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WINTRY WEATHER AT LEXINGTON Schooling of Two-Year-Olds to Begin Tomorrow — Many New Arrivals from the South. Lexington. Ky.. April 10. — Wintry weather prevailed here yesterday, but it did not prevent the owners and trainers at the Kentucky Association from giving their charges much needed work, ami a large number of thoroughbreds were out for gallops. The going had dried out to almost a good stage and the main track was thrown open for the first time since last Saturday. Real fast work was out of the question, but a number of horses were "opened up" for hard moves tomorrow. Again did assistant starter Jim Osborne have to post|M ue the schooling of the two-year-olds, as most of the trainers hurried their youngsters back into their barns out of the «-old as soon as they had finished galloping. Beginning tomorrow, weather permitting. Osborne will school horses both mornings and afternoons, because of the late start he is getting with them. The standards for the barriers to la used by starter A. B. Dade were put up today. The race meeting here opens April 23. and even this early the city is beginning to show the effects of it. as visitors are arriving on every train frcm all parts of the country. This section was never so prosperous as right now. as was shown by the oversubscription to the Liberty Loan, Red Cross and War Thrift Stamps, and the third Liberty Loan, judging from the way the sale of Liberty Bonds is progressing, will go far above its quota. Interest in a race meeting was never as intense as now. and the best racing season in the history of the Kentucky Racing Association is looked for. As has lieen the custom here for years, the first race will lie called to the post tit 2:15 oclock each afternoon. The daylight saving plan will lie a big help to the patrons of racing in this section, many of whom come from surrounding cities such as Frankfort. Paris. Nicholasville. Versailles. Danville and Shelhyville iu automobiles, as it will enable them to get home Ions before dark. The motorists who come up from Ijnuisville and from Cincinnati will also lie enabled to return to their liomes at night instead of waiting until the next morning, as they can cover the greater part of their journey liefore darkness overtakes them. locfeey Otis Willis, contract rider for .1. O. and :. H. Keeno. who was stricken ill the last ten days of the Hot Springs meeting, and was forced t« abandon his saddle work, is hack in good health now anil is daily on the track galloping horses. Willis has lieen riding only a year and he has made quite a reputation, his chief feat being the winning of the ] atonia Cup Handicap at two and one -quarter miles with Moscowa last fall. Since announcing that the Derby Trial will be on May »?. five days before the big race is to be decided at Churchill Downs. Judge William H. Shelley has received assurances from a numlier of horsemen here with Derby candidates that they will send them to the post, and he also expects several of the best three-year-olds at Louisville to i-oiit.st for it. Top weight in the Derby Trial will l e 115 pounds and the race will !*■ at one and one-eighth miles. COLONEL VENNIE TRAINING WELL. Tnless he meets with a mishap of some kind. Colonel Vennie will be a starter in the Camden Handicap again this year, according to advices received from trainer Mose Goldblatt. Colonel Vennie won the Camden Handicap last year in a good field, and his victory in the stake followed a succession of triumphs at New Orleans, where he won the two largest stakes of the Fair Grounds meeting. He was on the shelf the greater part of last year, due to an injury sustained at Louisville, but he is now training soundly and he bids fair to l e in the best possible condition for his stake engagements here. Eight more carloads of hotses arrived from the south today from Hot Springs. Ark. They came by freight and made a fast trip, as they left the Vapor City last Friday. Included in the consign ment were the horses owned by Knelielkaiup and Howerton. Milo Shields. Mnrdin Field. G. J. I.on-storf. W. M. Cain and several others. The horses en route from Cuba are expected in tonight. There will lie plenty of good jockeys on hand for the coming meeting here, ami many of them are already on the scene. Among those here are jockeys Jack Morys. who is under contract to Cal Milam; Mack Garner, who will ride for H. L. Baker. W. Warrington, who is attached to John Whitlows stable; Otis Willis. Fred Merimee. C. Dishmon. W. Median. Frank Murphy and numerous others. Most of the riders who will participate in the Kentucky Association meeting are resting at Louisville now. The adverse weather today did not stop the workmen who are making the improvements at the local course, and everything will fee in excellent order several days before the opening. The resoiling of the track showed its value today, as it dried out twice as fast as formerly. Both horsemen aud jockeys now pronounce the course as one of the safest in the country. Owners and trainers who formerly shuddered when the proposition of shipping horses by freight was mentioned to them, but who were forced to accept this mode of transportation for their horses this spring from the winter tracks, have been agreeably surprised at the excellent manner in which the horses travelled. Thus far not a sick horse has been taken off the cars and. on the contrary, the racers seemed more full of life than ever when unloaded. The grandstand at the Kentucky Association track now has fifty-four boxes, twenty more than formerly, and a majority of tliem have already lieen taken for the entire season. a
