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ITEMS OF INTEREST IN THIS WEEKS RACING OVER THE LOUISVILLE TRACKS Louisville Ky May 17 The program of over ¬ night purses and handicaps for the remaining five days of the spring meeting this week at the Downs is attractive and fully up to the standard of that of the first seven days of the meeting To ¬ morrow will be decided the Juvenile Stakes which has always been productive of a fine contest and has been won in previous years since 1898 when it was first run by the following horses Mazo Aveustoke Farmer Bennett Jordan Right and True Stumpy The Pet Hoi Polloi Wing Ting Honest Miami Oracle Praetorian Ouelda Salon and Mars Cassidy CassidyOn On Wednesday the Frank Fehr Stakes at one mile is the feature and it has tho huge array of seventyeight eligiblcs out of which to pick the field It has always been an interesting race and is even an older fixture at the Downs than the Juvenile Stakes having first been run in 1S95 Its winners have been Arapahoe Rondo Dunois Estaca Batten Larkspur Chorus Boy Alfred Vargrave Captain Hugh Bradley Henry Bart Columbia Girl Hyperion II Wing Ting Darknight Hiick J H Reed Prince Gal Brig Sleeth and Winning Witch On the closing day of the meeting the Kentucky Oaks is the feature race and bids fair to be one of the most interesting in its long history of forty one racing seasons made so by the probable meet ¬ ing of the Kentucky Derby winner Regret and the Ashland Oaks winner Waterblossom Regret has never yet lost a race and Watcrhlossom is unbeaten so far this season seasonE E R Bradley has sold at a private price to J F Johnson of the Quincy Stable two yearling colts one a chestnut by Cuiiard Sweet Alice and the other a chestnut bv Voter Tower of Candles The Sweet Alice colt is a brother to Bradleys Choice and a half brother to Bobby Boyer and Briar Path while the Tower of Candles colt Is a half brother to the California Derby winner Turret and the speedy filly Bayberry Candle Brad ¬ ley still has tweve flue yearling trolls at Idle Hour Farm and all of these he intends disposing of by private sale Ills reason for this is the fact that he will send his chief trainer Cliff Ilammon to England next fall to select then and during tho following spring a big baud of Englishbred filllics which will tluii be raced in America by this turf ¬ man and retained for future stud service at his Kentucky breeding farm luadlcy intends to still have a stable on the turf next season but it will be made up entirely of older horses as Jie dons hot care to retain any of his yearlings when it is not possible for Hammon to lie here to look after their enrly development He believes that in letting Hammon take his time and pick out some fifteen or twenty Englishbred flllies they will nut only pay their way in raciug in this country as two and threeyearolds but will In future years exert a great influence on Idle Hour Farm as a successful plantBradley breeding plant Bradley has Beachcomber his royally bred son of the Derby winner Rock Sand now In his train i j ing stable at Douglas Park and the big fouryearold I worked recently for trainer Ilammon threequarters in 11475 Hammon Is really keeping the big horse in mile training just to keep him in good con ¬ dition and he said recently that it was doubtful If he will Le raced He was only mated with four mares this season namely Whisk Broom Princess Titnuia Grail the dam of Lady Atkins and Black Tail the dam of Brookfield It is be ¬ lieved that all these marcs are in foal Hammon hopes that Bradleys Choice will continue to stand training as he believes he lias a good chance in the Kentucky Handicap It is well known how ¬ ever that this speedy guiding has been badly bowed and of course a racer in that condition may go down in any race Both his owner and trainer however hope for the best and there have boon cases of horses afflicted as badly as Bradleys Choice with care racing on for years Black yearsBlack Toney in this stable and a star too as well as a brilliant throeyearold in his early races last year has again Jiad the misfortune In train ¬ ing of spreading his foot and as a consequence will bo out of racing probably until after the Ken ¬ tucky Handicap is decided which leaves Bradleys Choice this stables sole representative In the race Orsina the dam of Ellison the winner of the liashford Manor Stakes at the Downs last Wednes day is owned by Thomas C Bradley the sheriff of Fayotte County Kentucky He bought the mare two years ago at public sale and he owns yearling brother and a suckling sister to trainer John F Schorrs high class colt Orsina is still a young maro for a stud matron being only thir ¬ teen years old oldC C W Gasser will this week ship three of his horses to the half mile tracks in Canada and take the rest of his string to Toronto He intends while in Canada if possible to dispose of all those horses and go to New York at the coming yearling sales and purchase several richly bred and promising fillies Gasser says that where the most money is hung up nowadays the horses he has been campaigning are outclassed and as he wants to stay in the business he is going to put his resources into a string that at Uust has the promise of ultimately being able to race with credit with the best horses in training J G Greener the Tennessee turfman lias only one yearling this year a bay colt by Masetto Ocanya a sister to Oiseau He has one suckling filly a bay in color by Masetto Ousel a sister to Olefiaut These are the only two mares he now owns and both of them have been mated this season to the jumping horse St Volma by St Florian Cosmic his crack twoyearold is the only living horse by Countless now dead deadOne One remarkable feature of the racing now going on here is the grand condition of so many of the great horses iu training at the Iccal track Few racers of marked clats or even the better grade of the secondrate performers have gone wrong so far in racing at the Downs this spring There has been also less complaint than ever before of horses pulling up lame in their work and fewer twoyearolds are out 01 racing on account of being bucked this spring than has occurred here witli anything like the same number of horses in the stables in recent years yearsEven Even those that have been a bit slow in coming to hand in their training in former years arc further advanced this spring than in previous seasons and are so far doing even far better than their trainers expected There are iu the barns at the local track from appearances some rare promises among twoyearolds that have not yet raced and it is therefore too early as yet to even suggest any of this age that has raced as the coining champion of this division of 1915 By midsummer some of these richlybred and fine looking youngsters will have had a chance to show and unless several of them turn out to be great twoyearolds some of the wisest judges of horses will be badly disappointed This docs not entirely speak of the five youngsters James Rowe has in his barn at the Downs as a number of other stables at the local courses house twoyearolds of unusual promise including in the number is the grandlooking band of imported youngsters brought to this country by P T Chinu for Jefferson Liv ¬ ingston ingstonUnless Unless good looks go for nothing some of the Livingston colts are sure to cut quite a figure in twoyearold racing before the present rcason conies to a close Several of the number and the richest bred of them all are of the conformation of youngsters that need much time to develop into their best form at this age ageJames James L Braunou has the distinction of being the oldest plater of horses of the western turf having done his first work for Milton rYoung tf 1879 During his lifetime on the track he has onTj been associated with four racing stables leaving Young for Hardy Durham and then at the hitters death going with Pat Dunne and then with his present employer John W Schorr He has been with the later turfman twentyone years Jim as he is best known was born a slave and be ¬ longed to Colonel II II Buckner of New Castle Ky Ho mastered his trade In this city and is rogarded as one of the experts in the business of plating horses either to be trained or raced During his lifetime he has plated several of the greatest of Kentucky Derby winners horses not owned by his employer and the plates Luke Mc Liike wore in the Kentucky Handicap when he ran his recordbreaking race of a mile and a quarter was put on by this skilled mechanic in this line of work workBryant Bryant Ott now connected with the racing stable of George J Long and tinder contract to this Louisville turfman has started the season in firstclass riding form this spring and bids fair to rank well up in the list of winning jockeys of 1913 This rider recalls to turfmen one of the most unique characters the Kentucky turf has over known as he is a grandson of Sam Bryant of Proctor Knott fame He also is named for that turfman who won the first Futurity with his famous gelding and Iioat in that race the mighty Silvator When James Rowe the trainer of the Kentucky Derby winner Regret came bore in 1882 in charge of Runnymcde and the sensational Hindoo the latter then a fouryearold he lived with Sam Bryant at the hitters roadhouse near the Downs track Like many other of the oldtimers not so many it may he said are yet left Rowe wishes jockey Ott all the good riding fortune possible for the sake of the old turfman who in the long ago saddled one of the greatest twoyearolds this country has ever seen seenInterest Interest is growing in the Kentucky Handicap which bids fair to be won this spring by the horse that may prove the champion of the American turf of 3915 This great mile and a quarter race will be run off this spring on the seventh day of the mooting at Douglas Park This meeting begins next Saturday May 22 when a most in ¬ teresting race will be the feature it lieing the Speculation Stakes at one mile and a sixteenth which closed with soventysevon entries entriesThe The course and the grounds at Douglas Park this spring could hardly be more beautiful Many costly improvements have been made at this COUKC since last year and visitors on the opening diy of the coming mooting will feast with their eyes on one of the most uptodate racing plants in this country There is absolutely nothing now lacking that will contribute to the comfort con ¬ venience and entertainment of visitors at Douglas Park this spring
