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Tfair grounds turf notes I $ $ Patrick A. Nash, part owner of the Shah-don Farm and racing stables, is joining his family here Wednesday. From Chicago, Mr. Nash went to Lexington, where he will remain until Tuesday morning inspecting Burning Blaze, the stables Kentucky Derby candidate, which went into training at the Kentucky Association track a few days ago. J. Schlesinger, former jockey, came in from Memphis and plans to remain for the balance of the racing season, be out of the saddle for a week. Frank Cundall had his first mount in three years when he rode Modern Ace in the third race Monday. Cundall served out a long contract with H. C. Rumage and plans to ride freelance. At this time he can do 110 pounds, but with regular work should scale lighter. Mr. and Mrs. William Rydell were arrivals from Miami and will make an indefinite stay here. Jockey R. Finnerty was suspended for five days for rough riding while astride Chimney Sweep in the principal event at the Fair Grounds Monday. A number of the horses in J. S. Middle-tons division of the Greentree Stable will be sold at private sale. This stable will be augmented by five or six others of the Greentree Stable horses about March 1. They will be shipped here from Miami. John Schorr plans to weed out about five from among the racers he is training for the Three Ds Stock Farm Stable here. Apprentice Gilbert Elstons" left ankle was so severely wrenched and bruised when Flaunt, on which he had the mount, was crowded into the rail Saturday, that he will v With a number of the larger stables represented in the racing here, reducing or "weed- ing out" so as to make room for horses inactive during the winter or younger material, no few horses of the useful type will be found in the vendues from such stables to be offered at a public sale by the Kentucky Bloodstock Sales Company at the Fair Grounds Thursday morning. Catalogs for the sale of horses in training to be held by the Kentucky Bloodstock Sales Company, in its private sales paddock opposite the Gentilly entrance to the Fair Grounds Thursday morning, were distributed today.
