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EXCELLENT RACING TO COME AT THE CHURCHILL DOWNS AND DOUGLAS PARK TRACKS Louisville Ky May 13 Remarkable hns been the racing at Churchill Downs this spring The sport has been phenomenal and the attendance enormous not only on Derby and big stake days but every other afternoon so far during the meet ¬ ing Society has Hocked to the course and crowded the clubhouse ami its gorgeous lawn daily Many turfmen of prominence from all the leading cities of America who came here to see the Derby have remained over so fascinating has been the sport at this great course this spring springThe The next great feature race nt the Dawns is the historic Kentucky Oaks which is set for the closing day of the meeting Frlday May 21 The added money to this stake was increased this spring to 2500 by Manager M J Wlnn and it Is a fixture which will always remain on the program at the Downs it having been run every year since the track was first opened for racing in 1875 Its first winner was the Vandal filly Vinaigrette owned by A B Lewis Co and a stablemate to Vaudalitc one of the greatest American race mares of all time timeDuring During Its long history fillies owned by many famous turfmen have captured this stake a number of which have lonjf since crossed the great di ¬ vide The turfmen whose fillies have won this stake and whose names fill a place of honor in turf history are F 15 Harper of Ten Broeck fame J W Hunt Reynolds who bred and first raced the mighty Falsetto J flrinstead Lex ¬ ingtons famous banker E Corrigan who won the event three times with Modesty Lizzie Dwyer and Lemco W S Barnes and J E Pepper whose horses raced under the nama of the Melbourne Stable Major B J Thomas vim bred Domino Americas largest moneywinning horse E S Gard ¬ ner the Tennessee turfman S S Brown who raced Broomstick the sire of the last Kentucky Derby winner Regret J C Calm who also won a Kentucky Derby with Typhoon II T C Mc ¬ Dowell the only turfman oat lde of E Corrigan who has won three Kentucky Oaks capturing the event with Rush Kings Daughter and Ellena Dale and the now noted Tennessee turfman John W Schorr who captured this race with that line illy Lady Schorr Last year the Kentucky Oaks was won by Brouzewlng owned by the Louisville turfman A P Humphrey Jr JrThere There are fortythree entries to the Kentucky Oaks race this year the star of which is 11 P Whitneys Regret the unbeaten champion of her sex and the only filly that ever won a Kentucky Derby As this great daughter of Broomstick is not asked to pick up any penalty she will be an overwhelming favorite but sho will however meet an extremely speedy filly in T O McDowells Waterblossoin the winner of the Ashland Oaks at the recent Lexington meeting Another noted filly entered in the race is James Butlers Comely which last teason in the east as a twoyearold ranked second only to Regret among horses of her age and sex Another filly engaged in the race of much pretension is Corrigan McKinneys Ghetto Girl which has won her only start to date Other good winners of last season engaged in the Oaks some of which may go to the post are One Step Capra Diploma Masks Vogue Kmbroidery Sea Shell Menlo Park Aunt Jnsle Miss Fielder and Spun Glass the latter a stable companion of Regret being owned by IT P Whitney The distance of the Oaks originally like the first runnings of the Kentucky Derby was a mile and a half It was later reduced to a mile and a quarter and in recent years has been a mile and a sixteenth sixteenthIn In days gone by there have been many good races for the Oaks and some of its winners began in this race their threeyearold careers which later on assumed spectacular brilliancy One of theye is Modesty which went on from her Ken ¬ tucky Oaks success and captured the American Derby becoming the only filly to win that great race Other famous mares which have made turf history after capturing the Oaks are English Lady Soullle White Frost and Audience noted now as the dam of Whisk Broom It is the only race for threeyearold fillies in all America that has always been run over the same grounds annually without a single break in its history Next Saturday May 22 there will be inaugurated at Douglas Park a thirteen days race meeting which bids fair to out ¬ shine any previous spring season of racing at this beautiful track and also be fully up in high class sport and general interest to that of any race meeting ever held at any track In all Ken ¬ tucky The great feature race of the Douglas Park spring season is the Kentucky Handicap In which will meet about all of the aristocrats of the big racing stables now in Kentucky These embrace the strings of turfmen of wide prominence from all the states of the Union that contribute to rac ¬ ing Heretofore a few of the great eastern stables have made invasions into Kentucky but never until this year did so many strings come west to strive for the rich stakes and valuable purses now hung up in blue grass land landThe The Kentucky Handicap will be run this season on the seventh day of the Douglas Park meeting Saturday May 29 Manager John llachmeister set this date for the reason that it will give all the horses engaged an ample opportunity to be thoroughly fit to go the distance of this race at a mile and a quarter It must be recollected that in such a stake there are many horses en ¬ gaged that are fouryearolds and over and which in their careers on the turf have at times met with mishaps and to prevent such a recurrence calls for much care in early spring training They cannot be rushed in their preparation like a younger horse but when given plenty of time can ho relied on to be fit to run a good race by the date set for the Kentucky Handieap this year A review of the records will probably show that the Suburban Handicap has been on an average a truer run race than was the Brooklyn Handicap as long as the firstnamed race existed and it will be recalled that the latter event was always run near about the date set for the Kentucky Handicap this spring springAt At present the big race which is now the only event annually run that has never had less than 10000 in added money bids fair to have a big field of starters and fully n dozen or more are among the greatest stars now racing II P Whitney who has just won the Kentucky Derby with bis unbeaten filly Regret has two remark ¬ able horses in the race namely Borrow and liar 1 monicon as well as the useful Pandean and they are being pointed for it by that skillful trainer James Rowe Whichever one of these trainer Rowo regards as the best when the date of the running of the Kentucky Handicap rolls around will carry the Whitney colors and will IKJ forced to meet the l est possible to gather together in this coun ¬ try Heading the other probable starters are Roamer and Luke McLuke the winner of this stake last year and along with Roamer and Old Rosebud looked upon as the greatest threeyear old development of last season Luke MeLuke has not started as yet this season but Roamer ha already nullified for the Kentucky Handicap in brilliant style styleAmong Among the other almost certain starters arc the Latonia Derby winner John Guild the Kentucky Oaks winner Brouzewlng the brilliant English horse Short Grass the Englishbred threeyear old Royal II Belloc the winner of the Clark Handicap last season Pebbles which ran second to Regret in the Kentucky Derby this spring Bradleys Choice for which 20000 was once re ¬ fused and Hodge which ran second to Old Rose ¬ bud in the Kentucky Derby last year when the latter set the race record for that event This Is by no means all the probable starters in the race raceThe The track at Douglas Park was never faster than now and if good weather conditions prevail on the date of the running of the Kentucky Handicap the winner may have to run the distance of this race in faster time than has ever been scored in Kentucky ors the west and possibly even Whisk Brooms American record may be beaten beatenManager Manager John llachmeister is making every preparation to accommodate the enormous crowd sure to be at Douglas Park to see the Kentucky Handicap run Liberal excursion rates have been arranged on all the railroads leading into this city from all points in Kentucky and a big delegation will be here from Chicago St Louis and Cincin ¬ nati to see the event decided From the east will come many prominent turfmen including H P Whitney who will bring a party here in his private car from New York as he did to see the Kentucky Derby run Everything is in grand order at Doug ¬ las Park for the coming meeting The many and costly improvements made at the plant since last fall are this early about completed completedAside Aside from the Kentucky Handicap there are three other valuable stakes to be decided during the coining meeting The openingday feature on Saturday May 22 is the Speculation Stakes for threeyearolds and over with 1500 added at a mile and a sixteenth and there are seventy seven entries in this event from which to pick a field On Monday May 31 will be run the Memorial Handicap for threeyearolds and over with 2000 added at threequarters and this stake has fiftyeight of the best sprinters in all America among its entries On the closing day of the meeting will he run the Spring Trial Stakes for twoyearolds with 2500 added at fiveeighths and this event has the huge number of ninety six entries It was in this race that in 1913 Old Rosebud set the Kentucky record for two yearolds at fiveeighths at 58
