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HORSES ARRIVING RAPIDLY BIG SHIPMENTS STABLED AT HAWTHORNE YESTERDAY AND MORE COMING TODAY. Churchill and Faux-Col Latest Derby Candidates to Arrive and Both in Prime Condition Presiding Steward Fitzgerald in Town. Hawthorne is rapidly Hearing readiness and the opening tomorrow will find it complete in appointments for the revival period of Chicago racing. The busy scenes continue and arrivals of numerous horses were again the order for the day. AVhile numerically the racers at the course will not compare with gatherings at other big tracks, still there will be no real shortage! and the .550 expected to be available for the secretarys use 7y the opening, will prove ample for the experimental meeting. AViih tin arrival of ten cars of racers yesterday morning, it brought the shipment from that point to nesirly 200 horses. The Fort Erie aggregation, iumliTing sixty-one horses, exclusive of those brought by trainer Jack Adkins, will, according "to advices received at the track, be shipped Thursday and reach here today. In the consignment will be the strong racing string of II. G. ISedwell. Foxholl P. Keenes American Derby eligible, Churchill, reached the course about noon yesterday in royal style, coming in a special car by himself. Hi! shipped in good condition and will be returned to New York immediately after the Derbv is run. Trainer Adkins. in charge of the R. J. Mackenzie stable, brought fourteen horses, including the Canadian Derby winner. Faux-Col. That colt shipped well and his trainer feels sanguine that he will jrivo the winner a stubborn battle for the main portion of the prize. Jockey Ryrne came with the stable and will have the mount on Faux-Col in the Derby. At present it appears as if no more than six will :go to the post in the American Derby and George Smith continues to rule favorite in whatever preliminary betting is being indulged in.- The AVeber and AVard pair. Franklin and Dodge, are next in demand. Trainer AAard has decided on entrusting one of the colts to jockey Andress, with Murphy having the mount on the stables chief dependence. C. Fairbrothor will come on from New Aork to Tide George Smith and Frank Keogh will pilot Churchill. The jockey colony at the course was increased ; yesterday by the arrival of Ryrne, Stirling, McCabe. i Small, Marco, Andress, Aan Dusen, Hong. Stearns, Taylor and Finley. Schamerhorn, AVolstenhoIm i and R. Shilling will arrive from Canada. Chris Fitzgerald, who will serve as the presiding steward during the meeting, arrived yesterday morning from New York. "I am highly gratified by the sincere enthusiasm shown here over the revival of racing at Hawthorne," said Mr. Fitzgerald. "Every indication points to the racing being a success and the Hawthorne project will have the .good wishes of every turfman and the sport-loving people in general throughout the country." continued Mr. Fitzgerald. "There has become lately a general realization that the thoroughbred is es-; sential in the .preparedness plans of the country. He must be reckoned the biggest factor in the re-; mount problem for the cavalry, and what more i natural than the race track should be the testing i ground to establish the superiority of the best 1 liorse. Racing is gradually coming back to its own and the sport around New York is particularly in j ii flourishing condition today." Assistant passenger agent J. X. Lnnnignn of the Illinois Central railroad stated yesterday that special trains for the track on Derbv dav would he run as follows: 11:30, 12:30 a. m.; 12:50, ! 1:10, 1:20, 1:35 and 1:50 p. m. Should it be ! aiecessary additional trains will be put on. There will be four trains for the track on week days as follows: 12:30, 1:15, 1:30 and 1:50. All trains : -will run direct to the main gate. ; T. F. Ruekley, owner of AVanda Pitzer and other horses, arrived yesterday and will remain for the I meeting. AV. E. Applegate, Jr., Avas an arrival yesterday from New York. He reports that there will be a number of easterners here for the Hawthorne meeting. Andrew Robinson, who has exported a great num-"bor of thoroughbreds to Australia, paid the Hawthorne track a brief visit yesterday. He departed during the afternoon for New York, where he will leave at once for England and attend the Newmarket sales. He intends securing a big consignment of racers to ship to Sidney and Melbourne. Australia. AVilliam Shelley, who will serve as clerk of the scales and associate judge at Hawthorne, arrived yesterday from Latonia and immediately began preliminary duties in connection with his departments. There were a number of arrivals yesterday from the Tijuana track and included Harry Frisco Gardner and G. IB. Cochran. J. S. Wallace, who will serve as paddock judge :ind timer, reached Chicago yesterday from Latonia.. Mr. AVallace will also assist Edward Jasper in the secretarys ollice. From St. Louis on Saturday will come a party numbering about 200, who will view the running of the American Derby. Announcement was made yesterday that the infield east of the paddock would be available to those desiring to park their automobiles and witness the racing from that vantage point. The automobiles will, howevgr, have to be across the track before 1:30 p. m.
