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RACELAND OUTLOOK BRIGHT More Applications Than Stalls at Tri-State Fair Track — Stars in the Derby. RACELAND, Ky., June 25.— The stage is Bet for the opening- of beautiful Raceland, which inaugurates its fifth annual race meeting on the Fourth of July, to continue for sixteen racing days. Thomas B. Cromwell, secretary of the Tri-State Fair and Racing Association, has advised from Lexington that all quarters .available have been reserved and it has been necessary to turn over the applications of a number of owners. Phil Chinn sent along five two-year-olds from Lexington the early part of the week, and advises that others are shortly to follow. Frank Taylor phoned from Latonia that he would arrive Sunday with fourteen of the Coldstream Farm racers. A special train from Lexington will come in the first of the week, while Fair-mount and Latonia will contribute their quota days before the meeting opens here. There is an air of optimism among the more shrewd business men here who are one in predicting a banner meeting for the local course. Business, which has been slow here, is picking up rapidly again and the patrons are pouring out daily to visit the grounds, after the custom in these parts. The course proper has been visited by torrential rains in the past three weeks, but track superintendent Forsythe reports that there have been trials of a quarter in better than :21. William Dondas, who will share the office • of racing secretary with Brownell Berryman, now at St. Louis, will arrive immediately after the meeting at Arlington Park closes. J. O. Keene, general manager, who is now in Chicago, will leave Sunday from that point to take up his duties here. The Raceland Derby, with J7.500 added, will be the chief stake attraction and has drawn the entries of many of the best three-year-olds in the West. Misstep and Easter Stockings probably are the stars of the nominees, and both are reported sure starters. Other stakes down for decision are the Independence Handicap, the Ashland Handicap and the Irontonia Stakes, the latter for juveniles. The Irontonia Stakes attracted the fancy of the owners of fifty-five youngsters, a record list of nominations for this course. With the opening of the New Ventura Hotel at Ashland, and the extension of accommodations at other hostelries, there will be no cause for complaint from those who have found it hard to secure quarters here before. The usual fast train service from Huntington and Ashland will again prevail, while a brand new fleet of busses will take care of traffic by road.
