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HORSEMEN LIKE AK-SAR-BEK Attracts Same Owners Every Year -Beezley Among Regulars. Westerner Ships East to Omaha and Then Returns to the Coast Immediately After Finale. OMAHA, Neb., April 11. A race track is known by the friends it makes. Not only must it make friends with its patrons, but it also must accord the horsemen treatment that will make them want to come back year after year, assuring plenty of competition for the various events. Few tracks enjoy the respect of horsemen any more than the Ak-Sar-Ben at Omaha. Horsemen universally praise the plant itself, but more than that, they are found everywhere loud in their praises of the courteous and fair treatment they receive at all times. Furthermore, they demonstrate this feeling by coming back year after year. Prominent among these is Earl Beezley, ithe former Nebraskan, who has been successful on the Pacific coast circuits for the past few years. Beezley ships all the way back to Omaha each year and returns directly to the coast. This year, when the Ak-Sar-Ben meeting opens on Saturday, May 27, he will be on hand with twenty-two head, including the imported South American horse, Amor Brujo, the first of the recent imports to make an appearance in the Middle West. Then there is the veteran Dr. M. J. Dun-leavy, of Denver, trainer for the E. R. Fain stable of Texas; and Dr. F. W. Cairy and his Sioux City, Iowa, stable. Frankie Orr, the ex-jockey, is a perennial at Ak-Sar-Ben and has made his reservations for this year, as has Z. E. McGregor, of the Claremore Stable. NEVER MISS MEETING. An Ak-Sar-Ben meeting without the Gor-bet family of Hudson, 111., would amaze everyone. Theres Glen and his partner, C. E. Irvin, and Papa Sam Gorbet and his handy stable, who never miss a meeting. For sentimental reasons, if for no other, those veteran horsemen, C. E. Davison and Ben Jones, are always represented with a division of their respective stables. The colors of these two campaigners have been seen here since the inauguration of racing at Ak-Sar-Ben eighteen years ago. And Claude Sawyer, son-in-law of the late C. B. Irwin, who was such a pillar in early Ak-Sar-Ben racing, is another who comes back year after year. Those Southern gentlemen, T. M. Miller and George F. Jenkins of Arlington, Texas, will again be very much in attendance this year, as will Cliff Helm, the former cowboy; Harry F. Miller and his "Thunderbolt" sta-ibles of Dewey, Okla.; Grover Gilbert of Montana, and William Ashbridge, the Ken-tuckian. From California again come L. W. Kidd, E. M. Marshall, M. W. Buck, Ernie McCown and Frank Doyle, among the perennials. Nebraska, too, is contributing some real support to Ak-Sar-Ben racing. Harold Nel-lor of Beemer, has developed a handy stable and will be back with those promising two-year-olds he had at New Orleans. Then there is E. K. Murray and M. Whitebook of Omaha, and C. E. Wilson of Benkelman, all of whom will try at eastern racing before returning for the start of the Ak-Sar Ben meeting. But there is one face, heretofore never absent, that will be missed this year. That is the veteran B. F. McClain, who, because of advancing years, has given up the races. McClain and his wife have a cafe at Mary-ville, Mo., and this year, for the first time, will not have any horses in the Ak-Sar-Ben meeting.
