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j CHURCHILL DOWNS NOTES j The mares Nedvive, by Neddie Sun Vive, by Sun Briar, and Simple Flower, by Black Servant Cowslip, by Over There, are to be retired from racing and will go to the Piatt farm, where the former will be bred to Chance Sun and the latter to Agrarian. They were purchased at New Orleans by F. P. Letellier, just prior to his departure for Churchill Downs. Riposo, another mare owned by the same horseman, also is through racing and will visit the court of Chance Sun. The veteran Hit and Run, now at Bowie, will return to the F. P. Letellier stable here, just prior to the opening of the Downs meeting, according to the plans of his owner. Letellier is taking up the three-year-old Big Fellow, a son of Nassak. The horse has been at the Golden Maxim Farm since last summer. He was not raced last year. Smith G. Baker, son of the late Col. R. L. Baker, and Mrs. Baker motored here from Lexington with Mr. Bakers mother and made a quick inspection of the Baker thoroughbreds at Churchill Downs. Erwin Weidekamp, mutuels chief at all tracks of the American Turf Association, is supervising alterations and improvements in connection with his department at Churchill Downs. His brother, Joe, and Ernie White are assisting him. Twelve belonging to Leo J. Marks and six which will race under his own colors are being trained by Mose Lowenstein at Marks Le Mar Stock Farm near Lexington. During the past winter Lowenstein had the main division of the Marks stable in Florida. Albert Thomas, veteran negro trainer who died in the City Hospital here two days ago, had been connected with the turf since boyhood. For many years he was chief assistant to William Perkins, one of the most successful colored horsemen of his time. Perkins died several years ago. For H. M. Walker, Elsy Brown is shipping the two-year-olds Ada W. and Jimmy W. and the older For Romance to Keeneland. Although she was bred to The Nut while in California, the young filly Clouds, owned by Mrs. W. H. Furst, may be raced two or three times before going in permanent retirement She was sired by High Cloud. With Dr. F. C. Beller, prominent veterinary, Earl Sande Friday afternoon spent a short time with his good, young stock horse, Nassak, at the Greenwich Farm. Several useful older performers and some likely looking beginners were included among the horses Al "Spec" Dunne shipped into Churchill Downs from the West Coast In the stable are Manners Man, Dashwood, Screen, Cloud ODust, Grace Carom, Canny Scot, Dust Box, Putzen, Play Back and Polywhisk. With two fine colts, one by Bull Dog and the other by Blue Larkspur, included among the sucklings of his first four mares to foal, John Marsch anticipates a fine crop from among the mares he has at Thomas Carr Piatts farm. Five of the six other mares he has there are heavily in foal. Seasons announced for the Marsch mares this spring are as follows: Tight Rope to Coldstream; Miss Bunting and Princess Camelia to Bull Dog; Inscrutable to Ariel; Chicleight and Belle Alliance to Blue Larkspur; Alfaye B. and Susan Thatcher to Hadagal; Ruddy Light and Jezebel to Display, and Pharalance to Gay Monarch. The latter mare is at Golden Maxim Farm. Marsch, a visitor here Thursday, has returned to his home in Chicago but will come here next week to see the horses Roscoe Goose is training for him in action several mornings at the Downs. The string of fourteen which W. G. Sparks transferred here from Keeneland several days ago consists of three two-year-olds and the older Lancewood, Lady Genie, Rebekah, Ked Quill, Pigeon Hawk, Old Style, Brierton, Rope Walker, Blazing Sun, Lucky Break, and geloria,
