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GOSSIP FROM KENTUCKY SOURCES. Eclrulte Yearlings Taken Up at Louisville Judge Price Returns from Canada Interesting Items. Louisville, Kv., July .51. W. F. Schulte returned from New York, where he went for a visit when the Lntonia meeting ended. Upon his arrival he at once ordered trainer Richard Brooks to send to Argvle Farm and take up the yearlings and bring them to Churchil Downs for their lirst lessons. There are live of these youngsters, and Mr. Schulte suvs tliev are a nice bunch. Willi plenty of size si ml bone. Two are by Batts, a Clark Handicap winner of a few seasons liack. and tlie others are Biy the Kentucky Derby winner. Sir Iluon, Alvescot tind Semproniiis. .Mr. Scliulti: has greatly improved 3n health during the last six months ajid lie attributes his improved condition to his attention to rac- ing. which lias kept him in. tlie open air. He does not intend to maintain a large stable in the future and will not have more than seven or eight horses in training at one time. His stable, with tin, addition of the live yearlings trainer Brooks will take up iu the next few days, will just numlier eight head, trainer Brooks already having at the Downs King Olympian, Zienap and Captain Bravo. Mr. Schulte thinks his useful mare, Gliding Belle, is in foal. Charles F. Price lias arrived home from Canada, where lie officiated as presiding judge during the recent Windsor meeting. After Iho Windsor meeting ended. Judge Irice spent several days fishing in Canada, he and John Hachmeister, manager of tlie Lntonia track, and W. O. Parmer, secretary or the Windsor association, being the guests of George M. Hendrie at the hitters bungalno on the St. Clair Flats. Judge Price will leave with his family tomorrow for Atlantic City, where he will remain until tlie opening of the fall racing season in Kentucky. He feels that he needs a rest, as lie will have a busy fall and winter. He will be presiding judge at Churchill Downs and at Latonia. as usual, the coining fall, and next winter lie will again he in the stand in Mexico as presiding steward for the Jockey Club Juarez. Princess Callaway. Colston and the other horses of Raleigh Colstons stable are still at Latonia. but probably will lie shipped to Churchill Downs within tlie next ten days. The colored trainer left his horses at the Kenton County track in charge of his foreman, while he went to Lexington on a visit, and as soon as lie gets back tlie string will come here. Odil Nymph, Fillibeg, Merry Beau and Steeplejack, the best two-year-olds jp the string, are over their bad training luck and are looking and doing well. Their owner expects them to race in winning form tlie coming fall. Silver Brush, tlie three-year-old in tlie stable which went wrong last spring, has come around nicely this summer and is expected to run to his best form in tlie autumn. This half-brother to Bearcatcher is looked upon as a colt of quality, and his mishap last spring was a hard blow to owner Colston, as he had set ids hopes on the sou of Oddfellow turning out to be the star of his string. Another string due at Churchill Downs shortly, which is also now at Latonia, is the stable of J. R. Wainwright, which has been cut down for tlie fall racing campaign in Kentucky to six head, all of which are good performers, namely. High Private, Trance, Royal Captive. Sigurd. Al M tiller and Short Order. Tlie two-year-olds Polly Pucell and Johnny Pitts, now turned out at Lexington, will join tlie stable here in September. .1. C. Calm, owner of Mockier, lias gone to Fort Erie, but his horses will remain at Churchill Downs until the autumn meeting begins here, lie may buy a horse or two while he is iu Canada to strengthen his stable for the coming fall and winter campaign in Kentucky and Mexico. He may be a bidder at the sale of the Sanford stable at Buffalo the coining Thursday. Tlie pick of the thoroughbred foals of 1911 at Hash ford Manor Farm, the Jefferson County breeding establishment of Racing Commissioner George J. Long, are said to be: Bay colt, by Sir Iluon Azucena. Bay colt, by Sempronius Bashford Belle. Bay colt, by Sir llnon Florika. Bay colt, by Scinproitius I.evia. J. R. Wainwrights good mares, Polly Prim and La Pueelle, both have foals this season, the formers being a bay colt by Orlando and the hitters a chestnut filly by Star Shoot. P. M. Civill. who has lieen out of active racing for more than a year, is hooked to reach .Churchill Downs early in September. He lias taken over a string of Barney Schrcibcrs horses, and the great Jack Atkin is one of tlie horses intrusted to his care by the Missouri breeder. Lady Esther was about the best performer Mr. Civill trained and raced in recent years, though a few years back he had a string of horses which raced with distinction. Caviar was one of those horses; he cost Mr. Civill only . but he won nineteen races in his colors. W. II. Shelley is taking his summer vacation at his home In this city and will not leave until his duties as racing secretary call him to Lexington, which will be late iu August or early in September. From then on he will be a busy man. as his duties, which begin with the fall meeting of tlie Kentucky Association, will continue here and afterwards during tlie winter at Juarez, where lie generally is called upon to go during the progress of t lie Latonia meeting. M. P. Mattingly is thinking of racing Irish Kid and another horse on the fair circuit for tlie next few weeks. Several other owners at the two trucks here may conclude to go to the fair races next mouth with a horse or two and pick up a little summer money on tlie half-mile tracks. The staje fair here, which begins at Douglas Park September 11. will also have a card of running races the-coming fall.
