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JEFFERSON PARK NOTES e Apprentice Charles Weber, indisposed yesterday, will resume riding Wednesday. Former jockey Fred Sharpe suffered a leg fracture at Jefferson Park Monday morning and was removed to a local hospital, where he will be confined for about six weeks. A large number of racing officials, horsemen and officials of the two local tracks attended the services this morning for Charles Graffagnini, widely known horseman, who died from injuries received in an automobile accident. Scores of expressions of sympathy from all parts of the country were received by the widow. Col. Edward R. Bradley has extended his local visit to January 10, when he will leave for his winter home at Palm Beach. This will mark the first time in several years that Colonel Bradley will miss the opening of the Fair Grounds meeting. Maj. Ridgely Nicholas, owner and breeder of Sheridan, Wyo., came in today from the West and will make a stay of six weeks. He has Lady Bienville and Knight Club in training here. In the next condition book for Jefferson Park, which will be issued Saturday and the final of the meeting, there will be two allow-" ance races for three-year-olds, which will be preliminaries to the Jefferson Derby. The first of these will be run January 15 and will be at six furlongs. The other will be the Derby Trial preliminary January 19, at one mile and will serve to bring out many of the principal three-year-olds which will start in the Derby
