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1 LEXINGTON TURF NOTES tt 4 : Dr. R. H. Bardwell states that Conn Smythe, Toronto sportsman had decided to retire Shoeless Joe from racing and has arranged that the son of Black Servant Barefoot, by Fair Play, will stand next season at Mereworth Stud free to approved mares. His book will be limited to" twenty mares. T Imerson C. Davis is wintering ten of the Smythe horses at the Lexington Fair Grounds, they being Indignant, Please Doctor, Sir Marlboro and Skating Fool, and six yearlings. Howard Hoffman has succeeded Steve Judge as trainer of Roy G. Martins Wood-vale Farm horses and has thirteen yearlings in the string at Keeneland. Hoffman formerly trained for J. B. Respess and is credited with developing of Main Man, now owned by Louis B. Mayer. Robert S. Eddy found stable room for trainer J. P. "Tiny" Keezeks division of the Leo J. Marks stable at the old track at New Orleans and promised that the horses would, be let into the Fair Grounds soon as possible. Trainer Edward Barnes is making preparations to ship eight horses of the Bomar Stable from Keeneland to Hialeah Park next week. A recent purchase by this stable was the yearling filly by Jean Valjean Princess Pan, from J. O. Keene, who will also send eight horses from Keeneland to Hialeah Park next week in charge of trainer William Rust. Nine yearlings have been transferred from the Ferguson Farm, Newton, Ky., to Keeneland, and are being broken by Charles H. Ferguson. Track superintendent W. T. Bishop is directing the nlanting of a lrrge number of pin oaks and other trees at Keeneland. W. H. Gallagher, W. T. Anderson, and Clarence Buxton ar here from New York, to inspect yearlings broken under the direction of P. T. Chinn, at Keeneland. P. T. Chinn has sent the stallion, Zaca-weista to Hartland Farm, near Versailles, where it is intended that he shall make the season of 1939. Cant Wait has been fired, and turned out at Hartland Farm. He has a paddock in which there is a single brick box stall which he enters and leaves at will. V. T. Bax, has gone t New Orleans with Little Mike, Neat Play and a couple of two-year-olds.
