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: STALL SHORTAGE ACUTE Keeneland Needs Room for 800 Horses Only 650 Stalls. President Hal Price Headley and Superintendent Bishop in Quandary Need Racing Material. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 5. Hal Price Headley, president of Keeneland Association, and W. T. Bishop, superintendent, found themselves at their wits end this morning after attempting to house 800 horses when accommodations for only 650 could be found. A little over 500 thoroughbreds can be stabled at Keeneland, the ultra-modern plant which opens its spring meeting Thursday, April 14, and there are about 150 stalls available at the trotting track in Lexington. For the past two months applications for stalls have been turned down, but those passed upon have more than exhausted the quarters on hand and unless several owners can be persuaded to find stalls elsewhere for charges not intended for local competition, president Headley and superintendent Bishop will be called upon to do the impossible and pull 150 stalls out of their hats. STABLES INCREASE. As customary, owners requested a certain number of stalls and upon their arrival, as in the case of the Arabs, their tribes have increased. Rains during the winter and early spring have retarded training and president Headley tried to accommodate many winter-campaigned stables, knowing their charges would be ready for competition. Several stables now quartered in Louisville we.rc expected to send only a limited number of performers, but as both Louisville tracks were open to training all winter, owners have asked for more stalls. A greater majority of these owners have stakes eligibles, which means the management can ill afford to turn them down. Lack of horses hampered the previous Keeneland meetings and, with this knowl- f Continued on eighteenth page. 1 STALL SHORTAGE ACUTE Continued from first page. edge, president Headley intended doing all in his power to find all the accommodations possible but, after combing the surrounding territory, he finds that he still needs stalls, if he is to care for the approved applications. UNLOAD 100 HORSES. - Late yesterday and this morning 100 horses Were unloaded at the Keeneland and the trotting tracks. They came from Hot Springs and Louisville. Gov. Chandler headed the Hot Springs shipment. Although not eligible for the Blue Grass Stakes, the son of Reigh Count, which finished third in the Arkansas Derby, will be under colors here in races for horses of his age. From Louisville came fifteen head, the property of Emerson F. I Woodward, who races under the nom de I course of the Valdina Farms, and ten horses belonging to Mrs. Frank J. Navin and in charge of Leo ODonnell. Last Message; one of the three fillies named for the Kentucky-Derby, which returned odds of more than 60 to 1 when she defeated Co-Sport and others here last fall, is one of the members of the Navin stable, which also contains Bacon, Phoenix Hotel Handicap candidate, and Bil-boquet, a Lafayette Hotel eligible. The racing secretarys office was open today for the registration of horses and the receipt of applications for licenses. The license committee, composed of Charles F. Price, S. C. Nuckols and Thomas Bradley, will meet in the near future to make their recommendations to the racing commission. As in the past, the commission will hold a meeting prior to the opening of the Kentucky season to pass upon the report of the license committee. LEADING ESTABLISHMENTS. A check of the list of stables and those yet to arrive reveals that many of the leading establishments of the country will be represented in Keeneland racing. Among the most prominent are Mrs. Payne Whitney, Hal Price Headley, C. C. Van Meter, T. B. Young, Arnold Hanger, Clarence Le Bus, Mrs. Bessie Franzheim, Howard Oots, James Cox Brady, Dan Midkiff, C. W. Moore, L. W. Ulmer, R. J. and P. A. Nash, L. C. Young, J. Metz, H. H. Temple Jr., Edward Haughton, Frank Seremba, Mrs. A. M. Creech, Valdina Farms, Tall Trees Stable, Mrs. E. B. W. Anhut, Enza Vita Stable, D. T. Morris, A. L. Darnaby, Keene Daingerfield Jr., B. W. Stivers, H. K. Barron, J. O. Keene, J. B. Respess, H. H. Battle, Garrett Watts and others, while at nearby farms are the powerful Calumet Farm stable of Warren Wright, Dixiana, of Charles T. Fisher; J. E. Widener and E. R. Bradleys fine band of home-breds. Reuben White, who just completed a successful season as starter at Oaklawn Park and chief assistant to William Hamilton on the Kentucky tracks, arrived from Hot Springs and took over the schooling of the horses. White announced that, if necessary, he would hold two schooling classes daily, both of which will be out of the Headley course.
