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PROPHESIZES FAST RACES Roy Carruthers Rates Keeneland With Fastest American Tracks. New Kentucky Track Near Lexington Scheduled to Open October 15 Myrtle-wood Inaugural Eligible. LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 10. Thoroughbreds with extreme speed should be able to do things in a big way over the new race track that opens here Thursday, October 15. The Keeneland track, which will stage its inaugural meeting this fall, has been described as one of the fastest tracks in America. "Keenelands track is an excellent piece of soil," said general manager Roy Carruthers today. "It is as good and as fast as any in the United States, and horses probably will be able to run exceptional races over it." Mr. Carruthers is considered an expert judge of tracks. In addition to his duties here, he also is general manager of Arlington Park, an outstanding track for speed, and Washington Park, both at Chicago. Trainers who have worked horses over the Lexington track throughout the summer and early fall concur with Mr. Carruthers in his statement. The mile and one-sixteenth course also has been praised by other competent critics who have inspected it and have watched horses work over the track. Grover C. Hughes, veteran Kentucky horseman, who has been training thoroughbreds for many years, described Keenelands track as one of the fastest he ever had trained on. "Only the other morning," trainer Hughes said today, "I saw an ordinary plater work six furlongs in 1:14. If an ordinary plater can do that in a work, top notch horse3 will set a blistering pace over the new track. A sprinter like .Myrtle-wood would turn the same distance in 1:10 or better" Myrtlewood is to be a starter during- the first Keeneland meeting. Already the filly, owned by Brownell Combs, Kentucky sportsman, is training at Keeneland. She has been named for the Ashland Stakes for fillies and mares, at one and one-sixteenth miles, to be run Saturday, October 17. That race will be the fillys last and she will be retired for breeding, and the possibility of her setting some sort of a record adds greater interest to the race. Last year the Combs filly set a worlds record for six furlongs. It was later broken by Clang.
