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SOMETHING .ABOUT THE HANDICAP DIVISION. Crack Racers Which Are in Active Training for the Important Kentucky Handicap. l.oiiisilie. Ky.. April LV Not the leant item of interest iii connection with the spring racing in Keatacky, which began at the Lexlagtoa coarse this afternoon, is the shov.iiif which tin- older division will make. This, takea in i en in r thai with the work of Hi.- three rear "hi • Ugihlea tor the stakes for all ages, or rather for the three-year olds and over, emphasizes the vain- to lie placed on i he showing of candidates fm- the Keatacky Handicap. Next Tii.sday aftera i the Ben All Handicap will he run at Lexington. It closed with sixty four aaaainatiana. II. II Hewitts three-year old hay colt Skeptic, by Saia I aspiration, is one of tin- probable starters in the Kentucky Handicap as well aa tin- tW, Derhys, here and at Latoaia and is one of the entries in the Pen Ali. which is n t a mile and a sixtei nth. Skeptic a few days ago worked a mile and one-eigbth in 1:52 at Lexington, going tin- first mie in 1 :M!I. lie cooled out iii gland condition aad is said right how to li.- ana of the beat-trained horses ;it the Tdii- irass emirs-. of the older division Colonel Veiinie. Royal II.. end Aldeiiaran. in the Jefferson Uriagstoa stable, all are eligible for the knag d lata ace events .,t Lexington and the first two. hath Eaglish-bn Is, are regarded as certain starters iu the Kentucky Handicap. Oi! Rose bail to Be One cf the Cor.Testants. Trainer Prank Weir dates that if Old Rosebud continues to train well, he wfll he started in the Kentucky Handicap. It always will lie a qaestioa aaaong tnrfaaea aa to whether old Baaehnd, had he run in the Kentucky Handicap of 1914, would hare bentea John v. Bchorra Lake McLake. Old Bow laid would have been compelled to concede considerable weight to the Schorr colt. It will be rem when d that in that race Solnr Shir and Lake McLake set a killing pace fraaa the outset, the first three -oaartera beaag run in 1:11. Lake He Lake agnia was forced to stand a hard drive in the stretch to OBtatay ICu.lollo. finishiuir the mile ami a quarter in ".:r_!... lie fastest time eve;- made for that distance in Kentucky. Old Rosebuds record was made at Churchill Downs in the Kentucky flefby of the same year and was just aliout as much slower, ns the difference between the two tracks in time records. However, he carried 114 pounds in the Derliy. while I. like McLake had tow te«n pounds lean in the Handicap, hut. where.-is Old Boaehnd heat such three -years-olds as Hodge and Bronajewhag, Luke McLake defeated siv ial goad older horses. The It. I.. Baker stable has jk bent horse. Pif Jr.. entered in the Ben Al: Handicap and be alaa will race in the Kentucky Handicap. Pif Jr. sliow-d goad form in the south last winter and is rapidly iwsaadfaaa to for the Keatacky easnpalgn.
