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1 $ i j • I • . - i . , - . - 1 i r i - , j s 3 v l - s 1 n - e t, h i, g y D. * to o is s e CHURCHILL DOWNS NOTES * t § and Sidney Bender was a Sunday visitor at Churchill Downs in search of a few horses tr the of the better grade for Sportsmans Park. T He reported that some of the W. C. Weant di and George Collins horses would be shipped h from here to the Chicago track. C Jockeys E. James and L. Fator accom- be Dl panied H. J. Thompson and Max Crossman to Belmont Park. C Three horses, property of F. J. Navin, were ■ shipped to Belmont Park in the car with C1 Burgoo King and other of the Bradley B c racers. N. K. Beal has decided against an invasion of Pimlico for the Preakness with f Prince Hotspur. f T. P. Hayes, with The Nut, Epithet, Pho- v, dos and Sabula, property of the Warm Sta- ble; Transbird, owned by W. S. Dudley, and C. C his own Easy and Marse Chan, got away for Belmont Park Monday. He took along 0 of W. Ellsworth to do the riding. Hayes turned e the Warm Stables Supreme Lady over to c Cliff Porter; E. Gay Drakes Son O" Sweep and Speckle to A. S. Lewis, and his own Norias and Captain T. to D. E. Stewart. Four two-year-olds, all bred at Idle Hour c Farm, are additions to Roscoe Gooses string. They are Bourbon Girl, bay filly by 1 North Star III. — Beauty Slave; Bamboula, t chestnut filly by North Star III.— Bit o Love; Baptism, chestnut filly by North Star * III. — Biename; and Bichloride, brown gelding by Black Toney — Binary Star. s Beginning this week the minimum purse I at Churchill Downs will be 00. During * the opening seven days of the meeting the smallest purse was ,000 or 00 more than ■ the minimum average purse set for the meeting. £ A Pelleteri, Phil Chinn and Robert Mc- Garvey were among the visiting turfmen. t The apprenticeships of Gilbert Elston and C. M. Colvin are drawing to a close, the former graduating May 13, and Colvin mov- ing up six days later. After riding Applaud in the third race Monday, jockey W. Boganowski left by motor for Aurora, where he will ride during the remainder of the Exposition Park meet- . ing. Tom Young is making preparations to ac- . commodate 500 horses, the overflow from Washington Park, at Lincoln Fields, during ■ ] the meeting, opening at Homewood May 23. 1 Approximately 1,000 horses will be quartered [ at Washington Park. ; Jockey O. Laidley drew a ten-day suspen- sion for crowding in both the first and third races Monday. The suspension was ] meted out by the stewards. T. W. Scott, general manager of the Ken- . ] tucky Association, and Dr. James Reed 1 were over from Lexington for Tuesday after-l noon. ! C. C. Van Meter appointed Teague Pichon i J agent for his stable and the latter will make the engagements of Herb Fischer, who is 5 doing 105 pounds. Racing secretary William H. Shelley r hopes to distribute copies of the first issue of the racing program for the Washington i Park meeting among the horsemen here be-c fore the week is out. The Otto W. Lehmann horses, in charge of W. Pinch, will be shipped to Washing-j . ton Park from Lexington, where they have ; been for the past six weeks. Mrs. Phil Reuter is returning to Battle ; Creek for her health the coming week-end. She spent the past two weeks here with her husband, trainer of the John Marsch stable. . Willie Crump reports that his juvenile 3 Head Play bucked in his race Monday. J. W. Parrishs Depression, a potential 1 aspirant for Kentucky Oaks honors, worked 1 a half-mile in :48% here this morning and may be sent a longer distance tomorrow. Trainer W. Crump has engaged W. Garner r to ride the daughter of North Star III. in i the closing day feature. Mrs. Fronk, wife of the well known rider, ■, successfully underwent an operation at the e Baptist Hospital here this morning. J. S. Middleton, acting for the Greentree e Stable, sold the six-year-old Comstockery to 3 Edward Haughton. T. M. Botts is expected from Latonia with i three horses. Jockey Landolt has been engaged to ride e Levaal in the Bashford Manor Stakes, and I Princess Camelia in the Kentucky Oaks. Mr. and Mrs. John Marsch and their Der-g by party leave tomorrow for Chicago, A. P. Canale and Frank Podesta, Memphis s sportsmen, have extended their Derby visit t to include the current week. Mr. Canale e has several horses in training here, Earl Pool, who resumed riding today, has s turned his book over to V. B. Young. «
