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1 BAINBRIDGE TURF NOTES f | I ! $ $ • 6 6 Cleveland seems to be doing well in a a business way, and the interest is keen in n the coming meeting. Many of the sportsmen !" here predict that it will be successful ■ because the fans here are really "hungry" j. for racing. The weather here has been exceptionally ? pleasant, warm sunshine having followed a a t to week of rain. The track has dried out over . Sunday and the grass in the infield as well II as the newly planted flowers are budding * j in all the seasonal glamour. b Joseph Cattarinich purchased three horses J t last winter which are trained by Frank ■j Seremba, they being obtained from Colonel Eradley in New Orleans. a Derby nominations for the eighth running B of the Ohio, now number thirty-one, with closing time slated for May 28. one week * j before the running, June 4. With 0,000 ■ , added, the fixture will be decided over one ie . mile and an eighth. I With Churchill Downs, Sportsmans Park and Aurora scheduled to close Saturday, y. I there will be a general migration of horses, s» , horsemen, jockeys and fans to Bainbridge re | from these points. Reservations for stable Ie room have come mainly from these points, s with a few stables shipping from New York. k- | The four horses of Harry Kennedy, in in , charge of H. D. Cox, arrived by van from m | Aqueduct. They are Igloo, Friar, Framrock :k and Mrs. Walker. They were stabled, at at | Thistle Down. i The secretarys office began distributing * registration blanks at both Thistle Down m and Bainbridge Monday. Secretary Reeder er has as his assistants Dick Leigh, Rollie ie Leigh, Bill Dangman and Sammy Wain-wright. n" Charlie Campau will join the force ce Wednesday morning, arriving from New !W Orleans. Presiding steward John T. Ireland came ae in Tuesday morning, motoring over from ,m Paris, Ky. Jockeys arriving on the scene early this rif week included Bill Carroll. E. Buck, T. • Shaw, "Tiny" Hoffman. J. Hernandez, under in" contract to Vic Gallo, is coming from m Aurora. Charlie Wilson, paddock judge and timer, ~r drove over from Akron "Buddy" Berry, who acted as parade leader d_ at Jefferson Park during the fag end of of the last meeting, is on the scene and is 1S galloping horses. Charles Nolte wired for four stall reservations. ra~ Painters are putting the finishing touches to the signs, boxes, and judges stand, and na j laborers are clearing the passageways of the parking grounds and other newly acquired space in anticipation of a record J5 opening day crowd Saturday.
