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BUSY AT CHURCHILL DOWNS Preparatory Work and Arrival of Horses Keep Things Moving. One Hundred and Twenty Additional Boxes Being Constructed for Derby Day Stables Filling Up. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 2. -While soft footing at both Churchill Downs and Douglas Park occasioned something of a lull in training operations at the two local tracks yesterday and again today, the rush of preparation for the local spring meeting and the arrival and unloading of horses from southern points and winter quarters kept things humming at both courses. Painters, carpenters and other skilled workers are busy at Churchill Downs and shipments from Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas and the blue grass or farm belt, have been coming in on almost every train. Arrivals since Sunday brought the total number of horses at the two tracks to well over 700. The influx of horses will continue for several days, according to Thomas Young, superintendent of the two local courses. By the first of next week, Douglas Park will be filled to capacity and less than 200 Churchill Downs stalls reserved for some of the more prominent stables and eastern candidates for the Kentucky Derby will be unoccupied. Painters and carpenters have the big job of putting the Downs stands and clubhouse in A-l condition, well advanced and work is being rushed on the 120 additional boxes being constructed on the clubhouse lawn. In the stable enclosure a new barn, comprising twenty-two stalls and eight rooms to be reserved for Derby candidates, was about seventy-five per cent completed when workmen -quit for the day late this afternoon. Col. M. J. Winn, managing director of the Downs, is in Chicago. While in the Illinois metropolis the past several days, he was in close touch with his lieutenants and upon his return will resume personal charge of preparations for the Derby, which is to be renewed on May 4 and the meeting opening a week earlier. Continued on eighteenth page. BUSY AT CHURCHILL DOWNS Continued from first page. C. Leroy King and Frank Podesta, Memphis turf patrons, have inspected the horses of the Cattell Stable with a view of purchasing them jointly. King is the owner of a number of horses and recently decided to enter the breeding field. He may place Pari-Mutuel at the head of a stud to be established in Tennessee. Tommy Taylor, trainer of the Warm Stable and the horses of Mrs. Silas B. Mason, left today for a short stay at French Lick Springs. During his absence his brother, Walter, will look after the horses. Theodore E. Mueller, owner of the Shady Brook Farm and racing stable and a member of the state racing commission, made an inspection of his horses at Churchill Downs this morning. His stable is composed of the older Visigoth, Sophisticrat, Chauvenet, Cayuga, Tabor and Riff and the home-bred two-year-olds, Sasquath, Eccentric, Sob and Captain Fortune. Richard J. Nash, accompanied by - his niece and nephew, Mary and Dickie Byrnes, made a short stop here en route to Chicago from Shandon Farm. A division of the Shandon Stable, brought over from Lexington by J. J. Greely, Jr., and quartered at Churchill Downs, includes the four-year-old Naval Cadet and five two-year-olds. Another two-year-old was shipped from the farm to join the main division of the stable which J. J. Greely, Sr. has at Bowie. Another prominent visitor at the Downs today was Morris Vehon, also of Chicago and owner of three horses in the large string Jake Lowenstein has here. Mr. Vehon was accompanied here from French Lick Springs by his wife and son "Sonny." Mid Victorian, owned by the Warm Stable and A. J. Sacketts Tabitha, have been taken up by W. J. "Buddy" Hirsch at the Downs. Young Hirsch sent the filly Fizzaz to John W. Marrs Clarkland Farm. Roscoe Goose iost the two-year-old Eping, a son of Epinard. It was found necessary to destroy the horse because of deformities. Asa Harned has purchased the veteran Eil-Weir from Mrs. F. F. Brant, wife of the late horseman who won many races with the mentioned performer. The horses of the Longridge Stable, Blue Ridge Farm, I. Kort, M. M. Riddle, Dr. C. N. Finch and the winter division of the Dix-iana and Clyde Van Dusen stables, have arrived at Douglas Park from Hot Springs.
