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. 1 HAWTHORNE TURF NOTES 1 3 Q The meeting and luncheon of the Illinoii Thoroughbred Horse Owners and Breeder! Association, which Richard J. Nash, president of the association, has called for Thursday noon will be held in the Hawthorn track clubhouse. George Fields, who has been here for th past month, had his first mount when h rode Leo M. in the opening race Tuesday Waykyers condition since the Hawthorn Handicap has been such that A. A. Baronl does not expect to again send him to the post for a few weeks. Jockey Lee Humphries returns Saturdai from Saratoga to ride one of the A. Bar-telstein starters in the Illinois Handicap. The Shandon Farm Stable has taken a cal on W. Saunders for the same race. The colts among the sixteen W. F. Axtont yearlings at the Axton farm, near Louisville, are receiving their elementary lessons undei Clyde Bordeaux, assistant to trainer Wayne Lewis. Early preparation of the colts will be completed in about ten days following which the fillies will be put through the same procedure by Bordeaux. J. R. Bennett was advised that Lou Smith, head of Rockingham Park, plans to arriv .here Thursday or Friday and with Bennett will do missionary work among the horse men for the Rockingham Park autumt meeting. The fifteen home-bred yearlings, which IL T. Watts will prepare for racing under the colors of Mrs. Emil Denemark, Chicago patroness, are being broken at the Denemark farm. Black Wood, which won a number of races and several important stakes and handicaps under the Denemark silks, is the sire of a majority of the young thoroughbreds. Racing secretary Joseph McLennan released the issue of conditions for the "overnight" races of the second ten-day period of the meeting, beginning Friday. Trainer Jack Price is awaiting instructions from A. Pons as to whether the latters Swivel will be shipped to Saratoga for the Alabama Stakes. If the daughter of Swift and Sure goes to the Spa track for that engagement, she will return to Hawthorne for the Chicago Derby. Thomas C. Bradley, steward in charge of the racing at Dade Park, was here Monday in the interests of the t venty-f ive day meeting opening there Saturday. "We are looking forward to a good season," said Judge Bradley, "and with more than 400 horses assured, will maintain the usual high grade sport throughout the twenty-five days." P. A. Markey"s Swinhaven three-year-old son of Swinburne, is on the ailing list, hav ing unloaded from Windsor in poor condition. Swivel, a candidate for the Chicago Derby to be run on the closing day of the Hawthorne meeting, worked one mile and one-eighth in 1:56 over the track at that course Tuesday morning. She was well in hand throughout and was timed in :49 for the half mile, in 1:14 for three-quarters and in 1:42 for the mile. She is owned by A. Pons. Far Star, the Dixiana crack filly and winner of the Arlington Futurity, breezed five-eighths in 1:05 and like her flashy stable-mate, Mata Hari, has been asked for nothing: strenuous since that Arlington race. John I. Day stopped off on his way to Saratoga from California, where he spent the past several weeks, and will be a visitor until Saturday..
