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BRADLEY SELECTS DIVISION H. J. Thompson to Race Blue Larkspur in the East. Trainer Hurley to Take About Twenty or Twenty-Two Horses to Washington Park. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 30. Visitors this morning at Idle Hour Farm found Col. E. R. Bradley, genial master of that extensive estate, keenly interested in the morning exercise gallops of the more than two score of his home-breds, which H. J. Thompson and William Hurley are training over the private track at the farm. Col. Bradley, who is now enjoying greatly improved health, witnessed the trials of practically all the horses and spent some three hours in the outdoors before returning to hia palatial home. Col. Bradley, who furnished winners of the Kentucky Derby in Bubbling Over 192C and Behave Yourself 1921, is extremely confident that his Buckeye Poet, the slashing son of Black Toney and May Bird, which made such a brilliant showing in winning from a good band of three-year-olds at the local Kentucky Association track last Saturday, has a royal chance to provide his third winner of the Churchill Downs fixture. Then, too, he looks for Breezing Thru to prove a worthy Derby companion for the former and there can be no mistake that the "Bradley threat" is held in lofty regard by all at Idle Hour Farm. BIG CHICAGO DIVISION. During the past several days Col. Bradley has spent no little time selecting the horses to make up the western and eastern divisions of his stable, the former to be campaigned by Hurley and the latter by Thompson. At this time it appears that Hurley will leave Idle Hour Farm for Washington Park May 20 with one of the largest stables he has ever trained for his employer. No less than twenty, and possibly twenty-two, are to b2 raced by Hurley, while Thompson will have twenty-three for New York and Maryland racing. A division of Thompsons string is scheduled to leave for Belmont Park within a short time, and Thompson will proceed to the same point after saddling Buckeye Poet and Breezing Thru for the Kentucky Derby, and possibly several other of the Bradley horses for engagements at Churchill Downs. In addition to Buckeye Poet and Breezing Thru, older horses in Thompsons division of the stable include Blue Larkspur, champion three-year-old of last year ; Buddy Bauer, Bay Beauty, Silver Dawn, Bewithus, Blind Date, Believe Sally, Night Signal, Broad Meadows and Bide a Wee, while Beaming Over, Blind Love, Tsuga and Buttered Toast are the more seasoned ones in Hurleys division. Thompson, under present arrangements, is to take the following two-year-olds east: Burgoo, ch. c, by North Star III. Breakfast Bell; Bayamo, ch. f, by North Star III. Busy Joe ; Baba Kenny, br. f, by Black Servant Betty Beall ; Banal Girl, b. f. by Bubbling Over Doreid ; Blue Ship, ch. f, by Chatterton Sweep Park ; Bathorse, ch. c, by Durbar Believe Me Boys; Black Tyrone, blk. c, by Black Toney Lamome ; Blind Bow Boy, br. c, by Epinard Beginners Luck ; I Backwoodsman, b. c, by Black Toney Moorland Melody; Barometer, b. c, by Traumer Hatsor, and Bar Hunter, b. c, by Black Servant Bit of White. HURLEYS TAVO-YEAR-OLDS. The two-year-olds given over to Hurley are as follows: By Mistake, ch. f, by North Star III. Beaming Beauty : Bubble Weight, blk. f. by Black Toney Buoyant ; Big Joke, br. f, by Black Toney Bandanna Days; Bug Hunter, b. e, by Black Servant Solstice II. ; Boys Howdy, b. c, by Bubbling Over Batter Cake; Belfry, b. c, by Friar Marcus Belle Royal ; Believeitornot, gr. c, by Stefan The Great or Bagenbaggage Beauty Slave; Bugs Leary, ch. c, by Bubbling Over Busy Signal ; Berling, b. c, by Bubbling Over Bulldoze; Black Fool, blk. c, by Black Toney Better Judgment ; Blunder, ch. f, by Tracey LeVal Badoura III.; Burning Up, b. c, by Black Toney Beach Talk ; Black Bull, ch. c, by Bubbling Over Blushing Beauty; Blow Out, b. f, by Blue Pete Conine ; Byaninch. br. c, by Black Servant Minawand. As the list of juveniles reveals, Col. Bradley has again selected names starting with the letter B., a custom he has followed, through many years. His Bubbling Over, whose first crop of two-year-olds race this year, is represented by some five youngsters, four o them colts, and such of his noted stock horses as Black Toney, Black Servant and North Star III., are all represented: It is believed that the youngsters in Hurleys string are among the most likely he has trained in several years, and - while Thompson has a number of crack older horses to carry the Bradley white and green, he is counting on the two-year-olds to win their share of races.
