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1 LEXINGTON TURF NOTES I and— — — 4 Eleven head of Warren Wrights Calumet Farm horses are shipping tonight for Washington Park, Chicago, where they will join five others which trainer Daniel E. Stewart is taking from Churchill Downs. The entire Calumet string will be at Washington Park, except the filly Lucille Wright, which has been taken out of training and will be bred to Swift and Sure. Dick McMahon, Calumet Farm manager, leaves for Chicago. tomorrow. "Jack" Baker is expected back from Louisville tomorrow with the string he has been racing there. He will wait for the Latonia meeting. Tom Young and C. R. Valentine will also return here from Louisville. E. Gay Drake, owner of Mineola Stud, where Kai-Sang stands, operated on yesterday for stomach trouble, was reported in fair condition at the hospital Friday. Arthur Hill has received at the Kentucky Association track five two-year-olds sent in by Gay Drake. These are Transverse, chestnut filly, by Transmute — Fribble; Prince Drake, chestnut colt by Prince of Umbria — Helen Drake; Sweeplike, bay colt, by Sweep — Lady Braxted; and fillies by Masked Marvel II.— Serenest and by Prince of Umbria — Bessies Choice. Hill will prepare them for racing at Latonia. Col. Phil T. Chinn, gathering yearlings which he will offer for sale at Saratoga in August, has just purchased from Miss Mary De Witt Snyder a promising chestnut colt by Broadway Jones from Overcast, by Vulcain. Colonel Chinn reports that the imported mare Tourvilla, owned by George Sloane of Warrenton, Va., died while foaling to Chilhowee at Old Hickory Farm this week. The mare was a daughter of Son-in-Law. — *
