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] ; i MANY AT CHURCHILL DOWNS HORSES FROM ALL SECTIONS GATHERING RAPIDLY FOR SPRING TRAINING. Sanford and Macomber Stars Expected Next Week-Dates Selected for Running Stake Races — More Money Provided. Louisville, Ky.. March 25. — Iu the last few days of tin- last part of this week many horses have arrived at the Churchill Downs track and now at that course there are close to 300 housed and receiving their training for the coming meeting at the Downs. In the shipment from the Juarez track came the racing string of the local turfman. S. M. Henderson, who has strengthened the stable he raced at the Mexico track by taking up Tory Maid and Langhorne, that have been turned out in Kentucky since last fall. Those he brought from Juarez consist of the smart two-year-old filly. Elizabeth Me-Naughton. Thanksgiving, Thelma Marie. Staraniso and a maiden gelding. The former won her only start at Juarez and. as a consequence, is still in the class of unbeaten racers. Other horses reaching here from Juarez are I. E. Clarks Kentucky Derby candidate Pank. and the four-year-old Lukemae: C. Hawks Frokendale and Louise Paul; J. J. Trozlers First Star and Miss Barn Harbor, and Joe Youngs Connaught. From New Orleans also got in the stable of the Nevada turfman. George WingfieM. which string is fifteen horses strong, headed by the fast mare Celesta. Iu his barn are the pair of highly tried two-year-Olds Amalgamator and Triolet. Wingfield sold his Kentucky Derby candidate, Skeer Face, Whit h. however, may not pre Tent that son of Hippodrome from starting in the Derby. It is more than likely Carman will send Skeer Face here to fill his engagement. This is the first time that Wingfield had had a repri sent atiou of his horses on the Kentucky tracks and it also marks the first season that the Texas turfman. I. E. Clark, whose two horses. Lukemae and Pank. are here in charge of trainer P. N. Vestal, has raced any horses on the Kentucky tracks. Both Wingfield and Clark are prominent citizens in their respective states of Nevada and Texas and the last-named figured largely in public life in the Lone Star state of late years. He breeds the horses he races on a ranch in Texas and has in late years turned out many winners, all of which have been developed by trainer Vestal, who is here in charge of Lukemae and Pank. Another recent arrival at the Downs is the Canadian stable of Ooorgo M. Hendrie. which is here, as usual, in charge of trainer John Walters. The star of the string is the crack four-year-old Rancher, winner of such important events last year as the Toronto Autumn Cup. Ontario Jockey Club Cup and the Derby Cap at Blue Bonnets. Secretary H. C. Apph-gate has made public the dates on which stake races will be run at the Downs this spring. They are as follows: The Kentucky Derby, Saturday, May 13. The Debutante Stakes. Monday. May 15. The Baahford Manor Stakes. Wednesday. May 17. Tiie Clark Handicap, Saturday. May 20. The Juvenile Stakes. Monday, May 22. The Frank Fehr Stakes. Wednesday. May 24. The Kentucky Oaks. Saturday. May 27. Thk leaves six days of the meeting on which no stake race will h - run. but for these days an extra attraction in the way of overnight purses and handicaps will be on the card of the seven races run each afternoon. One of the feature races on one of these off-stake days will be a race to be known as the Kentucky Derby renewal, for three-year-olds of all sexes, the distance being MM mile and an eighth. Pacing Seen uy Walter II. Pe.-ireo has the arranging of this event and it is probable he will set the weight! the same as the three-year-olds carry in the Kentucky Derby, with a penalty of five pounds on the Winner of tin- big race. Some years ago such a race followed the Derby at the Downs and proved a big attraction. That was in I860, and the start is were Wintergreen. the Kentucky Derby winner: Miami, which ran second to Winter-".n en in the Derby and later on won the Clark Handicap: and Olambala. which later on won the Suburban Handicap in the east and was one of the greatest horses in America of his days. The latter won the first Kentucky Derby Renewal, he not having been entered in cither the Kentucky Derby nor Clark Handicap. He went on from tiiat race and captured the Latonia Derby. This shows the advantage of such a race, as it not only gives any Derby starter a chance to reverse, perhaps, the running of the former race, as well as lets in any good three year -old that happens t.. show up and that wa- not nominated by his owner to the Derby. Manager M. J. Winn has instructed Racing Secretary Pearee to make tin- money to the overnight races at the Downs this spring to exceed by ..MJ0 the amount hung up for such races at the spring meeting at the Downs of last year. The extra amount added to tin- purses and overnight handicaps will lie distributed among the class of racers which will be programmed from day to day. to draw out the best horses in training. This will result i:i every day of there being on the card a feature race of high class in the way of attraction to patrons of racing. This early two prominent eastern turfmen have ordered reservations for their families and a party they will entertain hero at a hading hotel, one having engaged eleven rooms and the other seven. The racing string of John Sanford. the Amsterdam. N. V.. turfman, of which the two brilliant Derby candidiate George Smith and St. Isidore are representative, are booked to arrive at tie- Downs about April 1. Near the same date trainer Jennings will bring from Charleston. S. C to the Down, the stal h- of A. K. Macomber. including the three-English -bred Kentucky Derby candidates Hesperus, Stir Hawk aiid The Cock. .Macomber has the highest priced string of BagUsh horses ever brought to this country to race. The cheapest horse in his barn cost him S7.5O0 in King Edwards Country.
