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HOT SPRINGS EXODUS BEGINS General Manager Believes All Stables Will Be Empty Saturday. Seven Carloads of Horses Sent to Kentucky Aurora Attracts Many Officials Also Disperse. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., April 1. With the closing last Friday of the first legalized race meeting held in this state since 1919, horsemen who campaigned stables here were turning their attention to other racing points. The exodus began Saturday- night when ten carloads left the loading chute at Oaklawn Park. Eight cars were consigned to Texas and two for Maryland. Many stables are expected to leave this week, with the seven cars headed for Churchill Downs being the most important. The Kentucky special is expected to get , away Monday night, while lesser shipments are booked for the early part of the week to Texas, Maryland, Chicago and other points. General manager Joseph E. Martin, who leaves for his home at St. Louis the latter part of the week, expects to have every stall vacant in the plant when he leaves for the Mound City. In the Maryland shipment the horses of J. Y. and B. P. Christmas and R. L. Hanna made up one car, while the other found quarters for the horses of H. Young, P. Watts, D. J. Murphy, P. C. Frisbie and D. D. Hord. The stables of C. N. Finch, L. Peters, C. Holland, H. O. Simmons and J. Parmalee made up one car for Arlington Downs, while A. F. Dayton took a full car for the Geneseo Stable stock which was consigned to the same track. Those going to Fair Park for stable accommodations were D. Christian, W. M. Cain and W. A. Williams in one car; J. Thorwald, P. Pellettieri and J. C. McAuliffe took up another, while F. J. Grand, J. Pons and W. W. Finn rounded out the third car. The large stable of J. Oros and a few for J. L. Oglesby were in another car, while H. A. and M. Allen and W. E. Coover made up . another. The sixth car consigned to Dallas was that of E. Tiller, N. Tiller, G. Spahrler and H. A. Catalano. Still another shipment to get away Saturday night was a car for Alamo Downs which, was made up by C. Howell and R. Sherman. While the horsemen were busy packing their traps, the officials were headed for other racing centers or their homes. Presiding judge F. W. Ashe decided to vacation here for several weeks before going to New York City. Associate judge Julius G. Reeder left Saturday for Dallas, where he will take over duties as general manager of the State Fair of Texas race track, while racing secretary Gene Bury was undecided as to where he would go. Most of the jockeys who rode here are headed for Texas, those going to Arlington Downs are W. Lowe, M. Terry, P. Petrella, J. Hernandez, D. Sykes, E. Gross, J. R. Kelly, A. Fermin, J. ODay, S. Erwin, F. Kurinec, J. Wagner, C. Hart, A. Gaither and J. Sylvester. . K. McCray is going to his home at Danville, 111., to rest up before the Aurora meeting, while B. Marshio is headed for Louisville. H. Adams, L. Hale, J. McCoy, T. Price and J. Martin are also going to Louisville. Glenn Gorbet is shipping his eleven head to Aurora this week. In addition to the horses he has here, he will pick up six more from the farm at Bloomington, 111. The veteran J. Dyer is going to Dade Park, where he will prepare six horses for W. Day which will be campaigned at Aurora. After enjoying a successful season, John Majestic expects to rest up until the Ohio season. H. McCloud, his boss, has nine head here and will ship them to Beulah Park. The apprentices F. Faust and F. Cusimano left Saturday for Bowie. Guy Lunsford received instructions from Mose Goldblatt to take the clever apprentice J. Wagner to Arlington Downs until Goldblatt was ready to use the youngster in Kentucky. Apprentice R. Cochrane goes to Detroit with the large A. J. Halliwell stable, where the stock will be rested until the opening of the season at that city. Jimmy McCoy left for his home at Lexington and will probably report to J. Umen-setter at Churchill Downs. Jockey R. G. Cooper went to Aurora to spend a few days. From there he reports to his father, who has several horses in training at Churchill Downs. Another to take a vacation before going to Churchill Downs is Tracy Reno. He expects to spend a week in St. Louis and Col-linsville before going to Louisville. Starter William Hamilton, who makes his home here, will remain in Hot Springs for two weeks before going to Churchill Downs. Thomas J. Carroll, field manager for the Thoroughbred Horsemens Association, left Monday for Omaha, where he was to get full particulars regarding the coming meeting at Ak-Sar-Ben. Carroll will be at Dallas the latter part of the week to represent the horsemen. I. E. Williams and E. E. Minor are here handling the shipments to other points for the Railway Express Agency and, as usual, are doing a good job of satisfying the horsemen. J. H. Schlessinger, acting for J. Robilio of Memphis, purchased the three-year-old Contrary. W. L. McCue sold Little Duke, Newels Choice, Miss Delba and Sweep Myth to J. Purpura. McCue has the three-year-olds Robert A. and Eldred turned out near Chicago and will pick up five two-year-olds at Lexington which were prepared for racing by A. J. McCue, his brother. - George Bulcroft, who so ably handled the jockey room here, left for Collinsville, 111., where he will vacation several weeks before going to Texas.
