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YOUNG EXPECUD WEDNESDAY Possibility Lincoln Fields May Be Opened for Training April 22. Col. M. J. Winn Reports Plenty of Horses Will Be Available for Chicagos Initial Meeting. Tom Young, track superintendent at Lincoln Fields, will be in Chicago Wednesday to supervise the finishing touches to the Crete racing strip. The Crete track inaugurates the local racing season with a twenty-seven day meeting starting Thursday, May 25. Young will remain here a few days on this trip. He has been spending most of his time at Churchill Downs, where he is getting the historic Louisville course ready for the Kentucky Derby, May 6, and having finished his task at the Downs course, he will be able to devote more time to Crete. The Crete oval will need little reconditioning, according to Young, for a new topsoil coating was spread over the track last fall. Young hopes to have the track ready for exercising horses no later than next Saturday April 22. However, no horses will be permitted to exercise without a written approval of the stall applications. Col. M. J. Winn, executive director of the track, reports plenty of racing material for the meeting, as superintendent Young has received applications for more than 600 horses. Many of these requests are from racing establishments whose thoroughbreds are familiar to Chicago racegoers and from numerous well known stables. Young also believes that there. will be as many as 1,200 horses available for the meeting and as in previous years, the overflow of horses will stable at nearby Washington Park. Meanwhile officials are working out a program of stakes and purses which will be released within a short time. Added money races will be scheduled for each of the five Saturdays and for Decoration Day, which falls on a Tuesday this year, and will, in all probability, attract the largest crowd of the meeting.
