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AUGMENT DIXIANA OUTFIT Six More of C. T. Fishers Horses Transferred From Farm to Keeneland Track. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 13 Trainer Clyde Van Dusen transferred six more of the Dixiana racers to Keeneland early this week, which included Likly Lad, regarded as one of the topnotch juveniles at Santa Anita last winter,, an dthe three-year-old Kings Heir. The augmenting of the Dixiana outfit at Keeneland gives indication that the racing esablishment of Charles T. Fisher of Detroit looms a one of the best fortified for the inauguration of the Kentucky racing season on Thursday afternoon. Likly Lad, a black gelded son of Peter Hastings Highly, which campaigned on the West Coast during the whiter, is among the five youngsters nominated by Dixiana for the Lafayette Stakes, which will be decided on April 27. The success achieved by the son of Peter Hastings at Santa Anita is indicative of class, and the advanced training he received in winter racing is expected to serve him in good stead for his clash with the fleet crop of two-year-olds that will compete in the Lafayette Stakes. Kings Heir, a candidate for the Blue Grass Stakes and the Kentucky Derby, is regarded as a probable starter in the Trial Handicap, feature attraction of Fridays program, which is likely to bring into competition several of the topnotchers of the three-year-old division, which have been assembled here for racing. Torchy and two juveniles completed the half dozen sent from Dixiana to quarters at the track.
