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I WASHINGTON PARK NOTES 1 « — — i Stables were arriving at Washington Park Thursday in such numbers that track superintendent Tom Young predicted that at least 1,000 horses in training would be on hand by next Monday. The Shandon Farm Stable, fourteen strong, came Thursday. At Top, one of the stars of this establishment, was left at Churchill Downs to fill her engagement in the Kentucky Oaks, the closing feature of the Downs meeting to be decided next Saturday. Other prominent members of this stable, including North Mill, Evergold, Minton and the two-year-olds Owen, Naval Cadet and Ashen were in the entourage. John Marschs stable of fourteen, In charge of George Brooks, arrived. It was headed by the good filly Princess Camelia. The Lemar Stock Farms string of fifteen also got in, headed by the American Derby candidate Misguide, and the crack horse Marooned. Johnny Pamalee brought M. B. Cohens stable from Churchill Downs. Col. Hatfield, the Derby candidate, headed this group. Ben Jones, the veteran Parnell, Mo., horseman, arrived with seventeen head he is training for T. C. Worden, of Chicago. W. S. Kilmer has wired for reservations for fifteen, which will include his Derby candidates, Sun Archer and Dark Winter. In this entourage many of the Kilmer two-year-olds will get their first racing at Washington Park, including Sun Tempest, Sun Probate, Sun Abbot and Sun Monk, all sons of Mr. Kilmers favorite stock horse, Sun Briar. Joe Patterson, who has made a great success with the Audley Farm thoroughbreds since he succeeded Kay Spence as trainer for that stable, was confident that Trace Call would have won the Kentucky Derby had not that colt been stricken a few days before the running of the Churchill Downs feature. Patterson thinks that Trace Call will be among the first three at the finish of the American Derby on Saturday, June 3. Trace Call has fully recovered from his indisposition and has been turning in fast moves in his trials. William Mulholland, trainer of Sarada, a colt which became affected with the same malady as Trace Call and was prevented from filling his engagement in the Kentucky Derby, was just as sure as any of the other trainers before that race that the son of Sir Gallahad III. and Sari would win. Sarada is at Washington Park and is going along again with the full purpose of gaining the decision in the American Derby. Mulholland came up with the thoroughbreds. He is a nephew of the late "Farmer Bill" Scully, who taught him the art of preparing a horse for racing. If Mulholland decides that Sarada is a fit horse by the time of the running of the American Derby and starts him, he is going to be a hard colt to beat. Charley O., trained by Tommy Taylor, has been racing since early in the spring. Ha is a sturdy horse and has stood the rigors of climate and travel without going to pieces. He won the Florida Derby in as fast time as horses run nowadays and finished third in the Kentucky Derby over a track he did not favor. ■
