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DETROIT OPENING NEAR Forty-Nine-Day Meeting Begins at Motor City Saturday. Lack of Sufficient Stall Room for the Number of Horses Already Registered Worries Officials. "DETROIT, Mich., May 16— The opportunity of remaining at one track for a period of forty-nine days of racing appears to have appealed to a great number of western, eastern and Canadian owners, for at Detroit today, president Clarence E. Lehr and general superintendent Carter Curtiss were attempting the Houdini trick of making two stalls appear where there was one. During the past two weeks Detroit racing association officials have produced 200 more stalls through the kindness of the state fair association, but still there are more horses booked than quarters available for them. Over the week-end fifty horsemen were notified not to ship here, but many of them were en route and arrivals Sunday, Monday and this morning filled all but 200 stalls. There are reservations for an additional 300 and that is the reason Messrs. Lehr and Curtiss are resorting to magic or hoping that some of the horsemen will select other tracks for their charges. SURPLUS OF HORSES. A check of the horses on the grounds and those en route revealed that excepting the long season of 1934, the greatest aggregation of thoroughbreds ever to participate in local racing will be under colors starting with the opening Saturday. Early nominations for the eleven stakes to be offered during the eight weeks of the sport are the largest in years. President Lehr said today the stakes entries are most gratifying. "We do not close the entries for each stake until several days before its running," said Lehr, "and these early nominations lead me to believe that the features will attract a majority of the best performers quartered in the West. It is a short trip from Chicago and Cleveland and last year Beau James and Dolly Val were vanned from Chicago to win the St. Clair* Stakes and the Frontier Handicap. "There will be a number of good horses at Cleveland and several owners who will take part in that meeting have made nominations for our stakes." HENRY RACING SECRETARY. Charles Henry, racing secretary and his force which was augmented today by the arrival of Frank Otis, are going at top speed and this department will be in complete readiness for the opening. Other departments also are far advanced. Des Dressen, mutuel manager, has already selected his assistants and the huge electrical approximate odds board has been given a thorough trial. Schooling of two-year-olds and older horses has been going on for several days under the direction of starter Bryan Steele, and the many improvements Continued on twenty-fourth page. DETROIT OPENING NEAR Continued from first page. to the plant made since last year were completed last week. Along with the announcement of ladies day each Tuesday and Friday, came one from Joe Frost, Michigan racing commissioner, that he has concurred with president Lehr regarding advising the public as to what kind of shoes will be worn by horses in the event of adverse track. Stickers, toes and heels, usually placed on the shoe when the footing becomes bad, will be registered against the starter on boards in the grandstand and clubhouse. Commissioner Frost, who recently was appointed for the second time as the Michigan one-man commissioner, has done much to improve the sport in this state and he hopes his newest ruling will aid the public. Among the many arrivals during the weekend was a division of the Milky Way Farm of Mrs. Ethel V. Mars. Comprising eleven head and in charge of Fred Morris, the division contains Time Please, Warbridge, Far-rell, Gray Dog, Military, Starry Path, Our Treat, Banner Man and the two-year-olds Tokanhan, Tough Hombre and Ginger Ted. Jockey H. Lindberg came along with Morris and will do most of the riding. RECENT ARRIVALS. Other arrivals were Al Miller, with I. J. Collins Dale K., which formerly raced as Oddesa Beulah, Barna, Flying Up, Flying Bobby, Kremlia, Kenneth K. and Hargram. Miller announced he shipped Bernard F. and Pehamis to Beulah Park from Louisville to fill stakes engagements at that point Saturday and that they would be here Monday. J. H. Logan brought in Middletown, Super John, Rural Mail, Irish Oak, Orphan Lass, My Blonde, Rough Party, Sudanese, Hats Off and Wham from Maryland and from Kentucky came the J. R. Collins stable of Geo. Krehbiel, Verakee, Lirma, Henrietta C, Josa R., Patsy Supreme, Lady James and Jenning R. Another arrival from Maryland was former jockey Sidney Trenchard with Some Good, Sought After, Marchline, Gorgeous Hussy and Sciva. Walter Ridenour, a Detroiter who confined his activities to Kentucky until the sport was revived here, unloaded Over Call, Lady Overbrook and Rowland H., the property of L. C. Young and Morcarine, Back Lot and Michellinda, which races under the Ridenour colors. Bruce Mclntyre brought Hi-Wave and Snow Flower from Fairmount and expects to receive several from Kentucky, which he will train for Col. Phil T. Chinn. Winntaska, which he purchased from J. Cal Milam and Entre Nous and Valvita, whom he acquired from J. O. Keene, comprise the small stable Mike Shields vanned from Lexington.
