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I 1 CHURCHILL DOWNS NOTES $ Jockey Gerald Gleason, injured in a fall while working the two-year-old Dr. Menen-dez, from the starting gate here several days ago, was found to have fractured a bone in his left ankle. The injured member has been placed in a cast and he will be inactive for some time. After sending Brevity, the Derby choice, and the four-year-old Chance Sun through a gallop of two miles in company here, Pete Coyne, trainer of the J. E. Widener horses, motored to Elmendorf farm where he supervised the training of nine head which he has quartered there. Three horses Joseph Shakespeare of Cincinnati will race here, arrived Monday from Latonia and are quartered at Churchill Downs. They are Geo. Gable, Wanda Gable and Red Basil. Jockey Earl Pool, who went to Cincinnati from Hot Springs, checked in and will ride 1 here. Pool, one of the oldest of active riders in this country, started a career in 1914 during which he has ridden more than 1,300 winners at recognized tracks. Dave Withers is here to make the engagements of jockey Nick Wall who is under engagement to the stable maintained by C. B. Shaffer and his son, E. Dale Shaffer. C. Hyde Smith announced that the Odessa Farms Eddie J., which has been unsexed and the two-year-olds Ballot Boy and Black Nick, are to be sent to Mrs. T. M. Murphys Golden Maxim farm. Others of the Odessa horses scheduled for racing here are at Douglas Park under trainer Walter Bran-non. ra The thirty-two horses of the Valdina Stock Farm, which trainer J. J. Flanigan shipped here from Arlington Downs, are divided, with units at both Churchill Downs and Douglas Park. This stable has candidates for several of the Downs t takes. Trainer Flanigan gave N. L. Pierson, one of the stables riders, permission to visit his home in San Antonio before reporting here. Pier-son is second on the list in the rankings of American riders this year.
