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KENTUCKY CAMPAIGN NEAR Will Open at Lexington Next Saturday Afternoon Best Horses in the Land to Clash ClashGloriously Gloriously in the Many Rich RichStake Stake Races to Gome LEXINGTON Ky April 10 The Kentucky Jockey Club will usher in at the picturesque old course of the defunct Kentucky Association here next Saturday a series of race meetings that will liave a duration of sixtyone racing days and be marked by the distribution among horsemen of mor than 800000 There will be ten days of racing at Lexington of which the salient features will be renewals of the Hinata Idle Hour and Blue Grass stakes the Ashland Oaks and the Camden and Ben AH Handicaps The Camden a 5000 added race the other events with 3000 added Some 70000 will fall to horsemen here hereThe The Lexington meeting will be followed by a twenty day meeting at Churchill Downs that will be inaugurated on May 7 with a renewal of the historic Kentucky Derby a 50000 addedmoney race and further signalized by the running of the Kentucky Handicap the Kentucky Oaks with 10 000 added the Clark Handicap with 7500 added and the Debutante Bashful Manor and Spring Trial Stakes and the Proctor Knott Handicap each with 5000 added Between 275000 and 300000 will be the portion of the horsemen participating in Churchill Downs racing which will last through to Include the 30th of May MayOutstanding Outstanding features of the Latonia meeting which will begin June 4 and close July 9 will be renewals of the Latonia Derby and the Independ ¬ ence Handicap of 15000 added money each the Latonia Oaks and the Daniel Boone Handicaps 10000 added races of one mile and a quarter and one mile and threesixteenths respectively the 5 000 added Clipsetta Harold and Cincinnati Trophy stbkes for twoyearolds and the 5000 Inaugural Ten Broeck Quickstep and Enquirer Handicaps Over 400000 will be the reward of the horsemen supporting the Latonia meeting The total may reach a half million dollars dollarsThe The Kentucky Derby which has attracted 109 ilomltiatious will with a field of a dozen or fif ¬ teen starting have a gross value of nearly 60000 It wiil exceed in value any other race for three yearolds run in any other part of the country It will throw completely in the shade the Preakness Marylands great spring special for threeyearolds threeyearoldsAMERICAS AMERICAS GREATEST SPRING FEATURE FEATUREThat That the Kentucky Derby renewal this year will be Americas great spring racing event is assured The most brilliant threeyearold prospects in the country Tryster Leonardo II Incheape Pluri Ims Brigadier General Bon Honime Mulciber Exodus Star Voter Rangoon Behave Yourself Urcy Lag Knobbie Halu Our Flag Careful Nancy Lee Step Lightly Prudery and others the most successful of last years twoyearolds are training for it with a band of promising colts and fillies that did not as twoyearolds and for various reasons have fair chances to develop and disclose their real quality The best of these colts and fillies will come to the Derby fresh frorri winter quarters There will be no cripples cripplesThat That it will bring to Louisville thousands of sportloving folk from all parts of the United States and Canada is equally certain Sumptuous Derby trains will head for Louisville in the first week of May from New York Chicago Toronto Italtmore New Orleans and St Louis Louis villeH capacity for public entertainment will be taxed to the utmost Elbow room at Churchill Downs on Derby day will be at a premium The momentum the Derby sendoff will give Kentucky racing on May 7 will carry through to the finish at Latonia The Kentucky Jockey Club is in for its most successful term of highclass sport Because of its liberal stake races and purses Kentucky racing will attract the best horses in the land The great stables of the East will compete with the strongest combination of the Went for the grcat and small prizes Widely known eastern nominators in Kentucky stakes are Hurry Payne Whitney Commander J K L Ross of Montreal Samuel D Riddle Edward F Simms Walter J Salmon J Edwin Griffith Harry F Sinclair George W Loft Mrs Payne Whitney Lawrence Waterbury Joseph E Widener John H Rossotcr Philip A Clark Gifford A Cochran Max Hirsch James F Johnson Willis Sharpe Kil ¬ mer Edward Bcale McLean Walter M Jeffords Mrs Walter M Jeffords Alfred Hennen Morris Robert J Walden William Woodnrd Thomas W OBrien Edward F Whitney John Lumsden Ad ¬ miral Gary T Grayson J Leonard Replogle J S Cosdcn Clendennin Ryan James Butler W R Coe Richard F Carman Montfort Jones and others othersWestern Western nominators of equal celebrity are Hon J N Camdeil Edward R Bradley Major Thomas C McDowell George J Long II H Hewitt C W Clark W V Thraves Hal Price Headley F J Kelley S K Nichols John Huchmeister B J Brannon A C Goodloe J W Parrish J S Ward M If Fletcher R H Anderson W E Applcgate W S Payne J P Baker C C Van Meter R L Baker Edward Tcbrian George Wingfield Kenneth D Alexander W W Darden George M Hcridrie J C Milam W O Stoner Miller Henderson D W Scolt Wnterson Sho walter J C Ferrlss A Baker John Lowe and G H Abbott
