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GOLDEN JUBILEE SPRING MEETING BEGINS TODAY y ■ v CHURCHILL DOWNS FIFTIETH YEAR «. Kentucky Jockey Club Presents One of the Most Beautiful and Commodious Race Courses in the Country — Fourteen Named in Clark Handicap, Opening Day Attraction • LOUISVILLE, Ky.. May 9. — With a stage setting unexcelled in the history of the thoroughbred sport here, Churchill Downs will tomorrow inaugurate its fiftieth annual spring j period cf racing. The meeting will comprise nineteen racing day3. j It will be a jubilee meeting in all it implies. Everything is on a scale of unrivaled j magnificence. Churchill Downs is now one of the largest and most beautiful race courses ! in the country. One hundred thousand patrons can be taken care of without subjecting them to too much crowding. The same elaborate arrangements hold good in all other ■ : departments pertaining to the sport and to the comfort of the visitors to this track. i General manager Matt J. Winn and his associates felt just pride this morning when j the final touches were applied by tne big force of workers completing the stupendous task I athoy have been at for months. .. In its present "•"-j «** ■ * ~.-*.» «... .. ...~.. — -•- -*" ,--— "•"-j «** ■ * ~.-*.» «... .. ...~.. .. — -•- -*" ,--— ---state Churchill Downs combines vastness. modernism, completeness and innovations that far outstrip any other racing course in this country. It will be a revelation to former visitors and a huge source of wonderment and delight to those making their first visit to Churchill Downs. Interest in the coming meting is at fever heat. Never before has there been so much general country-wide interest centered on the coming activities here. The crest for box and reserved seats has been reached. Eully GOO more box reservations were applied for than the capacity, and capacity at this track is nearly five times more than at any other course. Opening day will find an immense crowd on hand to view the racing and its attending incidents. It will be augmented daily by additions until Derby day from all sections of the country ; many from foreign countries, including England and Erance, where the Kentucky Derby is regarded as the contending race in this country. The crowds will linger after the Derby is decided and predictions are freely made that the attendance this year will establish an outstanding record. The list of notable persons who have made reservations and intend to witness the Jubilee Derby has never been ecpjaled at any sporting event in this country. OLD AS THE DKltBT. The introductory card is featured by the long-established lark Handicap, which, like the Kentucky Derby, had its inception in l*-7" . and derives its name from the lite Colonel M. Lewis Clark, founder of the Louisville Joekfy Ciub, since changed to it-; present name, the Kentucky Jockey Club. The race lis of 0,000 added and will be worth rrrniH j erably more than this to the winner — nearly ! f ir».000 net. Fourteen good horses, including Chacolet. vi, tress in the .". 000 Dixie Handicap at limlieo, in which she triumphed over the j best that the Last could muster, are named in the entries as starters. At least a dozen are expected to respond to the bugle call, and it should serve as a fitting appetizer for the sport to follow, with the Jubilee Darby serving as the main attraction and the Crainger Memorial and the Kentucky Oaks also toothsome morsels. The usual bustle and activity attending the day before the opening was in evidence today, only more so on account of the large number of arriving horses from Lexington. ; The arrivals were continuous and their han-; dlers made short dispatch getting them quar-I tered in their assigned stalls. The secretarys office aid surrounding it I were like a beehive, owners, trainers and | others being on business bent. Than was no confusion and the matter of registration, making entries, securing badges and the numerous other details attending an opening were gone through with dispatch. POST POSITIONS AWOlNChn. In the stewards office there was activity, too. The officials were busy going over the applications lor licenses by trainers. The same procedure inaugurated at LsxiagSMI applying to post positions, being in the order that the names in the original entries appear, will apply bare. William Snyder will inaugurate the starting and preside for the first ten days, before relin-iuishing to William Hamilton. Trainer liob Glbnore, who is in charge of the horses of Carl Wiedemann, was much concerned over In Memoriams injury. It is not definitely known how serioas it is. According to trainer GUmore the horse showed no symptoms of isnUWOSS after his last work, but on the following day he was badly lamed, and a swollen ankle indicated that he had struck himself. • • "It is hard to say how leng In Mernoriam will be laid up by the mishap." was GlbnonS Answer when asked how long the bene would be out of racing.
