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PLANNING GALA DERBY WEEK Detroit Management Contemplating Many Rich Added Attractions. President Iehr Announces ,000 Feature for Thursday, June 13, Called Derby Week Special. DETROIT, Mich., June 5. Next week will be Derby week in Detroit and the Detroit Racing Association, with a view to building it up into the gala sporting week of the entire year, is offering some added attractions to the Derby, which will be run on June 15. Walter Taylor has asked the management for a race for Sun Portland and a canvass of the three-year-olds now on the grounds indicates that an attractive handicap can be secured which will be run on Monday, June 10. Several of the leading owners of the East and those of Chicago have written for copies of the condition book with a view of shipping something in addition to the Derby horse in their stable. To meet this condition president Clarence E. Lehr yesterday announced that on Thursday, June 13, the association would offer a ,000 handicap at a mile and an eighth, for three-year-olds and over, to be known as the Derby Week Special. Vice-president Fred M. Alger, Jr., will leave for New York on Thursday to view the Belmont and will personally take up with eastern owners the question of entering one of their horses in the race His own hors,e Azucar will be especially pointed for the event and trainer Gilpin has assured the management that he will enter and start Stand Pat, Azucars conqueror in the Alger Memorial on Decoration Day. The attention of all owners will be called to the fact that in addition to the new handicap, the Pontchartrain Handicap, with ,000 added, at a mile and a sixteenth, will be run on June 22, which would give owners a double shot at two lucrative events. The Woodward Stake, for two-year-olds, will be run on June 19 and these with the 5,000 added for the Derby, will make an offering of 7,000 in stakes and special events in a nine-day period, making the offering one of the most attractive of any racing associations in the Middle West. The success of the present meeting and the tremendous added interest shown by the public in the special attractions being offered, has encouraged the management to reach out for whatever attractive events may be in prospect.
