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A _ _ § KENTUCKY OAKS TODAY LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 1.— The Churchill Downs spring meeting of twenty-three days concludes tomorrow, when a program of quality that has its feature in a renewal of the 0,000 added Kentucky Oaks, will be offered. The chief attraction is expected to bring under colors the good three-year-old fillies Easter Stockings, Pink Lily, Reveries Gal, Sandrine, Elizabeth, Rejoice, Aleader and Miss Lee. They will contest over a distance of a mile and an eighth, with Easter Stockings and Reveries Gal the pre-race choices. The initial running of the stake was back in 1875, the year the Kentucky Derby had its inception. Last year it resulted in a victory for Gallaher and Combs Mary Jane. Some of the greatest fillies during the more than half century of its history listed among the winners of the fixture. The overnight field, together with weights, post positions and probable riders, follows : Probable TP. Horse. Wt. TTHir 1— Pink Lily 1 Hi K. Ilorvath 2 — Kaster Stockings. . 110 W. Crump 3 — Iteveries* Gal 121 C. Lang 4 — Sandrine 110 It, Hardy S— Klizabeth 11G II. Gray 0 — Rejoice 110 A. Abel 7— Aleader 116 n. Itlcharda 8 — Miss Ie 110 D. Connelly $ • $
