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IMPROVEMENTS AT CHURCHILL DOWNS Grandstand Addition Nearly Completed Hundreds of Horses Already Quartered There LOriSVILLE Ky March iO General manager Matt 1 Wimi of the Kentucky Jockey Club ar ¬ rived here last night from French Lick Springs Ind when In has been taking a vacation vacationI I confidently expect that this springs will be the best racing season that Kentucky has ever enjoyed he said and the highest class thorough ¬ breds in America will be seen in action not only in the Kentucky Derby but throughout the three meetings at Lexington Churchill Downs and La tonia The easterners have always been well repre ¬ sented in the spring here but this year they will be more so than ever Our stakes drew a sur ¬ prisingly large number of entries with the cream of horses of all ages in them and I do not look for any more of the Ship and run game on the part of owners from New York and vicinity They will meet more formidable opposition than ever before a lot of it coming from their own class and this will make the racing more interesting than Over OverThe The steel structural work on the extension of the grandstand at Churchill Downs which embraces 30SJ feet will be completed within three days and al ¬ ready some of the new addition is under roof When it is all under cover the work can lie rushed faster than ever as weather conditions will not interfere with it then Two new stables are being built at the Downs and superintendent Tom Young said saidthat that one of tl i will be finished within five days dayswhile while the framework of the other is already up All of the improvements will be done in ample time for the opening of the meeting meetingThere There are at present two hundred and eighty horses at Churchill Downs and one hundred nt Douglas Park This number will be greatly in rea cd within the next few days as soun as the owners at New Orleans can get cars to ship in Others will come from Havana at the end of that meeting meetingThe The two tracks were given a thorough drenching on several days this week but every morning finds a large number of horses out for gallops None of the trainers has attempted anything but light exercise for their horses thus far even when the tracks were fast but it will not be long until they will begin to tighten up their charges The twoyearolds here are an exceptionally fine looking band bandDAMASK DAMASK DUE TO ARRIVE MONDAY MONDAYDamask Damask winner of the Louisiana Derby and a candidate for the Kentucky Derby is expected to arrive here Monday with the rest of the division of the Harry Payne Whitney stable under the care of Mose Goldbhitt Goldblatts own horses are at Churchill Downs now they having been brought from New Orleans by Ken Walters 1 D Adkins was an arrival from the Crescent City with tin horses of the Klrkfield Stable This establishment is owned jointly by Adkins nnl Rod 1 MacKenzie the wealthy Canadian railway magnate magnateEugene Eugene EIrod who has charge of the parimutucl departments at all of the Kentucky Jockey Club tracks came from Lexington Ky yesterday on business connected with his cud of the sport lie spent the greater part of the winter in this section with the exception of a trip east in December and said that In is anxious to get back into harness again againWillie Willie Applegate who was on the firing line at New Orleans all winter got in from that city and will spend a few days here before going cast castThat That the parimutuel form of wagering is gain ¬ ing worldwide fame is indicated by a letter that Charles Grainger received from China imiuiring into the cost of four machines also other informa ¬ tion in connection with them A typo of machine is desired so that 10000 tickets can be sold daily Mr Crainger who is actively connected with the Kentucky Jockey Club is head of the firm of Crainger A Co makers of the parimutuel ma ¬ chines in use at Churchill Downs He also received a communication from New Orleans asking that thattwo two machines and a man to del istrate them lie liesent sent to Katoii Kongc La when the Louisiana legis ¬ lature is in session next May so that the solons of that state can see how they rperate This re ijuest will be complied with
