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EXPECT BRADLEY AT DOWNS Idle Hour Farm Owner to Be Present at Final Derby Trials of His Candidates. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 21. Col. E. R. Bradley, who is expected to return to his Idle Hour Farm from Palm Beach by the end of the week, is looked for at Churchill Downs over the week-end. He will be attracted here by the presence of his candidates for the sixty-second Kentucky Derby, which, on May 2, he will endeavor to win for the fifth time. His hopes for a fifth victory will be vested in Bien Joli and Banister and, as has been his custom for years, Colonel Bradley will be present when those three-year-olds go through their final hard trials for the mile and a quarter Derby grind. Besides the Derby horses, H. J. Thompson, chief trainer for the master of Idle Hour Farm, has Bow to Me, also eligible for the Derby, but not expected to start; Bootmaker, Bleu, Behind Me, Bonnie Lois and the two-year-olds Biologist, Bit Independent, Black Sod, Bouncing Along and Billionaire at Churchill Downs. Several of the two-year-olds are eligible for the Bashford Manor Stakes, while Bonnie Lois is a possible starter in the Kentucky Oaks. With the stable of his contract employer, Norman W. Church, slated to be more or less inactive until the summer meeting at Arlington Park, Chicago, jockey Lester Balaski, New Orleans boy, is carded to do the principal riding for H. J. Thompsons division of the E. R. Bradley stable the next two months. Balaski, who has been in California since early in the winter, is expected to report to Thompson here by the end of the week.
