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ACTIVE AT LEXINGTON Sunshine and Spring Warmth Dis sipating Raw, Damp Weather, Horsemen Welcome Favorable Traim ing Weather Minimum Purse a Churchill Downs is ,000., LEXINGTON, Ky., March 23. With sun shine and spring warmth dissipating the raw, damp winter weather of the past few days and the track of the local Kentucky Association in good condition, trainers of the scores upon scores of thoroughbreds crowding the Association tracks stables to capacity, got in many a brisk muscle-tightening training work this morning. While the cold snap did not greatly interrupt training programs, horsemen welcomed the more seasonable weather and with continued favorable conditions, those of the horses retired from racing during the winter and training at the local course for the coming season, will be ready for colors with the opening of the Kentucky Associations meeting April 16. S. Sewell Combs, president, and Thomas H. Scott, general manager of the Kentucky Association, are pushing preparations for the ten-day meeting. A heavy cold forced Mr. Combs to remain away from the course and he directed important details from indoors, while Mr. Scott was out and around the grounds throughout the day. Racing secretary William H. Shelleys copy for the program or condition book for the meeting, went to the printer yesterday and the booklets will be ready for distribution among the horsemen by Saturday, or early next week. Stables getting in from the South include those of C. S. Ormsby and S. S. Combs from New Orleans. Allan Gallaher and Jouett Reed from Florida and H. Cavanaugh from the Crescent City. The Ormsby shipment was headed by the crack juvenile filly, Nituma, best of her sex developed at the Fair Grounds. GOOD NEWS FOR HORSEMEN. From Louisville, Col. M. J. Winn, directing head of the American Turf Association, announced that- the minimum purse during the Churchill Downs Spring meeting, opening April 30, would be ,000, an announcement of much importance to horse owners. Colonel Winn is determined to maintain purse distribution at the highest possible level and, announcement of his decision to attempt to carry through the Churchill Downs meeting with no purse less than ,000, moved many of the horsemen here to make complimentary remarks. Copies of the first issue of the Churchill Downs condition books will be ready for distribution early next week. Two large tracts of land, owned by the American Turf Association, have been turned over without cost for an indefinite period to the employees of the International Harvester Company, who will be privileged to farm the land under the direction of officials of the Harvester Company. One tract of 162 acres is located at 95th and Crawford Avenue, Chicago, and the other comprising two hundred acres, at East St. Louis, Illinois. Both tracts have fine gardening soil and will be worked by some 600 Harvester company employees. All crops go to those whoso efforts produce them.
