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Show 1ntucky Race Track A" arWill HelpTurlmen l to Reopen Douglas Park With Big Stakes to Attract High-Class- Stables. OINNATT. Feb. 10. The conditions governing the six stakes d be decided at. 1 ho coming spring meeting of the Lalonia' qckey club avci-c given out. today and the derby is, as usual, ture. The entries to ho-stakes will close Saturday, March 23. ire arc three stakes less than Jast spring, due to the unccr-of unccr-of the spring dates, which will not be fixed by the racing ssion of Kentucky until March 15. le value of the derby this year is $5000. UISVILLE, Ivy., Feb. 10. The long looked lor announcement stakes of the New Louisville Jockey club for the spring g of 1912 has been made and, despite the rumor that there 2 a shorter meeting at Churchill Downs on account of. the g of Douglas park, all ten stakes will be run off. according bfficial. statement of General Manncrp.r M. J. Winn. .MHT . ----- tWKntucky Derby, of course. holdn Hfce or honor and will bo run off vi'K- opening tiny, while The Oaks Is ''Hiil'dst day and Is at one mllo for 'Bree year?, old. The other stakes PMwlhrec-year-olds and upward The MnfUillcapr lint; and a sixteenth Kthe Louisville handicap, six fur-1 rtlm Churchill Downs handicap. S.an eighth miles: the Frank Fehr itakeF. one mile; lho Tobacco RstiHng, els furlongs. K two-year-olds Tho Basltford rrtakefc, four and a half furlongs; Kbutanto stakes, four furlongs; the stakes, selling1. flvo furlongs. iPiitante stakes are for two-year-'pies and tho Bashford Manor 'WMMtr two-year-old geldings and 1KjKntucky Derby and the Kcn-.S5 Kcn-.S5 of 1P13 will not close until IgBIn? of 1013. In aroordanc with iVl Tpltns of the racln? comnil?-gpch comnil?-gpch forbids puuranteed stake? in VV' Tlie nominations for the 1912 Hfij t" Rk3 !'ve closed Ions one remaining payment March .'t;" Paid, in order to he ready to f flH V"e oPenlnrr of the meeting at ?.' Wns. There Is an additional K-stnrt In Mie derby. aso announced that no purs? ,;Kvan ?n0fi -.vlll be offered won 'fiff C'VntF The enmo nmniml 1Mb IftKt sprlncr and again in .'li'jr-'hlll Downs. k j i alljnp ttvo years for racing o back In ihe east, horse-Mnr; horse-Mnr; and elsewhere are 1th the inaiiageinents of the In Kentucky to support a make the Bluesras.- state f ( Hie ruunliifr turf, trucks in operation. n?v if added that win make tlv-i tlv-i lnlhcUlf' fav0rab,y w,Ul niiiiger John' Machniel?tnr of and Douglas P;irk .lockcv neral Manager M. .1. Winn rez and lv,iBvllle Jockey lie opinion that ihHijk hern ifctly Found foollim. They ft sport will Improve urn-i urn-i n tin, next year or two. ?. .Vn ln rcopcnlnp of a tb Oo3t and west. r Is here arnuinlnp: for the 0iiS r.K Park ihlH sprlns. ! 6 break with the New l.ouls-Wrlse l.ouls-Wrlse nn the other two Kcn-n Kcn-n of, ,hf' . CHa raclnp faction rr? "n ProlbHhy he will I r,r . I'l'f-yPAr-uld fllllOP. kv '?J1VM w " "rnre with oSn?.,y- V,",,,r,, lR nm ff "HI prphah y he ra,0(1 ..,c t bp 11 "nil's, the A wanPer or the iaXur vbl"11 v',f,R turned ESnWlvc? a fi ebninf1' 'Er'"b l"OUnt ,ls"f''lr' "'v'ry filly Ih .?f """old1 ev?n t SJO I"" l ol?1 stok?" wn"f 1 - Rl-mfc ih? AVr"tkkR 'at i Entfc1'. u,,i BD,,,w than V-K8??"b nivl th Frjturljly' fk- :fer' 11 r,sr """"riasT Tut. ul. 11,0 ,1r5t Si v-rvb111 owiiji 'fofnnanohor two weeks racing rnaklns: a total of nhout twenty-elpht rhcinc days for Louisville, "Interest In the . Kentucky Derby - is hlCnor this year than last, as there are half a dozen cor.d colls entered In major events in the Kentucky stolt'cs. .YVJorth. the son of the Knleht of the Thistle, owned by1 II. C. Hallenbach, who boucht the youngster as a 2-year-old to win the 1S1L' Derby. Is the ravorite. in tlfe winter' hook, with The Manasrer. winner of the Breeders' Futurity last year at Lexlncton. a son of Voter (dam Brace-jjlrdlc). Brace-jjlrdlc). Is second choice.. The west and south will also have crood representatives represen-tatives in this event, which will make fne racp one of the best in several years from a bettlnjr standpoint. For tho past three years one or two snorl horses have stood out as belncr much the best and were eonnequentlv odds-on favorites at tost time. This year "Worth and The Manasrer will divide di-vide honors, while play will be hern-'' on half a dosen others. A petition has been sent to Charleston. Charles-ton. S. C, and Juarez reauestlnc the manafcoments of the two tracks to offer more Juvenile events, as tho co.t of production pro-duction of tYiorotiKhbrcds Is so sreat that unless owners of 2-year-olds have a chance to race them more it will havo a dDrcflsinc effect udoii the sport In . Kentucky, probably Iniurlm? It to such an extent that breedlnsr will drop off j several points. Assurance ha? hern re-jcelvcd re-jcelvcd that the rerjnest will bo granted. |
