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CHURCHILL DOWNS NOTES $ . Trainer M. Jolley has reconsidered and has decided not to send any of the horses he trains for various owners to Keeneland. He had intended to ship Georgia Meaden there for a race. W. E. Smith of Louisville, vice-chairman of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, will be represented by five horses and his wife by two when the Churchill Downs meeting opens. According to word received here, the two Cuban brothers, jockeys A. and F. Fernandez, will be here from their island home in time for the opening at the Downs. The horses which Stanley Hazard brought here from Latonia to carry the colors of the Kenton Farm are British Tan, Lone Cloud, Tobacco and Tonas, the latter a two-year-old chestnut gelding by Thunderstorm and Colo-naide. Hazard said that training conditions at Latonia were ideal and that approximately 100 horses are going through their paces at the Covington course. Mose Goldblatt, Cincinnati horseman, announced the purchase of the four-year-old handicap performer Jamboree from tho Greentree Stable. Terms of the sale wero private. Trainer Al Miller of the I. J. Collins stable expects to introduce a new rider to Churchill Downs patrons. He is George Habeb, eighteen-year-old Louisville youth, who rode tho first winner of his career last year at Aqueduct. The boy is under contract to Collins. According to word received here, jockey Frank Burley, who was critically ill at New Orleans this spring, still is in a grave condition at his home in Latonia. Although his condition is no worse, the Valdlna Farms Petrose, a Kentucky Derby eligible, still is confined to his stall. He was coughing slightly when he arrived from .Texas.
