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: j , I LOUISVILLE TURF NOTES e and George C. White wired that he is shipping twelve head from Nashville to carry the colors of the Rosedale Stable at the Downs spring meeting. Stalls were allotted him at Douglas Park. Among the arrivals from Miami are Robert Gilmore, former trainer for Carl Wiedemann, and the man who saddled In Memo-riam for his famous match race with Zev. Last year Gilmore served as a steward on several of the smaller tracks in Northern Ohio, but this year he is seriously considering forming a public stable and returning to the training end of the sport. Don Ping, athletic director and football coach at Reigh High School, Evansville, Ind., is visiting George V. Barnes, local horseman and breeder. Mr. Barnes named the horse Ping after his guest. Frank P. Letellier is expected from New Orleans this week and will take over the ten head which wintered here to augment the string of ten he campaigned at the Fair Grounds. Due to the fact that he was taken up late and requires quite a bit of drilling, Vitamin B., ace of the stables of A. L. Ferguson, Georgetown, Ky., sportsman, was not nominated for the Clark Handicap. He will be entered, though, in all of the handicaps at Latonia and quite, a few around Chicago. W. R. Hoffman transferred five head here from Latonia, where they wintered. The string comprised Goodbye Blues, Delma Dunn, Spectrum, Quirky and Hideout. Stalls have been bedded down at Churchill Downs for fifteen head, which A. S. "Doc" Lloyd is shipping here from Tropical Park. These horses race in the interests of J. Friedberg, Louisville patron, and trainer Lloyds wife. H. Weiner has assembled a string of six at Douglas Park for spring racing. They include Betty Rejoice, Katharine Wattle, Ealcona and Apple Time. Lincoln Plaut, chief of the field men in Daily Racing Forms western division, stopped off for a few days en route from Chicago to New Orleans. He plans to return here in time for the spring opening. James Gruber, staff docker of Daily Racing Form, checked in from Texas and lost no time tackling the task of obtaining markings on the incoming band of two-year-olds. "Babe" Wells has taken a contract on Robert Dotter, 17-year-old Newport, Ky.. boy, and he will be given a chance in the saddle at the spring meeting. Improvements continue to be made at Churchill Downs, the latest being a shift of the stewards stand from a point twenty i yards back in the infield to the edge of the tracks inner rail.
