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LAST DAY AT LEXINGTON g Best Program of Meeting With Idle Hour Stakes the Feature Much Interest in Clash of Tannery, Buckeye Poet and Breezing Thru in Au Revoir Purse LEXINGTON, Ky.f May 2. The annual spring meeting of the Kentucky Association comes to a close here tomorrow with the running of. one of the most attractive and important programs of the fifteen days racing. As a stake offering, the fifteenth running of the Idle Hour Stakes for juvenile colts and geldings, presents as sparkling a race as has heen arranged during the meeting and while it furnishes a meeting of some keen rivals for the juvenile crown, it must share public interest with the clashing of Tannery, Buckeye Poet and Breezing Thru in the Au Revoir Purse, at one mile and a sixteenth. This trio, meeting as they will under equal weights of 115 pounds each, the tesult of the race tomorrow may, in a measure, establish the Wests Derby favorite and this, not withstanding that the Valley Lake Stables star westerner, High Foot, at this time, is equal choice with the Belair Studs Gallant Fox, foremost of the eastern owned candidates, in pre-race speculation on the outcome of the Churchill Downs "classic." High Foot, now at Churchill Downs, may, before his Derby engagement, encounter the victor in tomorrows race and thus fairly well establish the just claimant to the rank of favorite among the western-owned Derby starters. Be that as it may, tomorrows victor is assured the hopes of many, pulling for a successful repulse of the invaders in the Louisville fixture. Tannery, Buckeye Poet and Breezing Thru each start tomorrow with a "race under their belts." The former two were returned victorious in their initial starts as three-year-olds, while Breezing Thru was unplaced in the mile contest annexed by Buckeye Poet. Tannery scored over a second flight band at the futurity distance last Saturday, and only an hour after he had romped home eight lengths in front of Honey Locust, Buckeye Poet registered decisively over Sydney, Dedicate and others of his age. Since these efforts each of the trio worked over a route of one and one-eighth miles, the former in 1 :54 at the local track, and the Bradley pair in the reported time of 1:57 at Idle Hour Farm. In tomorrows race each will have the services of their Derby riders, Willie Garner piloting Tannery, while Eddie Legere directs Continued on thirteenth page. LAST DAY AT LEXLNGTON Continued from first page. Buckeye Poet and Jimmy Smith rides Breezing Thru. i Following his race a Aveek ago, trainer H. J. Thompson opined that Buckeye Poet Avould not again don colors before Derby day and his acceptance for tomorrows race occasioned a measure of pleasurable surprise. It is understood that trainer Thompson and Mr. Bradley are now of the opinion that Buckeye Poet has much to gain through racing and they are out to give him every opportunity and attention in his quest of a third Avin for the Bradley colors in the Churchill Downs fixture. Incidentally, Thompson expects Breezing Thru to proA-e more effective tomorrow than he did on the occasion of his first start of the year. In addition to the contention of the. Derby contest, another oapacity throng is expected and they Avill Avitness a long desired meeting of Bill Morris, Avinter sensation, Back Bog, Black Comet, Don Leon and other crack colts in the Idle Hour Stakes, over four and one-half furlongs. All of the mentioned quartet Avere Avinners during the meeting and are in tip-top trim for tomorrows stake clash. Clyde Van Dusen, Beaming Over, Judge Hay, Clog Dance and other capable older horses are named to start in the Newton Pike Purse, another promising contest on Lexingtons closing day program, Avhich is made up of eight races.
