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DADE PARK OPENS SATURDAY Improvements Completed and the Course Is Better Than Ever "Daily Double" Scheduled. HENDERSON, Ky., Aug. 5. Racing returns to the Dade Park course of the Dade Park Jockey Club here next Saturday for a twenty-five day meeting and from all indications it will be the most successful in the eleven-year history of the track. Since the meeting last year, which incidentally was the first profitable one, there have been many improvements made to the grounds and track proper and James C. Ellis, president of the Dade Park Jockey Club, and Lester Yeager, associate manager, believe that Dade Park is now one of the most attractive and modern plants in the country. The mile and a furlong track, the only one in Kentucky, considerably aided by the spring floods which completely inundated the grounds when one of the dikes broke, is now at its best and Mr. Ellis states that there was no foundation to the rumor that the course was not at its best. Dade Park, which inaugurated the "Daily Double" system of wagering in Kentucky, will again use this system and it will be in Vogue on the second and third races. The starts will be made from the McGinnis barrier and William Hamilton, who is now starting at Coney Island, vill -dispatch the fields. Several of his assistants will be here this week to start the schooling of horses. The one mile and forty yards, Dade Park course, which was constructed last year, and which distance proved so popular with the horsemen, again will be used. The races starting from the chute affords the public an opportunity to see the start of the races. Although there are only 300 horses quartered here today, there are reservations for more than 700 horses and arrivals next week are expected to fill every available stall. Among the stables to arrive here next week are: Laffoon and Yeiser, Mrs. Payne Whitney, The F. L. B. Stable, Mrs. Milton Reiser and others. The Laffoon and Yeiser stable will arrive here Tuesday in charge of Roscoe Goose. He has the promising apprentice G. Miller, an Owensboro, Ky., lad, late Eugene James, and Gilbert Elston, both of whom received some of their schooling at the popular western Kentucky track. Jack Middleton is in charge of the Mrs. Payne Whitney stable. He has a call on apprentice G. Miller, an Owensboro, Ky. lad, who is under contract to James C. Ellis. George South, leading rider here last year, is with the F. L. B. Stable. He hails from Newburg, Indiana, and a great battle is expected between the Kentucky and Indiana youths. Brownell Berryman, racing secretary; Thomas C. Bra.ey, presiding steward, and Fred Burton, assistant racing secretary are expected here Monday to open the secretarys office for the registration of horses.
