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CHURCHILL DOWNS GOSSIL New Orleans and Havana Horses Arriving Day After Day Red Legs an Attractive Twoyear old Stalls Plentiful at Douglas Park LOUISVILLE Ky March 2 The racing colony here is rapidly swelling there being numerous dally arrivals fnun Now Orleans inil Uiivini At lioth Churchill Downs iinil Douglas Iirk i lot of activity is shown every morning The fine weather of the past few days lias enabled Hie trainers to begin ctivo exorcise of their liorses which are some ¬ what backward as to oiiilition because of the severe winter Tliey still have iinile time to fit tinin for the early spring Dicing if the present wather continues anil the two courses remain fast fastGeorge George V Harnos trainer of the C V Mark liorses got in fnun New Orleans anil lias been as ¬ signed stable room at the Downs In liis outfit is Pulor four year old son of Pioton While Veil sml v inner of the Mardi Gras llamlicap at the Fair iMinils llo is a caiuliilate for the Kentucky ami I larU llanilicats here herelucUcv lucUcv Joe Keileris eame in fnun Havana where he rode all winter for Williams Hros Me will continue to ride for them mi the Kentucky circuit He said that trainer 1 J Williams is bringing liink only a few horses from the Cuban track the iiihers having been sent to Oklahoma where they will be retired in tli stud The Williams stable en route will join the division here in charge of It D Williams at Douglas 1ark 1arkW W K Phillips patrol judge at the three Ken ¬ tucky tracks got in from New Orleans just in time to learn of his reappointment to his old position for this year lie plans to remain here until time 1o go to Lexington for the opening of the racing season there thereK K Floyd who was also named a patrol judge is a local man and while he has never held an official position on i race track before he has long been interested in racing and is well versed in the sport from every standpoint He at present holds a state position to which he was appointed by overnor Kdwiu I Morrow soon after the latter ivis elected to office last autumn autumnJohn John S Ward has a twoyearold which he lias named Kctl Legs which is attracting considerable attention at present as he gives every indication of developing into a fast race horse He is the progeny of Itock View Starcadia therefore a bn tlier to Siarview a useful filly last year in the Jefferson Livingston stable Like Starview he i a chestnut in color Ked Legs is extensively on lercd in twoyearold stakes for the coining season seasonThe The John W Schorr horses are quartered at Douglas Park under the care of trainer Louis Tau ber and they will remain then until time to IKJ sent to Lexington Owner Schorr is at Hot Springs Ark ArkItccausi Itccausi of numerous reservations made during tin winter mouths stable room at Churchill Downs Mill soon be at a premium but there are ample iccommodalions for all at Douglas Park Most of the eastern owners with Kentucky Derby candi ¬ dates renucsted track superintendent Tom Young to assign them stabling facilities at the Downs while many of the westerners prefer Douglas Park as a training ground
