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OMAHAS MEETING AT HAND Track Stables Crowded. Officials, Owners and Jockeys Arriving. Eacing Prospects Bright. OMAHA, Neb., May 27. — Having firmly entrenched itself on the racing map, beautiful Ak-Sar-Ben field, which will inaugurate its spring meeting next Saturday to continue for a period of twenty-two racing days, will be patronized by a better class of owners, and consequently the grade of thoroughbreds that will participate in the sport will be a vast improvement over former seasons. At the present time, to use the vernacular of the footlights, the "standing room only" sign has been hung out, as regards stabling accommodations. Over 700 horses are now housed at the local course, and what few empty stalls are left have been reserved for the late comers that are shipping from Churchill Downs and Maple Heights. With the Williams Brothers string having arrived from Kentucky, it leaves B. J. Brannon, P. J. Clausen, S. T. Baxter, Padget and Dougherty, Frozen North Stable and Jones and Phillips yet to come from the other side of the Missouri River. Jones and Phillips are bringing i a useful stable, consisting of the following named horses : Sir Lawnfall, Belgian Queen, Lee Enfield, Lou Pope, Foul Weather and Hardman. C. B. Irwin will race the most pretentious aggregation of thoroughbreds here, his string numbering eighteen head, of which his veteran campaigner, Abadane, and his handicap horse, All Over, are the stars. Others that will represent him are Caveat Emptor, Tubby A., Edmon, Sequan, Chiva, The Falconer, Bundark, Tooters, Queen Catherine, Bunolathe. Sea Mint, Lemon Seth, Bunpre-serve, Helen Cook, Karonga and AVoodie Montgomery. The Irwin stock, especially All 1 Over and Abadane, seem to have benefited j by their rest after their hard campaign at Tijuana last winter, and bear the appearance of being rejuvenated runners. Another stable, which promises to play an Important part in the decision of the stakes and purses provided by the Ak-Sar-Ben management, is that owned by Col. R. L Baker of Kentucky. In The Araucanian, a son of Dodge and Hoop Skirt, Colonel Baker has a horse of high class and distinction. At Tijuana last winter The Araucanian won six races out of his last eight starts, and polished off his Mexican engagements by engaging Little Chief in a terrific battle while racing over a distance of a mile and a sixteenth, in which the former Bancocas Stable star just managed to take his measure by the narrowest of margins. The Araucanian is a horse of extreme speed, and according to Colonel Baker, the Kentuckian holds it no secret that he has never trained a horse as fast as this stalwart son of Dodge. The others of the Baker string comprise Quince Garden, Keegan, Treasurer, Fair Orient, Power, Rondelle, May Bruen, Judge Pryor, Iavinia and Lawrence Manning. Owing to the fact that Nebraska has placed an embargo on live stock coming from California, on account of the danger of the foot and mouth disease spreading, Baker, who raced Cherokee Lee. Jack Bauer, Victoire and Pif Jr. at Tanforan, was forced to leave them in the poppy state, although he wanted to add them to his string here. The entire stable is to be raced at Chicago later on. With the betless meeting at Tanforan having come to a close, the Ak-Sar-Ben management received word from that center that the majority of the best jockeys that rode recently in California are now en route to Omaha. These include F. Weiner, E. Fator, C. Thompson. F. Chiavetti, J. Grormley, A. Collins and the corking apprentice riders G. Abel and M. Frey. These pilots, added to the many good jockeys already here, will enhance the riding situation, and there should be no dearth of capable reinsmen ready to accept mounts when the opening day is at hand. Late arrivals here are William Dondas, who has charge of the mutuel plant at Ak-Sar-Ben field, and Arthur McKnight, who will do the starting here. W. H. Shelly, who will act as presiding judge, and Dr. F. W. Ashe, his associate in the stand, are expected here Thursday. When these two noted racing authorities have arrived, then the official family will be complete. Two horses succumbed to attacks of pneumonia since coming here, they beine: S. Tails Wylie and William Weants Sea Way. The veteran jockey Charles Gross has been engaged to ride for the Jones Stock Farm, of which Ben Jones of rarnell. Mo., and Nelson Updike, owner of the Omaha Bee, are the guiding spirits. In addition to the fine mare. Second Thoughts, they will have their latest acquisition. Go Foin, to represent them in the feature races. The good horse, Delante, which at New Orleans last winter demonstrated by his consistent victories in handicaps that he is a runner of good class, pulled up quite lame the other morning after a gallop, and critical horsemen say that he is on the verge of breaking down. George Drumhellers Skeezix, which went wrong at Tijuana late in the meeting, has j entirely recovered from his mishap and is in active training again. Ruddy, from the same barn, which was a disappointment at the Mexican course, has been gelded and his late workouts give promise that the horse will be a frequent winner here during the forth- , coming meeting. Walter Marty, Ralph Reese and Dave Hed-dington of the calculating department of the Ak-Sar-Ben mutuel plant, are arrivals from . California.
