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SOME DOUGLAS PARK ANTICIPATIONS Tlie Kentucky Handicap to Be One of the Chief Races of the Year in Interest Louisville Ky May S Tlie great racing season now on In Kentucky will see a shifting of scenes on Saturday May 22 when the gates of Douglas Park are opened for the annual spring meeting at this beautiful racing plant which this year runs for thirteen racing days winding up on Saturday June 5 Tlie big feature race at Douglas Park is the 10000 added Kentucky Handicap which will be of greater net value than any of the big stakes run on the Kentucky tracks tills season It will be richer than many of the Brooklyn and Suburban Handicap races in the old days and of greater value than any race for three yearolds and over ever decided on a Kentucky track The event this year has boon set to be nut on Saturday May 29 the seventh day of the com ¬ ing spring meeting and a week later in tlie month of May than it was decided last spring which gives the trainer of no crack engaged in tlie race any excuse to not have his entry ready to be able to go the distance ono mile and a quarter Twiro quarterTwiro previously lias this groat rnco l eii run and upon each occasion it was productive of a bril ¬ liant contest throughout and A thrilling finish It is tin only raco over run in Kentucky to which the added money has never been less than 10000 This HoaHon the event has an array of entries not excelled by any big handicap event ever decided In this country Not only does the list embrace all the great racing stars in this country but it takes in cracks that have earned high racing louors abroad Some of these horses might not lave ever been returned to America had It not een possible for them to have a try for a race of the value and importance of the Kentucky Handi ¬ cap of 1115 It is running with credit in such an event that adds fame and prestige to a horse or marc when the day comes to retire them to lie stud Never before has any such race in Keu ucky been honored with an entry by Harry Payne Whitney and on this occasion he has entered all the best of the older division of his great stable and tills trio of brilliant performers are all now in Louisville receiving their preparation to make a bid for Douglas Parks big race raceHarmoiilcon Harmoiilcon one of the Whitney stars won four out of his eight starts In England last year Ac ¬ cording to a turfman who saw much of racing abroad last season tills son of Disguise was master of any weight and possessed all the speed that Iron Mask was credited witli having when lie was racing In King George VHs domain Harmoni con is a sou o Harpsichord by Amphiou and she in urn is out of Atala by Uncas running back to lie famous English Oaks winner Industry by riam Harpsichord is also the dam of Annie hompEon anil the highclass race horse and promis n g sire Hilarious Mala in additon to Harpsi ¬ chord produced the good winner Brush By Har monlcon was a good winner as a twoyearold in England and in fact has been high class through ¬ out his career on the turf Mr Whitneys other entries in the race are Borrow and Pandean both of which are brilliant turf performers performersThe The Kentucky Handicap will probably see n meeting also at last of that pair of great fotir yearolds tlie easternowned Roamer and John W Schorrs great coit Luke McLnke These two witli Old Rosebud ranked as the best threeyearolds of 1014 and both compare favorably with the greatest horses of this age of other years Other ood fouryearold cligibies to tlie race are the a ton in Derby winner John Gund Doctor Samuel winner of the Candinn Derby Little Nephew the only horse that ever beat Old Rosebud as a two yearold the Kentucky Oaks winner Bronzewing thu 20000 International Derby winner David Craig and such other noted performers of this age as lodge Waterbass Belloc Bradleys Choice Black Tony SkolnyTlie Constant and Leo Skolny Tlie eastern stables have made liberal entries of their best threeyearolds In this race Peb ¬ bles Kilkenny Boj and Last Coin representing James Butlers great string Trojan Double Eagle and Quincy the Quiiicy Stable which is owned by James F Johnson and A B Hancock who is represented in the stake by Andrew M and Em ¬ broidery Other cligibies to the event which pos ¬ sess a high racing reputation are Short Grass Bus ¬ kin Iron Duke The Finn Norse King Chalmers and Robert Bradley Douglas BradleyDouglas Park will undoubtedly jjjjjoy Its greatest spring racing season to date this year Its open ¬ ing feature race on the first day is the Speculation Stakes nt one mile and a sixteenth which has an entry list of seventyseven horses from out o which to pick a great field On Monday May 3 Decoration Day tlie chief race will he the Memorial Handicap witli 2000 added at three quarters of a mile and in this fiftyeight or the fastest horses in training embrace the eligibles On the closing day of the meeting Saturday June 5 the Spring Trial Stakes for twoyearolds at five eighths witli 2500 added will be decided This event has the huge numl er of ninetysix entries this season and is tlie stake in which Old Rose ¬ bud when a twoyearold set the present five furlongs record for Kentucky of 58 58There There Is no race track in this country that is more sightly than Douglas Park The groat track lias perfect drainage and the trotting horseman Lou McDonald years ago made tlie prediction that tlie day would come when tlie greatest horses in training would run over this course and would breal all existing records From the class of horses that will race during the coming meeting it may be that 1013 will see this prophecy ful ¬ filled filledSince Since last season Manager John Haehmeister has made many and great improvements in this plant and Is now here in person looking after tlie finish ¬ ing touches to the expensive changes lie lias made on different parts of thu grounds which are ar ¬ ranged not only to make the plant right up to date in every detail but to add iu every way to the ornate beauties of the course The courseThe book program for the coming meeting will be distributed within the next few days being now in the hands of the printer and it will contain many feature races In the overnight purses and handicaps hung up none of which are of less than 000 in value in added money Manager moneyManager Haehmeister has also arranged for the best street car service possible to Douglas Park this spring and the natrons of the course possessing automobiles and other vehicles nru now able to get to the grandstand at Douglas Park bv the way of one of the most perfect boulevards in all the country a rondway that Is always in first class order in spite of any weather conditions conditionsHe He anticipates n banner attendance throughout tlie meeting of thirteen racing days and expects a crowd to see the Kentucky Handicap this spring as great and fashionable as ever witnessed any race run In old Kentucky
