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KENTUCKY OAKS ON SATURDAY ,000 Filly Race, as Old as Derby, Expected to Attract a Large and Classy Field. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 8.— The Kentucky Oaks will be presented for the sixty-fifth time at Churchill Downs next Saturday. Carrying ,000 in added money and fun over nine furlongs, this fixture, as old as the Kentucky Derby, annually attracts some of the leading three-year-old fillies of the year and a check of the list of sixty-eight nom- I inations reveals that this year may be no ; exception. Although there is small hope that Otra and Morstep, which finished second and third to Alms in the Pimlico Oaks last Sat-.urday and Fictitious and Wise Lady, also I competitors in that race, will be shipped here for the race, the starting field should lose little or any of its caste as a number of classy fillies are here awaiting the race. If there are no invaders the field probably will include Friedberg and Axtons Bala Or-mont and Montsin; Charles E. Hagyards Rude Awakening; Old Fox Stables Torch Stick; Milky Way Farms Dinner Date; Morris Vehons Smart Trick; Letton Vimonts Bux-go Miss; Mrs. John Marschs Irvana: Woolford Farms Unerring and Spin On; Charles H. Clearys Flying Lill and Elma H.; and probably Bellitas Babe, Caddiecay, Morcarine and several others. At Douglas Park this morning, Torch Stick, which finished third in the Arkansas Derby, had a useful mile drill, being timed the distance in 1:44%, handily. The daughter of Torchilla ran the half mile in :50% and six furlongs in 1:17%. Smart Trick breezed i six furlongs over the Churchill Downs course in 1:18 and tomorrows Indian Hills Purse, attracted seven eligibles. Those named for the mile sprint are Unerring, Elma H., Rude Awakening, Irvana, Burgoo Miss, Flying Lill and Bellitas Babe.
