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1 LOUISVILLE TURF NOTES 1 $ Golden Step, Green and Red, and Mate Tea are names selected and approved for the two-year-olds in Robert W. Pearces stable. Golden Step is a chestnut filly by Bub-. bling Over Golden Stairs. She is a half sister to that fine sprinter, Gold Step. Green ! and Red, which also has a chestnut coat, is a daughter of Greenock Moon Lady, while the same colored Mate Tea, also a filly, is by Prince Pal-Oolong. Others in the Pearce establishment are Xady Flinders, Best Bid, Safe and Sound and Irene T. Lady Flinders is a probable starter in the Kentucky Oaks, to be run on the final day of the meeting. She is owned by Pearce and A. D. Currens of Cincinnati. Currens also is the owner of Golden Step. H. W. and W. J. Young of this city and J. D. Rogers of Versailles are other patrons represented in the stable. Blossom Again and Betty Betty, candidates fdt the Kentucky Oaks, may be included in the two cars of E. R. Bradley horses expected here from Idle Hour Farm any day. Bradley won the 1933 Oaks with Barn Swallow. He has named six for the Bashford Manor Stakes and. may be expected to send one or more to the post for the race, which is one of the few western fixtures he has not won. The shipment of W. R. Coe horses Clyde Phillips made from here to New York included Ladysman, Semaphore, Pompadia, Pompeys Pillar, Herondas, Clean Cutr Squeeze, Pompeys Squaw, The Gong and Reunited. A dozen or so more go direct from the farm to Belmont, according to Hugh Fontaine, who is in charge of the Coe turf operations. Trainer Peter Coyne worked a number of the J. -E. Widener two-year-olds over the private course at Elmendorf Farm. During his absence D. E. Stewart looked after Chance Sun and others in Coynes unit of the main division of the stable here. Only one two-year-old, a chestnut gelding by Westaway and Arrow Point, and named for John B. Brachey, judge of the Louisville police court, is included among the four horses W. Wilkerson, local turf man, has in training at the Downs. The others are Rose Dean, Who Win and Fair Ethel. The four two-year-olds trainer Emerson Davis left at Lexington will be transferred here just as soon as stalls can be obtained. Like the six Davis brought over from the Blue Grass metropolis several days ago, they are owned by Conn Smythe, Toronto hockey promoter and sports enthusiast. The Derby colts Shoeless Joe and Direct Hit head the division of the Smythe stable here. Edward Haughton is the latest to wire from Texas for stalls. He expects to come here with seven or eight head immediately after the close of- Arlington Downs.
