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I I | JOHN E. MADDENS PLANS Stable to Be Shipped to Belmont Park April 13 — Polo Ground Preakness -Derby Hope LOFISYILLE, Ky.. April 9.— Final plans for the shipment of the J. E. Madden string, have been made, twenty-six of the horses will leave here April 13 in charge of W. S. | Walker, bound for Belmont Park. The re- mainder of the stable will be split up, a portion being turned over to Miller Hender- son for racing in Canada, while a number of the two-year-olds that have not come up to expectations will be returned to Hamburg place. The stables three Kentucy j Derby candidates. Polo Oround, Check and Gypsy King, will be included in the band ; that Walker will take to Belmont Park. Polo ; G round, having shown to better advantage in his spring training than the other two ! colts is the only one that Mr. Madden has named for the Preakness Stakes. It is Mr. Maddens intention to have Polo G round make his three-year-old debut at the Jamaica meeting and if he shows suffi- | dent quality in that race to send him to limlico to start in the Preakness. Should j the colt display anything like Derby caliber in the Pimlico Stake he will be shipped back J to Louisville to start in the Kentucky Derby. j Madden holds Polo Oround in high esteem since lie worked a good mile at Churchill | 1 towns and believes he stands a good chance in both the Preakness and Kentucky Derby. In selecting April Li as the date of the | stables departure from here, owner Madden and trainer Walker are disregarding the I popular superstition that is connected with jthe number thirteen. As a matter of fact around the Madden stables the number is considered a lucky one for whenever the j number has figured in the stables movements, it has enjoyed prosperity. The most notable instance of this nature happened in 1901. In the spring of that year. the Madden stable which had wintered at Churchill Downs, in charge of Walker, was shipped to Morris Park on Friday, April 13. There were twenty-six horses in the consignment and each of the two cars con- I talned thirteen horses. Among the horses | were Heno, Yankee, Blue Girl, Oun Fire, Fly i Wheel, and others that became famous racers. The stable that year enjoyed one of its most prosperous on the metropolitan j tracks and carried off many of the rich stakes. Heno won the Matron Stakes for j colts, Yankee won the Futurity, Blue Oirl won the Filly Stakes. Ely Wheel captured the Double Event and Oun Fire accounted for a number of other stakes. The, Coincidence of the same number of horses being shipped on the same date this | year as in the year just recorded seems to augur well for this years campaign, in the opinion of the stables attaches. W. "Chuck" Walker, who had charge of the stable when it left here twenty-three years ago on what proved to be a most successful campaign, is still in command and will have barge of the horses when they depart again on April 13.
