view raw text
DETROIT OPENS FRIDAY Regular Opening Saturday Preceded By Charity Day of Sport SportMotor Motor City Track Will Stage Season of ThirtyEight Days Stake List Attractive DETROIT Mich May 24 The Detroit Racing Associations fourth annual meeting will get under way Saturday A program for the benefit of the Horsemens Relief Society will serve as a prelude Friday FridayWith With nearly 600 horses now quartered on the grounds and stalls reserved for 400 more the regular spring season of thirtyeight days which comes to a close Saturday July 10 bids fair to be the most successful one in the short history of Fair Grounds racing racingDuring During the long period thirteen stakes chief of which is the 10000 added Frontier Handicap will be offered and with the ex ¬ ception of the Colonel Alger Memorial Hand ¬ icap the Liberty Handicap the Woodward Stakes and the Moslem Temple Stakes they will top the Saturday programs programsThe The Moslem Temple Stakes with 5000 in added money is carded for Wednesday June 23 when the Shrine convention will be held in Detroit The other stakes will be offered pn Mondays due to Decoration Day and July 4 falling on Sundays SundaysLATE LATE CLOSING ENTRIES ENTRIESSince Since the revival of racing in the Wolver ¬ ine State all of the stakes have had late closing dates and heretofore this has been an incentive for attracting the best horses on the grounds as well as many that have been shipped from Chicago and Latonia In easy shipping distance of Chicago and La ¬ tonia many stake performers have been sent from those points to fill engagements and quite a number of winners have invaded the Fair Grounds GroundsFeaturing Featuring the opening day program will be the 3000 added Inaugural Handicap for threeyearolds and upward It is a sprint at six furlongs and although nominations do not close until Tuesday many crack sprint ¬ ers already have been made eligible for the race On the first Monday Ihe 5000 added Colonel Alger Memorial Handicap will be offered offeredIt It always has been one of the leading stakes of the spring season and the last two renewals went to the late E F Seagrams Stand Pat Azucar winner of the first run ¬ ning of the Santa Anita Handicap met de ¬ feat in both of those renewals Nominations for this fixture also close Tuesday and while every good router on the grounds is expected to be among the list of nominations several are expected to be sent here especially for the race raceSATURDAYS SATURDAYS STAKE DATES DATESThe The second Saturday will witness the re ¬ newals of the Belle Isle Handicap and the St Clair Stakes and on the following Saturday the 5000 added Pontchartrain Stakes for threeyearolds will be renewed renewedHeretofore Heretofore this race has served as a prep ¬ aration race for the Detroit Derby but as the latter was discarded this year it will bring the performers up to the 5000 added Wolverine Handicap to be decided the fol ¬ lowing Saturday and the Frontier Handicap In these two races threeyearolds will engage Continued on seventeenth page DETROIT OPENS FRIDAY Continued from first page older performeis and heretofore they have proved very troublesome to their more sea ¬ soned opponents opponentsThe The fourth week of the meeting will be a big one for in addition to the Frontier the Moslem Temple Stakes will be offered Al ¬ though it will be the first running of the Frontier Handicap at the Fair Grounds the race is not a new one to local patrons For years it was offered at Devonshire across the river at Windsor and many of the leading horses of the year contested for the prize prizeFeaturing Featuring the following Saturdays card will be the Michigan Handicap and for the closing day the Ontario and Windsor Handi ¬ caps will be offered The latter two stakes are new ones to the stakes program programSince Since the close of the fall meeting many changes to the plant have been made and the track has undergone a thorough work ¬ ing Track superintendent Norman Miller has received praises for its splendid condU tion tionEXPECT EXPECT LEADING STABLES STABLESClarence Clarence E Lehr president and general manager who returned from a visit to Louis ¬ ville brought word to judge Joseph A Mur ¬ phy that many of the leading stables which took part in the Churchill Downs meeting were en route or would be here the first of the week He was informed by the express company representatives that twelve car ¬ loads had been booked for shipment while numerous vans would also aid in the trans ¬ ferring of the horses horsesWith With the exception of starter Eddie Thomas whose departure from California was delayed due to substituting for Harry Morrissey at Agua Caliente the officials for the meeting are on the grounds The racing secretarys office is a busy scene while the racing commissioners office is deluged with applicatjons for licenses There is no charge for licenses but each application must be passed upon by judge Murphy Frank Mc ¬ Donnell newly appointed steward represent ¬ ing the facing commission judge Jack Young and William Quigley before they will meet with the approval of Edward Fry who recently took over the office of commis ¬ sioner
