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M Tl x! . for PJ , S J H ,. in " JJj as " or " ". sl !l 1 . ■ I1 • ■ to n s ■ J " to I i[ . s ; is J :l I ■ 1! ■ ■ * s s ■ 1 J . * ■ « I 1 ! I : I i ; i I I I HAVE AMBITIOUS PLANS MANAGEMENT OF NEW LOUISVILLE JOCKEY CLUB LOOKING TO THE FUTURE. This Seasons Increase in Valu# of Kentucky Derby to 0-000 Added Only Forerunner of Continued Increases to Come as Years Go On. Loiii-ville. Ky.. April 1. — When the New Louisville Jockey flub decided to add 0,000 to the Kentucky Derby this season, it was not with the object of merely increasing the value of this classic one season. Manager M. J. Winn and his associates in the conduct of affairs at Churchill Downs have in mind a constant increase in the value of the Kentucky Derby. It is the aim of the directors of this nourishing organization to go higher and higher the years to come, with the idea that some day the Kentucky Derby will be as rich a turf fixture the famous Derby at Epsom Downs in England the Grand Prix ite Paris in France. This is not merely a dream. Churchill Downs has so nourished under its present management that it holds out pos sibilily of big things in a racing way with a rich array of stakes ami races for the future. A few yean ago it could hardly have been ex peeled that SIMM! parses, with » to . JOO overnight handicaps, would be the prevailing rule on a Kentucky track. Now it seems possible that the day is not far distant when Churchill Downs will have a meeting with no purse of less value than 81,090 in added money. II icing is now coming back its own all over the country. The sport is rapidly regaining its had ground aud rallying around it substantial support in many instances as a re siill of the adoption of the pari nuituel system of betting. It was at Churchill Downs that the return this system made its first big hit with the racing public and this Hack had as much to do with saving the sport throughout America as the system of bet ting it adopted by the mandate of the Kentucky State Racing Commission. In the east such foothold as racing has regained of the sort to make for |iermaneiicv and tlin -port will und. mlited!.- soon again enjoy the popular ity in New York that il did before the days of adverse legislation in that state. No longer does the race track iu Kentucky depend upon the book maker Io sustain it. It is the public that by its patronage has made it possible for a horseman to race for onr-es and stakes that are sufficiently valuable to make a good stable self sustaining as well as give its owner fall enjoyment of racing as a si« rf. The coming meeting at the Downs is to he the fortieth spring racing season there and it is ■arely tilting that after four decades of the sport here its fortieth years history should be embellish ed with a Kentucky Derby race of the gross value of ll.j.OOO. which it is estimated this one will he. In the forty seasons of racing here this famous course has never missed holding a spring meeting nor has the Kentucky Derby ever been eliminated from the spring program. That it surely pays to increase the added money tor a big race like the Kentucky Derby is plainly Illustrated this season when this event received entries Io the number of forty -seven, whereaa, last season only thirty two were named to go in this stake. Those entered this season embrace practical Iv every prominent tluee-year-ohl in training, both those already noted for brilliant racing achievements as well as several with a high reputation, which have had some excuse for not showing high class racing form as two-year-olds. The Kentucky Derby this season will mark the fn -t public appearance as a three-year-old of Old Rosebud, which perhaps attracted more attention as a two-year -old last season than any juvenile that has raced in America recently. Colin, the la-t truly great two year-old star of American racing, did not win his races more easily than did Oid Rosebud and. while the latter was twice defeated, he was heatcu only by Little Nephew, which later on succumbed to him upon four occasions. Old Rosebud has had a rest since last summer at Saratoga and is now in training- here looking the perfect picture Of I great three-year old. There h;i-been some objection to Old Itosebttd because he J a gelding. This is due to the failure of such geld ings as Drake Carter. Proctor Knott and Governor Gray in Ibis great event. The former was defeated in the Kentucky Deri only b. Leoaataa, one of the greatest three veal olds of all time: while had Sam Bryant noi taken Proctor Knott to Nashville to race before the Derby was run in that geldings year, he undoubtedly would have landed the big Churchill Downs race, as he was beaten only a no-e by Spokane in that event, and all tnrfmea know that Governor Cray lost the Derby to Meridian on account of lieing Indifferently ridden by jockey R. Ttoxler. Vagrant. Apollo and Macbeth It. are geldings that succeeded In winning the Derby in their years and each of this trio beat great colts in the race. Bodge, the leading race winning two-year old of 1913, is another Derby candidate of much prominence that is a gelding, while Bradleys Choice and Bringhiirsf are other leading Derby eligibles thai have Im-cu iinsexed. Ralph. George J. Longs crack, is a colt, as is Boots ami Saddle in B. It. Bradley stable, aa well as Black Toney, a stable companion io Bradleys Choice and Boots and Saddle. Other prominent colts in the Derby are Surprising, Orb, Captain Burns, Sosius. Bclloe, Vandergrifi and Ivan Gardner. Oilier geldings with some pretention to Derby form engaged in the race are Charlestouiiin, Waterhass and Old Ben. August Belmont has two royally bred colts iu the Derby, one being Defen-di.ni, by Rock Sand and the other Thornhill, a brother to Hawthorn, winter favorite for the big ra i e list season. Thomas Fortune Ryans only Derby entry is the filly Stake and Cap. while other three-year olds of this sex engaged in the race are Casuarina, Broasewiag, LAiglette. Robinetta. Watermelon, Tavolara, Christophine ami Addle M. It seems safe to figure that the Derby field this season will embrace a dozen or more starters and they bid fair to outshine any collection of colts, geldings and tlllics that have ever faced the barrier in thi- great race. liming the twelve days racing at the Downs this spring six other spike- are to he run. including the Kentucky Oaks and Clark Handicap, two events which have as long ■ history as the Kentucky Derby, both having been tir-t run iu 1S75. This spring the average of the added money at the Downs will reach the splendid figure of $."i.o00 each day. which will be ■ record- amount for a Kentucky race track to offer up to date. Tin- i- iu line with the policy of the New Louisville Jockey club in going on to greater thing- each year. Ahead] eastern turfmen have engaged p w lamai bn the coming spring meeting nt the Downs and knag befon the Bate -it tor the opening all the reservations for such quarters in the grandsfind or clubhouse at the track will have been taken bv leading lights in the turf world. It is anticipated and la fact reasonably sure that the largest crowd in the history of racing in Kentucky will witness the Kentucky Derby this spring. It Is well enough to note in this connection that through the generosity oi i he management of the New Louisville Jockey Club Ibis is the one gnat race run iu America which can be witnessed from i free field, an arrange iiient that gies the humblest resident of the city a chance to see the Derby.
