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LEXINGTON SPRING MEETING BOOK IS OUT. Calls for Seventy-Seven Eaccu and Distribution of S49.800 in Added Money. The program bank for the Keatacky Assoc Is I leas spring meeting of eleven days, beginning April 38, prepared by Judge William II. Shell-y. racing s-e-retar.v. lias been published. It is quite up th me I standard. The program fee this meeting, which is to inaugurate the P.I17 season of racing in Kentucky, calls for seventy -seven races ami carries a ili-lrihii-tion of SIt.SIK in added money to stakes and purse.. Th- entrance fees will make the total distribution somewhat in exeess of .suo.imio, tin- bent tii.it Lex iagton has yet offered. Under the rule of the State Racing Commfai i"ii the associations are permitted to nrrange their cards so that the added momy to purse races will average Xt.nu. but Lexington i.. not permitted to gio :, purse for less than .S- h . In keeping with tin- rase, which was formulated thai tin- cheaper, poorer horses would not have an earning opportunity equal io that of lie better ones, as was the case when the rule was hard and Tast to in- effect that there should be na purse for less than gOOO added, ■ludge Shelley has so apporti d the mourj Hit there are forty races with .• •«» added, niu t--. u with S:.on. eleven with .S700. two with ,000 and five stakes. The stak. I and the dates upon which they IR to be di rided arc: Ben Ali Handicap, for three year olds and aver, on- and one-sixteenth miles, si. .",« added. Maj 1. Ashland Oak.-, for three rear-obis, one mile, ,200 added. May :!. Camden Handicap, for three year-olds and over, one mile and one-ujuarter, *1.." HI added, Mnj .".. 1 1 ina ta Stakes, for two-year olds, fillies, four aad one half furlongs. S1,MIH». Mav 7. bib- Hoar stakes, for two-yeur obi-, rolts aad geldings, four and one-half liirlongs. sl._H added. May 0 To each of these stake races a cup ha- been donated to in- preueated t" tin- naatr of He- winner. Colonel Louis Lee Haggin. president of the I.lm-Grass Fair Association, gives the cup for the lieu Ali Handicap, which race was named in compliment to his deceased grandfatle-r, James lien Ali Hag-gin. Major T. . .McDowell, great -grand on of Henry Clay, gives the cup for the Ashland Oaks, as that race was named in honor of Ashlau 1. the Clay homestead, where Major McDowell now ha- bis Stud of thoroughbred horses, headed by The Manager. Chairman Johnson N. Camden, of the Siate If SI ing Commission, for whom the Camden Handicap Was named, gives the cup for that event, which has been his custom since the race was inaugurated. The llinita Stakes was named in compliment to Mrs. Clarence Lel.us, the name being that of her farm, and she gives the cup to that race. Ldw aid K. Hradley, master of Idle Hour Farm, donates tin-cup to the Idle Hour Stakes, which was naiin-d in recognition of his farm and of his sportsmanlike natronage of racing. One of the two races for whieh S1.IMM purses are given is to lie the Derby Trial, which w ill be in- -rided May S, and to this the executive committee R. L. P.aker, A. P.. C.illaher and J. C. Milaml of the Kentucky Association have donated a cup. The other SI. OIK race is the Wiedemann Handicap, to be decided on the closing day of the meeting, and to this the Wiedemann Brewing Company has donated a cup.
