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REVIVING KENTUCKY HANDICAP Old Time Feature to Be Run Again at Churchill Downs. Bace Has Roster of Winners Famous In American Turf Annals Adding ,000 in Money. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 9. An interesting stake which is to be revived during the spring meeting at Churchill Downs is the Kentucky Handicap and with thirty-six nominated, it should be one of the outstanding features of the season, the Kentucky Derby, of course, excepted. The Kentucky Handicap will be staged on Saturday, May 21 and to be contested over a mile and a furlong, it is for three-year-olds and upward. The Kentucky Handicap was first run at the old Douglas Park in 1913 and when that track was acquired by the then Kentucky Jockey Club, it was transferred to Churchill Downs and continued to be run as one of the principal stakes on the Downs program. From 1924 to 1931, the last time it was staged, the stake was named the Granger Memorial Handicap and this year it was decided to restore its original title. ,000 ADDED. Churchill Downs has endowed this feature with ,000 in added money to make one of the most attractive stakes of its kind offered anywhere during the" spring. The Kentucky Handicap has called out many stars to the turf, horses whose names are legend with turf fans. Some of those which are listed as former winners are such well known thoroughbreds as Luke McLuke, Ed Crump, Cudgel, King Gorin, Midway, Exterminator, Cherry Tree, Flat Iron, King Nadi, Modest, Toro, Easter Stockings and Gallant Knight. Gallant Knight won the last running of the race in 1931. Some of the horses which have been named for this years running of the stake are Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Military and Mars Shield, James W. Parrishs Dellor and Knee Deep, Hamsey and Coppages Mucho Gusto, Mrs. Payne Whitneys Brush Hook, Mrs. E. H. Bartletts Zevson, Arnold Hangers He Did, Warren Wrights Privileged and Crossbow II., Ferguson and Herndons Josh, Emerson F. Woodwards Eagle Pass, Mrs. Anthony Pelle-teris Watersplash, Herbert M. Woolfs Robert L., J. B. Respess Main Man and the Millsdale Stables Infantry. Most of these horses already are here at Churchill Downs or at Keeneland and it is almost certain that the Kentucky Handicap will attract a large and representative field. OTHER HEADLINERS. The Kentucky Handicap is one of seven other features which will be presented during the spring meeting in addition to the Derby. The others are the Clark Handicap, the Derby Trial, the Louisville Handicap, the Debutante Stakes, the Churchill Downs Handicap, the Kentucky Oaks and the Bashford Manor Stakes. They round out a most attractive array of stakes and their large nomination lists assures big fields for all of them. Adverse weather of the last few days put a crimp in work on the many improvements and additions to Churchill Downs, but it did not stop progress altogether. Work on the large odds board and observation pavillion in the center field and the terraces is almost complete and it should be ready for inspection within a short time. Corps of painters are busily engaged in the betting enclosures under the grandstand and the weather did not affect their work. Racing secretary William H. Shelley will open his offices some time next week and will lose little time getting along with the preliminary work in connection with the meeting. Registration blanks already are available and horsemen are being urged to file these papers as soon as possible. Shelley hopes to have much of this work completed before the rush which usually develops the last few days before the meeting opens on April 30.
