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I , j t r r , , 1 ; J . , j j , , EASTERN PATRONAGE HEAVY Many Prominent Owners From Atlantic Seaboard States Coming to Washington Park. i Chicago racing this year will attract greater attention from eastern turfment than ever before, according to Judge C. W. Hay, general manager of Washington Park Jockey Club. Application for stable room filed by owners who have conducted their campaigns principally on New York and Maryland tracks indicate that when Washington Parks thirty-day meeting begins May 2G there will be more thoroughbreds from the East competing against the West than in any previous year. Judge Hay said Harry Payne Whitney had arranged to ship twenty performers. This will be the first trip for Whitney racers in Chicago spring racing. Never before has Whitney assigned so many thoroughbreds of high caliber for activity in the West. Mose Goldblatt will have in charge this band. The Warm Stable, owned by Mason and Hanger, will make its Chicago debut with eighteen, topped by Victorian, also The Nut. Tommy Taylor will be in charge. The Audley Farm, with twenty-four, trained by Miller Henderson, will race the eastern division here for the first time. Edward Haughton is coming with twenty-eight Greentree Stable horses, while Capt. P. M. Walker will have fifteen. S. W. Labrot, with twenty horses, will be another newcomer. One of his racers is Dinah Did Upset. The eastern owners mentioned by Judge Hay do not include all of those who have obtained reservations at Washington Park. These are notable instances of horsemen who are, for the first time, to engage in the spring inaugural of the sport in Illinois. Judge Hay said : "It looks as if we shall have available a greater number of horses than ever before. We can take care of at least 1,200 at Washington Park. The remainder will be at Lincoln Fields and nearby places. "It is as much of a problem to take care of the horses as it will be to provide boxes for the American Derby, to be run Saturday, June 14. The call for American Derby reservation is surprising, and we anticipate a capacity crowd to witness it."
