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KENTUCKY STABLES COMING ♦ J. B. Respess and Polk Laffoon j Sending Horses to Arlington. « Twenty-Six Baoors in Respess Band — Majority Are Juveniles — Unbeaten Republic in Stakes. J. B. Respess, veteran Kentucky breeder and owner, will be at Arlington Park for the summer meeting beginning July 1, with one of the largest and best balanced stables that will be quartered at the track. His stable will number approximately twenty-six horses, of which an even dozen are two-year-olds. The older division, while it does not embrace any outstanding performers, is, nevertheless, a good one, and includes many that can be depended upon to win with regularity The Respess juveniles, mostly the product of their owners Highland Stock Farm, situated near Erlanger, in the northern part of Kentucky, are in the main by Colonel Vennie, the sire that has been standing at the Respess place for over twelve years, and which, during that time, has given racing quite a i few winning horses. The juveniles in the Respess band are all well engaged in the Arlington Stakes for two-year-olds. They are Royal Beauty, Quiver. Rose Queen. Bold Robin, Royal Bonnie, Busy, Colonel Bell, Contender. Shannon Rose, Doc Connor and Glass Doll. Included in the list of the stables older . horses are Belle of America, Colonel Stewart, Allegiance, Crestwood. Advance Agent, Career. Foreign Relations, Baby Delhi, • Hornsby, Delhi Chief, Diamond Glow, Bombay and Tea Leaf. Many of these will be seen under colors in the running of the stakes s for the mature horses. Polk Laffoon, president of the Latonia Jockey Club and chaiman of the Kentucky • State Racing Commission, will have about a dozen horses to carry his colors at the Arlington meeting. The stable, in charge of Jack Flanigan. will be sent to the north side track - following the close of the Latonia meeting. In the hope that Repuljlic, with an unbeaten I record as a two-year-old, will be able to resume rating, Flanigan has named him to • several of the Arlington stakes, and will include • the colt in the band he will bring here. • Flanigan trained Republic when he was being I prepared for the 1928 Kentucky Derby, for " which renewal the colt was highly regarded. A short time before the Derby the colt developed a filled leg, and had to be retired to his 3 owners farm. Recently he was taken up and • placed back in training, and it is believed he B will be able to stand up under the work of f preparation. Other horses in Flanigans care are the four-year-olds Golden Racket, Tacoma and Fargo ; the three-year-olrls Platoon and Lady Gossip, and the two-year-olds Bustling, The Moon, Prudent Maid, Youthful Widow, Ruth Rowland and Mr. De Luxe.
