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1 HAWTHORNE TURF NOTES Racing secretary Joseph McLennan today forwarded nomination blanks for the 0,000 added Chicago Derby and ,000 added John C. Schank Memorial Handicap, new Hawthorne features, to every track in the country. Entries for the two races will close Tuesday, August 15. The Chicago Derby is for three-year-olds, and the Schank Memorial for three-year-olds and upward. Robert S. Eddy, Jr., left today for St Louis, whence he will direct preparations for the thirty-one day meeting opening at Fair-mount Park on September 2. He hopes to announce the purse schedule and program for the meeting within a short time. The Fairmount Park Jockey Club is receiving applications for stalls for the meeting. j H. W. Fisher, another of the riders who! rode in fine form through the recent Latonia I meeting, made his first appearance in colors at Hawthorne this season when he rode Peggy Gal in the opening race Wednesday. Fisher is the lad who piloted Head Play in the Kentucky Derby. Joseph McLennan leaves next week for Saratoga, where he will do missionary work in behalf of the Hawthorne Gold Cup and Chicago Derby. In addition to Equipoise, McLennan hopes to obtain three or four other eastern handicap stars for the Gold Cup. F. A. Wehle arrived from Lexington and took over Journeys End, La Feria and Crosskin, which he shipped here from Latonia. The distance of the several races for two-year-olds, which under conditions carried in the current book were to be run at six and one-half furlongs, has been reduced to five and one-half furlongs. This announcement was made by racing secretary J. McLennan. William E. Schmidt, Chicago patron and owner of the Superior Stable, will attend several sales at Saratoga and is leaving next week. The Strathmore Stables Charley O., winner of the Florida Derby and third in the Kentucky Derby, continues on the inactive list, but an injury suffered in his last race is healing nicely and trainer J. T. Taylor plans to freshen him up for fall campaigning. Cecil Lamb has left the employ of the Audley Farm without proper sanction, according to J. F. Patterson, the Audley trainer. The book of A. Tipton, clever lightweight apprentice, has been turned over to "Whitey" Dauenhauer, who also is making S. Renicks mounts.
