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■ 1 j BETTER HORSES FOR WHEELING Class of Material for Races Improves Over Other Years. Ffeil Chinn Sending Division of Stable to Popular Little Track in West Virginia. WHEELING, W. Va., May 2 —Sixteen days of racing at Wheeling Downs will be provided by the best fields this half-mile track has shown in many seasons. Edward J. Brennan, managing director announced yesterday that stall applications have been received for more than 300 horses and with the opening date still four weeks away, the Downs is certain to have full barns inaugural day. Counted among the demands for stall space are many of the best stables whose silks were seen here last fall including Tom Callahan, the Jamaica sportsman, with a string of live headed by Xmas Carol, leading money winner at the autumn session. He will also have the good mare Machilla. Miss Nancy Patterson, Pittsburgh socialite whose racers earned the front end of twenty-five races at Oriental Park in Havana during the winter, will campaign here. Miss Patterson now has Debacle, Toike Oike, Disown, Nanticoke, a consistent racer in Cuba, Transmac and Luke Commoner. McINTIRE TRAINER. Phil Chinn, prominent Kentucky breeder, will send a stable of six here with Bruce B. Mclntire training his string. The Chinn colors are among the most famous in the sport. Another veteran trainer, Tom Lewis will be returning. He sent Goodwine out as a winner twice during the recent Tropical Park meeting. Lewis trains for several owners and will have a string of six for the Downs spring session beginning May 27. Pat Paluch, of Hagerstown, has informed Brennan he will arrive here early in May with among others, Dancing Mack, Hagerstown Boy, Golden Key and Aella. W. W. Gift, another Maryland sportsman who won a good share of purses last fall, will check m with at least seven including -* ack Away, Steepie and Blond Reel. M. H. Two tri-state district stables, Powelson of Zanesville and Fay Headlee of Waynesburg are certain to be seen here Powelson has requested stalls for four. His string will include Winsome Lassie, Miss Add? and Red Riot. All three faced the barrier here last fall. Headlee will have the same number of campaigners. _ ■ — ♦
