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1 LOUISVILLE TURF NOTES a . j If looks, actions and blood lines count, several of the two-year-olds in the large stable Price Sallee has at Churchill Downs for Thomas Piatt and his son, Thomas Carr Piatt, are to be heard from. Sallee has five of that age for the owners of the famous "Brookdale Farm. Three of the quintet are fillies, sired by Transmute, Black Toney and Sun Flag, while the colts are by Byrd and Transmute. The fillies were mothered by Catherine Stuart, Strange Ways and Oriental and the colts by Miss Marne and Elizabeth W. Sallee also has Camp Prince, Star Banner, Listening, Byrdine, Mr. Mack, Our Chance and Master Beau for the same owners, and a two-year-old daughter of Morvich and Cushion for Dr. Charles Haggard at the local track. William Cunningham, racing official and docker, has returned from the South and California, and will remain here through the Downs meeting. He makes his home here and is employed at Santa Anita and all the major tracks in the Chicago area. Tommy Doyle and E. A. Carney, two well-known turf figures, were seen at Churchill Downs Friday morning. Doyle came up from his farm at Jeffersontown, Ky., while Carney, who resides in Louisville, returned a few days ago from Florida. Jockey Walter Lilley has affiliated with the Dan Lehan stable. Lehan has several home-bred two-year-olds and four more matured at the Downs. There is absolutely no chance of Mason and Hangers Bull Dog colt, The Mauler, going to the post for the Kentucky Derby. He suffered a quarter crack at Santa Anita and trainer Tommy Taylor had more of the hoof cut away several days ago. This colt may have his first important engagement as a three-year-old in the Arlington Classic or Latonia Derby. Mrs. Charles F. Price, wife of the noted racing official, is seriously ill at her home here. Her condition has been such that judge Price has not left the sick room since Wednesday. According to advice from Frank Shannon in New York, odds-on Jouett Shouses Weston, "dark horse" of the western candidates for the Kentucky Derby, have taken another tumble. He now offers 20 to 1, cut from 200 to 1, on the son of Nocturnal or Sun Flag. Up from Lexington for the day, Thomas Carr Piatt made an inspection of the horses Price Sallee is training for that young patron and his father. Dick Denny is assisting Jack Young in handling the large string the latter transferred here from Lexington several days ago. Denny arrived Thursday. Two brothers, Harold and Charles Beasey, sons of Alfred Beasey, are Louisvilles latest contributions to the realm of riders. Harold is with the stable Wayne Lewis is training for the estate of the late Woodford F. Ax-ton, -while Charles is with C. W. Bidwills stable under; Edward L. Snyder. Charles is nineteen and Harold two years younger. Wayne Wright, Americas leading rider and under contract to Joseph E. Wideners stable, declined an opportunity to take a short rest, tendered him by trainer Pete Coyne. He will stick right here until the stables Chance Sun has filled his engagement in the Kentucky Derby for which he is a pronounced choice. Wright came here from Florida, where he rode from three to ! seven races daily during the long Miami season. Judging from the manner in which trainer Arthur Goldblatt is "prepping" her entire stable, the colors of Mrs. R. B. Fairbanks of Indianapolis will be seen frequently during the coming Churchill Downs meeting. She has Bartering Kate, Captain Joy, Secret Tryst, Brother Lou, Little Cynic, Gamaliel, Vanished, Noelwood, Infinitate and Chance Flight here in charge of that young Cincinnati turfman, a nephew of Mose Goldblatt.
