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Thoroughbred Sport Returns To Louisville, Ky. Wednesday Many Improvements Made For Second Meeting at State Fairgrounds Track LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 22.— Thoroughbred racing, absent from the Louisville sports scene since early May, returns for a 28-day engagement starting Wednesday, June 26 at the old Kentucky State Fairgrounds in Louisvilles west end, as the Louisville Racing Association opens its second meeting. The opening day card will be featured by two overnight handicaps, The Suwannee River Handicap and the Stephen Foster Handicap and there will be a nine-race card. Summer racing made its return to Louisville for the first time in more than 25 years last June, and it met with approval of the fans in Louisville and Kentucky. For the 1957 renewal of summer thoroughbred racing, the fans and horsemen alike will be treated to numerous improvements which will make the old Fairgrounds have a new look. For the fans, they will be greeted at the entrance gate with a parking lot second to none in the State for sporting events. Gen. J. Fred Miles, President of the Louisville Racing Association, has spent much time and money seeing to it that parking facilities are tops. There also has been constructed a large arena for the clubhouse betting which was open air last year, and in the grandstand, the mezzanine has been enlarged to twice its 1956 size. Better Facilities for Trailers Horsemen have been given added space and facilities for« their house trailers in the elaborate trailer court. Better accommodations also have been made throughout the stable area. The result is that the grade of horses which will campaign at the 1957 meeting is far superior as a whole to that which ran at the inaugural meeting in 1956. T*he stable area was opened on June 10, and horses from Ohio and those of local owners began filling the stalls. The big move to the Fairgrounds will be over the week-end. Many of the horses which campaigned at the Audubon Park meeting which closed Saturday will be coming here to • race and by Monday morning every one of the more than 700 stalls at the old Fairgrounds will be housed with horses. That the horsemen were more than satisfied with the first meeting is proven by the fact that stall applications for the forthcoming session far exceeded the hopes of racing secretary Charles F. Henry. To date he has been forced to turn down 640 horses. He has picked the better stables. There will be a change in post time. This year the first race will be at 2 p. m. daily.x
