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• s - - f , t • - | ," a FOUR LEXINGTON STAKES THIS WEEK Plenty of Good Racing in Prospect Providing Weather and Track Conditions Improve. Lexington. Kv.. April 29.— Four stakes will lie decided this week .it the Kentucky Association race meeting, the Ashland Oaks. Baby Bond Handicap. Hinata Stakes ■_! Camden Handicap. Present indications point to a big improvement in track conditions for the running of the stakes, as a strong wind and a good sun dried the course out considerably yesterdav. but it will be at least Tuesday before it wili be in such condition that anything but mud runners show to advantage. Thus far the local race track has had to combat the worst sort of weather, but the attendance and volume of speculation has held up remarkably well. It is the owners of the good horses which favor a fast track who are suffering, as a majority of the lietter grade of horses here are ready and "crying to run." but thev could not get a chance. due to the muddv going. Small fields have been the rule and. as a result, the choices have run like "trained pigs." This has even lieen true of the two year old races, which as a rule furnish upsets. However, the racegoers iu this section are prettv keen observers of two year olds and they keep pretty well pasted on their every more throughout the winter and earlv spring. Trainer W. Perkins got the jump on the other trainers with his vonngsti rs. and the way they have been winning shows that be must have put in some pretty hard licks with them since he returned from New Orleans. The large band of two year-olds in his barn, which belong to various owners, seem to Ik- at their best in the mud. but a majority of them are bred to run in any kind of going. J. C. Milam, who vear after year has high class two-year-olds in his racing establishment, expects his juveniles to show their real worth when the going lieconies fast. His baby racers have all been working iu excellent fashion, but with the exception of Hidden Jewel, none of those which he start.il seem to run well in the mud. In Col. Taylor, a bay colt by Plaudit— Looking Glass, and Madras, a bay filly by Ben Brush — Nuns Cloth, he has two youngsters of more than ordinary promise. The former is owned bv Col. F.. H. Taylor. Jr., and the latter by Johnson N. Camden. DERBY LOOKS LIKE OPEN RACE. Judging from the performnnris of the Kentucky Derby eligible* here to date, the big event to be decided at Churchill Downs on May 11 looks like a more o|ien race than ever. The initial race of Sun Briar, in which he was beaten away off in the mud. may not have been his best form, but he will have to show a big improvement over it to gain back the admirers he lost iu that nice. He was always at his tiest in the mud and he had things made to order for him iu this respect. His sulking proclivities might develop in the Kentucky Derby just as well as any other time, and if they do he will find himself in a bad way to lay up anything. Kaciug enthusiasts have not had I chance to see F.scoba in action here thus far and it will probably lie in the Derby Trial on May 0 before trainer John Ward sends him to the post. The son of Broom - ; stick — Christmas Star is going along well in his work, but it has lieen impossible for him to get a real stiff work-out since he left Louisville, as the track has been in such wretched condition. Two of the Derby eligible* have Is-en returned winners here — Jim Hefferiug and I.ucky B. — and of this pair the former showed by far the best form. He easily defeated Choir Master and Sun Briar, while Lucky B. was put to a drive to beat Ernest B.. an ordinary three-year-old. by a nose. Jim Hefferiug was a fair sort of a two-year-old. as he won some races from good horses last year, including Charlie Ley decker and Mary Maud, both of which have since shown high-class form. The Ashland Oaks will lie run Tuesday. This event is for three-year-old fillies, is at one mile and has an added value of ,500. In addition to its monetary value Maj. Thomas C. McDowell, after whose place the race is named, will donate a handsome cup to the owner of the winning horse. At the present time it looks as though McDowell will have an excellent chance to donate the cup to himself, as he has Olive Wood and Plum entered in the race, and they have both been working three-quarters iu the vicinity of 1:13 this spring. The Ashland Oaks closed with thirty-four nominations. Ou Wednesday the Baby Bond Handicap, at one and one-sixteenth miles, for three -year-olds and over, will lie decided. This is a new stake and it will have a value of ,150, payable in Liberty bonds. The first horses share will be ,000 worth of the bonds, the second will get 04 worth and the third 0 worth. The entries for this event close tomorrow and weights will be announced on Tuesday. MANY FILLIES NAKED FOR HINATA STAKES. Fifty-five nominations were made to the Hinata Stakes, for two-year-old fillies, ,500 added, at four and one-half furlongs, to be contested for on Thursday. Mrs. Clarence I.eBus will give a cup to the winner of this race. Many reputed high-class two-year-old fillies will make their initial start in the Hinata Stakes. Horses of the older division stayed well over a considerable route of ground will get their chance iu the Camden Handicap, at one and one-quarter miles. OS next Saturday. This stake will have an added value of ,500 and the winner will receive a cup donated by J. N. Camden, in whose honor the race is nam -d. Twenty-seven nominations were made to the Camden. Weights will be bulletined by racing secretary Will Shelley on Wednesday. The American Bed Cross has profited to a large extent during the first five days of the Kentucky Association meeting, as ten per cent of the purse money has been donated to it, while the employes are donating ten pa* cent of their salaries. In addition to this the Lilierty Bond booth has lieen largely patronized and the Knights of Columbus have received a large amount for their war work. O. A. Bianchi will make the riding engagements for jockey Joe Dreyer throughout the Kentucky racing season. Dreyer can make 100 itounds and. as experienced riders who can do that light weight are scarce, he will, no doubt, get plenty of mounts. He rode with much success in this section for W. J. Voting 1 ist year. John .Iast. -ron ha been appointed agent for the J. B. Goodman stable, which establishment houses the two fast sprinters Kama and Kinney. Goodman is the man who develoiied jockey E. Sande. and this rider won numerous races for him at New-Orleans and Hot. Springs. Sande will ride the Goodman horses here when possible, as this owner has since disposed of his contract to W. P. Johnson. Thomas Taylor, former jockey, who has been em ployed in the pari-miituel departments on all of the Kentucky race tracks in recent years, Jias been ordered to rciiort to Fort Thomas for military duty on next Wednesdav. His brother. Walter Taylor, who retired from the saddle last year, is in France now with tlie United States Army.
