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« fCHURCHILL DOWNS NOTES ? § $ LOUISVILLE, Ky.f May 28. J. J. Coughlins Karl Eitel, an intended starter in the Fairmount Derby Saturday, was worked a mile and one-quarter over the dull Churchill Downs track in 2:08, handily, this afternoon. The colt went the quarter in :24rs, half mile in :49t5, three-quarters in 1:15% and the mile in 1:41%. It was a very impressive move. Karl Eitel will be shipped to Fairmount Park Thursday night. Some of the Coughlin horses were scheduled to be shipped from here to Washington Park, while the others go to Latonia, in charge of Walter Scofield, who will take Karl Eitel to Fairmount. As a result of her winning performance yesterday, R. C. Thatchers Lillian T. will be a starter in the Kentucky Oaks Saturday. Jockey W. Fronk will leave Wednesday-night for Washington Park, where he will have the mount on Mrs. E. L. Swikards good filly Supryse in a stake at that course Memorial Day. Following that engagement, Fronk returns here and on Saturday will ride Martin Finns Port Harlem in the Kentucky Oaks. B. B. Jones, owner of Audley Farm, returned from a visit to a number of the more important breeding farms and will remain here for the remainder of the week. The horses of Otto Lehmann and E. J. Lehmann will, at the close of the local meeting, be shipped to Arlington Park. George Collins Thistle Fyrn has arrived here from Illinois for the purpose of filling her engagement in the renewal of the Kentucky Oaks to be run Saturday, the closing day of the meeting. Edward Haughton, her trainer, will come here from Fairmount Park to saddle her for that important race. Miss Moonlight came out of her race yesterday in a lamed condition and probably will be out of competition for some time. She is owned by William E. Smith, local patron and a member of the State Racing Commission. Jockey R. Zucchini reported ill and was granted permission to cancel his mounts for the afternoon. Jockey Clarence McCrossen returned from Washington Park, where he rode the Le Mar Stock Farms Misstep to victory in the Washington Park Handicap on Monday. He was in colors here this afternoon. Trainer C. E. Durnell last night shipped two cars of the Three Ds Stock Farm horses to Aqueduct, the big shipment completing the transfer of the entire stable to that point. Jockey Frank Coltiletti and Fred Hood, business agent for the stable, accompanied DurnelL ♦ ■
