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DEMAND FOR DOWNS STABLES . . Record Number of Reservations Re-ceivefl at Derby .Track. Kay Spence Expected Shortly With Thirty-Five Horses Belonging to Famous Audley Farm. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 8 For many years the demand for stabling room at Churchill Downs has not been as great as this winter. Track superintendent Tom Young is alreadyin a huddle with his assistants to provide stalls for the stables which plan to ship here for the spring meeting. It is estimated that both Churchill Downs and Douglas Park will take care of 1,500 horses. Yet Mr. Young is in receipt of requests for reservations, which will cause many of the applicants disappointment, simply for the reason there will hot be enough stabling room for all. . . Kay Spence, who has for years trained the western division of the Audley Farm Stable,, will shortly occupy his old stable at the Downs with thirty-five head of thoroughbreds, most of them two-year-olds, fresh from the Audley Farm Stable at Benyville, Va. Mr. Spence. says the stock has wintered famously in the Shenandoah valley, and he believes he has several champions in the youngsters he is bringing. All are homebred and are sons and daughters of famous sires and matrons which have rarely failed to send something worth while to the races. H. M. Woolf , Kansas City sportsman, has written superintendent Young to reserve thirty-five stalls for his horses, which will be here to race at the spring meeting. These horses are in charge of Ben A. Jones, notable horseman of Parnell, Mo. Mr. Jones has recently succeeded Danny Stewart as trainer of the Woolf horses. Lady Broadcast is one of the stars of this stable and she will probably be seen under colors in the Clark Handicap, feature of the opening days card at Churchill Downs,. April 30. Dark Sea was the star of this stable last season. He probably will be seen in action at the spring meeting. First foals of the. year reported in Jefferson County came from the Shady Brook Stock Farm Stable of Theodore Mueller, member of the State Racing Commission. Jim Moody, who trains the racers of this stable, announced that Mieux had foaled a bay filly by In Memoriam; Margaret E. Hope, a black colt by Actuary, and May Morn, a bay filly by Actuary. The last named mares will be returned to Actuary, Mr. Muellers prize stock horse. Johnny Schorr, who is training the Three Ds horses this season, has asked for thirty-eight stalls at Churchill Downs. There are several Derby candidates in this menage, including Liberty Limited, Texas Knight and Pietro. Liberty Limited seems to be the chief dependence for Derby honors in this band. The fleet mare, Pansy Walker, is in this stable, and according to" reports she has been named for all the sprinting stakes, both in Kentucky and Illinois. Jack Weaver, veteran horseman, who will train a few horses for his brother-in-law, William E. Smith, vice chairman of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, arrived here to assemble the stock. This stable lost its potential Derby colt last fall when Wise Talk fell and had to be destroyed in the Queen City Handicap, closing feature of Kentucky racing at Latonia. Bud Stotler, who trains the horses of C. H. Pierce, has divulged that it is his intention to start, the good gelding, War Plane, in the Kentucky Derby. War Plane was a good two-year-old in Maryland last fall and as he has wintered nicely in Maryland and on account of him being a gelding and not eligible to start in the Preakness, Mr. Stotler will take a chance at the Derby with the gelding. Roscoe Goose is on the job training about fifteen head of thoroughbreds, the property of Polk Laffoon, chairman of the State Racing Commission and other parties. He is ; occupying the stable formerly used by the Parkview horses, . which were trained by William "Butch" Covington. Mr. Goose has the reputation of developing sensational riders. His development of Eugene James in 1930 and Gilbert Elston in 1931 are samples of his style of riding, which he practiced with no mean skill a decade or more ago. Roscce lias a couple of "comers" in his stable, which he says will eventually make good in the saddle.
