :477f which Is considered by those who saw It to be a meritorious performance. Dillard Hills Uncle Dick worked five-eighths in 1:02, which was the fastest move of the season for the distance. The stable of Adair and Baker arrived here from" Charleston as per schedule, but not in good order. The two-year-old Roscoe Goose landed with a case of pneumonia, while Samuel R. Ah.v.er urul Joe Deibobl contracted shipping fever en rout? George Starr lias shipped his mares Jamma iih foal to Voter and Sadie S. in foal to Ballot, to Charlottesville, Va., to be mated with Arthur B. Hancocks good stallion Celt. Sadie S. is the dam of Tavalora and Patrick S. Charles W. Aloore lias at his .Mere r;Ul Farm three tillv foals, all by AIcGee, one beiiiK a sister to Ilorron. out of Josle L.: one a sistpi to Robert Bradley, out of Lady Quex, and the ot-r out of Intrigue, a half-sister to Sweep. He Is xpecting sixteen more foals, all by AIcGee, except oK. which is expected from .Cuuard. Through an Inadvertency it was recently ated that J. C. Milams Alande B. L. had foaled : Une chestnut colt by Peep oDay. The dam of the! It Js Lucilie B. tt
