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BLUE LARKSPUR GOES EAST • On His Way to Fill Engagement in the 0,000 Belmont Stakes. ♦ Bay Beauty Left at Idle Hour Farm to Recover from Kick Received In Derby — Visitors at Stud Farms. • LEXINGTON, Ky., May 20.— Blue Larkspur was one of a carload of horses shipped this morning from Idle Hour Stock Farm to Belmont Park to carry the colors of Col. E. R. Bradley, who is leaving for the same destination tomorrow afternoon, accompanied by his niece, Miss Peggie B. Bradley, and Thomas Bohne, his private secretary. During the illness of trainer "Dick" Thompson, wno is better this morning at the hospital in Louisville, where last Thursday his appendix was removed, Colonel Bradley will himssif direct the training of his horses. Bay Beauty was not included in the shipment, he having been lamed by a kick at the post in the Kentucky Derby race, and will be kept at the farm for some time. Colonel Bradley regards the defeat of Blue Larkspur and the injury to Bay Beauty in the Derby race as the fortunes of the sport and there is no trace of disappointment in him today. Neither was there any yesterday when he, with the assistance of his niece. Col. John P. Sullivan of New Orleans and manager Barry Shannon and Mrs. Shannon, entertained Governor Flem D. Sampson and his party of something more than 140. This morning he had the pleasure of seeing a brand-new valuable possession in the nature of an own brother to Bubbling Over, a chestnut colt by North Star III., from Beaming Beauty, by Sweep. This little fellow arrived last night. Colonel Sullivan is departing today and William Travers and his brother, who were Colonel Bradleys guests for the Derby, left for New York at noon. Admiral Cary T. Grayson and Preston M. Burch, trainer of the Dixiana Stable, owned by Admiral Grayson and Charles T. Fisher, departed at noon today after having visited Dixiana Farm yesterday and this morning and having seen some horses at other breeding establishments also. Admiral Grayson goes to Washington and trainer Burch to Belmont Park. Voltear, which carried the Dixiana Stable colors, was sent back from Louisville to Belmont Park in the car with The Nut and Folking. Trainer Burch said Voltear had been coughing for a couple of days before the Derby, but that he did not think there would be any ill effects from running him. Col. W. S. Dudley today at Louisville bought from F. M. Grabner the five-year-old mare Bright Shawl, by North Star III.— Killana dam of Kilkerry, first-time winnor at Louisville Saturday, and sent her to his Sunny Hill Farm to join a band of good mares and to be mated with Monks Way. »
