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GETTING READY FOR KENTUCKY HANDICAP. Next Dig Event of Blue Grass State Racing to ] Take Place at Douglas Park Coming Saturday. Louisville. Ky., May Hi. On Saturday. May £!. the sta;,e will be set at the beautiful coarse of iin-Douglas 1ark Jockey Club for the second running of : the Kentucky Handicap. This date will mark the i opening of the thirteen days" spring meeting at that coarse, during which such oilier areata as the Spring I Trial Stakes, .."iH added: the Memorial Handicap. I • i:. 00 added, and the Speculation Stakes, ,50u- i added, will also be run. The Douglas Park meetkag will undoubtedly tlupli-cate in a marked aaraanre the successlul spring meeting now on at Churchill Downs, as this season its dates are Meal for spring racing and moreover lhis track will have the advantage of having three Saturday afternoons for racing, one of which is a national holiday — Decoration Day. Last season the Kentucky Handicap had to be run off OB a Monday, i.i Ii. of course, is regarded iu the big cities as the least siiital e la] "1 .ill ihe week for a Sporting eent. A feature ot the Douglas Park season will lie the fact that n 4 a few of the cracks will he : seen uinli-i colors there which have not started :H Lexington or Churchill Downs this spring, while all the stars which bare raced al the two earlier asset ings will also be In action al ihis conrafi. This goes to explain the addition to the pari-matuel equipment at ihis track this spring, for while the Improvement at the main entrance to the grounds, designed to avoid congestion, was badly needed, ii also to show thai Manager John Hachmelster is looking for a banner attendance this spring, not onl ou Kentucky Handicap day. but during the real of the meeting, and in the opinion of turfmen geneially he will not lie disappointed. Great liberality has been shown by this eauaeta tiou in its spring program, as again the Kentucky Handicap carries the same amount In added money at it did last ■eaaoa 810.000. With the fifty nominations and a sure field of a dozen or more starters, the- Kentucky Handicap this season wil no doubt le-the richest raee for all ages run in this country in 1914. i bag the Brat really great handicap of the season over the mile and a quarter course, this event ihis spring possesses an inn-rest , u ■ par with such .; stake as the recent Kentucky Derby, decided at Churchill Downs. While iu the Kentucky Derby this season Old Id sebud established a Kentucky record for this distance of 2:03%, ii is bj no means Improbable thai :his mark tnaj lie 1. iten nest Saturday al f/ouglas Park, is the course. 4 1 Jie latter plant i- fast tl.s s, ii.onas any mii track iu tin* country. Old Ro*bu l is m ihis race, as well as lis closest rival in Ihe Keatnck Derby, Hodge. whi ii also in thai raee reuliv 1 ■ • 1 1 1 -i.-. I ihe ijrovi"ii.s Derbj ree rd ol 2:04%. When Itridblfo won !n-Kentucky Handicap las-, s-.-.-is g, beating onl that .Meat rhrei year-old, Ten Point, a few hours previous to the race there had been » navy rainfall. and the course, while it dried oal materially, was not then nearly as fast as ii will h - next Saturday if Ihe weather Is dear. Rndoifo will again start In the big race this season, if be meets with no mishaps iu training during the new feu days and a good many of his admirers reaiiv believe thai even if Old Rosebud and Hedge go to lh ■ post, this greai live . i ar Id will repeal his success of lasl season iu to;- ii- h stake, which, with twelve starters, will have a gross value of B4.3«n. |: i Obi f s liiui. Hodge- and turio-jfq are by no mt-aus the only -- greai horses i-ligthre to liis slak- . as among .liieis also engaged are ignsl Belmonts ntiteil |. ui- year -old, Bock hu: Broniewlng, recently win .-i of the ishlaitd Oaks mil Bice Grass Stakes, and ihtrd i:i the Kentucky Derby: Done rail. Kentucky Derby winner of 19-13; Gowell. winner of the La tools Derbj of lasl season: Great Britain, which ■ losrd in,, year ol 1913 with rla- reputation of be lag dm of the greatest three-year-olds of the season: Itringburst. which ran many good racei !-~: ii and lias not started so far this season: Horrou, an unbeaten three-year-old iu 1913; Prince Hermis, oiu Ben. K.-adr -i-1 n . Hawthorn. G. Al. Miller, John Furlong. Solar Star, Ivan Gardner and the two cracks ol John AV. Schorrs stable. Hamilton and Froglegs, the latter of which is now going along -l misingly in U is training. Manager John Hacnm ister already has everything in Br : class shape al Douglas park for tin- outing leg meeting. The many improvements undertaken since lasl season al this course have hcon completed and I i II be bard to find iu all the world ■ more attractive spot for racing than Douglas Park when the gales are thrown open for the meeting this spring. Ureal natural beauty pre tail al tliis . i i!sj ■ plant and the wise ex-iienditnre of money has ailed out everything lacking to make it a complete and up-to-date ra rack. The program, as arranged by Secretary i.. W. Maginn, is one that will call out as contestants .ill the beat horses in training now hi Kentucky, and it may be her.- incldentaly remarked that this Includes right now the pick of American horses in training. Douglas Park will undoubtedly share lhis spring the prosperity now prevailing at the meeting of Iho New Louisville Jockey Club at Churchill li«. wns. and Kentucky Handicap Day will be ■ rene lition io a great extent of the scenes witnessed al the older track, minus the free field, on Derby Bay. The Kentucky public is wildly enthusiastic over racing, as now- candncted under the pari inutile! system of betting iii vogu, the tracks in this stale, operating under Kentucky Stale Racing Commissi-. n rules.
