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DETROIT TURF NOTES I * +. ___ Judge Joseph A. Murphy, director of racing, posted the following notice Tuesday | morning: "So much has been written about 1 the decline of the thoroughbred horse that • 1 the management wishes to give the public at large an object lesson Saturday by stag- i ing a program with every race at a mile or over. The active co-operation of the horse- 1 men to attain this result will be greatly ap- 1 preciated." George Leeds, trainer of the Jake Freed-man stable, was able to resume his duties 1 Tuesday after recovering from a mild attack of influenza. | L. J. Barnes received the filly Mrs. Fab ] from New York. ; C. W. Damon is shipping the Elmtree Sta- t ble to Arlington Park Wednesday night. 1 Otto Bagley came up from Thistle Down for a days racing. After selling Big Torch to C. M. Wilkin son, C E. Gross left for Chicago, where he will assist trainer Clyde Van Dusen. 1 E. E. Major arrived from Riverside Park j with Betty Shaw, Dessner and Overshoes. , J. B. Theall is shipping the Lone Star Stable to Aqueduct Saturday night. | J. Tommy Taylor is taking Head Play, Valevictorian, Couleedam and two other , juveniles to Arlington Park Sunday, and ] Walter Taylor will supervise the transfer of Sun Portland to Thistle Downs, where the j son of Sun Briar will fill another Derby en- gagement. J. M. Brooks, who has several horses here, received Wily Girl and Quick from Riverside Park. J. E. Fuller shipped his small stable to Washington Park. *_
