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CLEVELAND PROSPECTS BRIGHT Number of Stable Applications Indicate Record-Breaking Meeting1. Thlsllo Down to Entertain With Highest Class of Horses In Its History Refuse Applications. DETROIT, Mich., June 15 The city of Cleveland, having just completed the task of playing host to" the National Republican convention, will once more throw open its doors to strangers when it will be asked to entertain thoroughbred horsemen with the most pretentious array of high class thoroughbreds that have ever been assembled in the state of Ohio, when the Thistle Down meeting opens on July 7 to run for a period of thirty-five days. So great has been the demand for stall room that director of racing Joseph A. Murphy, who spent yesterday at Cleveland going over the details of the meeting with president Harry Allshouse, called a halt on further applications for stalls and announced that it was with deep regret that he would be compelled to notify a number of horsemen that he was unable to take care of them. He sent word to those stabled at Northampton that if they contemplated racing at the meeting, it would be necessary for them to remain at that track and van over whatever horses might be entered in the races. Between Thistle Down and North Randall, which is right across the highway, there are over 1,200 stalls but due to the fact that except for Arlington Park, Thistle Down will be the only race track open in the Middle West at the time, applications have poured in from Detroit, Latonia, Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago and New England until the management is at its wits end to take care of everybody. Not only is there quantity at Cleveland, but the class of horses that will race there will rival that of any of the major race tracks in the United States, and Cleveland, for the first time in its history, will move up to the first ranks in thoroughbred racing. The Forest city has always had top-notch harness horses and has, in fact, been accepted as the real center of the Grand Circuit meetings, but from this time forward, it will begin also to take rank as one of the leaders in the thoroughbred Industry. Those who are familiar with thoroughbred racing will need only to peruse the sub-joined list of owners who have applied for stable room to show that the claims made as to the class of the meeting are fully justified. Among those who have applied for stalls are the following: Dixiana, Ross E. Cooper, Dan Lelian, Charles Irby, K. Dairigerfield, Jr., J. B. Respess, William Day, B. Hernandez, Mpse Goldblatt, J. E. Seagram, "Jesse Spencer, F. H. Carpenter, Jim Chesney, Asa Harned, Milton Reiser, W. T. Crosthwaite, Kenton Stable, Chas. E. Gross, J. G. Angner, Mrs. R. J. Murphy, Imperial Farms, H. Tor-riente, J. Baumbach, Otto Bagley, W. R. McGirr, Tom B. Young, G. H. Pearce, N. M. Buck, W. M. Emmerson, J. C.Gillem, C. A. Marone, R. J. Moore, J. M. Jones, Frank Walker, L. C. Pike, Jack Atkins, J. Shirley Riley, Arthur Gaignard, W. A. Mikcl, G. Felkner, S. A. Fishburn, Walter Grater, Eugene Lutz, L. K. Rogers, Elmtree Stable, L. C. Everitt. A. J. Abel, T. L. Pierce, O. H. Reed, John Oros, J. B. Jewell, Pat McCabe, J. H. Johnson, John Zoeller, W. Zakoor, Harry Saladin, J. H. Skirvin, C. H. Ferguson, A. C. Ditt-wiler, O. A. Bianchi, C. R. Thompson, Gaines Brothers, W. G. Sparks, J. E. Mason, William Westerficld, L. ODonnell, Mrs. Charles Winters, K. Ramsey, T. J. McKeon, Dave Christian, F. E. McElroy, J. M. Buckland, Joe Brooks, John Wilson, W. N. Ridenour, L. O. Lee, F. L. Talley, H. K. Barron, H. O. Simmons, E. E. Watson, Dan Howell, John Algeyer, E. Drillon, G. K. Marlman, R. M. Chastain, E. E. Major, V. Odon, A. C. Mar-k chant, Bruce Broadfoot, D. R. Riddle, J. Purpura, Jack Mulvihill, P. L. Fuller, O. C. Rasch, Jr., A. F. Lloyd, Mrs. Floyd West, J. G. Goode, J. S. Hawkins, and others whose stables have not yet been accorded stable room. The proof of the first book of the meeting was forwarded to Charles F. Henry, at Toronto, yesterday and will be in the hands of the horsemen the middle of the week. As all of the stakes will close during the meeting, a new plan has been devised by putting the stake blanks as extra pages in the first book, which will obviate the necessity of printing any separate blanks.
