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LEXINGTONS FINE PROGRAM Bit of White Works a Fast Mile Behave Your ¬ self and Black Servant Also LBXINGTON Ky April The book for tlie ton days of tlio Kentucky Jockey Clnls Lexington siring meeting April 23 to May 4 prepared t y tlie master hand of William II Shelley racing secre ¬ tary was distributed today to horsemen It pro ¬ vides a total of 85000 to lie paid to horse owners oC which 20000 is added to stakes 00JO To overnight handicaps and 9000 to purse raons Tho stakes are the Hen AH Handicap Saturday April 23 Ashland Oaks Tuesday April 20 niirua Stakes Thursday April 28 Itlne Crass Stakes Saturday April 30 Idle Hour Stakes Tuesday May 3 and Camden Handicap Wednesday May 4 The Cnindcii has 5000 adiled the others 3000 iacii The six overnight handicaps have 100 added ami the remaining fiftynine races are for 1000 pulses Twenty of tlie seventy races arc for twoyearolds twelve for Ihieeyearolds twentyseven for tlirei yearolds and over and eleven for fouryearolds and over overThere There are only seven distances at which races are to be run as follows Fourteen at a half mile six at four and onehalf furlongs nineteen at three quarters four at one mile fourteen at one miie and a sixteenth three at one mile and oneeighth and ten at one mile and a quarter It is alto ¬ gether a book that promises excellent racing racingWilliam William Woodard wired from Now Orleans today to Thomas B Cromwell secretary of the Thorough ¬ bred Horse Association as follows Air OBriens Kentucky Derby candidate Iluribns worked over the Fair Grounds track with 125 pounds p this morn ¬ ing First quarter in 23 half 47 fiveeighths 100 throequarters 113 mile 140 mile and an eighth 155 galloped out tlie mile and one quarter in 210 He came out of the work fine and looks good Trainer Tom Shannon and myself will ship to Lexington Sunday morning Tell the hard boots they had better be ready as this colt will rim all the way Rodriguez will ride him in the Derby DerbyT T I1 Hayes who is an inhabitant of hoot JaiidjitiiiS jjjntraUKontlicky is popularly called on tlie American running turf was present when the message came and he said I am willing to take Hit of White to beat 1luribus I saw her do a mile In 141 this morning over a track that was soft from new dirt and slow enough to make her performance stand out like a mile in 138 over a perfect track She did her quarter in 24 half in 48 fiveeighths in 102 and threequarters in 114 You can wire Woodard that the boots will be ready for Pluribus and that they will take him into camp I think lie ought to be 50 to 1 for tlie Kentucky Derby DerbyTwo Two other eligibles for tlie Derby from tlie E R Itradley string worked a mile together in 143 They were Itehave Yourself and Black Servant both doing it easily Balance Wheel from tlie same stable did a mile in 141 Secret Greet ¬ ings from the Keene stable worked a mile in 143 driving Miss Mullins from the same stable ran threequarters in 117
