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ONE RACE THURSDAY MAY BE INTERESTING. I Features of Douglas Parks Coming Meeting and List of Its Officials. Kouisville. Ky.. May 15. — Great interest may attach to the Kentucky Derby Consolation at one mile and an eighth on Thursday, May IS. to which is eligible all the starters in the Kentucky Derby last Saturday, as wt 11 as other three -year-olds that may be entered. The race is for a purse of ,500, with an entrance fee of 5, which will make it well worth winning. In all probability this Baca will draw out a number of the recent Derby starters and additional three-year-olds that did not run in that event. The last race of this character run at the Downs was in the spring of 1909. In that race there were but tlnee starters, but those three aroused as great an interest as if a dozen or more had gone to the post. They embraced Wintergreen. the winner of the Kentucky Derby that year; Miami, that had run second in the Kentucky Derby and was just fresh from winning the Clark Handicap from older horses, and the colt Olambala, which was making his first start as a three-year-old, and that later as a four -year -old won the Suburban Handicap. Wintergi-een carried 122 pounds, picking up the five-pound peaalty for winning the Kentucky Derby, while Olambala and Miami each had 117 pounds up. It was one of the heaviest betting races between three horses ever run on the Kentucky track. Olambala proved the winner and. iu a measure, in this race foreshadowed his great future on the turf. The book program for the coming spring meeting of the Douglas lark Jockey Club has just left the press and is now being distributed among the horsemen here. The Douglas lark meeting opens on Monday. May 29 ami continues for a racing period of thirteen days, winding up on Monday. June 12. The big feature race of the meeting is the Kentucky Handicap, to lie run on Saturday. June 3. That afternoon in the six races down for decision, the Douglas Park Jockey Club gives a total of 3,300 in added money. The program for that day is given below: First Kace — Purse 1916.sh00. for maiden two-year-olds; five and a half furlongs. Second Kace Purse 1916.sh00 selling, for three-year-olds and over: three-quarters of a mile. Third Kace--Central lark Handicap, purse 00. for three-year-olds and over; three-quarters of a mile. Fourth Kace — Iurse 00, for two-year-olds; five and a half furlongs. Fifth Kace The Kentucky Handicap. with 0,000 added, for three-year-olds and over; one mile and a quarter. Sivth Kace — Iurse selling, for three-year-■olds and over: one mile uiul a sixteenth. Manager Ilachmeister has adopted the plan of naming all the overnight handicaps for the various parks and places of interest in and around this city. There is no stake race down for the opening day of the meeting but that afternoon the Highland Park Handicap for three -year-olds and over at one mile and SB eighth is the feature race and this race has ,000 in added money. On Tuesday. May 30. Decoration Day the Memorial Handicap is the feature race. This stake has 59 nominations embracing all the good sprinters now in the barns at the two local tracks. Kacing secretary learce has made the conditions for the oveu-night races for the first six days of the meeting, and the conditions for the last seven davs of the meeting will be issued on Wednesday, May 31. The first race each day at Douglas lark will be called promptly at 2:30 p. m. Manager Ilachmeister has had inserted a special notice in the book of the petition sent in to the Kentucky State Racing Commission. April 20. in which was submitted the recommendations in the matter of increasing the distance of racing. The racing officials for the coming Douglas Park meeting, are announced in the program book and are as follows: Stewards — Charles F. Price and Col. T. .T. Clay. Placing Judge and Hniidicnpper — J. K. Campbell. Placing Judge and Clerk of the Scales — W. 11. Shelley. Kacing Secretary — Walter II. Pearce. Starter — Harry Morrissey. Paddock Judgt — Dr. Henry Harthill. Timer — S. K. Hughes. Telegraph Censor — Vernon Sanders. Patrol Judgt — leter Wimmer. Su| ervisor Pari-Mutm-l Department — W. II. Lau-I demaii. I George P. Kerry, the California turfman who now I has charge of the thoroughbred department of George Wingfields Nevada Stock Farm, reports that the stud matrons that were mated to the various sires there this spring totaled, some sixty head. Kerry thinks he has some extra good yearlings now I at the Wingfield place. He has one colt, the I growth of which is most phenomenal, the youngster now weighing a shade abate 1.200 pounds. He says in BjHe of his wonderful development that the colt 1 is a grand colt bodily and has as good a set of legs and feet as was ever set under n youngster. t
