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SPLENDID FIELD FOR KENTUCKY HANDICAP. Matenal Available for Chief Feature ol Douglas Park Meeting Assures Grand Race. Louisville. Ky.. April 4.— On Saturday. May, 28. tbe second renewal of the 115.000 Kentucky Handicap, one mile and a quarter, will take place at Douglas Park. This ureal event will mark the opening ol tbe tbirteen-daya spring meeting at this beautiful course Tim Kentuckj Handicap is now the richest of all the great all -aged races ran in America. D does not fall far behind la ralue as compared with the Brooklyn, Suburban and Brighton Handicaps in Ihe days whan the turf wa» u iis - zenith on the great New York tracks. H Is on a par with the City and Suburban Handicap In England and il is possible thai its winner will i-ome to be regarded as the ehaanahm among the older horses. Notable as the Kentucky Handicap si lasi seasou proved to i.e. it is not to be compared with Me prospects this year, as one of the most remarkable lebls in racing history is likely to face the barrlet in this big race. Practically all the noted Kentucky Derbj and Oaks three •rear-olds bare been entered for tbe Kentucky Handicap this spring, Including sucb cracks a. old Boss bud, Bringnurat. Surprising, Ralph, Bodge, Boots and Saddle. Brad lej s hoice Black Toiicy, Belloc. Old Ben and Ivan Gardner, while the older horses eligible em brace aueb notables as star Charter. Great Britain. G. M. Miller. Hawthorn, Clubs. Goweil, Solai Btar, Prince Bermis, Foundation. Flora Finn. Donerail, High Private ami BudotfO. lite last-named won the inaugural running of the Kentucky Handicap bud season. it is easily to be Imagined what i remarkable race the Kentucky Handicap will be this spring wiih such a field as may be picked from the great array of entries engaged In ibis rich st.ik,. ti.s spring. The coming spring meeting at Douglas Park bids fair to be more successful than any heretofore held al that course. Manager John Hachmeister is I expected to arrive here within the next fen days and Will a once b in looking alter all the little preiihinat details, as well as some important iii I ;•. vi monts to be made at this track before the spring meeting begins. Be will arrange ■ ilatlj pi • K ton thai will afford a fitting setting to sneh races as the Kentuckj Handicap and other big errata to be decided al t liis. course during the thirteen days of racing. Douglas Park is al present beautiful in its spring array and niosi ol its stalls have already been engaged for Ibe cracks which Will race over this course this spring. There are al-read] many stables quartered at Douglas Bark and the Derby favorite and Kentucky Handicap eligible. Obi Rosebud, is now at this course receivimr his spring training, other stars ol great note quartered there embrace Star Charter. Froglegs and Bockborn. As :1t Churchill Downs and Estonia, there will be no purse ar Douglas Park this spring of less value than jsooo in added money and the orernight handicaps and special races win run considerably higher in added nionev . Lasi season saw the re-opeaiag of Douglas Park for spring racing and the ■Meting was highly sue-cessfuL Much greater success is anticipated this spring, howerer, since the rotaries of the turf throughout Kentuckj are wild for racing i liis season and many new recralts bare conic into the spoit glace lasi year. Louisville is now concede, i to be owe of Ibe leading racing eeateri of America. Manager Bachmeister will also look aftet all the details of tbe coining spring meeting al Latoala, tie feature race of which is the rich LntonU Derby. 86,000 added. The Latoni.-t meeting will Bnlah the spring and summer season In Keatnckj tins raal with twenty four days of racing beginning on Monday. June 8. The Derby will be ma al Latoala on Saturday. June IS.
