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HOPES IN BLUE WARBLER E. R. Bradley Expects to Win Kentucky Oaks With Good Filly — Little Visitor Dangerous Rival. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 28.— E. R. Bradley, master of Idle Hour Farm, is going to make a strong bid for premier honors in the fifty-first Kentucky Oaks, which will be run at Churchill Downs Saturday afternoon. Mr. Bradley has felt the thrill that comes with .seeing his colors carried in triumph in the Kentucky Derby, to say nothing of numerous stakes decided in the East, but be has yet to send a winner to the post in the Kentucky Oaks, although he has made a number of efforts. For many years he has dreamed of the day when a three-year-old filly, bred and owned by him, would be proclaimed the Kentucky j Oaks winner, and he has waited long and I patiently. This year he is in a fair way to realize his fondest dreams. In Blue Warbler. a sterling daughter of North Star III. and May Bird, bred at Idle Hour Farm, and unbeaten this year, Mr. Bradley possesses a standard bearer worthy to give battle to the best in the land. . This crack filly won two stakes in the east last year and this year she has done everything asked of her. Not having won a stake this year the filly gets an allowance of five pounds in the Oaks, and will shoulder 116 pounds. Buckwheat Cake which will possibly be Blue Warblers running mate in the Oaks will also have an impost of 116 pounds. J. L. Knights Little Visitor appears to be Blue Warblers most formidable rival for Oaks honors, but she will be handicapped in the race with an impost of 121 pounds. The victory of Little Visitor in the Ashland Oaks, at Lexington, deprives her of the five pounds allowance. The filly has been racing with credit this year and is in perfect racing condition. She may succeed in upsetting the calculations of the Bradley stable. J. N. Camdens Kitty Bat, which early in the year gave promise of being in the first flight of three-year-old fillies and a possible Oaks winner, has failed to justify the high hopes entertained for her and not having been working in a satisfacory manner may be an absentee from the stake Saturday. In that event Hothermel may be the one selected to carry the Camden colors. Other probable starters in the stake are Cream Puff, Sola Mia, Cross Village. Riviera, Vallette, Miranda, Bignonia, Deeming, Primrose and Sweep Park.
