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MANAGER HACHMEISTER ON THE JOB. Preparations Going Forward for Kentucky Handicap Day at Beautiful Louisville Course. I i-ville. Ky.. April is. On Saturday. May 23, al Douglas Park, the second running of the Ken lucky Handicap, one mile aial a quarter, lo which the Douglas Park Jockey Club again add- this season the princely sum oi ifHUMiii. will take place. This event is to be run on the opening day of the thirteen-daya spring mrrtlni at this beautiful course. Mnnj greol stars now in training, not only at tin- two courses here, but elsewhere in Kentuck] and iii tin- east, are being especially prepared lo run in this rich stake, the gross value of Which will amount to marly 3,000. Among ihose training especially well for the Kentucky Handicap are Kroglegs and Star Charter, the iwo older crocks in John W. Schorrs stable. Done-rail, winner of the Kentucky Derby of last year: Oowell, which won the LatOUia Derby of 1S13; ream, winner ol the Kentucky oaks last year: Budolfo, the tirst Kentucky Handicap winner: Croat Britain, present favorite for this rich race, and such other perfornsers of note as Samuel H. Meyer. Hawthorn, Dnval, lima Pino, Foundation, Prince Hcrniis. C. M. Miller. Prince Eugene and S"lar stat. All the prominent ellglblea to the Kentucky Derby and I.alonia Derby ale also entered for this great all-aged event. Including among the number being Obi Rosebud, Bradleys Choice. Ralph. Hodge and Surprising. That the race this sesosa will be by long odds ill.- greatest sll-aged event of tin- year is a fore- g ■ conclusion. Its wonderful arrav of entries has seldom been excelled, even in the days when the Suburban and Brooklyn Handicap races were at the zenith of their fame. One great rive year old that unfortunately is not engaged in the race through an oversight Is K. J. Mackenzies Buckhorn. Trainer J.ek Adkins, before he wenl lo California last winter, told his foreman to keep in mind the dale of the closing of the big stakes at Douglas Park. Churchill Downs and Latmiia this season. The foreman neglected to note* the dates correctly and thought in more about mailing the blanks to trainer Adkins until he looked in the paper one morning and discovered the stake events at all three tracks had closel. Adkins had intended lo make entries liberally for all the chief events at these courses and had la mind the naming of Melton Street, as well as Buckhorn. lor the Kentucky Handicap. He regrets exceedingly that the noted sou of Broom -tick is not eligible for the race this season, as he is training in gland form. The meeting at Douglas park is sure to result in brilliant, spoil this spring. Then- are three oilier rich events lo • he run during the meeting, in the Memorial Handicap, the Speculation Stakes and the Spring Trial Slakes, which latter is an event for two ye ar-old colts. Allies and geldings and for which practically all i he promising youngsters now in training are i eligible. Secretary E. W. Maginn is now busily ugaged in preparing a program of overnight races for the coming meeting, which will embrace a mini her of attractive handicaps as well as special purse races that will call out the best horses of all ages in training. There will be no purse of less value ban gone jn added money at Douglas Park this sea-"ii. Manager John Ha-him-isler has arrived on the scene and is busying himself preparing for the meeting at this picturesque trncK. He has several Important improvements nudet way for the comfort and convenience of the racing public and all | these will be completed before the opening of the . ourse for the spring racing season on Saturday, May 23. While here looking after the interest of Douglas ; Park Mr. Ilaclniieister is also attending to the details of the coming twenty-four days meeting ol the Latonia Jockey Club, which begins on Monday. June s. The Latonia meeting will wind np tin-Kentucky circuit for the spring and summer this year in a nl-ize of glory as among the great events to be decided during the lour weeks of the sport at the Kenton County course are the historic Latonia Derby and the Cincinnati Trophy, which is the greatest two-yesr-oMI event of the raeisg season in Kentucky. It is this race that generally furnishes each season the winter favorite for the Kentucky and Latonia Derby races of the following year, old Rosebud won the trophy lust season.
