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$ 900 HORSES AT DETROIT Officials Turn Down Applications for Stalls for 200. Initial Program Saturday Only Half-Holiday Card Without a Stake Feature — Plant in Condition. DETROIT, Mich., May 18. — Although nominations for the two handicaps that will provide a dual attraction for the opening of the Detroit spring and summer season Saturday do not close until midnight, indications point to large and representative fields being under colors for both numbers. The opening program will be the only one offered on a Saturday during the eight weeks of racing, lacking a stakes feature. Before deciding on this procedure, Clarence E. Lehr, president and general manager of the Detroit Racing Association, and Charles Henry, racing secretary, checked the list of stall applications and found that most of the performers expecting to engage in local competition would be thoroughly tried in Maryland, New England and Kentucky shortly before arriving at the Motor City course. Considering that some time should be allowed for the top-notch horses to become acclimated, Messrs. Lehr and Henry thought it best to start the stakes program, consist-ting of eleven fixtures, on the second Saturday of the meeting. ST. CLAIR STAKES. The St. Clair Stakes, for two-year-olds, will be the first offered and during the following week the ,000 added Colonel Alger Memorial Handicap and the ,500 added Belle Isle Handicap are down for decision. The Alger Memorial will be run on Memorial Day May 30 and the Belle Isle on the following Saturday. Cloudy skies yesterday and today befuddled the horsemen, but the weatherman forecasts no rain between now and the opening and in that event the racing strip will be in its best condition in several years. In track parlance, horses were merely bouncing over the sandy track this morning and several sparkling workouts were registered against horses expected to be under colors for the two handicaps. Today found more than 900 horses on the ground and late additions will provide a colony consisting of more than one thousand. If it had not been for the kindness of the Fair Association in granting the use of two of the big show horse barns, two hundred horses could not have been quartered. Own- Continued on thirty-seventh page. 900 HORSESAT DETROIT Continued from first page. ers desiring quarters for two hundred horses have been notified during the past two days not to ship here and among them were some of the leading establishments in the Midwest. INAUGURAL HANDICAP. Early entries for the six furlongs Inaugural Handicap include Johake, Mar Le, Matchup, Morcarine, Little Drift, Young Ebony, Straight Thru, Biscayne Blue, Little Shaver, Time Please, Sky Lanty, Patrol Scout and Night Editor, while the handicap to be run over a mile and seventy yards has attracted Catomar, Golden Era, Straight Thru, Detroit Bull, Couleedam, Nautical Mile, Patrol Scout and others. Johake, one of the leading two-year-olds of his year, will re-enter competition after a two-year absence, in the Inaugural. Paul Sanford has the brother to Joharie training soundly and since arriving here from Tropical Park he has turned in several brilliant trials. Mar Le and Matchup need no introduction to western racing. This capable pair in the Le Mar Stock Farm stable of Leo Marks, were among the leaders in Illinois racing last year and trainer Al Woodman intends to send both postward. The Le Mar silks are veiy fami-, liar to local patrons. Harry Hart brought a division of the stable here for the inaugural meeting and returned the following year with an establishment that included thirty-five head. The following year the progeny of Misstep made their racing debut over the local course and, excepting last year, the Marks horses have played a prominent part in the local sport. MILKY WAY FARM. Roy Waldron brought over from Canada a division of the Joseph E. Widener stable to take part in the inaugural meeting of 1933 and the following year returned with another well balanced outfit. Since then his activities have kept him in the East, but this year he decided to send a division of the Milky Way Farm stable here in charge of Fred Morris. He would have had to gone a long way before selecting a trainer as popular as Morris is in this sector. Morris had a division of the Le Mar stable here for one meeting and also developed Zevson and others for Mrs. Ethel Bartlett, one of the more prominent followers of the chase in this state. Morcarine and Young Ebony had useful preparations for the Inaugural Handicap today, the former reeling off five furlongs in 1:01% and Young Ebony running six furlongs in 1:13%. Five cars and fourteen vans unloaded thoroughbreds from Louisville, Narragansett and Maryland today and tomorrow will witness the arrivals of the last of the shipments from these points. Among the stables to reach here were those of C. W. Moore, J. O. Keene, Mrs. Peggy Ainsworth Townsend, R. R. Greenlee, I. S. Shafer, R. C. Gillem, Jerry McCarthy, Milton Rinke, Mrs. E. Oros, Ross Higdon and others.
