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-g LEXINGTON TRACK MUDDY Training Gallops Few and of Little Consequence — Condition Books Please Horsemen. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 2— The Kentucky Association spring meeting will be inaugurated here on April 23 and the program book for the ten days of racing, which was compiled by racing secretary W. H. Shelley, is now in the hands of the horsemen. The opening day card will be featured by the Camden Handicap, with ,000 added, for three-year-olds and over at one mile and a sixteenth. There were forty-six nominations for this event, including such good and tried campaigners as Rothermel, Old Slip. Kentucky Cardinal, Boot to Boot, Bag-enbaggage, Broadway Jones, Marconi, King Nadi, Overall and others. Other stake attractions for the meeting are the Ashland Oaks, to be run on Wednesday, April 27 ; Hinata Stakes, down for decision on Saturday, April 30, and Idle Hour Stakes, the concluding day feature on May 4. The racing officials for the Lexington meeting comprise stewards T. C. Bradley, W. H. Shelley and J. J. Graddy ; placing judges, J. S. Wallace, N. H. McClelland and R. S. Shelley ; starter, Wm. Hamilton ; handicapper and racing secretary. W. H. Shelley ; clerk of the scales, N. H. McClelland ; paddock judge. Dr. J. T. Chawk ; timer. S. K. Hughes ; patrol judge, R. Berryman. and manager of pari-mutuels. E. A. Weidekamp. The track here was very muddy and there was rain intermittently throughout the day. There was little of moment in the training gallops, which were not numerous. C. BBUCE HEAD VISITOR. C. Bruce Head, general manager of the Fairmount Park Jockey Club, and Brownell Berryman, both of whom will again be officials at the Collinsville tracks spring meeting, said that the Fairmount Park stakes had filled satisfactorily and that the prospects for a fine meeting are bright. Mr. Head left this afternoon for his home at Waldeck Farm, near Louisville, and will go next week to St. Louis. Francis Dunn and bride arrived yesterday from Florida for a short visit to Mr. Dunns parents before proceeding to Aurora, where the young man again is to serve as a racing official. Leo J. Marks, upon his return from a ten days visit to New York, found a new foal at his Lemar Stock Farm. It is a fine big brown colt by Omar Khayyam — Ridicule II. There was a letter awaiting him from trainer Charles H. Hughes saying that three of the nine horses in the Lemar Stock Farm string at Louisville have been coughing, but that the others are in good shape. The latest foals at Richard T. Wilsons Kirklevington Farm are a chestnut filly by Tall Timber — Cream and a bay filly by Pillory—Belle Ronald. Mrs. Ed Kane today reported the arrival of two foals, the property of Greenwich Stud, one a bay filly by Waygood — Rhea, by Uncle, and a bay colt by Golden Guinea — DeLuxe Annie, by Ogden. Dale and Dalziel report their recently imported mare Refugee, by Roi Herode, has a brown filly by Craig an Eran at Crystal Springs Farm. George Collins mare Stellas Shadow has a bay filly by Olambala and has been mated with Epinard. «.
