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TWO BIG DAYS OF RACING Kentucky Oaks and Bashford Manor Make Churchill Downs Final Days Out of the Ordinary. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 26.— Two big days of racing will be offered devotees of the sport as the successful Churchill Downs spring meeting comes to a close this week-end. On Decoration Day, final day of the meet, the ,000 added Bashford Manor Stakes will be up for renewal while the stakes feature on Saturdays program will be the famous old Kentucky Oaks. The latter event, also endowed with ,000 in added money, is expected to bring out one of the finest fields from among the best of three-year-old fillies of the year, while a number of the outstanding western juvenile prospects have been pointed for the Bashford Manor. For the Oaks, which will be having its sixty-fourth running in as many years and therefore enjoys a history paralleling that of the Kentucky Derby, a field of eleven was seen today while the Bashford Manor, up for the thirty-seventh time, is expected to test a smaller array. Participants in the latter will demonstrate their worth over five fuTlongs while the Oaks will be decided at a mile and an eighth. POTENTIAL STARTERS. Potential starters in the filly stakes are Mrs. Payne Whitneys Lourdes, Smith G. Bakers Janice, H. P. Headleys Driftalong and Flying Lee, Reidinger Brothers Tilly Kate, Midkiff and Wells Dixie Land and Cross Keys, John O. Keenes Fantine, Mrs. Frank J. Navins Last Message, Russell A. Firestones Lenpola and A. L and Mrs. C. H. Fergusons Shining Heels. Among the better colts and fillies likely to be seen under colors in the closing day head-liner are Mrs. Payne Whitneys Third Degree and Cherry Jam; A. L. Fergusons Steady Don, Charles T. Fishers Likly Lad or Batter, Johnson N. Camdens Royal Pam, J. G. Browns Hellow Cap, J. W. Bells Steel Heels, J. W. Parrishs Myrica, Herbert M. Woolf s Unerring and Inscoelda and Mrs. K. T. Maxwells Busy Man.
