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j I KENTUCKY TRACKS PREPARED Expect Arrival of Nearly Four Hundred Horses in One Week. Several of Countrys Leading Stables Among Those Scheduled to Be "Shipped to Louisville. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 1 Although Churchill Downs and Douglas Park here and Keeneland at Lexington have been well populated with horses since mid-winter, the real influx of stables for the Kentucky spring meetings is just getting into full swing. Within less than a week close to 400 more horses will invade the state, where the season commences at Keeneland a week from next Thursday. Keeneland will operate eleven days, closing April 28, and then the scene will shift to Churchill Downs, where the big Derby meeting of twenty-two days gets under way on April 30. In round numbers, about 160 horses are to be transferred to the two local tracks from Arkansas Oaklawn Park immediately following Saturdays closing of the Hot Springs course. Another 150 or more will be leaving Florida, California, South Carolina and New Orleans for Louisville about the same time, while the remainder of the 400 odd will be consigned from the various winter tracks to Lexington. ! NUMEROUS APPLICATIONS. When these various stables reach Kentucky destinations few vacant stalls will be found at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park, while Keeneland will be filled to capacity. Of course, accommodations for virtually all the stables to be seen at Keeneland and a few to come here later from other points have been set aside at the Louisville courses. With several of the countrys leading stables among those scheduled to reach Blue Grass racing points within the next week, a number of Kentucky Derby candidates and other crack performers eligible for Keeneland and Churchill Downs stakes will be found in the equine personnel of these establishments. Before another week rolls around the stables of Herbert M. Woolf, Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, Bert Frend, James W. Parrish, Sher-rill Ward, J. T. Taylor, W. C. Reichert, F. P. Letellier, H. H. Battle, B. P. Woodson, J. R. Gregory, A. C. Ernst, R. L. Stivers, Theodore E. Mueller, Mose Goldblatt, J. B. Respess, -Axton and Friedberg, Mrs. M. E. OToole, divisions of Mrs. Payne Whitneys Greentree Continued on ttcentusixth page. KENTUCKY TRACKS PREPARED Continued from first page. Stable, Oddesa Farms stable and many others will arrive in Kentucky racing centers. Lawrin and Joe Schenck, owned by Woolf; Mrs. Mars Mountain Ridge, Tiger, Farrell and C-Note, Myron Selznicks Cant Wait, Mrs. OTooles Elooto, Unselfish and Wise Barrister, J. C. Metz Gov. Laffoon, Mrs. Kirby Ramseys Feng and Frends Co-Sport are among the Derby eligibles included in the stables. LATEST ARRIVALS. The California-campaigned stable trained by J. T. Taylor, is expected momentarily while Co-Sport and others trained by R. T. Runnels and the horses of Mose Goldblatt, are due Saturday from Florida and the Woolf string, supervised by B. A. Jones, is scheduled to leave Hialeah either Saturday or Sunday. As a matter of interest, the Woolf-Jones stable is the largest to be quartered at Churchill Downs during the spring meeting. Fully assembled, it will include forty-two horses. The Mars Milky Way contingent tentatively expected here Monday from Hot Springs will embrace thirty-two racers. Naturally there will be a wholesale exodus of thoroughbreds out of Oaklawn Park immediately following the running down of the curtain there Saturday ana quarters for all of these are in readiness at the Kentucky tracks to which they will be shipped. The same preparations are being carried out for stables coming from Florida, California, New Orleans and Columbia. From the latter point Sherrill Ward is shipping twenty-one horses and this shipment is expected over the week-end. INCREASED TRAINING. As the Downs, Douglas Park and Keene-land racing colonies expand, so will training activities at the three tracks and the increased number of horses will focus greater importance and interest bn workouts as reported from those points. For some time now racing fans have been able to follow the advancement of horses at the Kentucky tracks through the workout columns of this paper and these reports will be of more interest and value as the trials of a greater number of horses are recorded. - With the Derby only five weeks off, the training and racing of candidates for that 0,000 added fixture, both in Kentucky and in other states, will come under greater scrutiny as any interruption or setback of a serious nature might force any such unfortunate candidate to miss the Derby engagement. With the return of dry weather, work on the vast improvement program here at the Downs has been resumed and will be carried on at a pace even exceeding that to be maintained by the three-year-olds pointing for the turfs blue riband event.
