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LEHR IS LOUISVILLE VISITOR Brings Condition and Stake Books for Detroit Meeting- 5,000 Added Derby Feature. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 19. Arriving Thursday, Clarence E. Lehr, president of the Detroit Racing Association, is here for sev-erarmore busy days in the interest of the thirty-nine day spring meeting that that association will hold at the Detroit Fair Grounds, from May 23 to July 6, inclusive. Before coming here he discussed Detroits program with leading horsemen in and near the motor, city and in parts of Canada. Fortified with the stakes program for the entire meeting and the condition book for the first nine days of racing, Lehr hopes to interest a large number of the principal owners here to such an extent that their horses will be at the Detroit track for all or part of the meeting. The first book calls for a minimum purse of 00, and the stakes program is headed by the 5,000 added Detroit Derby and 5,000 added Detroit Challenge Cup. The latter race is for three-year-old winners of 0,000 or more and older horses that have won 0,000 or more. It will be run at a mile and three-sixteenths, on June 29, or two weeks after the Detroit Derby. Judge Joseph A. Murphy is in complete charge of racing at the Detroit track.
