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PROMINENT STABLES TO CRETE Stable Reservations Show Many Top-Notch Horses on List. Dixiana, Le Mar Stock Farm and J. D. Keene Establishments Plan to Campaign at Lincoln Fields Track. CRETE, 111., May 21.— With the opening just nine days away, the Lincoln Fields race track can boast of its most impressive list of stable reservations in many seasons. When the twenty-four-day meeting opens the major Chicago racing season on Memorial Day, May 30, there will be few leading western racing establishments missing. Racing secretary William H. Shelley will have the strongest roster of thoroughbreds to call upon in assembling the eight-race programs. Three of the most powerful stables in the country will be here at full strength. They are the Calumet Farm, owned by Warren Wright, which has reserved forty-two stalls for the four weeks session; the Milky Way Farm stable of Mrs. Ethel Mars, which will have thirty-two horses here, and the Valdina Farms of Emerson F. Woodward, with twenty-five reservations. MANY NEWCOMERS. Stables which have campaigned little in the Chicago area in recent seasons have sent in their stall requests to track superintendent Tom Young. They include the powerful Dixiana stable of Charles T. Fisher, the Le Mar Stock Farm, Ed Haughton, and J. O. Keene. A partial list of other leading establishments that will be on hand includes the following: Oddesa Farms, Mose Goldblatt, Howard Wells, Roscoe Goose, John Marsch, Jake Lowenstein, Cecil Howard, C. E. Dale, Shady Brook Farm, Walmac Farm, J. P. Jones, Morris Griner, Blue Ridge Farm, Millsdale Stable, Ross Higdon, C. C. Van-Meter, Frank Seremba, Paul Kelley, Mrs A. M. Creech, Clarence Davison, Ike Weil, Kirby Ramsey, F. P. Letellier, R. C. Thatcher, A. G. Tarn, Bert Friend, W. T. Westrope, Jack Grossman, Sam Stone, Baylor Hickman nad J. W. Parrish. Applications for more than 1.000 staJls have been made to the Lincoln Fields officials here and at Churchill Downs, and most of these have been accepted. A few late comers failed to secure space at the Crete track. Well over 900 thoroughbreds will be on hand for the opening holiday program, featured by the ,000 added Crete Handicap. SHIPMENTS FROM KENTUCKY. Some of the better juveniles will not be present for the first program, due to the renewal of the Bashford Manor Stakes at Churchill Downs on Decoration Day, but shipments from Kentucky will be completed early in the week. Meanwhile, Young has I the racing strip in fine shipe and every barn renovated for the invasion of the thoroughbreds, which will get under way in earnest the first part of next week. Col. Matt Winns front office force is growing enthusiastic over the possibility of opening their meeting with a bang on Memorial Day. Box seat reservations are going fast and since this will be the first holiday of the summer season, it is believed that the Crete course will be taxed to its utmost. The work on the new "tote" board is progressing to such an extent that final tests and drills for clerks will be held the middle of next week. »
