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1 CHURCHILL DOWNS NOTES Acting for Mrs. J. Houston, C. R. Valentine sold the six-year-old Pastry to the racing partnership of F. E. Childs and M. C. Walker for a private sum, at Churchill Downs, Monday. Henry McGarvey vanned the horse Captain Henry to Latonia where he will await the opening of the meeting there. Jockey E. Porter was suspended for five days for rough riding in the fifth race, Saturday. Jockey R. Wholey was suspended for the remainder of the meeting for cutting across too sharply after the start of the sixth race, i Saturday. H. Long is another to select Detroit as the next track to campaign his stable. He has named Blackbirder for the stakes to be offered during the thirty-seven days of spring racing which begins May 23. R. N. Vestal loaded the Three Ds Stock Farm horses Monday afternoon and they got away for Hawthorne. Joe Chinn vanned his Marmosa from Lexington and turned her over to Lee Niles to train. Seven gentlemen riders have asked for mounts for the Gentlemens Cup race, one of the features of the Kentucky Derby Day Festival program, to be offered at Churchill Downs next Monday. Baylor Hickman, Joe Jacobson, Marcellus Somoni, Byron Hilliard, Dinwiddie Lampton, Jr., Earl Major and William J. Armstrong have signified their intention of being in colors. Roscoe Goose, chairman of the Horsemens Association, is soliciting mounts for the gentlemen riders. Eugene Bury, who will serve as racing secretary at Omaha, reports as having booked several stables for the Nebraska meeting which gets under way May 30. The E. R. Bradley, Mrs. S. B. Mason, Coldstream Stud and E. D. Shaffer strings got away for Belmont Park, Sunday. W. E. Caskey, who has eight horses here, will ship to New York at the close of this meeting. Tom Young, who is handling stall applications for the Latonia meeting, which gets under way Saturday, May 23, stated Monday morning that he has allotted stalls for 890 horses. He received word that the track was in superb condition. Since last fall the oval has been built up on both turns. The latest addition to the list of stables going from here to Latonia is the Rosedale Stable. Trainer White was allotted quarters Saturday. Lloyd Gentry, trainer of the H. C. Hatch and Mrs. Richard Fairbanks horses, returned from Lexington, where he visited with his brother, Olin Gentry, manager of the breeding division of Col. E. R. Bradleys Idle Hour Farm. Jockey Dan Brammer was called to his home at Grand River on account of the illness of his mother. He rejoins the Hatch and Fairbanks stable at Toronto, where it will be shipped at the close of this meeting. Eddie Arcaro left Monday for the Calumet Farm at Lexington and from there goes to Hawthorne. M. L. Fallon, who rode his first winner on Lucy at Aurora, May 13, 1935, becomes a full-fledged rider after Tuesdays program. F. A. Griffith, who has been here since the Derby and who has a large stable here in charge of Watt Seamster, was called to New York due to the serious illness of his daughter. : Jockey Earl Porter, who had planned to leave for New York Sunday, changed his plans and will remain with the F. A. Griffith stable, which goes to Detroit from here. Ralph Mcllvain is shipping his useful string to Detroit at the close of this meeting.
