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LEXINGTON TURF NOTES I Schooling of two-year-olds has increased heavily and quite a few youngsters broke away from the Bahr gate Monday and Tuesday morning. The work is in charge of Carl Rose and W. C. Daly, pending the arrival of starter William Hamilton from Hot Springs on Thursday. Daly arrived early last week and gave many lessons in standing the juveniles in the stall machine. Joe P. Patterson was an arrival from Miami, stopping off for a brief visit at Atlanta. He reported that he would have no horses ready for racing for some time, having disposed of those he campaigned in Florida. His other horses have been turned out at his farm on the outskirts of the city. John McQuaid, local man, who is agent for Joe Cowley and Dee Packer, was an arrival from New Orleans and reports that his riders will be here next week. They are taking well earned vacations after having ridden prominently at the long Fair Grounds meeting. Cowley, a veteran, and Packer are affiliated with F. P. Letellier. Henry H. Knight, owner of Almahurst Farm, was an arrival from Chicago for a brief visit He intends to make another trip here just prior to the Keeneland opening. J. S. Hawkins was an arrival from La-tonia with six horses, two of which, Andria and Pepper, will carry his own silks. P. Keepas owns the others, which are Captain Henry, Urgent, Eurota and Colonel Jim. The latter and Pepper are two-year-olds. Improvements at Keeneland are rapidly nearing completion, particularly the terraced platform added to the clubhouse and the grandstand for Negroes, which will accommodate about 300 persons. At Keeneland, the track was slower Tuesday than it has been at any time in several weeks, although possessing a good bottom. Hal Price Headley sent his Derby prospect. Old Nassau, six furlongs in 1:15, accompanied by the older Preeminent. They went the first quarter in :24,,4, and the half-mile In :4S, with Preeminent going the easier of the two. John Goode sent J. W. Parrishs Dellor three-quarters in 1:2014, breezing, the quarter in :26, and half in :52?S, while Proph did the distance in easily, the quarter in :26, and half in :52?5. Activity of Derby horses at Calumet and Idle Hour Farms was restricted to easy gallops. Nat B. Young, Mount Sterling horseman who long has been connected with saddle and trotting horses, recently shipped four horses to Douglas Park in charge of Joe Turley. Young has applied for a trainers license and soon will resume charge of the horses, which were given preliminary train- f ing over the Fair Grounds course at Mount Sterling. Youngs thoroughbreds are all fillies, Modernize, a bay daughter of Peter Hastings, from Wawbeck, being a half-sister to Cayuga, for several years a high class sprinter for the Shady Brook Farm. Another juvenile filly is Sweep Fire, a bay by Sweepall, from a mare by Campfire. The two three-year-old fillies are Sister Mollie, a brown daughter of Leonardo II. and an unnamed bay by Distraction, from Caretaker. Col. E. R, Bradley and C. Barry Shannon are expected from Palm Beach to remain until after the Kentucky Derby running.
