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LEXINGTON TURF NOTES $ . Three steeplechasers, property of Col. E. R. Bradley, have been shipped from Idle Hour Farm to Pimlico to be trained by "Spec" Crawford. They are Barometer, Beelzebub and Mirbat, the latter an imported horse. Henry McDaniel, delayed on account of the very cold weather, today said he is planning to leave here this week, for Belmont Park with the big string he is training for Joseph E. Widener, at Elmendorf Farm. Howard Wells has arrived at the Kentucky Association track from Miami with the horses he raced quite successfully at Hialeah Park. A. E. Hundley and son, Monietta Farm, Danville, Ky., are the owners of four two-year-olds by Donnacona, which are being trained at the Kentucky Association trac,k by John M. and Jack Goode. Names have been given as follows: Carnival Queen, chestnut filly from Big Gyp, Captain Logan, for bay colt from Blink, Uncle Less, for chestnut colt from Gipsie Gold and Sid Lee, for chestnut colt from Jessie Louise. Dr. F. Beller, veterinarian, attached- to the office of Hagyard and Hagyard, has returned from Miami. William Pinch has wired from Chicago to have stalls bedded for the Otto W. Leh-man"n horses, which are coming to the Kentucky Association course from Chesney Farm, Lake Villa, Illinois, this week. Jake Lowenstein has an exceptionally long barn to house his racing string and Albert Sabaths Derby candidates, I Say and Manners are given their work under their own shed. The Downs soil, unlike that at Douglas Park, will not be in condition to gallop over until a thaw comes, as the frozen ground presents obstacles in the form of hard clods of dirt that are liable to cripple a horse being galloped over it, while trainers have had but one day of shed work since the freeze set in at the Highland Park course. A horseman, who is coming up from New Orleans, has written to a friend in Lexington a request that the state racing commission be asked at its next meeting- to instruct the stewards in Kentucky this year to see to it that assistant starters do not hold horses at the post. He stated that the abuse in that respect at the Fair Grounds meeting had called for criticism by the press and that the same men were to serve in Kentucky.
