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I CHURCHILL DOWNS NOTES J Blondella, seven-year-old mare and holder of the mile track record at Epsom Downs, is in a trio John J. Troxler is training for Appleton Farm. The others are Scout Azure and Taipan. Shipped here from New Orleans, they have been at Douglas Park for several days. Adolph, owned by Mrs. J. H. Gaines; Anne Leslie, belonging to Mrs. J. L. Carrick, and Otto Ernys Hio will campaign here for George Morris. They have been in training at Churchill Downs for some time. Until he leaves for Keeneland, where he will do the starting, William Hamilton will direct two crews engaged in schooling activities at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park. At present, Cecil Phillips and Linus Pierce are assigned to the Downs, while Hugh Mc-Ginnis and "Sprig" Kennedy are assisting Hamilton at Douglas Park. Hamiltons pre-meeting staff at Keeneland is composed of Reuben White, Carl Burns and William Daly. Schooling sessions are held here daily, Sundays included. Warren Brown, columnist and sports editor of the Chicago Herald-Examiner, has completed another round of the principal Kentucky training centers and farms, closely checking up on the doings of Kentucky Derby candidates as he went. In the passing of Thomas Crawford, Louisville sports figure, who succumbed to pneumonia, turfdom lost a stanch friend. Crawford, at one time was interested in a stable of horses, but more recently operated several clubs and small enterprises here. At .one time he was the business partner of John Lytle, who also is well known on the turf. Acting for Oddesa Farms, C. Hyde Smith sold Obstinate Boy to Frank Noe, the transaction taking place at Churchill Downs Friday. Robert McMillan, former horseman who for years has been a field representative of one of the leading livestock insurance companies, arrived from Florida and will remain in Kentucky for all of the spring meetings. My Peter, lone race horse of Charles Hainesworth, former jockey, who made a bid for the Kentucky Derby with Blackbirdcr, is at Douglas Park. In the string J. J. OByrne brought here from New Orleans are four two-year-olds and the older Jokester, Fleet Jest and Lyn-gate. 1
