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LINCOLN FIELDS OUTLOOK Prospects Bright for Splendid Meeting, With Best Horses of West Among the Reservations. The usual high class racing will be offered during the thirty-one-day meeting opening at. Lincoln Fields Saturday and it will engage the horses and silks of virtually all of the leading western stables and no small number of eastern establishments. A check of stables having reservations, made Monday by track superintendent Thomas Young, revealed applications for stalls for 1,101 horses and requests probably will go beyond 1,200. With so many horses for the meeting it becomes necessary to utilize Washington Park for the overflow. Horsemen assigned quarters at that Homewood course do not regard it an inconvenience, due to the excellent van service provided between the two tracks. Prominent among the stables coming into the Chicago racing picture for the meeting are several of the principal ones participating in the Dade Park meeting. In all approximately 150 horses, including the more outstanding there, are coming from Dade Park and will reach Lincoln Fields in time for the opening. Almost without exception the topnotchers now engaged in the brilliant Hawthorne racing will be seen under silks at Lincoln Fields. Some of the Hawthorne stables will move over to the Crete track within the next forty-eight hours and all going from that Southwest Side course will be in quarters at Lincoln Fields by Saturday evening. Quite a few stables are coming from Canada for the meeting, according to applications. Kentucky horses inactive since the close of the Latonia meeting are beginning to arrive and Monday saw the safe arrival of several big shipments from that Kentucky track. Among the principal consignments were the thoroughbreds trained by Roscoe Goose and Mose Goldblatt. Goose brought in a score for Laffoon and Yeiser and other patrons and Goldblatt as many for C. V. Whitney and himself. Other of the Whit-ney-Goldblatt horses will be shipped here from Dade Park this week. Gilbert Elston, fourth on the list of North Continued on twenty-first vnge. LINCOLN FIELDS OUTLOOK Continued from first page. Americas most successful jockeys, will come here from Dade Park to report to the Whitney stable. Elston, badly injured in a fall at Washington Park, has been riding in fine form at Dade Park and should make a strong bid for honors during the Lincoln Fields meeting. One of the largest stables leaving Dade Park this, week is that owned by W. H. Whitehouse of Cincinnati and trained by Lon Johnson. In this stable is the venerable Royal Julian, once a cup runner of the first water and now staging a remarkable comeback after a season in the stud. Charles F. Price, long one of Americas ablest racing officials and in charge of the racing at all tracks operated by the American Turf Association, was an arrival from his home at Louisville. He immediately launched final preparations for the Lincoln Fields racing. Racing secretary William H. Shelley will open his office at the track Thursday and Larry Boganschutz, another on the staff of officials, swings into action I at the same time. I .
