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Tfair grounds turf notes I a As in former years, th Fair Grounds track and stables enclosure will remain open for two weeks following the close of the racing season Saturday. Track superintendent Frank Kelly today announced that the race course and stables would be closed April 2, and that all horses must be off the grounds by that date. During the two weeks immediately following the termination of the meeting the track will be worked daily and the best training facilities maintained. Quite a few of the stables will remain here for a week or ten days after the season closes and trainers of a majority of them hope to get in much useful work in preparation for campaigning at northern points. - ong the last of the larger stables to leave for the North will be that of Col. E. R. Bradley, in charge of William Hurley. This stable will not get away for Colonel Bradleys Idle Hour Farm until the last of the month. One of the larger stables remaining here for a short time after the close of the season is the division of Mrs. Payne Whitneys Greentree Stable, trained by J. S. Middleton. This stable, harboring seventeen two-year-olds, headed by such older horses as Surf Board, Justinian, Espinaca and others, will not move on to Lexington until Sunday. In all Middleton will have twenty-four in the shipment to the Kentucky Association track. f The C. V. Whitney and M. Goldblatt stable pulls up stakes Sunday morning, going to Churchill Downs. Bargello, Chimney Sweep, Angry and Jimmy Moran are among the better known ones in this establishment. H. Tinker today resumed riding after a weeks illness. J. Neel, injured in a mishap last week, may return to colors tomorrow. G. R. Allen is shipping his stable of eight head from here to Louisville. Spanflow, one of the Allen racers, is back in training following a short layoff, -resulting from an injury received in his last effort. The R. H. New, W. G. Wilson and Mrs. H. Pyne horses are scheduled for departure for Bowie Friday. Cliff Porter, with the Warm Stable, and W. A. Hanger and his own horses get away Wednesday or Thursday for Lexington. Hangers string includes Rusty, Blast, War Tide, The Whig, Shackelford, Ladv Sweet and others. J. M. Milburn is shipping the big stable of John E. Hughes direct to Exposition Park from here. His application for stalls was accepted by Frank Otis, representative of the Exposition Park Jockey Club, today. Four horses, the property of Frank Ser-emba and raced at Oriental Park bv Eddie Seremba, arrived by boat this morning. The horses of John Gof f got away Monday for Bowie and the W. C. Clancy and the I. E. Schaefer racers pull out for Jamaica the same day. John Marsch left for his home in Chicago. During the current week he plans to spend several days in Kentucky and will visit with C W. Hay, general manager of the Washington Park track, at the latters Scotland Fawn near Frankfort. j W. Z. Martin, who was very successful with the Young Bros, and Gorhani Bros.! juveniles here this winter, is shipping to ! Kentucky from here. Justice Logan, owned by Gorham Bros., will be one of the choices ! for the Liam T. MacCosgair Sweepstakes, the principal race of the meeting for two-year-olds, to be run Thursday. Several cuts about the legs, sustained by Nituma in her race Saturday, will not! keep the speedy daughter of Cherokee out of the MacCosgair Sweepstakes, according to her owner-trainer, C. S. Ormesbv.
