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Busy Days as First Detroit Card Nears Officials Are Swamped With License Applications; Lewis Makes Complete Inspection FAIR GROUNDS, Detroit, Mich., May 23. — With the opening of the spring and summer 49-day racing season only two days away, general manager George W. Lewis of the Detroit Racing Association, made a final inspection of the Woodward Avenue plant today and announced that everything is in readiness for the Saturday inaugural day program. After conferring with general superintendent Carter C. Cur-tiss and track superintendent J. Oliver Brown, Lewis made a complete physical check of the buildings and then took a turn over the flat and turf tracks. Lewis then instructed Charles F. Henry, racing secretary and handicapper, to arrange as fine a card as possible for the opening of the local thoroughbred racing season. Henry hopes to fill two handicaps, the 0,000 Boots and Saddle at six furlongs, and the ,000 Man o War, which is listed for decision at one mile and one-sixteenth. Both features are to engage three-year-olds and upward and with many horses of handicap and stakes calibre quartered here, Henry should have no difficulty in presenting an outstanding card. Entries for both top events are to close today and weights will be posted tomorrow. Twilight Programs on Week-Days With the exceptions of Saturdays and holidays, when post time for the initial event will be 2:15 p.m., twilight racing is to be conducted on all other days. Post time for the later sport will be at 4:30 p.m., which hour seems most suitable to the followers of the sport in this area. One of the busiest spots at the Fair Grounds today was the office of Michigans popular racing commissioner, William J. Dowling. Turfmen, owners and trainers, jockeys grooms and others connected with the actual running of the races were applying for and receiving their licenses as rapidly as judge Joseph A. Murphy, Judges Jack S. Young, Charles A. Bray and A. L. Copland could go over the requests. Commissioner Dowling reported a number of license applications for the 1946 Michigan racing season. In the meantime at the spacious Motor City course, two more large stables checked in from Kentucky. Charles A. Grande brought in 11 members of Mrs. Elizabeth Mucklers Rivermont Ranch, headed by the useful My Reward, Brushwood Boy, and the juveniles, River Scotch and River Pilot. Henry Forrest registered some 20 horses for various owners whose charges are quartered in his public stable. Forrest trains thoroughbreds of all classes and ages and his colors are likely to be very prominent during the coming season, which is expected to get off to a splendid start here Saturday.
