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JUDGE PRICE ON TO FLORIDA Spends Winter Months at Naples-Checks Over Churchill Downs Stakes Program With Head. LOUISVILLE, Ky;r Nov. 17 Judge Charles F. Price, who, with the close of the Churchill Downs Fall meeting, completed his fifty-third year as a lacing official, leaves here Monday for Naples, Fla., where he annually spends the winter. Today, with G. Bruce Head, an associate steward at Churchill Downs and Latonia, and general manager of Lincoln Fields, Judge Price went over the stakes program to be offered at Churchill Downs next spring. Present plans for the season to open Saturday, April 29 and run through May 30, Memorial Day. In that event the Derby will be run Saturday, May 6, the Clark Handicap probably will be the opening day attraction. The suggestions of Judge Price will be presented to Col. Matt J. Winn, president of Churchill Downs-Latonia, Inc., and while many months will intervene between now and the spring meeting, it is believed that all of the stakes offered in the spring of 1938 again will be revived. Despite his four score and three years, Judge Price is a picture of health. His reminiscences of the days when he was an associate of Col. Lewis Clark, founder of the Derby, Oaks and Clark Handicap, is as vivid as a word picture. Seldom does he call upon his "little black book" to check up on an applicant for license and his judicatory ability is known far and wide. A majority of Kentuckys rules of racing were written by Judge Price, who gave up journalism to pursue an official career and these rules are now embodied in the rules of racing in a majority of states now enjoying legalized racing. Judge Price plans on returning to his Louisville home April 1.
