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I FAIR GROUNDS TURF NOTES 5 ; -$ Dunice Dubois, affiliated with J. B. Theall, was released from Hotel Dieu, where he was under observation for ten days for an internal ailment. Terry Farley, custodian of the jockeys quarters at the Fair Grounds, announced that he has selected a crew of twenty jockey valets to work during the winter season here. Teague Pichon is here, spending a few weeks with his relatives, prior to going to California for the Santa Anita meeting. Pichon spent most of the year in the east. Most Goldblatt, veteran Cincinnati turfman, was an arrival from his home and inspected the stock that he shipped to the Fair Grounds last week from Louisville. Additions to the jockey colony are Andy Clutter, J. W. Frye, Tracy Reno, Willie Page, Gus Dye, Johnny Conroy, Al Gaither, G. D. Cameron, C. F. Simpson, Willie Mc-Gabe, Jack Atkinson, Hank Gower, George Miller, Jimmy Wray, Earl Henson, Charles Fields and Willie Lee Johnson. According to John B. Theall, the three-year-old Spillway was blistered and will be inactive for an indefinite period. Jack Klucina, former owner and trainer and now an attache of the racing secretarys office, was an arrival from Chicago and reported for duty. The horses of James Emery, of Chicago, headed by the Thanksgiving Handicap nominee, Taken, arrived from Narragansett. Nine others were in the Emery consignment, which was placed in quarters at the Louisiana Jockey Clubs track. Four others were in the car, two for Tommy Quinlan and a like number for E. C. Anthony. A special train, consisting of seven carloads, is due in from Narragansett within the next few days, according to word received by racing secretary P.. A. Leigh, Sr., at the Fair Grounds. The horses that Lank Avant will race here this winter are Our Crest, Woodsaw, Gay World, Foolem and Summit Hill, owned by Mrs. J. A. Nix, and Red Rajah, Nemont and Doublefol, the property of J. B. Gilmore. Tim Smith checked in from Shreveport with Forceful, owned by C. H. Snider.
