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E. R. BRADLEY AT HIS FARM Kentucky Owner Returns From South — Well Pleased With Future of Fair Grounds. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 21.— Col. E. R. Bradley and Mrs. Bradley have returned from the South and will have a number of. guests at Idle Hour Stock Farm Wednesday morning to see the Bradley racers gallop on the seven-furlongs track where they have been training in charge of "Dick" Thompson. Including the division of the stable brought up from New Orleans by trainer William Hurley, there are forty-eight horses to go to the races from this great establishment this year. Such horses as will participate in the racing at the local track will be sent in from the farm in vans. Just before the opening of the Churchill Downs meeting the horses to be raced there will be sent to Louisville by expres;;. Col. Bradley spent several days at New Orleans and expressed himself as being well pleased with the future of the Fair Grounds. "New Orleans is experiencing a great building boom." said he. "I ascertained that the aggregate of contracts that have been let for building now in process of construction is in excess of 30,000,000." A ■
