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BIG FIELD COUNTED ON FOR THE KENTUCKY DERBY Louisville Ky April 24 The Kentucky Derby I is attracting more attention than ever this sea ¬ son Annually for many years it has been looked upon as one of the greatest races in tlie United States but great as has been its prestige in the pust the records of other days is overshadowed t this season by the glamor surrounding its com ¬ ing renewal renewalThe The big stake will be decided on Saturday May 8 the opening day of tjie fortyfirst spring meeting of the New Louisville JocKey Club wlncii is to run twelve days The Kentucky Oaks Is to IKJ run on Friday May 21 the closing day of the meeting During the interim between the running of the Derby and Oaks five other stakes will be decided all of which have long been fixtures at this leading Kentucky race track These embrace tile historic Clark Handicap and the Frank Fehr Stakes for threeyearolds and upward and the Bashford Manor Debutante and Juvenile stakes for twoyearolds On each day that a stake is to lie run there will lie six overnight purses and handicaps with seven such races fin the days there are no stake events down for decision as this spring for the first time in the history of racing in Kentucky the New Louisville Jocley lull will have a daily program of seven races racesChurchill Churchill Downs will be resplendent and radiant on Derby Day Tlie enormous crowd sure to be on hand will this season witness the great race with a greater degree of comfort than ever before This will be made possible by the enlargement of various portions of the grounds more especially the grandstand and betting enclosure s usual the great center field will be free as the air above to the public publicHaclng Haclng as now conducted at Churchill Downs represents the highest form of turf sport Und er the narimutuel system of betting the great gambling element has lieen eliminated The plungers of bpokmaUng days have passed out of the sport which is now on a basis that was the dream of turfmen of long ago who even In t bouse times had the best interest of racing at heart People go now to see the Derby with other ideas than winning a small fortune on the race Many never wager even a dollar and others take a betting risk for a small amount only so as to be able to say t1 their friend afterwards If Inoky that they picked the winner The average Ken tucklan has ialways had a pride in being pointed out as a good judge of a horse Tlie record breakers of the turf have been raised In the old Commonwealth and the thoroughbred racer has brought millions of dollars into the state Know ¬ ing that such love for the highmettled racer ex ists the New Louisville Jockey Club has left no stone unturned to give Kcntuckiuns as well as lovers of the sport of all states a Derby race that they can enthuse over and as well make the racing at Churchill Downs of such a high character as to draw patrons of the sport from distant points to Iay4It this city on Derby Iay4 It seems a certainty that the big field will come from the following eligible to the event and it is impossible to positively say that any one of this number will not go to the post Pebbles Ixist Coin Kilkenny Boy Regret Prince Henry Spun Glass Phosphor Sharpshooter Trojan Double Kagle Kd Crump Lindeiithal For Fair Leo Hay Chalmers Little String Sam McMeekin Dorfcli Garbage Commonada Liberator Manager Waite Hoyal II First Fiddle Hanworth Pif Jr Emerson Cochran and Qulncy Beside the above there are some unknown ellglblcs that may develop Derby form in training or racing within the next ten daysIt days It is now assured that at the lowest calcula ¬ tion there will be lictween nine hundred and one thousand horses here by Saturday May 8 the opening day of the coming spring meeting of the New Louisville Jockey Club when the Kentucky Derby will be run This huge number will embrace practically all the great stars of the American turf if all ages as this season the cream of the racing brigade has been drawn to Kentucky by the splen ¬ did array of stakes and purses offered at Churchill Downs Douglas Park and Latonia LatoniaIii Iii a measure the patronage of eastern turf ¬ men of the coming meeting at Curcliill Downs In iiue to the excellent management of that course by Charles F Grainger its president and M J WImi its manager and to the fact that in his work in the east In connection with the Empire City course at New York and the Laurel plant in Maryland Mr Wlnn lias been associated with many of the members of the Jockey Club who have been won over by the methods he employs in his conduct of racing and some of whom are this season coming to Kentucky for the first time with their great racing stable stableAfter After going over the huge list of entries for the Kentucky Derby and sizing up the various eligibles that are now training soundly for the great race good judges thing itJs possible that the field this year may even number twenty horses It is known that several of the stables with entries in the event are likely to be represented by at least two starters while many owners of single candidates believe they have a chance If as many as twenty threeyearolds go to the post for the Derby next month all should have an equal racing chance as the track at the quarter post Where this race is started is wide enough lo accommodate even that many horses in actual line without crowding Of course after a race like the Derby begins the big field straggles out outThe The noted bay colt For Fair an eligible to the Kentucky Derby has arrived at the Churchill Downs track For Fair is in charge of his owner and trainer Dr G M Miller a well known Detroit turfman The colt has been at Lexington since the close of the meeting at New Orleans where he won five times last winter Dr Miller having decided not to race him at all in Kentucky pre ¬ vious to his Derby engagement brought the good looking colt here to give him Ids final preparation for the big race on the course the event will be run over For Fair a son of that great race horse Fair Play is a high type looking three yearold He stands right at fifteen hands three inches high and is well put together all over having an especially good back and stout quarters with apparently sound feet and legs In motion at a slow gait he is not im pressive having an ambling kind of a way of going but when at full speed his action is superb in speaking of his chances for the coming big race at Churchil Downs Dr Miller expressed himself as having no fear of any of the entries that were stars in the raclm world as twoyearolds in Ken ¬ tucky last season It is the eastern contingency that his eyes are focused on and especially the stars of James Butlers stable He believes he has a great threeyearold in For Fair over the Derby route and expects him to show rare racing ability in the rich stake next month after the field has gone a mile of the journey He says they may not run For Fair In the early part of the race but he looks for him to be in the heat of the battle for the rich prize at the finish of the1 race One marked feature is his sightly looking bony head which has in the center of his forehead the tracings of a dim white star starTrainer Trainer H C Benson worked Last Coin one of the Butler Derby eligibles a mile on the muddy track at the Downs Friday just to see how the nnlteaten colt took to such going His rider only Jet him go along about a two minute clip but the son of Ultimas stepjted through the going like a good mud runner Tlie track at the Downs is once more fast and the weather is Ideal here for the training of the Derby cracks cracksThis This coming week will doubtless see all of the star threeyearolds here In real Derby trials over the full course one mile and a quarter Horsemen are especially anxious to see Pebbles go the full Derby route That he has high speed no one questions and all good judges thing he works like a colt that will stay as well One thing is sure that there was never a Derby candidate here that has done better in his preparation for the big race than this handsome son of Ben Brush the Kentucky Derby winner of ISflO Ken Brush has not as yet sired a Derby winner but his son Broomstick got the famous Meridian which won the big event for H F Carman In 111 111Klght Klght stalls at Churchill Downs are occupied by the racing string of the prominent eastern turf ¬ man and Jockey Club member Andrew Miller which arrived here in charge of trainer Jack Golds iHHough Tills shipment Includes the Kentucky Derby and Oaks candidate Lady Rotha and the horse that is regarded as the champion of present day racers the mighty Hoamer It is not known whether Lady Rotha will go to the post for the Derby but she is a sure starter in the Kentucky Oaks and Roamer will be seen under colors In the Clark Handicap at tlie Downs DownsW W J Spiers whose horses have for some time been quartered at Churchill Downs arrived yester ¬ day from his home at Latonia and began giving the youngsters in his string some sharp work to nt tliem for early racing H has a particularly good looking twoyearold by Joe Carey that has never started but which promises to prove an early winner winnerC C F Ilnsclieineyer went up to Lexington to see Hawthorn win the inaugural race there last Thurs ¬ day and upon his return to this city expressed himself as much pleased with the noted geldings showing and now more than ever thinks that the operation he had performed on the son of Hastings last winter will greatly benefit him In his futiue racing The reason he was so keen to see the noted gelding run at Lexington Is that he had been advised by trainer Duke who had the Vender hilt horses in France that he had known of sev ¬ eral similar operations made on horses with their wind affected which had done them little good and had really fooled their trainers badly as the operation does eliminate blowiii of a loud character when a horse works The race at Lex ¬ ington Thursday demonstrated that tlie operation has at least made Hawthorn of some use as a racing tool and that he can pay his way eve though lie may not be able to defeat the best sprinters In training as he was at one time able to do
