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EXPECTING 700 HORSES Five Hundred Now on Hand at Motor City Fair Grounds. Judge Joseph A. Murphy Arrives and Opens Secretarys Office for Stable Reservations — Showers Predicted. DETROIT, Mich., May 26.— With many of the best sprinters and distance performers of the Middle West named for the Inaugural Handicap, which tops Detroits opening day program on Saturday, and the Col. Alger Memorial Handicap, to be offered Monday, the Motor City racing season which begins May 28 bids fair to be, as far as horse flesh I is concerned, one of the best meetings since i the sport was revived in this state five years ago. I Activity took on a new high today with the arrival of judge Joseph A. Murphy, director of racing, who today opened the secretarys office for the receipt of stable registrations from those horsemen who came from the Atlantic seaboard, River Downs and other points. j After a check of the horses on the grounds ! i judge Murphy announced that more than BOO horses were ready for racing, and by j I tomorrow 700 would be here. Only the late i j arrivals from River Downs and those sta-bles now quartered at Woodbine Park, which ■ have been given accommodations, will not be on hand for the opening. Woodbine shipments are slated to leave that point Sunday. TRACK IN FAIR SHAPE. Despite the rains during the early part of the week the Detroit track was in fair condition today and in the event the weather man. who forecast showers for tonight, is l wrong, Norman Miller, track superintendent, i hopes to have the course at its best for the . opening. At first it was believed that several of the ! races programmed for opening day would not fill. Now the opinion is that the races have not been pitched high enough for the class of horses on the grounds. In addition to the Inaugural, for three-year-olds and upward, nominations for which closed at noon today, the opening program will include a purse race for three-year-olds and upward over a mile and seventy yards. Topnotch sprinters will be asked to step six furlongs in two of the eight races. After an inspection of the course today Clarence E. Lehr, president of the Detroit Racing Association, stated that he believed that the Detroit track now is one of the most up-to-date in the country.
