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PBEPABING FOB DOUGLAS PARK RACING. Manager Hachmeister Takes Charge at the Track — Churchill Downs Beady for the Derby. Louisville. Ky., May 6. — John Hachmeister, manager of the Douglas Park Jockey Club, has arrived here to stay until the spring mooting of thirteen days at that track ends on Monday. June 12. The spring meeting at Douglas Park this year begins on Monday. May 29. and manager Hachmeister has opened the track office and is now. with a corp of assistants, busying himself in getting ready for what is expected to be one of the greatest meetings over held at this course. Since last year the improvements made at Douglas Park have been expensive and extensive. With the additions made since last fall Douglas Park today presents an aspect of magnitude and beauty that can scarcely be surpassed by any race track in the country. It now covers 130 acres, which are approached by one of the finest Ixmlevards in the country and the trolley line to the course is as up-to-date as is possible, running luring the racing hours and pervious to the opening of the afternoons sport from the heart of the city on less than a minutes schedule. The t«ok program of the coming Douglas Park mooting is now in press and will be ready for distribution alxuit the twelfth of May. The overnight purses and handicaps are of the usual liberal variety at Douglas Park, there being no purse of less than 1916.sh00. There will lie seven races each day. The dates secured from the Kentucky Racing Commission by Douglas Park this spring makes the meeting come in the best period of the spring and early summer, and there is no more pleasant place to visit than this beautiful racing plant. Pockichoo worked at Churehill Downs today over the full course of a mile and a quarter, under improved but not fast track conditions, in L:ll The fractious were 12%, 23%, M%, 49, 1:15%, 1:29. 1:42%, 1:57. He pulled up quite tired, but the work will do him much good and he looks like a sure starter in tiio Derby. Trainer James Kowe telegraphed today that H. P. Whitneys horses will arrive at the Churchill Downs track tomorrow at throe oclock. Stalls for this division of the Whitney stable, eight in number, are being bedded. Jockey J. Loftus, who will ride George Smith in the Derby, arrived hero today and will ride that east in his final trial for the big race tomorrow or Monday. He was galloped this morning seven-eighths, pulling up. in 1:32-;. After working throe-eighths in 39 at the Downs this morning, the two-year-old black colt Kenshow. by Ogden — Lady Anne, by Kiuley Mack, dropped dead. He was owned by R. Campbell and had not raced. Churchill Downs, with its spring dress of blue grass and budding and blooming flowers, is also charming to the eye. Its appointments today are absolutely unsurpassed for taking care with comfort and convenience of a crowd like that which always witnesses the running of the Kentucky Derby. In days past many lovers of racing, especially from the oast, failed to come to Louisville for fear of lack of proper hotel facilities on occasions like the Derby day, when Kentucky and the western states had a full representation, as these people would not put up with inconvenience in hotel accommodations. Today no city of its size in Aiifhricn is better fortified to take care of a groat crowd than Louisville, with its great array of mammoth bents and it-; many gigantic apartment houses, one of which takes up more than a full square and cost many millions of dollars. As usual, the center field of the track at the Downs on Derby day will he free to the public. Aside from the Derby. Clark Handicap and Oaks, there are three big stakes for two-year-olds to be run during the mooting, namely the Debutante. Bash fata Manor and Juvenile. Then also there is the Frank Fehr Stakes and such new overnight races as the Derby Consolation. Old Rosebud. Aris-tides. Hindoo. Ben Brush and Leonatus handicaps. all of Which in added money are equal to the amounts hung up for stake races in Kentucky in the dd days. Each afternoon there will be seven races run at the Downs, with no purse of less than SfiOO. The officers and racing officials during the coming mooting at the Downs will be as follows: President — Charles F. Grainger. Yice-president and manager — M. J. Winn. Secretary and treasurer — II. C. Applegate. Stewards — Charles F. Price and Charles F. Grainger. Placing judges — W. II. Shelley and Ed Jasper. Starter Ha rrv Morrissev. Clerk of the scales— W. H. Shelley. Kacing secretary — Walter II. Pcurco. Hindieapper — Ed Jasper. Paddock judgi — Dr. Henry Harthill. Tinier — George Lindenborger. Patrol judge — William Phillips. Telegraph censor — Vernon Sanders. Supervisor pari-mutuel machines — W. H. Laude-maii. Track physician — Dr. A. O. Brennan. The first race cash afternoon at the Downs will be called at 2:30 p. m.
