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1 CHURCHILL DOWNS NOTES | 3 $ Mr. and Mrs. William du Pont, Jr., owners of Foxcatcher Farms and Gold Seeker, the only filly going after Kentucky Derby honors, will arrive Friday from their home in Wilmington, Del. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Vehon of Chicago are here for a weeks stay and will entertain a large party for the Derby. Mr. Vehon has a number of horses here under Jake Low-enstein. Peter A. Markey and Charles Bohn, Detroit industrial leaders and owners of Bomar Stable, headed by Grand Slam, one of the Derby favorites, arrived Thursday with their large Derby party. Patrick A. and Richard J. Nash, Chicago turf patrons and owners of Shandon Farm and Shandon Racing Stable, are expected Friday. They will be accompanied by their families and many friends. Mr. and Mis. Charles T. Fisher, accompanied by their daughter, Mary, and son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Fisher, Jr., are motoring here Friday from their Dixiana Farm. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Guettel, Miss Gertrude Lighton and Mrs. Bert Lyon, all of Kansas City, will be among the Derby guests of Herbert M. Woolf, also of that city. Early arrivals for the Derby from Tennessee include Rogers Caldwell, Fay Murray, Andrew Canale and Frank Podesta. John Voekel and George Upton, ardent racing enthusiasts of New Orleans, are expected Friday. They have not missed a running of the Derby in many years. Col. N. R. Whittall of the British legation at Constantinople, Col. Lyle Hodgin and Col. William McLean are in the Derby party of Maj. Austin C. Taylor and Mrs. Taylor. Major Taylor is the owner of Indian Broom, western candidate for D-erby honors. Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, owner of the Milky Way Farms Stable, arrived here Thursday morning and was to be joined Thursday evening by Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Furst, her son-in-law and daughter. The Fursts are coming from New York. Mrs. Mars came from Milky Way Farms, where she has been visiting for the past several days. Eugene Bury, who will serve as racing secretary at Omaha, Neb., received word that construction of a mile chute is under way and that mile races will be offered at that track for the first time this year. For the first time since recovering from an emergency operation performed at New Orleans last winter, Mose Goldblatt, widely known owner and trainer, witnessed a racing program Thursday. Adolphe Pons, prominent breeder and owner of Country Life Farm, Belair, Md., has joined the large number of turf notables here for the Derby. Joe Barr who is in charge of certificate departments at several major tracks is here I for an indefinite stay. He motored here from Arlington Downs. According to advices from James Fitz-simmons. jockeys E. Litzenberger, J. Stout, and T. Malley have Been engaged to ride the trio of three-year-olds Fitzsimmons will saddle for the Derby. They are Teufel, Granville and Merry Pete. Maurice Peters, contract rider for Fox-catcher Farms, will come here from the East to handle that stables Gold Seeker in the Derby. Joe Renick who is to ride Banistei or Bien Joli and R. Workman who has accepted the mount on Grand Slam are other Derby riders coming from the East. Jockey J. McCoy left for Aurora to ride Ding Bin in the Inaugural Handicap. J. T. Taylors Planetoid, accompanied by the three-year-old Pretty Russell leaves Friday for Narragansett Park where the former two-year-old filly will fill stakes engagements on May 6 and May 23. William Crump is shipping one horse and Jack Howard two in the same car. Jockey C Kurtsinger leaves Monday to ride Planetoid in her first engagement at the Rhode Island track but is to return here next Friday. John Wesley Marr at whose farm, Mate, is now holding court, came down from Lexington and expects to remain until after 1 the running of the Derby. Chance Sun J. E. Wideners ill-fated four-year-old, which injured himself in a workout here several days ago, has been transferred to Elmendorf Farm where he will rest pending shipment from there to Belmont Park Trainer Pete Coyne will include Brevity and fifteen or sixteen others in the New York shipment. Robert Shelly, who serves as racing secretary of the Prairie States Jockey Club, and Woodbine, Toronto, leaves here Sunday for Winnipeg where he will arrange preliminary details regarding the opening of the western Canadian season. From there he goes to Woodbine and at the close of that meeting returns to Winnipeg to finish out the western spring season.
