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READY AT KEENELAND Eleven Days of Sport to Be Conducted Beginning April 14. Blue Grass Stakes of ,000 Heads List of Four Feature Attractions to Be Decided. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 11. With the second annual spring meeting of the Keene-land Association only two days in the offing, preliminary details are about completed and little remains to be done before the opening on Thursday. The eleven-day season will be brought to a close on Thursday, April 28, with no racing on the two Mondays. Four stakes, chief of which is the Blue Grass Stakes, a nine furlong gallop for three-year-olds and endowed with ,000 in added money, will be run and although only thirteen remain eligible for the race, which since its inception at the old Kentucky Association track, has served as a preview for the Kentucky Derby, it should develop into a very interesting contest and one that will decide whether Hal Price Headleys Menow has staying qualities and has fully recovered from the injury received in a training dril at Havre de Grace last fall. Of the other eligibles, Calumet Farms Bull Lea appears to be the tops, but he too, went amiss last fall and although he is training very soundly and has turned in some excellent works, trainer Frank Kearns is anxiously awaiting Bull Leas 1938 debut. CALUMET REPRESENTATIVES. Calumet has another pair of eligibles in Gallant Stroke and Ted Easy, which were reserved for three-year-old racing. They were under colors at Hialeah, but have yet to enter the winners circle. Dixianas Kings Heir, which finished second in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, Dah He and Copy Cat, also from the Headley barn, Maxwell Howards The Chief, John Hay Whitneys Grape Thief and Sweetie Pie, Greentrees Redbreast, and Wood Song and Parkview Stables Congressman complete the list. Menow turned in a brilliant five-eighths mile workout Saturday morning when he splashed through the slop in 1:00 and Bull Lea had a stiff drill over the Calumet Farm track this morning. This pair probably will meet in the Trial Handicap on Friday and in the Mereworth 3?urse on the following Thursday. Earl Sande has notified the Keeneland management that he expects to van The Chief here from Churchill Downs for the Blue Grass Stakes. Fencing, carried the Continued on nineteenth page. READY AUEENELAND Continued from first page.J Howard colors to victory in the 1937 re-! newal. Although the weather was cooler thi.u at any time during the past several days, sunny skies aided in attracting a big gallery of fans to Keeneland Sunday. A freeze during the night left the track proper nearly frozen for the early workouts, but the sun soon thawed it out and when Dickerville, P. A. and R. J. Nashs home-bred son of Sun Flag reached the course it was in a muddy condition. Dickerville, with which the Chicago contractors and Political lights, hope to win the sixty-fourth running of the Kentucky Perby, appeared to fancy the muddy going, runing a mile in 1:45 handily. He galloped out nine furlongs in 2:00. With Melvin Lewis, who plans on staging a comeback curing the local meeting aboard the Sun Flag offspring began his task at the mile post and was clocked the quarter in :25, half mile :49, three-quarters in 1:16. It was a splendid work and by far the best of the training period. Main Man, which is expected to make his seasons debut in the Phoenix Hotel Handicap, breezed six furlongs in 1:17. He negotiated the opening half mile in :50. At Calumet Farm, Bull Lea breezed three furlongs in :39, which served as a blowout f his more ambitious work this morning. LATEST ARRIVALS. Over the week-end and this morning the stables of C. N. Finch, W. E. Smith, Steve Judge, Sherrill Ward and F. P. Letellier were unloaded and with the arrival of six horses the property of Milky Way Farms, Tall Trees Stable and eight the property of Woolford Farm, every stall at Keeneland, the trotting track and barns adjacent to the track will be filled. A check of the riders already on hand reveals that this department will be the strongest in years. Among the veterans here are Alfred Robertson, Earl Steffen, Porter Roberts, Bobby Dotter, Robert Hutton, Earl Pool, Melvin Lewis, Irving Anderson, Charles Stevenson and others.
