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1 WHEELING TURF NOTES $ *s The contingent of visiting turf writers will be pleased to know that there has been built a large and commodious press room underneath the grandstand where they may do their work in privacy. This is in keeping with the policy carried out at the major tracks. Listed among the larger stables which will race here during the spring meeting are Blue and Gold Stables, Noble E. Tiller, L. R. Stockdale and Gordon A. Pcaue with ten head each; Jose Alvarez and Al Leith with twelve head each; H. L. Chapman and James Brunenberg with nine each; William Wright, J. G. B. Key, R. J. Cummen, M. K. Powelson and Hopeful Stock Farm with eight head each; Skaal Stable and D. P. Brown with seven each, and O. S. Bloom, O. Brammer, H. A. Deep, Jose Keefe, Jr., Guy Baker and C. E. Wilson, with six head each. Parking space for 5,000 cars has been arranged for at Wheeling Downs. The general parking area is located directly behind the stables and has been leveled off and cleared so as to make entrance and egress an easy matter for the patrons. The Press and Turf Club members have been alloted parking space inside the enclosure. Jerome H. Louchheim, owner of Pompoon and directly interested in Wheeling Downs, will be an arrival in time for the opening day program. Walter H. Donovan, president of the West Virginia Jockey Club, and Milton Gutman, another official at the Downs, have just returned from a trip to Baltimore, where they attended the running of the Preakness and the Preakness Ball. They will both remain in Wheeling until the close of the spring meeting on June 25. B. W. Hardesty arrived at the Island course with a shipment of horses which he will race during the meeting starting May 28. Included in this shipment were Princess Nadi, Dodge Me and Main Event. Ed. Farnsworth, for forty-five years a blacksmith around race tracks in America, arrived at Wheeling Downs and has set up his shop for the meeting. Farnsworth is but one of three horseshoers who will look after the shoeing of horses during the meeting. Track photographer Joe Fleischer, who operates on all major tracks along the Atlantic coast, has arrived at the Downs and will handle all work for and during the meeting. Patsy ODonnell, daughter of Pat ODon-nell, who trains the horses of Oliver Kauf-mann of Pittsburgh, was a visitor at the track Monday and will be seen often in the role of "exercise boy" for the horses trained by her father. Many of the horsemen have remarked that she is as good, if not better, than most exercise boys to be found around the race tracks nowadays. . *
