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RESERVES OAKLAWN STAllS Lexbrook Farm to Ship Twelve Horses About January 15. String Made Up of Three-Year-Olds Only Exception Is Juvenile by Insco Will Nominate for Arkansas Derby. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Dec. 28 The prominent Lexbrook Farm racing establishment, owned by M. A. and L. D. Kern of Chicago, became the second big midwestern stable to obtain stall space for the Oaklawn Park meeting opening here for a thirty-day session on February 27, when racing secretary Eugene Bury set aside space for twelve of its horses today. The other outstanding stable was Milky Way Farm, also Chicago-owned. The Kern brothers entered racing early in 1938 when they purchased ten two-year-olds, nine of them by different sires, such as Equipoise, The Porter, Sir Gallahad III. and others. Among the horses Lexbrook will ship here are Imperial Scout, Caddiecay, Eye High, Merry Saxon, Lexbrook, Mars Man, Bargain Hunter, Im Sorry, Sir Passes and1 Superb. ! Lexbrook will ship from Chicago January, 15, or fifteen days after the track opens for training. The shipment will be in charge of trainer Leonard Wilson, the young conditioner who came to Lexbrook from the Herbert M. Woolf farm near Kansas City. All but one of the horses will be three-year-olds. The lone exception is a well-developed son of Insco, as yet unnamed and which, until January 1, will be classified as a yearling. The Kerns purchased him from Herbert Wcolf for an undisclosed price several weeks ago and nominated him for all the countrys leading futurities. He will be given his first start at Oaklawn Park about March 16. Lexbrook will also nominate at least one horse, and possibly two, for the fourth running of the ,000 added Arkansas Derby, scheduled for April 1. Indications are that it will be either Caddiecay or Sir Passes, or both. The former is a stout-hearted son of Equipoise, while the latter is by Sir Gallahad III. Secretary Bury said today that one-third of Oaklawns 900 stalls will be filled by January 15. Most of these horses will come from Kentucky.
