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STABLE ROOM AT PREMIUM Big Demand for Stalls at Fair-mount Park — Roads Leading to Plant Widened. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 9.— C. Bruce Head, general manager of the Fairmount Jockey Club, who is making a visit to Louisville, radiates confidence that the coming thirty-seven day meeting that opens at Fairmount Park on May 26 will prove the most successful ever conducted at that track. During a discussion of the coming meeting Mr. Head said that he had every assurance that the racing will be provided by many of the leading horses in training and the representatives of some of the most prominent owners in the country. So great has been the demand for stable accommodations that Mr. Head has been required to advise horsemen, not having confirmation of stall reservations, not to ship to the Collinsville track. Improvements to the plant, which include the widening and improving of the various approaches to the grounds and others installed at considerable cost, has been completed, according to Mr. Head. The widened thoroughfares are expected to eliminate all of the congestion that marked the big days of previous meetings. Interest in the renewal of the Fairmount Derby, set for June 2, greatly exceeds that manifested at this time during any previous year, Mr. Head said, and with all of the leading three-year-olds among the likely starters the renewal is expected to develop a race well up the highest standards of three-year-old racing.
