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DETROITS FORTY-NINE DAY MEETING OPENS TODAY 1 Conditions in Motor City Most Promising in Two Years Only One Meeting Scheduled This Year at the Popular Fair Grounds Course — Inaugural Program Attractive Despite Lack of Stake Feature _ DETROIT, Mich. -May 19.— King Horse regains most of his forgotten prestige starting tomorrow, and for eight weeks he will be very much in the limelight at the Detroit Racing Association track. Clarence Lehr and his assistants, who revived thoroughbred racing at the Michigan State Fair Grounds in 1933, will offer the Wolverines their seventh straight meeting. Forty-nine days of racing in one meeting is all thats scheduled for Detroit, the State Fair having been granted permission to use the compact plant for a harness horse meeting in conjunction with the Fair, and at a time the fall session heretofore has been held. There is much enthusiasm among the Detroiters. Hotels, apartment houses and private homes report more reservations than at any time during the past several years. Working conditions in the Motor City are the best in two years. A majority of the motor factories have been going at full blast since the fall season and the other businesses naturally have been doing well. No stakes grace the opening program but it is a very attractive one, and if it could be used as a criterion, local patrons are in for a great season of racing. There should be no want of performers to fill the daily eight-race program, for more than 1,000 horses are quartered at the track and in adjacent barns. In fact finding quarters for the owners desiring to ship their charges here has given president and general manager Clarence Lehr many sleepless nights. During the past week he was forced to cancel reservations for 200 horses and to take care of many owners failing to receive notification of their cancellations. President Lehr obtained fifty stalls near the track and built stalls for thirty horses in the north end of the stable area. FOURTEEN SPRINTERS NARIED. Fourteen sprinters, representing twelve different interests, were named for the Inaugural Handicap, the fifth event on the eight-race card. Only five will parade for the Spring Handicap, but they are a well-matched band. The Speed Test Purse and fourth race attracted such a representative field that racing secretary Charles Henry prevailed on president Clarence E. Lehr to raise the purse value from 00 to ,000. In the Inaugural, Night Editor and Mar Le, the latter a double stakes winner last year, will tote the top burden of 115 pounds over six furlongs. Sky Lanty comes next under 113 pounds and Time Please and Hasty Star, two of four three-year-olds entered for t.e sprint, are the low weights under 100 pounds each. Detroit Bull and Golden Era will have up the top burden of 115 pounds for the Spring Handicap. Catomar comes next under 112 pounds and Couldeedam and Straight Thrus assignments are 110 and 106 pounds, respectively. Those named for the Speed Test Purse are Take On, Marbold, Oddesa Lad, Show Up, Continued on forty-first page. 9 DETROITS FORTY-NINE-DAY MEETING OPENS TODAY Continued from first page. Noble Boy, Blue Field, Faust, Steel King, Lady Flash and French Bread. With few exceptions the same stables to have participated in previous meetings will be represented and a check of the trations reveals forty stables to be owned by Detroiters. Among the Motor City establishments are the Dixiana Stable of Charles T. Fisher, the Motor City Stable of Louis Lepper, the Imperial Farms of John Anhut, the Valley Grey Stable of Mrs. Peggy Ainsworth Townsend, Mrs. Frank Thompson, Mrs. C. C. Winters, Jack Angner, Fred Alger, Walter Ridenour, J. L. MacKnight, Mrs. M. M. Johr, Bomar Stable of C. A. Bohn and Peter Markey, I.! S. Shafer, T. D. Buhl and others. Those owners from other states are Charles Ferguson, James Cellis, Dan Mid-kiff, Col. P. T. Chinn, R. B. Allen, F. B. Koontz, Ross Higdon, Amos Wallin, Eugene Lutz, N. J. Scallon, Lucky Teter, A. J. Halli-well, Frank Ray, H. H. Temple, Jr., Dr. L. M. Holmes, Dave Christian, R. A. Greenlee, J. M. Buckland, J. H. Logan, Mrs. Katherine Maxwell and others. RIDING BRIGADE FORTEETED. The riding brigade is the best fortified in years, topped by John Oros, Americas leading rider; it also includes Sammy Williams, Tyrus Meloche, Melvin Calvert, M. L. Fallon, J. Marrero, Joe Jacobs, George Oros, E. Rodriguez, H. Dupuy, H. Lindberg and others. The stakes program will have as its best races the Col. Alger Memorial Handicap and the Frontier Handicap. Both carry ,000 in added money with the Alger Memorial being the first down for decision. It will be run over one and one-sixteenth miles on Memorial Day, May 30. The Frontier, a jaunt at one and three-sixteenths miles, is carded for Saturday, July 1. The other stakes are the St. Clair, the Sal-Ion Cup aHndicap and the Moslem Temple Stakes for two-year-olds; the Belle Isle Handicap, the Cadillac Handicap and the Liberty Handicap, all four are six furlongs sprints; the Pontchartrain Stakes for three-year-olds and the Mackinac and Motor City Handicaps, jaunts over one and one-sixteenth miles, and the latter the closing days feature. Since last year the track proper has been put into top condition and horsemen now pronounce it to be one of the best in the country. Several improvements have been made to the grandstand and clubhouse and the parking lots have been completely graveled and oiled. MINIMUM PURSE 00. As before, the minimum purse will carry j an 00 value, while the first book of conditions is liberally sprinkled with ,200, ,000 and 00 purses for overnight handicaps and allowance races. The Powers Electronic Control Camera will decide all close finishes and the starts will be made from the Bahr gate. The "Daily Double" will be in vogue on the first and second races, post time for the opening number being 2:30 oclock Eastern Standard Time. The officials to preside over the sport are Frank McDonald, representing the Michigan Racing Commission, and stewards Jack S. Young, Clarence E. Lehr and Charles F. Henry. Henry will double as racing secre-i tary and B. Steele will do the. starting. The placing judges are Frank Otis and William G. Kelley. The field for the Inaugural Handicap, in order of post positions, weights and probable jockeys, follows: ! PP. Horse. Wt. Jockey. 1— Hasty Star 100 A. Sorsen 2 — Morcarine 102 P. Roberts 3— Candescent 108 T. Meloche 4 — JBiscayne Blue... 108 D. Taylor 5— Little Shaver.... 110 .D. Taylor 6— tMar Le 115 M. Calvert 7— Sky Lanty 113 S. Weisman 8— Little Drift 105 G. Martin 9— Imperial Sir 103 M. Quintero 10— Young Ebony 104 J. Jacobs 11— Your Buddy 108 C. Critchfield 12— f Matchup 103 M. Calvert 13— Time Please 100 J. E. Oros 14— Night Editor 115 J. Marrero fLeo J. Marks entry. JBomar Stable entry.
