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SOME KENTUCKY OAKS EXPECTATIONS EXPECTATIONSWaterblossom Waterblossom and Lady Rotha Considered Able to Give Regret a Real Race Louisville Ky May JO What is anticipated will be the banner attendance at Churchill Downs this spring barring Derby Day is expected to ¬ morrow when the feature race of the seven carded will be the fortyfirst running of the Kentucky Oaks The running of this race has always drawn to the course wellnigh as brilliant a society gathering as graced the clubhouse on Derby Day This season there is more attraction than ever inasmuch as a sure starter is the unbeaten Regret It is also well known that both Waterblossom and Iadv Rotha two tillies which have not met defeat vo far this season will clash with Regret iu this raw and the Derby winner is asked to give the star fillies of T C McDowell and Andrew Mil ¬ lers stables five pounds In the Derby Regret made the pace and was never headed from the rise of the barrier If she is able to do the same thin in the Kentucky Oaks she can then be set nwn us the real pcen of tho American turf is both Waterblossom and Lady Rotha possess iJnzzling speed and will undoubtedly take a run at lie daughter of Broomstick as soon as starter jMorrifisey releases the webbing webbingTlie Tlie Oaks this season is remarkable In ibis rpfipcct 3 Me speed of Waterblossom and Lady Itotha is as well established s that of the flying I ibv winner Thjro lias never been an Oaks in long history of the event in which a trio of lillies have all raced before the event as three ycarolds and not suffered defeat Whichever 0110 Nilis the moo this season will have the honor of having liontpn her two great rivals for the llrst llnie In their threeyearold season seasonOne One of tin greatest surprises In tho history ° f the Kentucky Oaks occurred In 1RSS when the rink outsider Ten Penny owned by tho v ifrnn Irish turfman Mike Welsh took the race and lowered the colors of all the best fillies out that season The last big reverse In the Oaks occurred in 1013 when Cream beat out those two highclass fillies Gowell and Floral Park Being a race solely for fillies tlie fair sex who are loyal to the thoroughbred horse have always looked upon tlie Oaks as their race As a consequence tlie feminine attendance on every Oaks day has never failed to tax the limit of the clubhouse as well as all tile best seats in the grandstand and with such a specatcular race in prospect this spring it is safe to perdict that all records in tills re ¬ spect will be broken tomorrow tomorrowGlpsey Glpsey George the winner of the Juvenile Stakes cost his owuer M C Moore 125 lie buy ¬ ing him last fall as a yearling from tlie geld ¬ ings breeder T B Rcspess at a yearling sale which was held at the Latonia track The son of Dick Welles has a rather bad track disposition but is daily improving in this respect and nil gocd judges think that in time he will be as docile when he gnes to the post as any horse now in training Already his stable is figuring on him developing into a Derby threeyearold He surely has all that it takes in breeding as he is so closely related to those two sensational performers King Fox and Ban Fox Both were great twoyearolds and had he lived King Fox would doubtless have been a star in his threeyearold form Ban Fox turned out a great threeyearold being good enough at that age to beat such a racer as In ¬ spector B BThen Then too Star Unity the sire must be recollected was the halfbrother to the miirhty Sceptre one of the greatest threeyearold lillies England has ever known Gipsey George has all In blood to prove a Derby eligible as he comes as well from the family of tlie great Com ¬ mando and there is none better in tlie stud book bookMode Mode Nicoll who several years ago raced quite u pretentious stable of horses is now wigtiged in the service of the United States Army in the pur ¬ chasing of horses He is here now and in the last few days has secured live head One he bought from a local citizen a gelding by Oddfellow three he has secured from out of the stable of William Gorst at the Downs and he has also got another one from Dick Williams the gelding Highfalutin being the one that he bought from the latter latterNicoll Nicoll takes tl e horses he secured first to Lex ¬ ington and from there after they are accepted by the Government they are ship ed to Front Royal Vn where they an put in training with cavalry service Ho says that the demand for this class of horses far exceeds the present supply
