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Q Close to 1,000 Horses at Ch urchill and Douglas Park TRAINING OPERATIONS More Racers Working at Both Tracks Than Ever Before at This Time of the Year LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 8 With close to 1,000 horses already at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park and improvements to the former course progressing at a rapid pace, pre-meeting activity possibly is greater at this time than in any previous year. As the abandonment of the old Kentucky Association track forced the large number of sta-, bles to come here for their entire preparation, the number of horses now in training at the Downs and Douglas Park is without question greater than ever before at this time. Within a few weeks, possibly less than that, all but a very few stalls at the two local courses will be occupied. According to track superintendent Tom Young, Douglas Park will be filled to capacity within ten days with few vacancies at the Downs to take care of a few very late arrivals and those horses which will be shipped here specifically for the Kentucky Derby. An entire barn, recently completed, is reserved for Derby candidates exclusively. Some of the later arrivals will include a number of large stables now in Texas or Maryland. From the former state will come the establishments of Mrs. F. C. Mars, Waggoner Bros., T. C. Worden, A. Pelleteri, Woodward and Barnhill, among others, while from the Old Line State the Downs meeting will attract the formidable string owned by P. A. and R. J. Nash, along with several more. Riders are checking in daily, many to report to contract employers, and the num-ber already on the scene is believed to be greater than ever before at this early date. A large percentage of the countrys leading pilots are assured for the meeting, among them W. D. Wright, A. Robertson, D. Bram-mer, C. Stevenson, C. Kurtsinger, N. Wall, J. Renick, L. Haas, N. L. Pierson, J. Nolan and many others. The advanced condition of several Clark Handicap candidates that did not participate in winter racing, together with the arrival from southern points and the assured early presence of others now at other racing points, indicates a capital field for the sixty-second running of that fixture on April 25, the opening day of the meeting. The field for this ,000 added race is expected to be drawn from the following: St. Bernard, Whiskolo, Tearout, Ariel Cross, Chanceview, Corinto, My Blaze, Dusty Dawn, Bandalore, Open Hearth, Safe and Sound, Beaver Dam, Impeach, Visigoth, Yantis and Continued on nineteenth page. CLOSE TO 1,000 HORSES AT CHURCHILL AND DOUGLAS Continued from first page. others. The race will be decided over a mile and a sixteenth, and the weights are not due until April 20. Sixty-seven have been nominated. Racing secretary William H. Shelley, having returned from a vacation in Florida, will have hi:: department functioning within a few days when the registration of horses and the numerous other details will get under way. Charles F. Price, presiding steward in charge of racing, also has returned to Louisville and has been a daily visitor at the track since his return. As a member of the racing commissions license committee, judge Price will find his time well occupied before the curtain rises at the Downs.
