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EXODUS FROM LATONIA Steady Stream of Horses Leaving Popular Kentucky Track. Approximately 400 Racers Destined for Meetings at Jefferson Park and Fair Grounds. LATONIA, Ky., Nov. 14 Although stables have been moving out of the local Latonia track in an almost steady stream since Saturday morning, it will be at least two week3 and possibly three before the gates are closed for the season. A number of stables will remain here through the present week and then move out to Lexington and other -wintering or racing points. Horses on the ground that will spend much of the winter at ease on thoroughbred farms within short distances of the track will be "unwound or let down" during the next week or ten days and until they are ready for removal to the farms the track will be in use daily. Since Saturday morning shipments to New Orleans have been getting away on every train, and no few additional departures for the Crescent City will swing southward from here the next few days. In all, it is estimated that approximately 400 of the horses here for the meeting that closed Saturday will be seen with colors up at the New Orleans meetings. Quite a number of the larger Kentucky or western stables going to Florida for the Hialeah Park meeting will mark time here through the present week awaiting the opening of the Miami course for horses and training next Monday. A half dozen carloads of horses will clear for that point from here. The big strings of Jack Howard, Howard Wells, R. W. Collins, C. Van Dusen and F. C. McAtee have selected for racing in Florida will go forward from Lexington. These horsemen were busy loading their stock for transfer to the Kentucky Association track at Lexington today, and none will proceed to the Everglades state before December 1. GREENTREE STABLE PLANS. Mrs. Payne Whitneys Greentree Stable and the Albert Sabath-Jake Lowenstein establishment left Latonia today and will receive final preening for an all-winter campaign at New Orleans, at Lexington and Louisville, respectively. At Lexington, J. S. Middleton, trainer of the Greentree Stable, will pick up several older horses and a number of yearlings, and he expects to reach the Fair Grounds before Thanksgiving. The Sabath-Lowenstein horses were vanned to Churchill Downs and will not leave for the South for several weeks. William Hurley had a busy day moving out for Idle Hour Farm the large string he raced here for Mr. Bradley. While Mr. Bradleys plans for his stable the coming winter have not been announced, it has been his custom to send Hurley to New Orleans with from fifteen to twenty head and no change is likely. In the stable Hurley had here were several potential candidates for the various stakes for three-year-olds to be run in 1933 and if they are shipped to New Orleans the Bradley silks will be hard to down in the Jefferson Derby, Louisiana Derby and other events. Jockey J. Smith, old standby of the Bradley stable, accompanied Hurley to Idle Hour. The W. F. Axton stable, raced here in two divisions, one under the direction of Wayne Lewis and the other in charge of H. Van Ry, may be represented at one of the winter racing centers. Lewis returns to Louisville, . where he will winter the best in the estab-. lishment and also look after the stables : twenty-six yearlings. Following selection of . the older horses to be carried over to next year, others may be sent to winter racing or disposed of.
