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LEXINGTON PROSPECTS GOOD Stall Room Already at a Premium — Star Racsrs for the Stake Features. The Kentucky Jockey Club will begin its spring meeting at Lexington on April 29 and the sport will continue there until May 10, there being three days respite until Derby Day, Saturday, May 13. In former years the purses at Lexington had been less than they were at Louisville and Lator.ia for the reason that although the blue grass capital is the center of the thoroughbred industry and there is always great interest in the races throughout that section, there has been no money made at the Lexington meetings. The reason is that there is not enough population to draw from, but the Kentucky Jockey Club is anxious to do everything to encourage the horsemen and build up the sport, and with that spirit in view has raised the purses, ,300 being the lowest amount given. There will be a total distribution at Lexington this spring of nearly 05,000. The promise of a successful meeting is shown in the application for stalls. Dozens of horsemen have been shut out because there isnt a vacant stall at the track or in its vicinity. The Ben Ali Handicap, which is run on Saturday, April 23, the opening day, will .bring together a field composed of the best of the older division and several of the Derby eligibles. Ginger, Centimeter, Bit of White, Madcap, Rangoon, United Verde, Kin-burn. Firebrand, Rouleau, Woodtrap, Bread Man and Minto II. are among the forty-nine nominations. Among the three-year-olds are Rekab, Casey. Colonel Bradleys Busy American, Bet Mosie and By Gosh ; Braedalbane, Tom Hare, Jr., Deadlock, Rob and Ashland. The Ashland Oaks, which has been won by such high-class fillies as Myrtle Harkness, Gowell, Bronzewing, Water Blossom, Clinton-ville and Pongee, will draw the best field of three-year-old fillies this year that this stake has ever shown. This will be the first meeting this year of Startle, one of the best of the two-year-old division last year, a Kentucky Derby eligible, and one that may hold safe every three-year-old. colt in Kentucky, Montfort Jones sensational filly Miss Joy and her stable companion Fair Phantom. G. L. Blackfords Gentility, Lexington Futurity winner, is also in the list. She has all her wonderful speed this spring and her gallops at Churchill Downs have been of a sensational order. The Keene Brothers Jeanne Bowdre, winner of the Golden Rod Handicap at Churchill Downs last fall, is also a sure starter. Colonel Bradley has four — Bill and Coo, Brilliant Star, Be Good and Bred at Home. The Blue Grass Stakes, to be run on the seventh day of the meeting, Saturday, May 6, has forty-four entries, and include many of the Derby eligibles and the Derby contender, if not the winner, may come out of this contest. The Simms stable has entered Lucky Hour, Missionary and My Tlay, the latter being a brother to Man o War. Will Wallace also has his fine colt Horologe. The distance is a mile and an eighth and it will be an ideal trial for the Derby. »
