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Show FOR THE PONY LOVERS nnn nnn nnn nnn TURF NEWS AND YARNS By JACK SALLEE. LOt'TSYlLLK. Ky.. April 30. Lex-i Lex-i n i, l o u got under way Thursday atteinooti. with a oreat crowd in I attendance, and there will be six days oi racing each week until Ju!y 4, ( when L.atonia cioes down and the turfmen turf-men turn iroin the BluegrusS state for the traces of 1 1 1 e Empire s t ate. T'ne sj'ort :U Lexington during the first tlireo das riu-re indicates that tin1 ioi v chib there is going to reap even a larger harve-t t hau was put awav last year, and that signifies a. new reeord ior tiie asociatiuii course. M:it:v ot 1 1 ; o b. t horses in creation are housed at Lexi:;g:ou uuw, ana the first of t he week there will be several additions, addi-tions, as some of the trainers were uot ijuite ready to race and ke:-t their horses at ioeal tracks until they were ready to go to the post. The Perby trial at Lexington will be the hemiiiner of the coming week and a majonrv of the horses which are be-inu be-inu pointed for the bi race whmh ;!' he run off r.f ("hnrchill Powns M:;v ' will be sent to the post. The horse that is receiving the mord at tent ion richt now is Star Hawk, t'ne star of the Macon. her stable, and Trainer Walter Jennings expects hira to show his heels? i to the fleet band that will go to the post m the pre I i miliary for the Kentucky Ken-tucky ela.-sic. Ki nney. Votary and n dueu others are receiving preparation lor the trial and donor less the horse that wins the event will receive, a lot of consideration when Derby day rolls around. George Smith Promising. The horse which beats George Smith, i the Sanford eraek, will get a crack at first money in the Derby. Of ail the ! horses whieh are goiuy into the big race, George Smith acts more like a ! real stake horse than the others. Star Hawk aud whatever Harry Payne Whitney Whit-ney sends to the post will doubtless be the money horses. These three seem to stand out over a brilliant field that is defined to make turf history at ' Churchill Downs next month. Mr. Whitney is rather backward about j nam in l: the eligibles he will send to the post in the b:g race or what he will ship to Kentueky to take up the running i with his Fdircon. aster colt. Slipshod. I: ! lias been gi en out that Slipshod wili I he the tnahistav if ;he track is heavy, j However, there are about twenty other.-in other.-in the no'e whieh so-mi to be about a-gooi a-gooi as Slipshod, aud naturally the fob lowers of the thoroughbreds are gradual ly turning from the Whitney stable, as in the past it has been known a week or two in advance just what he was going to do. J mis much as he is uot a plunger, it is bedieved that Mr. Whitney Whit-ney lias not the proverbial ace in the hole he enjoyed n year ago, and that he and his astute trainer, Jimmy Kowe. are wondering .just what they are going to do in the lug race. Me has four which are of Derby caliber, but this year the field seems a bit higher in eluss than the great field which went to the post a .year ago. However, ho has a lot of good ones' and should furnish a contender in the rieh stake. Westy Hogan seems to be the best of the two-year-olds at Lexington, though there are some high' class juvenilis at the association course. Westy Hogan is a speedy horse aud is being looked upon with much favor by the sporting contingent then; in the Breeder's Futurity. Fu-turity. He will hp re to meet the Schorr crack, Harry Kelly in this raee; and J " Honest'' John is looking for his son of UUlmus to take the measure of 1 Westy Hngan. j Open weather has been prevailing during the present week in Kentucky, t find horsemen are having unusually good j luck with their training. All of tha horses in these parts are going to be ; ready to run by the opening at Churchill j Downs, and from then on until the close i of the season at Latouia there will be plenty of good sport. The iHiuounci ment of the- Reno Fair & Racing; associaf inn is of general interest. in-terest. It shows that the west is getting get-ting ha-'k into racing ways, and the thoroughbreds of that section are going go-ing to get a chance on the oval without j traversing a tew thousand miles. The. I announcement follows: : Secretary and Manager J. A. Senas J of the Reno Fair v Racing association j has made public, the stake programme j of the Reno summer meeting and, popti- j lation considered, it is a decidedly lib- eral of ier-ing. The meeting is to open j July .1 and continue for nineteen racing j days. Eight stake races to close for en- j tries June 15, are proffered for the con- si deration of horsemen, of which the Nevada Dehy is the principal item. The! events in the order of their value are the following: Nevada Derby, three-year-olds; value $2-V)'j : one and one-eighth miles. Reno Business Men's handicap, three-year-olds and over; value $2000; one1 mile. - i Opening handicap, three-year-olds and. lover: value $2000; three-quarters mile.! Independence handicap, three-year-, olds and over; value 1000; one mile, i Golden Gate stakes, two-year-olds; 1 ; value $1000: four and one-half' furlongs, j Juvenile stakes, two-year-olds; value $1000; five-eighths mile. Overland handicap, three-year-olds and over; value $500; three-quarters mile. Riverside handicap, three-year-olds and over: value $500; one mile. Purses will be of $300 on those days on which no stake races are to be run, overnight special races of $500 or more will be provided. It is intended that a fall meeting, also of nineteen days, will be held at Reno in October. Entries are to be mailed to Mr. Schas. Oth-T officials are: Robert F. Leigh-ton, Leigh-ton, presiding judge, and E. Tribe, starter. |