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1 LOUISVILLE TURF NOTES . . . 0 The J. B. Partridge and J. R. Gregory horses are expected Friday from Bay Meadows. Gregory has eight and Partridge four in the shipment. Both stables were very successful during the winter coast season. "Spec" Dunne, who lost Len Helker, the only horse he shipped to California, arrived and will remain for the meeting. En route east from San Francisco he stopped off for Jockey L. Haas is due to report to Roscoe Goose at the Downs Monday. Goose has all of John Marschs racers and Haas is under contract to that Chicago patron. Several new pay-off and approximate odds boards will be installed at the Downs before the Derby week rush, according to Ervin Weidekamp, chief of the mutuel department. Track superintendent Tom Young reports a flood of requests for stalls from horsemen at Arlington Downs, where the spring season closes Saturday. It will be impossible to take care of a single one until stalls assigned stables not yet on the grounds are cancelled, Young said. Several old favorites are included among the horses Jack S. Weaver is training for his brother-in-law, Wm. E. Smith, vice-chairman of the state racing commission. Otherwise and Likewise, consistent winners for the stable, are the better known Smith performers. Weaver also has Sora, Sallie Gray, King Cicero, Left Wing, Felawake and High Girl. The latter, a home-bred daughter of Swinburne Miss Moonlit, is the only two-year-old in the barn. Wm. F. Knebelkamp and Samuel Stone braved the cold to witness much of Thursdays training at the South Louisville course. The Knebelkamp stable this year is one of the largest he has raced in some time. His trainer, Tommy Murray, faces an operation to have a jaw fracture, suffered six weeks ago, corrected.
