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t WASHINGTON PARK NOTES I e Chicsu, E. R. Bradleys good filly, -went amiss following her last race and will be inactive for many months. Entries for the opening program at Arlington Park will be accepted at Washington Park up to 10 a. m. next Saturday morning by George Swain, one of racing secretary Joe McLennans assistants. Charles P. Price, who is in charge of the racing at all tracks owned by the American Turf Association, left Saturday for his home at Louisville, from where he proceeds to Latonia next Wednesday. With his departure, C. Bruce Head will serve with Robert Sweitzer and Martin Nathanson in the stewards stand at Washington Park. Harry Lindenberger, Churchill Downs executive, was a visitor for the American Derby. With Daniel E. OSullivan, resident manager of Churchill Downs, he returned to Louisville Saturday night. Mrs. C. Bruce Head joined her husband, resident manager of Lincoln Fields, here Saturday and they are staying for the remainder of the Washington Park season. Taking a holiday, Jerome B. Respess, who has been busy at his Highland Farm, near Erlanger, Ky., for some weeks, came up for the Derby Day sport. The Dixiana and C. Van Dusen horses, numbering twenty-six head, got away Friday night for Latonia in charge of trainer Van Dusen. This is one of the largest stables booked for the thirty-one day meeting opening at that Kentucky track next Saturday. A division of the large and fashionable stable trained by Max Hirsch is going to Latonia. Hirsch plans to send about ten to the Covington track in charge of his son, W. J. Hirsch. Gusto, the son of American Flag, which the senior Hirsch trains for M. L. Schwartz, is to fill his engagement in the Latonia Derby July 2. During the next few days, a number of the stables at Washington Park and Lincoln Fields will move over to Arlington Park, where the thirty-day meeting of the Arlington Park Jockey Club opens, a week from Monday. Track superintendent Roy Dicker-son has everything in readiness for the influx of thoroughbreds. Booklets containing nominations for all of the thirty stakes and handicaps to be run during the Arlington Park season were distributed among the horsemen at Washington Park. In a letter to Col. M. J. Winn, William Woodward said that he was considering sending his three-year-old Faireno to Latonia for the Latonia Derby. In his last start Faireno won the Belmont Stakes. . Col. E. R. Bradley today definitely decided to send the western division of his stable back to Kentucky for the Latonia meeting, and William Hurley leaves for the Covington track with twenty-three head next Saturday. The eastern division of the stable, trained by Dick Thompson, will come west for the Arlington Park meeting. Colonel Bradley is returning to his Idle Hour Farm at Lexington for a rest, following which he will visit Latonia and Arlington before going to Saratoga. Apprentice C. King, injured in a fall here a week ago, was out and around today. Brittain I. Budd, a director of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, was an interested spectator. Captain E. B. McKinley, here in the interests of the United States Remount Service, remained over for the race. The breeding industry of Kentucky sent its delegation, which included Major Hugh Fontaine, manager of the W. R. Coe farm; "Hal Price Headley, John L. Doyle, Kendall McDowell, Allan Gallaher and others. E. J. Tranter, who conducted Fridays horse sale, having come here from New York, remained over for the Derby. Judge William E. Phillips, veteran racing official, was a visitor from his home in southern Illinois. Injuries suffered by Polly Cracker in an accident at Washington Park Friday were so serious that she was humanely destroyed. She was owned by R. M. Eastman. Marvin May, prominently known turf pa- tron of Cincinnati, extended his American Derby stay to include the final week of the meeting. Six horses owned by Ed Haughton were shipped to Latonia from Washington Park Sunday. Haughton has nine others at Lexington and will ship them to Latonia this week. A. B. Hancocks Light Eagle, candidate for the Latonia Oaks and recently returned to training, following a short lay-off, breezed three-quarters in 1:19 on a good track at Washington Park Sunday. John "Pat" Devereaux of Lexington and his bride, the former Miss Margaret Curry of Covington, Ky., are visitors. Apprentice T. Reno, fully recovered from injuries received in a fall at Bainbridge Park, and his agent, Jack Carter, came in from Cleveland this morning. Jockey W. Crees was an arrival from the West. M. Lowenstein, who arrived at Arlington Park from Canada Thursday, last, has fourteen horses in his charge. His stable is headed by the good filly, JKakapo, eligible for the Arlington Oaks and other stakes at the northwest side track. The stable of Mrs. S. H. Fairbanks, numbering four head and topped by Gold Step, unloaded at Arlington from Bainbridge Sunday. Charles Kenny is going right along with the trailing of horses owned by the estate of Joseph Leiter and they may be offered at public sale at Arlington Park next month. In addition to Gusto, other three-year-olds expected to contest the Latonia Derby, to be run July 2, include Osculafor and Prince Hotspur, second and third, respectively, in the American Derby; Marmion, Big Beau, Yonkel and others. Shipments from Washington Park and Lincoln Fields to Latonia will go forward in large numbers during the next few days. C. W. Moore was scheduled to get away tonight with twelve for the Kentucky tracks and cars for the stables following were on the sidings at one or the other of the two local tracks: E. R. Bradley, J. Howard, H. Oots, Ridgeview Stable, F. C. McAtee, Sere nata Farm, J. W. Parrish, Tennessee Breeders Association, D. E. Stewart, Coldstream Stud, George Collins, Brown Hotel Stable, W. C. Weant, A. Baker, W. G. Sparks, Green-tree Stable, Audley Farm, C. Nuckols, Stuyvesant Peabody, J. O. Keene, E. Mc-Cuan, E. B. Carpenter, F. H. Carpenter, C. H. Ferguson, H. Cavanaugh, Warm Stable W. Z. Martin, John Goode, E. H. Von Roenn Roscoe Goose, Robert Pierce, J. H. Jones and the Taylor Brothers. Included among the six horses W. Z. Martin is taking to Latonia will be Raoul Walshs Irish-bred thcee-year-old, Border Warrant, recently shipped to Martin from California. He is eligible for the Latonia Derby, Arlington Classic and other of the ! later programed stakes for three-year-olds, i Jockey J. Leyland left this evening for Hamilton, Ont, where he will ride during the meeting opening this week. Jockey J. McCoy and his agent, Alex Grantz leave Thursday by motor for Latonia. George Collins, owner and breeder and master of Thistledon Farm in Kentucky, was among todays visitors and will make a short stay.
