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KEENEL AND ATTRACTS SURPLUS NUMBER OF HORSES Officials Unable to Accommodate All Who Request Stall Room Room for Approximately 600 Horses at Regular Track and 150 at Trotting Track Schedule Two Races Daily for Juveniles LEXINGTON, Ky., April 6. The same condition that has prevailed semi-annually since Keeneland Park was opened three years ago, is confronting president Hal Price Headley and W. T. Bishop, track superintendent. There are too many horses for the number of stalls and this despite several additional barns, the last of which was completed today. Van after van dumped its cargo of horseflesh at the Versailles road track and the trotting track yesterday and today and, while arrangements have been made to take care of every reservation, superintendent Bishop is having sleepless nights. There are many horses to be removed from Keeneland to their owners farms, and due to this Bishop asked each incoming owner to wait several days before shipping here. He hopes by tomorrow to have all of the outgoing horses away from the track and then he will be in a position to care for all reservations. About 600 horses can be quartered at the track and 150 more at the trotting track. With only eleven days of racing and Mondays dark, this is an ample number of horses. Of the total, nearly 300 are two-year-olds. Two races for juveniles are carded daily. Excepting opening and closing days and the two Saturdays, only seven races will be offered daily, so there will be an abundance of material with which to fill the program. ALL THE HORSES NECESSARY. "We have all the stables we need," said president Headley, "but with no early racing in Chicago, it appears all the horsemen in the middle west want to come here. It is an expensive proposition building barns to be used for only twenty-two days a year and especially when we now have more horses than can take part in the daily programs." Several owners, who had been notified there was no available stalls, shipped their charges here today, and it was necessary for superintendent Bishop to turn them back. Sidney Brown, who will pinch hit for racing secretary C. J. McLennan, arrived from Miami yesterday and today opened his office. Larry Bogenschutz checked in from Cincinnati and during the day they were busy registering the horses. Brown said that he would spend tomorrow and Saturday allotting the weights for the Phoenix Handicap. Sixteen crack sprinters are eligible to the six furlongs dash that will top the opening day program next Thursday, April 13, and as several of them have not enjoyed winter racing, a hard task confronts Brown. TRAINING IN FINE STYLE. Three of the eligibles, Torchy, Miss Bull Dog and Biscayne Blue, have been training in fine style. They wintered at Keeneland and appear to be ready for competition. Count Morse, Easy Mon and Ted Easy, hopes of Warren Wrights.Calumet Farm, are having their preparations for the ,500 added fixture over their owners private track, and Sabariel and Bernard F., both double winners at Hot Springs, will be vanned over from Churchill DoVns the end of the week. During the Hot Springs meeting, trainer Continued on fifteenth page. KEENELAND PARK ATTRACTS SURPLUS NUMBER OF HORSES Continued from first page. Roy Waldron intimated that Tiger probably would return to competition in the Phoenix Handicap, and Time Please might accompany the Milky Way horses from Churchill Downs, at which point they arrived today. The Fighter will come from the Louisville track with seven others of the W. F. Morgan string. Armor Bearer, Cherry Jam and Court Counsel have been here for several weeks. Supporting the Phoenix will be the Crest-wood Purse, for three-year-olds and over, one and one-sixteenth miles, and this race is expected to attract several Blue Grass Stakes candidates. It is fashioned for non-winners of three races other than maiden or claiming, and under those conditions a majority of the twenty-one candidates are eligible to the race. Two races for two-year-olds, a race for maiden three-year-olds and three claiming races will complete the opening day program. A substitute race is carded so that in the event one of the original races fails to -fill, it can be used.
