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E. R. BRADLEY WELL AGAIN Plans Campaign for His Big- Stable Blue Larkspur to Race This Spring. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 17. E. It. Bradley," master of Idle Hour Farm and one of the countrys leading breeders and owners, returned to his near-by estate last night. He came from his winter home at Palm Beach, Fla., and reported himself enjoying much improved health after an extended illness. Colonel Bradley experienced a restful Jrip from the South and regretably declined to venture to the Kentucky Association track today, but expects to be an early visitor. It is his intention to remain at Idle Hour Farm for some time and, after spending a few days at Louisville, during which he will witness the Kentucky Derby, he plans to leave for the East. While at his home Colonel Bradley will formulate plans for the racing of more than two score horses under his colors during the year. H. J.. Thompson and William Hurley, his trainers, are likely to race the largest stable they have had in several years. Thompson has been training forty-five horses since February, and Hurley returned with four of the number he took, from here to New Orleans last fall. Thompsons division of the stable will campaign in the East following the Derby, in which Breezing Thru or Buckeye Poet, or both may carry the Bradley silks, while Hurley will race .his stable in Kentucky and Illinois, it is said. Blue Larkspur, Colonel Bradleys champion of the three-year-olds last year, is training more satisfactorily than at any time during his career, and there is every reason to believe that he will fill all his important engagements. He will make his bow as a four-year-old about six weeks hence under present plans. In addition to Breezing Thru and Buckeye Poet, Thompson may race Buddy Bauer, Be-withus, Broad Meadows, Blind Date, Bide A Wee and Night Signal, and Hurley Buttered Toast, Beaming Over, Blue Eyed Peggy and Bibble Babble here. Jockeys Eddie Legere, J. Smith and A. Coleman are under engagement to Colonel Bradley for the season and are at the Idle Hour Farm assisting in the preparation of the horses.
