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NEW CHURCHILL DOWNS FEATURES. Big Overnight Purses on Non- Stakes Days Named After Kentucky Derby Winners. Louisville, Ky., May 2.— Manager M. J. Winn has introduced an innovation at the coming spring meeting at Churchill Downs, by naming the overnight handicaps, the feature races on days upon which no stake race is to be decided. These races at the Downs all have as much as a thousand dollars in added money and up to fifteen hundred dollars. This gives the coming spring meeting at the Downs a big racing feature daily during the thirteen days. In selecting names for these races he has chosen those of five of the most famous winners of the Kentucky Derby. The program for the meeting of the stakes and these overnight feature races follows: The Kentucky Derby. 0,000 added, for three -veai-olds; one mile and a quarter; Saturday, May 13. The Debutante Stakes, ,000 added, for two-year-old fillies; one-half mile; Monday, May 15. The Old Rosebud Handicap, ,000 added, for three-year-olds and over; one mile and an eighth; Tuesday, May 16. The Bashford Manor Stakes. ,000 added, for two-year-old colts and geldings; four and a half furlongs; Wednesday, May 17. The Kentucky Derby Consolation, ,500 added, for three -vear-olds; one mile and an eighth; Thursday, May 18. The Aristides Handicap. ,000 added, for three-year-olds and over; one mile and a quarter; Friday, May 19. The Clark Handicap, ,000 added, for three -vear-olds and over; one mile and a sixteenth; Saturday, May 20. The Juvenile Stakes. ,000 added, selling, for two-year-olds; five-eighths mile; Monday, May 22. The Hindoo Handicap. ,000 added; conditions and distance to appear on Thursday, May 18; Tuesday, May 23. The Frank Fehr Stakes. ,000 added, selling, for three-vear-olds and over; one mile; Wednesday. May 24. The Ben Brush Handicap, ,000 added: conditions and distance to appear on Thursday, May 18; Thursday, May 25. The Leonatus Handicap, ,000 added: conditions and distance to appear on Thursday, May 18; Friday, May 26. The Kentucky Oaks. ,500 added, for three-year-old fillies; one mile and a sixteenth; Saturday, May 27. This makes a total of 7,000 In added money given alone to these thirten races at the Downs course this spring, a record for Kentucky tracks to date. To avoid any congestion at the main entrance gate at the Downs this spring, while patrons are securing admission tickets to the track, five extra ticket-selling booths are being finished and will, for the first time, be put in operation on Derby Day. This will make these accommodations of such magnitude that it will be possible to handle the crowds, no matter how large, with little Inconvenience to the general public. Though the demand for stall room for horses this spring at the two local tracks is unprecedented in tlie history of Louisville racing, so superior are the accommodations here, that even as many as five hundred more horses than have already applied for stable room, could find good quarters here during the coming spring racing season. None should keep away for any fear of lack of the best stable accommodations. Many horses have worked at the Downs in the last few days and some sharp trials have been reeled off other than the good mile and a quarter in 2:08%, done by the Derby candidates, Star Hawk and The Cock, last Sunday. The fastest of these follow: Rifle Shooter — Three-quarters in 1:15%, five-eighths in 1:01%. Elizabeth McNaughton — Five-eighths in 1:04%; fractions. M1fc, 30%, 49%. Helen Thomas — Half mile in 49%; McAdams worked with Bar. Dreadnought — Half mile in 49%, three-eighths In 36%. Arrow Five-eighths in 1:03%. half mile in 48%. Belgian Trooper — Three-eighths in 36%. Green Tre — Quarter mile in 24%. Hubbub — Three-quarters in 1:16%; fractions, 24, 36%. 48%, 1:02. King Belli — Half mile in 54. Bullion — Quarter mile in 24. Old Koenig -Half mile in 52. Rcquirum — Half mile in 52V.-.; is improving fast. Hemlock Half mile in 50. three-eighths in 37%; Kenward worked with him. W. W. Darden. the Tennessee turfman, has engaged stall room for five horses at the Downs, which he is bringing here from Nashville, Tenn. They consist of the four-year-old Converse and four two-year-olds. Among the latter are Lady Ivan. which is engaged in the Debutante Stakes, and High Gear, which is entered in the Bashford Manor Stakes. Both are also entered in the Juvenile Stakes and the Spring Trial Stakes at Douglas Park. In this collection is also a colt out of the mare Miss Crawford, which is of much promise but slower in development than this turfmans other two-year-olds. John . Whitlows crack colt AVesty Hogan is engaged in both the Bashford Manor and Juvenile StaKes at the Downs. His other Kentucky engagements are all at Latonia. where he has been named in the Harold and Valuation Stakes and the Cincinnati Trophy. It is not likely that lie and Sedan will meet again at Lexington, as it is understood Westy Hogan is being reserved for the Breeders Futurity, in which event Sedan is not engaged. The pair will probably meet next in the Bashford Manor Stakes.
