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N • ■ n, I St. It. i for r I a- • •1- 1 n I » n ] e g be e i in n « t of f J, s g i a a i t d a y f e a r t o d t r b % n d s v e v s p y t fc I .. p it t p p ii I I v 3 1 i • 1 tl f o j v ; , le tc i w - ! = OVER 2,000 APPLICATIONS 5 ♦ Latonia Deluged With Requests for r 1 Stable Room for Coming Meeting. ♦ Additional Barns to Be Built to Help Take e ] Up Overflow— Expect Record Fields In All Features. ♦ LATONIA, Ky., June 8.— With more than i 2,000 applications for stalls and only 1200 | stalls on the ground, the Latonia Jockey j t Club shifted the wheat from the chaff, held I . a conference and then decided that addi- - ] tional barns should be erected to accommo- - 1 date some of the overflow to be here for • the thirty-one day mid-summer meeting that 1 commences Saturday, June 27 and termi-s, nates Saturday, August 1. Two barns, each to accommodate thirty-d six horses, will be built back of the new ad- - I dition in time to house the equines for the l t meeting. Maurice Galvin, vice-president, , s and Col. Matt Win, executive director, de- v cided the question at Washington Park : f Saturday. Mr. Galvin returned to Covington early Sunday and intends having the cons tractors at work not later than Tuesday, i, "I went over the list of applications for A stall room with Tom Young Friday and, if i! it was possible to accommodate those de- t_ siring to come here, it would be necessary f to move the barns from Churchill Downs and Douglas Park. We do not want to re- 1 fuse anyone stabling accommodations and as we must first take care of those that t have entries for our six stakes, there was q nothing to do but build new barns. Glad ti to say it will afford work for men that are v, out of employment and I am only sorry G that the management could not afford to h build many new structures," was the state- ti ment issued by Mr. Galvin. 2- "Colonel Winn informed me that horsemen who did not ship to Latonia last year, as 0 well as many easterners, have wired him 2 personally for stalls, and that he believed " the largest fields, including the Latonia Z Derby, in the history of the plant would „, a parade to the post," concluded the vice- „ w president. From now until the opening of the meet- " ing. Mr. Galvin will be at Latonia to super- td vise the many improvement to be made tl The change in the system of betting last the I, season, which gave a grand totalizator for the different machines, met with much sue- „ cess and Mr. Galvin has several other inno- „ yl vations for the mid-summer meeting. J The public address system, which was _ lent to Churchill Downs has arrived at La-; tonia and will be installed during the coming week. The Bahr starting gate and the re- = Continued on twenty-first page. OVER 2,000 APPLICATIONS Continued from first page. surfaced track are a few of the changes made since the Latonia Jockey Club became a unit of the American Turf Association. The victory of Dixianas Sweep All and that of Alyssum over Cousin Jo lends new importance to the renewals of the Latonia Derby and Oaks. Sweep All, despite his defeat by Pittsburgher looms as the possible western favorite in the forty-ninth running of the Latonia Derby, which is the feature of the opening days program, while Alyssum will have another opportunity to meet Cousin Jo in the thirty-fifth Latonia Oaks. The former, decided at a mile and a half and the only real race to be decided at the Derby distance, should engage a field of twelve or more, while the Oaks, a gallop of a mile and a quarter, is expected to bring out the best of the three-year-old fillies. Alyssum, a daughter of Supremus and Escarpolette, found a track made to order for her in the Illinois Oaks. Escarpolette, her dam, was considered one of the best mud runners ever to run over the Kentucky tracks. Supremus, a son of Ultimus, which also sired Stimulus, the sire of Cous- in Jo, always produced horses of mud running proclivities. This pair, in addition to Betty Derr, Plumage, Laila Wild, Reverberate, In Haste, Silver Beauty, Anne Arundel, which finished third in the Illinois Oaks, Sunny Lassie and others, will meet in the Latonia fixture.
