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1 LOUISVILLE TURF NOTES $ . 4 Former jockey F. Normile has arrived at Douglas Park with the horses High Torque, Chicleship, Smilin Ed and Going Some. He brought them from Florida. The stable of Mrs. H. Macllvain, another recent arrival from Florida and also quartered at Douglas Park, consists of Old Judge, Chinese Empress, Hogans Fox, Torch Maid- en, L. B. Wilson, Over Yonder, Almarine and Alice G. Ralph Mcllvain is the trainer. Charles F. Price and C. Bruce Head were in Lexington, Monday, for a meeting of the ; state racing commission license corrimittee, on which board they serve with Thomas C. Bradley. Their report will be considered at the regular annual spring meeting of the commission here in Louisville on April 24, the eve of the Downs opening. D. McDermid, who shipped three horse3 in the same car with T. E. Muellers Shady Brook Farm horses, which unloaded at the Downs, Saturday, continued on to Riverside Park, Kansas City, with the trio. They all came from Miami. The Shady Brook horses were inspected Saturday by their owner, who is a member of the state racing commission. George Brooks trains them. Charles R. Thompson, owner of the Derby candidate Boston Pal and a former mayor of Lexington, Ky., was at his home over Sunday, but plans to return to watch the further progress of his colts training. George White, with the Rosedale Stable horses, is expected at Douglas Park from Nashville, Tuesday or Wednesday. Three horses belonging to A. B. Letellier, another owned by J. F. ONeil, and ten the property of M. N. Porter and others arrived from New Orleans. The Porter horses went to Douglas Park, while the others found quarters at the Downs. D. E. Steward, acting for the Widener stable, sold the two-year-old filly Sage Brush to Jake Lowenstein here Sunday. The sale -was private and the new member of the Lowenstein stable is a chestnut daughter of Sickle nnd Mexicala. Joe Hardwick, former owner, arrived here over the week-end from Texas. He came via Hot Springs and was accompanied as far as Owensboro by J. C. Ellis, owner of Dade Park, and a large string of horses. Another arrival from the South was Lou Cahn, who came from Hot Springs. Three two-year-olds, two colts and a filly, all good lookers, owned .by Mrs. Silas B. Mason, were received here Saturday by Walter Taylor from Duntreath Farm. He will look after them pending the arrival of his brother J. T. Taylor from Arlington Downs next week. Take Heed and Sackful are names approved for the two-year-olds among the four horses Emerson Davis is training here for Conn Smythe. Take Heed is a brown filly by Swift and Sure Careful, while her young stable companion is an unsexed son of Nas-sak and Playful Edith. Victory of the Louisville baseball club In their American Association game here Sunday was a source of much satisfaction for the numerous friends of William E. Smith, new head of the Colonels and also owner of one of the large stables at Churchill Downs. He also is a member of the Kentucky State Racing Commission and president of the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky. The two-year-olds Toncon and Georgia Meaden, owned by George A. Burke; Col. Julian, property of F. C. Podesta, and Mary Vito, belonging to A. P. Canale, are at Douglas Park under trainer J. E. Fuller, who transferred them here from Hot Springs. Henry McGarvey, with three, and T. L. Pierce, with five, will arrive Wednesday from Latonia, according to information reaching track superintendent Tom Young. The division of the St. Louis Stable here under A. V. Thomas is composed of four two-year-olds and the three-year-old filly Lady Thirteen, while Thomas is prepping one two-year-old for racing under his own colors. The Thomas juvenile is Great Lakes, a son of Omond and Lake Erie. Omond stands at Thomas Yowells farm near this city. f;
