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LOUISVILLE CONDITION BOOKS LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 8. Condition books for the first seven days of the Churchill Downs meeting were placed in the mails over the week end and distributed at the Downs and Douglas Park today. Racing-secretary "William H. Shelley reported requests for the books received from horsemen in the East and South more numerous than in many, many years. Opportunities for Kentucky Derby candidates to swing into action before that race, include a purse race at seven furlongs on opening day, April 27, another at one mile on the third day of the meeting and several others in which their company would not be confined to horses of their age, as in the former two allowance numbers.
