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LEXINGTON OUTLOOK HIGHLY PROMISING. Kentucky Raring Season of 1914 Scheduled to Open at Blue Grass Track Next Friday. Lexlagton, Ky.. April 20.— Conditions for the Inauguration of the racing season in Kentucky here next iriday at the add Kentucky Association coarse were never so promising. The big eastern stables have never before been so well represented. The favorable weather which has prevailed for the past Week has given owners and traim-rs an excellent opportunity to give their horses pleaty of work ami practically all Hie good thoroughbreds ate ill and ready. Visit. in will hardly recognize the local track because oi the numerous Improvements which haw-been made since the meeting last fall. The manage lie nl has also taken care of the horsemen tin- rear better than ever before, not onh in regard to la-creased purses and stake values, hut has provided •evcral new barns, which are as sanitarv and health till for horses as | o-s 1 .[,.. The number of two year oids quartered at the local track and in stables surrounding the course on the outside breaks all records and it is expected that during the local meeting Hi-- races lor the "babies" will till to the limit. Two two-year-old races are to be carded daily, in addition to two juvenile stakes, the Idle Hour and 1 he Breeders Futurity. The latter is a st.. mi affair, and the only two races tidier than it in Kentucky this spring will be the Kentucky Derby and the Kenttickv Han Heap. Tin- Breeders Futurity will In- run on the last day of the 1. lectin-. This stake closed with lso Dominations, of which 130 made the second pa v -meiii and titty eight the third payment. Six stakes will be run during the twelve days of racing ami these are the magnets which drew most of the big stables here. Of the stakes for slaver. the Blue Hrass is holding out the chief interest, as it will give the public a line on the ability of candidates for the Kentucky Derby, several of which will make their 1914 debut in it. old Rosebud the present favorite for be big race at Churchill Downs will Ik- shipped here tomorrow, supposedly to start in the Blue Gran* Stakes, it is the genera"; opinion here, however, that the sou of I ticlc will first P.- started in a race at one mile, which will make him good and tit for his Blue Grass Stakes engagement. Rain played havoc with the plans of some of the trainers at the Kentucky Assaclatloa course yesterday morning. The downpour, the heaviest in a long lime, began about seven odock and kept up until nearly BOOB. Few horses had been worked out before tie- rain came, the best move while the track was yet fa.-t being a mile and an eighth in 1:57 bj Cream. John Guad and Constant. Kentucky Derby candidates from the statde of Jack Baker. were indulged in a mile in 1:17 about the sane-time. During the downpour Superintendent Roan had the "dogs" put up. so that the horses that worked in the mud all had the long way around the track. Charles Wils ns Palasetfo Derby winner, Ivan Gardner, fairly reveled in the going. He is as tit as a fiddle. The horses of R. F. Carman brought here are Bar-prising, .. L Miller. Caatpeoa, Lost Fortune. Cold-en Chimes. FUa Jennings. Golden lassie. Lady Barbery. Blaaeaway, Gainsborough, Marvelous and Cycle, the last named seven being two-year-olds. lie t tie Sue, which has been running out all winter in Tennessee, has been added lo K. W. Moores stable. O. Fons today wired for stalls for five lv.rses now quartered at Louisville. Jockey J.- Hanover, who is under contract to F. B. larsons. arrived yesterday. Jockey Fred Teahau is to ride for Jack Weaver this spring. Weavers Yinir is on the sick INt. John ti. Weaver is over his shipping lever. Logan Denny airied last night from San Francisco and says he intends to remain on the Kentucky tracks throughout the season. He did not bring anv horses, but has a few at l enver. H. Y. Colt, of Coneseo. N. Y.. who is looking for jumpers and hunting horses, arrived today - .Tockev Clareme Turner came in from Cincinnati with Archie Zimmer and Mose Coldblatt. Turner is to ride here and at Louisville as a free lance, and will go to New York later, /.iinmer will make Turner engagements. IK- will ride Maude B. L. in the iiland Oaks, and one of F. R. Bradleys pair in the Kentucky Derby. Jockey A. Mott, under contract lo W. F. Moody. of Vancouver B. C. arrived here last night. He will ride as .1 free lance during the local meeting. The Kentucky A sane Is thai track was extremely hcavv this morning and tlie weather was uncom-uionlv raw. vet many horses were at evtrrise. All of Jefferson Livingstons horses were out. Trainer Mose GoldMatl has them looking tit. es-peclaily Iron Mask and Bd Howard. The latter will be in- of tin- choices for the Breeders Maturity. Trainer W. IT. Karriek and jockeys Ryrne and Sumter, with twelve horses belonging to n. K. Knapp and F. R. Hitchcock, arrived today from Aiken. S. C. Racing Secretary Will Shelley returned fr.im Louisville this morning. He says that the horses to come here fioin tie- Falls Citv track* will he in by Thursday. Old Rosebud is expected over tomorrow. Kay Speaee is ngartag on sending Hodge here for a race lx-fore the Kentucky Derbv. B. Colston came in from Louisville todav with eleven borses and tlie stable kvekey A. l.angford. Priaceas Callaway, owned bv Jeff Livingston, is in the Cokttoa stable. John Ilogau is here, but his horses, including Gallant Boy, were shipped from Charleston to Louisville.
