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J WASHINGTON PARK NOTES I 4 $ C. H. Trotter, who brought Our Fancy over from Lincoln Fields yesterday, stated that all of the J. B. Respess horses, including Our Fancy, would be shipped to Latonia following the close of the Washington Park season. Willie Garner has been engaged to ride S. S. Combs Nituma in the Clipsetta Stakes, to be run June 25, opening day of the meeting at Latonia. Jockey Herb Fisher is returning to Kentucky for the Latonia meeting, where he will ride freelance. Sophist, recently purchased by G. A. Marshall from C. C. Van Meter, will make his first start under the Marshall colors Tuesday. Stable registration blanks for the Latonia meeting are being distributed by Larry Bogenschutz at Washington Park. Fred Burton leaves Monday for Latonia, where he will open the office of racing secretary William H. Shelley four days before the inauguration of the meeting. : C. C. Van Meter was advised of the death of his four-year-old Joey Bibb at Lexington. JThe horse died late -last Saturday. Maurice L. Galvin, Kentucky political leader and prominently associated with racing, was a visitor at Washington Park Monday. Mr. Galvin, a director of the American Turf Association, is here for the Republican convention. John O. Keene has decided to sell the pick of his Keeneland Stud yearlings at Saratoga in August. O. L. Foster left yesterday for Kansas City. It is possible that he will send Out Bound, winner of several handicaps at Washington Park, to Winnipeg to be campaigned during the Polo and Whittier Park meetings. At the conclusion of the races Saturday evening jockeys J. Smith and R. Jones led the Washington Park riders with eleven wins each. Jockey C. E. Allen has secured nine victories and jockeys J. Neel and W. Wright eight apiece. Jockey J. Maiben comes next with seven wins. A total of thirty-six different jockeys have ridden winners, at the meeting. A division of the Audley Farm Stable, numbering fourteen head and including the stables representatives for the Clipsetta Stakes to be run the first "day of the meeting, wilL be shipped from Washington Park to Latonia next Monday. Terry OMalley will be in charge of the stable, with jockeys B. Martin and C. Callahan going along to do the riding. . . The F. A. Carreaud stable, trained by Walter Taylor, and seventeen strongalso gets away for Latonia next Monday, Jockey William Elliott, Australian rider, who accompanied Phar Lap to this country and rode that remarkable racer to victory in the Agua Caliente Handicap, got back into colors to ride Sunmelus in the Niles Center Purse today,
