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Show Big Kentucky Handicap Saturday Is Lure for Fastest Stars of Day Field of Fifteen Expected to Face Barrier in Douglas Park Classic; Will Be Worth $15,000; Indications Are Meeting Will Be Neat Success; Bettors at Jamaica Have to Be Keenly Alert. By JACK SALLEE. LOVISV1LLK, Ky.. May 26. Spring vjH'ing wound up at Churchill Downs yesterday afternoon after-noon anil the thoroughbreds moved over today to Douglas Park, .where they will hold sway for the next twelve days. All of the bitr stables which MiorteU silks during the meeting at the Downs have remained over for the meetinc at the old iiotting park and prospects are bright for the greatest meeting in the history of the Celia course. The real big event of the meeting at Dourliis Park will be run off next Saturday Sat-urday and a niajoraty of the ail-aged stars of the nation have been named to start in the rick Kentucky handicap, which will be worth more than any other all-aged stake of the year. At least a dozen of the royally-bred thoroughbreds thor-oughbreds which have been tried and found true, are being pointed for the lug stake, and the event, which is to be decided June 10. is going to lie one of the hardest, fought in the history of Kentucky 's turf. A. K. Macomber is sending four to the post. Dodge, Boots, Ed ("rump and one other, and any one of the quartette quar-tette niut be given a chance. All of them have worKed well, and the mil-linnaiie mil-linnaiie owner is confident that his horses will run fast enough to kill off all oppo-iTion and there are a few- who helirve that it is possible that the Macomber Ma-comber colors will finish one, two, three. Roamcr a Contestant. Andrew Miller is going to make a special trip to Kentucky next Saturday to see Roamer win the big rae. This game gDlding has been sent after the Kentuckv handicap twice. Once he finished fin-ished second and another time he ran unplaced, but this year he conies back in better trim and a better chance, owing to the adjustment in weights. He is as speedy as a sprinter and has the tenacity ot a buildng. Hodge, winner win-ner of the lark handicap twice, and second once in the big handicap, is now on edge, and Kay Spruce is putting in some smart work on the son of Ivan the Terrible in his preparation for the race. Kmbrnidorv and Water Witch, two mares, are given a rnyal chance in the race, due to a big puil in the weights, and if it is mini dy Kmbroidery w-ill be a hard one to beat. Faith in Colonel Vennie. Jeff Livingstone nnd his trainer, Mose Goldblatt, are looking forward confidently confi-dently to a victory for ( 'nlonel Vennie, a PictoShv Mi-sie product That has done e verythins,' a--kod of him this year. ( olonel Vennie recently broke a track record in his work tor the race, and be sems almost on edge now for the greatest ra--e of his career. This imported im-ported coit has been getTing better sreadiiv rlurine the past year, and it is doubtful if any horse in America can beat liitn and give him much weight. Pif Jr.. the stake horse developed de-veloped by R. P. Pnker. is another which looms up as a contender. Pif Jr., has won more races' by nose finishes than any ofher horse in the country, and i olor.ol Raker believes that his nose . will be lone enough to get first place next S.iturdav. There are several other good ones in the rick stake and a little faver at the start or a break in luck mac turn the time and some outsider score, so evenly balanced is the big field. ' Fifteen Starters. Tt now seems certain that there will be at least lit'teen starters in the handicap, han-dicap, and with that added to the $10,. OVi pnt up bv the Jockev club the purse will be worth iu round tlL'ures about J-l.-i.ooo, To per cent of which will go to fl"1 u inner. Though it is possible that the Macomber Macom-ber horses, with the exception of the rpiartettr which is to start in the handicap, handi-cap, will be in the cast by next Satur-dav. Satur-dav. Tiainer Jennings hopes to win a Yew races before trying the Metro-poli'nn Metro-poli'nn circuit. During his st.iv in Kentuckv Ken-tuckv he has been singularly unfortunate unfortu-nate in winning. So far he lias not won enough in purses to pav feed bills en the lug stable. It is believed that Trainer Jennings has too many worries on his hands to do .justice to the great stable he has undei his care. A man with fiftv food horses to look after is all that a man ran do. and as Jennings undertakes to see after the condition of each of his charge?, it is doubtful it' lie can uivo ;iM ot' them enough at-fentinn. at-fentinn. He is a great trainer, and it he could divide his stable and have some tlnrtv under his wine, it is probable prob-able that he would get better results. However, a few of them have been slow in coining to hand, and when they reach Belmont park they will bo ready for racing. Camden Stable Strong. Senator Johnson N. f amden now has the most powerful stable he has over eauipnieued. Kvery year he has had one star, but this year he is only racing two-vour-olds. with the lone exception of the one time sensational Solly. lie has three corking L'ood baby racers in Itnnovdew. vet 'undefeated; Atalanta, n real speed 'marvel, and Plevna. Senator Sena-tor Camden is workiMg up now a brand new stable, and if he is as successful with his second crop as he is with this one, he is coing lo cut n big figure on the Kentucky circuit next spring. Never in the history id' Kentucky has racing drawn so well as this spring. t l.exinldnn there were big crowds out evorv dev, and ai Churchill Downs the attendance has been remarkable. 1'lav has been heavv in the machines despite much talk ot' retrenchment and efforts to defeat the high cost of living. Manv went to the track with the avowed purpose of winning money to pay bills, and quite a few were sue-icssfnl, sue-icssfnl, but the consistent bowling over ui' favorites made the "punters" grog-l j..v earlv ;n the action, and the sure-J iliil'r placers who sought spots to bet li n "i" Via n k rolls on some horse to show, wen- burnt up at ihe end of the first week. Experts Big Meeting. Ceneral Manager John Hachmeister, wdio handles the affairs, at li.iuglas park and Latonia, is looking tor the;' best season either of his two plants have yet experienced. These two tracks always draw well, and with the best horses in the land competing for the juicy stakes and purses Tvhich have been hung up, he can see no reason why he shouldn't have a banner season. Racegoers are reminded every so often that we are at war. As on the opening day at the Downs, there was a flag-raising at Douglas park this afternoon after-noon and Governor Stanley was on band to make an address. He is an ardent lover of the thoroughbred, but is quick to condemn the work of some of the turfmen who believe in "shooting onlv when the price is right. The members mem-bers of the First infantry are guests of the jockev club every day, and many of the khaki-clad bovs have accumulated accumu-lated large bank rolls on their tips. The wiseacres have been lavish in their tips to the soldiers, and many nave profited. Despite the fact that Canada is having hav-ing to bear a great burden in the war the tracks there are doing well. In fact, the purses and stakes have been so liberal that many stables that have been in the habit of racing in Kentucky have been drawn to the dominion this season. The class of horses there, taken as a whole, does not quite come up to the standard set in Kentucky, but evenly even-ly balanced fields have been contesting each day across the border and the players have enjoved a fair season so far" Good prices 'have been prevailing and the pari-mutuel svstem has eer-tainlv eer-tainlv made the plavers forget, all about the bookmakers, except the unpleasant things which used to come to light every once in a while. Good at Jamaica. Jamaica has enjoyed a fair season so far aud the Xew Yorkers who are having hav-ing to watch the anti-betting laws a trifle more closely than in the past believe that the turf is really on a solid footing there again. Their belief is borne out by great sport, big crowds and intense interest. The love of the thoroughbred has cropped out in the east and the halcyon days are coming back again, according to reports. The size of purses in the- east are being increased constantly and next year is expected to be on a par with 1910. when racing went into an eclipse on the metropolitan tracks. AI M. Dick, which was regarded as a fair two-year-old in Kentuckv last spring, has developed into a great three-year three-year old, and his owner, Roy T. Yeager. of Louisville, looks for him to cut a big figure in New York this year. He is entered in many of the large fixtures fix-tures and Trainer Bud May has hopes of the colt doing well all season. Ke-wessa Ke-wessa seems to be one of the best sprinters there right now, but Ivory Black, Spur and The Finn are going to cut quite a figure in races of any distance later on. Spur was rated close to the top last year, and he may repeat. re-peat. Harry Payne VVhitnev is going after the Suburban with Rickety, which he sent to KentucJ y to start in the Kentucky Ken-tucky derby. This colt seems to be one of the best in the country, and now that he has had a race under his belt he is going to be hard to beat in any kind of company at any distance. The Maryland season was better than expected and that state is showing a lot of progress. I'nder existing conditions condi-tions Maryland may run up a close second sec-ond to Kentuckv in manv ways, except the breeding of thoroughbreds. All the courses seem to be working in harmony foward bringing out better horses a.nd making races to suit horses of higher caliber. Jt is realized that the plater is used almost solely for the betting end of the game and the jockey clubs are anxious to put that end of the game in the background. Wherever that has been done with success the tracks have piospered hrvond hopes. It is highly prohal--. that a lot of these platers aro going to be workin for I'uele Sam before the snow flies and it will be a help rather than n hindrance to the turf. |