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PRELIMINARIES AT COLUMBUS ! Nearly Five Hundred Horses Now Stabled on Grounds. 1 Beulnh Park Officials Looking Forward to Best Meeting in History of Central Ohio Course. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 27 Preliminary preparations are being completed rapidly for the race meeting of the Beulah Park Jockey Club, which will open on Saturday, May 9, at the Grove City plant and which will inaugurate the turf season in Ohio. With continued clear weather the track is in prime condition and daily workouts are the rule for the stables at the track. All of the 700 stalls within the grounds have been engaged, and over 500 horses are occupying their stalls. In addition all available quarters outside the course in Grove City have been occupied or engaged. Racing secretary Emmett A. Hileman will begin the task of registering and classifying the horses this week. Casual inspection of the material at hand gives him leave to assure Ohio race fans a superior season of the sport. Officials of the popular central Ohio course are quick to agree that Beulah Park approaches its most auspicious season since its establishment. Arrivals at the track during the past week include the strong stable of E. J. Wood, of Markleville, Ind. He brought a string of ten from winter quarters. Some are his own property and others trained by him. Heading Woods list is -the stout sprinter McKell, which won nine races in sixteen starts last year on Ohio and Illinois tracks. The Wood stable always is near the top in races won at Beulah meetings. Transfer was completed of the stable of I. J. Collins, former member of the Ohio State Racing Commission, from Lancaster. There are eight head here under the care of Carter Everett and six of them are two-year-olds by Morvich, Hi-Jack, Lee O. Cotner and the Collins stallion Sun God II. Horses of Sterl D. Hudson headed by Polisher were brought from Cleveland. Over a score of horses owned in Dayton, Ohio, which wintered at the Fair Grounds and elsewhere there, have been shipped 1 over. These include seven trained by Doug Hoffman and including the consistent Donna Barona, four owned by M. R. Loney and trained by R. Heinen, six trained by W. H. Titler for himself and H. E. Keller, two owned by J. T. Claymon and trained by O. Chapman and two owned and trained by R. Duffy. A number of other horses which wintered in Ohio are at the track. Matt Jordan has nine headed by Mystic Sign and Jildac Rose, including the stallion Tommy Boy. Mentality, Zode, and Sycee have been transferred here from Greenfield for H. D. Walker. Hamburger Jim was wintered in Grove City for J. J. Brumage. Perry M. Sturm, of Lancaster, has five here which were campaigned at New Orleans. A few more horses are to come from winter quarters in Kentucky, and these, with reservations made by stables which raced in Texas, will fill all stalls at Beulah.
