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LATONIA TURF NOTES | ® - $ LATONIA, Ky., June 25. Jockey Vernal Peterson, who had the Derby mount on P. Reuters Galahad, returned to New York Sunday. Martin Finns sterling filly Port Harlem, which on Saturday added Fairmount Parks Illinois Stakes to her string of victories, was returned to Latonia from that track this morning. She will be in charge of F. Fuerst. Jockey T. Maguire, who rode her in the Illinois Stakes, also returned. Clyde Van Dusen expects to ship the horses he has here to Lincoln Fields about Thursday or Friday. The horses of S. J. Kelly will go along at the same time. The stables of I. J. Collins, A. L. Taylor and Mrs. J. M. Hubbard are scheduled for shipment to Raceland on Saturday. G. Marbcrry, acting for the La Brae Stable, has purchased the useful three-year-old Isostasy from J. S. Taylor and will ship him to Chicago to join the other La Brae Stable horses. Another transaction was consummated when A. B. Letellier acquired the two-year-old Nomination from C. C. Van Meter. Terms of the sales were not given out. Van Meter is disposing of all the horses he has in training so as to give his entire time to the horses he is handling for Desha Breckinridge and other owners. Nomination blanks for the rich Breeders Futurity, to be run at the Lexington track of the Kentucky Association in 1930, have been received here. The race, at the futurity distance, is for foals of 1928 and will be run during the autumn meeting of 1930. It is one of the richest stakes for juveniles of annual running in the West R. S. Clarks Wood Lore and Wisdom and H. Oots Uligitimate were returned here from Arlington Park, where they were shipped for the Rush Handicap. The Keeneland Studs Don Diego, shipped from here for the Rush Handicap at Arlington Park, has been turned over to B. S. Michll, who will take him along with the other horses in his charge to Saratoga. J. O. Keene, general manager of Raceland, departed tonight for that eastern Kentucky course to oversee final preparations for the sixteen days meeting that opens there on July 4.
