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DOUGLAS PARKS OPENING DAY CARD Speculation Stakes and Six Other Eaces Expected i to Provide Interesting Sport. Louisville. Ky.. May 21. — The program liook for r he first seven days of the Douglas Park Jockey *, Clubs spring meeting is ready for distribution. It contains the conditions of forty-nine races to bo run ! ., during the parted, beginning with the opening day of the meeting Monday. May 27. and up to aud including . Monday. June 3. Conditions f.,;- the final seven davs of the meeting, from June 3 to J until, v will he issu-al later. The iKMik was compiled by Racing Secretary J. B. CamplK-ll anil represents that capable officials " best effort to bring the numerous high-class horses. with which the stables at Douglas Park and Churchill .; Downs are filled to overflowing iioint, into daily f competition at the Douglas Park Jockey Clubs J beautiful home, which never presented a more in 1 viting aspect than it does right now iu all of its 1 spring time freshness of natural beauty. . The lMKik provides for the usual seven races each day. The opening days program is especially promising "_ of high-class sixirt and is built around the _" Siieculation Stakes of . 1.500 added, in which three ~ year-olds and over will race one mile and one sixteenth. There are seventy-two eligilles f,r this s stake and it will unquestionably attract a fine " field. Next ill importance will lie a handicap at . three quarters of a mile for a purse of 100. which " may Is- expected to attract the cream of the sprint ing division. An allowance race at one mile and JJ seveutv yards for a purse of ,000 for three-year-olds and over and an allowance race for " two year olds at five-eighths of a mile are other ;r races that will afford the high-class horses oppor-tunity fir action. A 00 allowance race for two year-old fillies at four and one-half furlongs, an J", claiming race for three-year-olds and over at one mile and seventy yards and a ? 00 claiming race 1 for horses of the same ages at three-quarters of a mile complete the program for what holds out the promise of a notable days sjH.rt. The values of the .[►cuing days purses are fairly rcpro-o-ntative of what is provided throughout the entire meeting. a .
