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I FAIR GROUNDS TURF NOTES ; Bobby Bowers, whose excellent judgment and wide experience played no small part in the phenomenal success of Gilbert Elston, the capable western apprentice with the Whitney-Goldblatt stable here this winter, leaves Sunday for Louisville. Mose Goldblatt left Friday for his home at Cincinnati. Elston led the riders through the entire season here and rode more than iifty winners during the Fair Grounds meeting. William Doyle and Herman Conkling get away Sunday for their homes in Baltimore. Both served in important capacities in the racing department at the Fair Grounds meeting and swing back into action with the opening of the Maryland season. Joseph McLennan, racing secretary here and at many of the other leading tracks east and west, is going direct to Baltimore, where he resides. He got away Saturday night and upon arrival at his home will take charge of preparations for the racing at Bowie. Within a few days he will be joined by his son, Charles, placing judge and assistant racing secretary at Fair Grounds. Steward Chris Fitzgerald and Jack B. Campbell will lose no time starting out for other points. The former will stop off in Kentucky for a few days on his way east, and Campbell plans to vacation for several weeks at his new home in Biloxi. W. T. Waggoner, owner of the Three Ds Stock Farm Stable and breeding farm and wealthy oil operator of Dallas, is at Philadelphia for treatment for his eyes, according to word received here. After an enjoyable six weeks stay, John T. Early, ardent horse enthusiast of Cincinnati, returned home today. With the season over, the assistants of William Hamilton, Fair Grounds starter, entrained for Kentucky, where they will inaugurate the schooling of two-year-olds at the Lexington and Louisville tracks early next week. Hamilton went to his home at Hot Springs. William H. Shelley, racing secretary at Lexington and Churchill Downs, was another who lost little time getting on the northward trek. He served in the placing judges stand here. Upon arrival at Louisville he will prepare for release to horsemen condition books for the Lexington and Churchill Downs meetings,
