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i j 1 LOUISVILLE TURF NOTES e : and Judge Charles F. Price, presiding steward in charge of racinr at Churchill Downs and other tracks operated by the American Turf Association, has returned from an extended vacation at Naples, Fla. This marks the f if-I teenth consecutive- winter judge Price, who recently celebrated his eightieth birthday, has spent at Naples. Although he will venture no guess as to the ultimate winner of the sixty-second running of the Kentucky Derby, judge Price predicts it will attract the biggest throng in history and likely develop the greatest contest in years. Baylor Hickman, who has a string of horses in training at Churchill Downs in charge of Grover Noel, returned from a two weeks vacation in Florida and was gratified at the condition of his string. While at Miami Mr. Hickman saw his good sprinter Dusty Dawn win two races. Jockey Joe Tinker, who rode with marked success at Oaklawn Park, reported Monday to Milton Reiser, for whom he will ride this season. The horses which B. W. and R. L. Stivers transferred to Churchill Downs from Lexington are Patsyette, Casanard, Campagna, Little Connelly, Miss Saxon, Anklets and the two-year-old I Chase. Mrs. Bessie Franzheims Compensatory, which is regarded among the leading candidates for the Clark Handicap, feature of the opening day program of the Downs spring meeting, took another advanced step in condition with a mile workout in the mud in 1:47. Visitors included Norris Royden, New York Morning Telegraph columnist, and O. A. Bianchi, known to the turf as "Daggie Smith." Royden dropped off en route from Chicago to his home in Lexington. Bianchi is visiting R. W. Pearce. Rudolph Brinkmeyer, Cincinnati sportsman, motored down from the Ohio city for a visit with Bert Kennedy, trainer of the Char-Lei Stable runners.
