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JEFFERSON PARK NOTES $ : : Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Shaw are to arrive here Tuesday from New York and will spend the remainder of the winter at their home here. A large percentage of the Greentree Stable horses here in charge of Jack L. Middleton is ready for racing, and the stables colors will be active during the remainder of the season. Up to this time the Greentree silks have not been seen in competition here this winter but, with a number of the two-year-olds and practically all of the older horses in racing trim, will be prominent in the racing of the closing eleven weeks of the Crescent City season. Leo Canfield, who is here with E. W. Moore, Memphis turfman, had his first mount of the winter when he rode Charlie Bills in the fourth race today. Cecil Howard has resigned as trainer of the Four Oaks Stock Farm Stable and, pending appointment of his successor, E. L. Snyder will look after the stable. William Irvine, trainer of the big S. W. Labrot stable, has taken a call on the services of apprentice J., Ellsworth, and if the youngster, one of the outstanding prospects here, makes good, his contract may be acquired by the Labrot establishment. J. R. Partridge, trainer of the Shandon Farm horses, left for Kentucky, where he will inspect the crack Kentucky Derby hopeful, Burning Blaze, and other of the stables horses at Shandon Farm. Unless approval of name by letter from the registrar of The Jockey Club is furnished, entries of two-year-olds will not be accepted by racing secretary Julius G. Reed-er at Jefferson Park. Reeder today declined several entries for the first juvenile event of the local season due to lack of proper credentials. The colors of Col. E. R. Bradley and W. T. Waggoner and Sons Three Ds Stock Farm are almost certain to be seen in the first ,000 added Jefferson Derby, to be run at Jefferson Park Saturday, January 23. C. R. Allen, nephew of Carroll Reid, veteran turfman, who died in Kentucky last Saturday, left for the Reid home at Danville to attend funeral services. According to word received by Sam Tracy, the horse Alto was recently fired by Dr. Kaiser at the Denemark farm, Hinsdale, 111., and will be turned out there until early summer. A division of the Three Ds Stock Farm Stable, comprising eight yearlings and the three-year-old Liberty Limited, to augment the eighteen horses trainer John F. Schorr has had at"the Fair Grounds for some weeks, will arrive from the Three Ds Farm in Texas January 14. Liberty Limited will be given a slow preparation f or the Kentucky Derby, his first important engagement of the year, and under present plans, will not be raced here. The stable of W. J. Potter is expected from the Potter farm near Mobile, Ala., this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bacharach left Sunday for New York, where they will spend two weeks, returning here for the Fair Grounds season. Mr. Bacharach is the owner of the Southland Stable. R. C. Thatcher, owner of a large stable here in care of W. Sims, is coming on from his home in Colorado for the Fair Grounds season. George Land, former trainer of the Kneb-elkamp and Morris stable, left for Miami, where he may take over the La Mar Stock Farm Stable. Col. E. R. Bradley left for Dallas and Fort Worth, where he will visit with many of his old friends for two days, returning here Monday morning. Colonel Bradley spent much of his early life in the Lone Star State. Apprentice J. Neel, slightly injured in a fall at Jefferson Park Thursday, will resume riding Tuesday. W. P. Johnson, who is interested in some of the horses in the stable trained by J. L. Paul, "is leaving for his home in Chicago after spending the holidays here. Fourteen horses, purchased for the account of the Venezuelan Government by J. W. Rodriguez, were loaded for shipment by boat to that country today. Judge Fardy, ardent enthusiast of Chicago, and Mrs. Fardy left today for the Windy City after spending a week here. John Ferris, whose Fred Jr. was a star here several years back, was an arrival from Kentucky and took over the training of the two horses he shipped to the Fair Grounds from Louisville two weeks ago. Posting of the exact amounts returnable in the daily double before the third race, second of the two involved in the combination, has made a tremendous hit with the Jefferson Park patrons and is believed responsible for an increased play in this feature, introduced here for the first time when the present Jefferson meeting opened. Racing secretary Julius Reeder will feature two events for two-year-olds weekly during the closing three weeks of the meeting. The distance for such events will be a quarter of a mile out of the chute. Coupling Jeff ONeil and Our Grief in the daily double at Jefferson Park today, Max Sushman, well-known throughout racing, took down the entire pool of ,773 with the ticket combining the two surprise winners. Col. Edward R. Bradley, who returned this morning from Texas, was a visitor at Jefferson Park during the afternoon. It was his second visit to the Shrewsbury track since his arrival from Idle Hour Farm.
