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J : I i ; - • SOME KENTUCKY HANDICAP ELIGIBLES. Four Derby Winners in the List — Supposed Three -Year-Old Stars an Especial Feature. Louisville. Ky.. March 25. — Among the great array of high -class horses engaged in the Kentucky Handicap are no less than four that have won Derbys as three-year-olds. These embrace the unbeaten Regret, winner of the Kentucky Derby in 1915; Waterblossom. the victress in the Kentucky Oaks and Canadian Derby: Royal II.. the winner of the Latonia Derby last year, and John Guild, which captured the same race in 1914. In this stake are also engaged no less than eighteen now three-year-olds, all but two of which are entered in the Kentucky Derby, and it is more than possible that the winner will come from among these sixteen three-year-old eligibles. The spring meeting at Douglas Park begins this year on Monday. May 29. and comes to a conclusion on the same day of the week, June 12. a period of thirteen racing days. Manager John llach-meister is now in Kentucky and will remain in i this state until the spring and summer racing season is over. He will divide his time early this I spring between Douglas Park and Latonia. but will come to this city to finally stay until the local racing season is over, much earlier this spring than , ever before. There are a number of Improvements ; he lias in contemplation at Douglas Park this spring and he intends to be on the grounds here so as to i have personal supervision over the work done in this line. The array of three-year-old engaged in the Kentucky Handicap this spring embraces practically all the greatest stars of that age now in training. They are Pig Smoke. Cosmic. Colonel Voiiuie. Star Hawk, Gillies, Lena Misha. Old Koenig. Pulse. Dr. Moore, Heir Apparent, Ellison, Dick Williams. Prince Harry. Dominant. Thunderer, Slipshod. Promo i and Skeer Face. The two not engaged in the ■ Kentucky Derby are Old Koenig and Ellison, but both of these have been entered in the Latonia Derby. The Kentucky Handicap, with it 0,000 in added 1 money, is a race of a mile and a quarter in distance. . This has always been the distance of such big handicap races in this country as the Suburban , and Brooklyn and in England the City and Suburban i Handicap. In races of late years the Kentucky Handicap is the only event that in its value to the • winner exceeded the 0.100 mark. It was worth 2,150 net to the winner when Ru-dolfo won it in 1913: 1,500 when Luke McLuke captured it in 1914. and 1,700 when Borrow won it last spring. As yet Manager Hachmeiator has not t decided positively on the date the handicap will 1 be decided this year, but it will be run on one of f the Saturdays during the Douglas Park meeting, either June 3 or June 10. It was run last year on l Saturday. May 29. Great interest centers in the magnificent entry list of three-year-olds in the big race this year, as two seasons at least, in 1913 and 1914. performers j of this age cut a big figure in the race. In the , former year Ten Point was just beaten out bv Ru-dolfo. while in 1914 the three year old Luke McLuke . captured the stake and covered the distance in the sensational time of 2:024f,. No Suburban Handicap, . when that famous race was run at Sheepsluail Bay, • was ever run as fast and it also beats all records ; that were ever made iu the Brooklyn Handicap. , There never was a season when the array of three-year-olds entered in this race was as brilliant as this year and even such superior older horses as the unbeaten Regret, the sensational Koamer and J the mighty But raw may be forced to plav second I fiddle to one of the classic three year-olds eligible J to go to the post in the Kentucky Handicap of IBM, . The conditions of this race put the aniiounceiiient of weights four days before the event is decided. Py that time many of the fifty horses entered will [ have shown by their performances in the earlier r racing in Kentucky some line to their real form , this year. This is the fourth spring meeting at Douglas ■ Park, the youngest of all the great Kentucky race tracks. Aside from the Kentucky Handicap, the Spring Trial Stakes, with ,500 added, is a race . classed as a big feature, and except the Cincinnati Trophy and Breeders Futurity, is the richest race , for two-year-olds of the year in Kentucky. Another r important stake to be decided at Douglas Park is the Memorial Handicap, with 2,000 added, which is s always run as the big attraction on Decoration i Day. The other stake race during the meeting is • the Speculation, which, having a selling clause attached, ■ has a value of ,500 iu added money.
