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BENEFACTOR GOES TO FLORIDA -No Vacation for Crack Bradley Juvenile Remainder of String Due at Farm Thursday. LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 17. Benefactor, Col. E. R. Bradleys potential Kentucky Derby candidate, was not one of the seven horses to arrive "at Idle Hour Farm from Baltimore Thursday morning. Trainer William Hurley is taking him to Hialeah Park for the Florida campaign. Big Hurry, however, is being returned to the farm and will have an easy time until spring training begins. Billionaire, Bass Wood, Bright Beam and Bar Silver are in the homebound shipment. Colonel Bradley accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Catherine Bailey, and his secretary, Thomas Bohne, will arrive from Baltimore early Thursday morning. Soon after his arrival, Colonel Bradley will have the pleasure of seeing the Idle Hour Farm yearlings in speed trials. In the car with the Bradley horses were W. E. Caskeys three horse string Bramble Sortie, Royal Sortie and Close Kin which will go to his Bramble Farm. Caskey will motor to Lexington, via his home at Circle-ville, Ohio, and is expected here Sunday. It is. his intention to put under saddle five yearlings he has at Bramble . Farm and to get them ready for spring training at Keene-land. They are respectively daughters of Man o War, Bull Dog, Royal Ford and sons of Flying Heels and Sir Andrew. They were notrin condition to go to the sales at Saratoga in August along with others of his consignment, but it may turn out that that fact may prove profitable to him. They are likely prospects for racing and perhaps will sell better after they are broken than they would have sold at Saratoga.
