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JEFFERSON PARK NOTES j F. B. Kootz, Tulsa oil operator and the owner of the thoroughbred stallion, Witch-mount, and a number of brood mares, is Visiting here. He reported that Witchmount, which stood at Bosque Bonita Farm in Kentucky last year, will stand in Oklahoma the coming season. The horses of E. D. Slavin, namely Thelma L., Black Darling and Overboard, will be chipped to Brookfield, Mb., following the close of the Jefferson Park meeting. E. B. Shipp will load Colonel Campus in the same car. The Shipp racer will be taken off at Smithville. All of the horses" will be turned out. The stables of J. Hayes, E. B. Shipp, M. Sanders, H. G. Knott, A. E. Van Ree and a division of the Superior Stable are among those from here to Oriental Park, Havana, next week. In addition to his own, Stupendous, Bogan and Nim the Nymph, A. E. Van Ree will take Blind Love, Entice and Gambol for the Superior Stable. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Nash and their nephew, Thomas E. Nash, arrived this morning from Chicago. They plan to remain here about six weeks and next week will be joined by Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Nash. Joseph McLennan, racing secretary of the Louisiana Jockey Club, has received numerous inquiries relative to the 0,000 added Louisiana Derby, to be run at the Fair Grounds on March 19, and if the wide interest of horsemen in the race has any value the stake may continue to attract the best of the three-year-olds developed at Miami and Oriental Park. Five two-year-olds owned and bred by Houghton Brownlee, of Austin, Texas, arrived at the Fair Grounds yesterday. T. B. Palmore purchased Entice from the Superior Stable and will train the four-year-old daughter of Kai Sang for her engagements under his colors. Bennie Greenberg, popular St Louis sportsman and manager of Davey Abad, lightweight boxer, was a visitor at Jefferson Park today. Apprentice J. Hernandez had a narrow escape, when Nervator bolted through the fence in the three-quarters chute at Jeffer-1 son Park this morning. Hernandez suffered a few superficial cuts and bruises and Nervator skinned a shoulder. John Marsch is turning the horses Diodoro, Alfaye B. and Ipsara over to C. A. Bidencope Monday and the latter will load them along with Jeff ONeil, Eleanora M. and Estin for shipment to Oriental Park, Monday night. A. E. Van Ree will have seven in the same car. Beginning Monday and continuing throughout the remainder of the meeting, field tickets will be sold in the certificates pools at Jefferson Park. The usual system of grouping all horses above nine in a single ticket will prevail. This will not affect the doubles, purchasers of combination tickets being required to name horses of their choice, regardless of their presence in the field in the straight, place and show uools.
