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DERBY MEETING AT HAND Wonderful Inaugural Program at Churchill Downs Stars of Turf in Clark Handicap Derby Hopes to Go in the Sup ¬ plementary Entire Plant Beautified and Improved LOUISVILLE Ky May 9 Churchill Downs famed home of the world renowned Kentucky Derby opens tomorrow for its annual spring meeting Bringing as it does the fiftysixth running of the 50000 added Kentucky Derby the season of nineteen days commands an importance of international proportions and when the curtains descend on May 31 another glittering chapter will have been added to its glorious history stretching back through almost three score years of racing at the enviously wellappointed course courseIn In addition to the Kentucky Derby renewals of the 10000 added Clark Handicap 10000 added Kentucky Oaks 10 000 added Grainger Memorial Handicap 5000 added Debutante Stakes and 5000 Bash ford Manor Stakes are on the pro gram for the meeting Additionally pre ¬ liminary tests of the Kentucky Derby hopefuls and numerous overnight oppor ¬ tunities for the older and younger stars augment the importance of the racing and lend further reason for the keen interest with which the meeting is awaited awaitedThere There is every indication that the meeting will take rank with the most successful in the record of the track and barring a mild threat of rain the eve of the opening finds conditions most propitous for Saturdays in ¬ augural With the first offering comes a measure of the quality of sport to be pre senteds the fiftysixth running of the Clark Handicap as the stake feature and the South Louisville Purse bringing out a number of the outstanding western Derby hopefuls as the supplementary attraction In the latter exclusively for threeyearolds and set for decision over six and a half furlongs such of the top flight threeyearolds as High Foot Gallant Knight Billy Champ Alci biades Pansy Walker Sydney and eight others of little less prominence are named to start With High Foot Gallant Knight and Sydney vicing for Derby favoritism the race presents one of the most attractive and important Derby preliminaries of recent years yearsGREAT GREAT AttllAY OF STA11S STA11SFor For the valuable and coveted Clark Handi ¬ cap at one mile and a sixteenth the over ¬ night field embraces such of the older luminiaries as Misstep Toro Jock The Nut Clyde Van Dusen Easter Stockings Martie Flynn Blackwood Montanaro Stars and Bars and others to the number of sixteen An exception even in the record of this stand ¬ ing fixture the field for Saturdays running assures a spectacular contest the result of which may be accepted as one affording a good line as to pride and place among the handicap division divisionWith With but a single exception large fields as in the two principal races accepted for the remaining five contests and the starters for the first or introductory dash will be called to the post at 2 oclock oclockThe The plant long one of the most picturesque commodious and complete in this country has through the skill of engineers and land ¬ scape gardners been brought to an even more beautiful roomy and complete state than ever before Today it offered a pretty sight in its readiness and color and regard ¬ less of weather visitors Saturday will find its inviting appeal more refreshing than ever before beforeDATES DATES OF FEATURES FEATURESFollowing Following the renewal of the Clark Handi ¬ cap six days intervene before the thirty sixth running of the Debutante Stakes for twoyearold fillies next Friday The day following brings the great Kentucky Derby matching from fifteen to twenty of Americas outstanding threeyearolds over one and one quarter miles The Grainger Memorial Han ¬ dicap for threeyearolds and upward at one mile and an eighth will be run for the eighteenth time on May 24 while the Bash ford Manor for juvenile colts and geldings is programmed for May 30 Memorial Day and the Kentucky Oaks for threeyearold fillies is to top the closing day card cardM M J Winn executive of Churchill Downs will personally direct this important meeting the racing of which will be under the super ¬ vision of Charles F Price presiding steward and his associates T C Bradley S C Nuckolsand Elijah Hogg W H Shelley is racing secretary and handicapper and with S H McMeekin and Sherman Coodpaster will serve in the placing judges stand standThe The starting from permanent stalls or the Waite machines will be done by William Hamilton
