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I CHURCHILL DOWNS NOTES $ f LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 18. B. B. Jones, owner of Audley Farm, left for Bristow, Okla., and returns to witness the effort of his crack Gallant Knight in the one mile and one-quarter Grainger Memorial Handicap on Saturday. Gallant Knight made a worlds record when he sped over six and one-half furlongs in 1:16%, while winning the Brown Hotel Handicap Derby Day. He will encounter Mike Hall, Bargello, Playtime, Tannery, Silverdale, Jimmy Moran and others in that 0,000 added race. Bargello worked a mile in 1:38% handily, and Mike Hall a like distance in 1:39% handily over the Downs track this morning. At Douglas Park Sxrrday Play Time breezed a mile in 1:43. Elmer James got away for Toronto with J. G. Langs Elmtree Stable, and the small bands of B. S. Michell and H. Neusteter pulled out for the same point. Rufus Shilling shipped three head to Bainbridge Park. J. M. Reed took over All Hail to train for Mrs. C. Gregory, who placed the three-year-old in W. Crumps hands when she purchased him from M. Goldblatt a month ago. A division of the H. M. Woolf Stable, numbering six head and in charge of John Reed, got away for Bainbridge Park. Johnny Jones, well known local horseman, was reported critically ill and threatened with appendicitis. Charles Nuckols has decided against sending his Kentucky Oaks winner, Cousin Jo, to Bainbridge for the Derby thore, and she will be reserved for the Illinois and Latonia Oaks. A number of the stables here go to Latonia to await the summer meeting. A. L. Ferguson, W. D. Covington and R. L. Baker will have their horses among the early departures for the Covington track. Twenty stalls have been set aside for the stable Mose Lowenstein plans to race through the Chicago season, beginning at Washington Park, which opens next Monday. Col. E. R. Bradley, who returned to his Idle Hour Farm after the Derby, planned to leave today for New York. The eastern division of his stable is quartered at Belmont Park and the western division, embracing twenty head, leaves Idle Hour fcr Washington Park tonight. Trainei Edward Haughton indulged Mrs. J. H. Whitneys Lightning Bolt with his final stiff work in preparation for the Ohio Derby at Bainbridge Park when he sent the son of Wrack a mile in 1:39%, handily, here this morning. Following that stake he goes to Washington Park for the American Derby. *
