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f CHURCHILL DOWNS NOTES | The Shandon Farms Aqua Vitae, which went amiss in his last race, was sent to Shandon Farm, where he will be turned out. From Aurora, A. E. Brown will ship John Marschs Golden Light, Ipsara, Dick Porter, Diodoro and Six Bits to Woodbine. Mr. Marsch, accompanied by Mrs. Marsch, visited here today. The Marsch horses, Sure Pop, Prince Joe and Lady Marsch, all at Mrs. T. N. Murphys Golden Maxim Farm, have been fired. Walter Taylor sent F. A. Carreauds Swyn-field to Beaumont Farm and took up the mare Kincsen. H. H. Pierce purchased from Mrs. J. T. Chawk the sprinter Birthday Gift and turned him over to Kirby Ramsey to train. The stables handled by Ramsey and Milton Reiser will be shipped to Bainbridge Park Wednesday night. Condition books containing programs for the first seven days of the Washington Park meeting, opening next Monday, were distributed by racing secretary William H. Shelley and his assistants here today. Weights for the eighty five eligibles for the ,000 added Washington Park Handicap, stake feature to be renewed as the principal event on the inaugural card, will be announced tomorrow. Judge Charles F. Price, steward in charge of the racing at Washington Park and other of the American Turf Association courses, leaves for Chicago Thursday. Racing secretary Shelley plans to get away at the same time. Walter Taylor decided to have the F. A. Carreaud horses at Washington Park before the big rush of stables from here to that track gets under way and ordered a car for Tuesday evening. Jockey L. Pichon goes along. The registration of stables and acceptances of badge applications from among the horsemen for the Washington Park meeting, is going forward at the Churchill Downs office of racing secretary William Shelley. By the close of next week all horsemen shipping from here to the Homev/ood track will have registrations and badge requests in the hands of the track officials. Judge Ira Smith, of Hopkinsville. and Car-neal Kinkead, former city commissioner of Lexington, were visitors. C. W. Hay, general manager of Washington Park, stopped off for the day en route to his Scotland Farm, where he spent Sunday, returning to Chicago Monday morning. J. C. Milam cancelled his Washington Park reservations and will ship back to Lexington, there to await the Latonia summer meeting. Trainer N. K. Beal reports the three-year-old Prince Hotspur greatly improved and plans to give the Leiter colt a special preparation for the American Derby. Beal will ship six horses from here to Washington Park where he will receive eight others, property of K. N. Gilpin, from Virginia. Word was received from New York that Willis Sharpe Kilmer is sending on three horses, including a starter for the Kentucky Oaks, to be run here Saturday.
