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BLUE RIDGE ADVANCE GUARD Seven O Toole Horses Now at Fair-mount Park for Meeting. Remainder of String Campaigning at Lexington to Join Collinsville Band After Finale. COLLINSVILLE, 111., April 21. The Blue Ridge Stock Farm, nom do course of William OToole, former Chicago alderman, which will campaign at Fairmount Park for the first time during the twenty-seven day meeting starting May 6, already has seven of its fifteen representatives on the scene. The advance vanguard embracing Galeco, My Grandson, Bunny Jr., Perplex, Big Bank, Lady Brook and Prince Pharoah, arrived , from Hot Springs in charge of Bert Bagley, j brother of Otto Bagley, who is in Keeneland directing the main division, and Bert Bagley said the latter group will be shipped here April 29, when the meeting terminates. The thoroughbreds coming from Keeneland supplementing those already here will make the Blue Ridge Farm one of the most formidable ever to participate at the local oval. In the eight to be sent here are Wise Barrister, a chestnut colt by Wise Counsellor, which has not been unplaced in seven j starts this year, winning three handicaps, and second twice and third as many times. Wise Barrister is considered a likely starter in the Inaugural Handicap. Elooto, which is the backward spelling of OToole, was also a winner at Hot Springs recently, and was so well regarded last year, he ran in the Kentucky Derby. Lillian Roth was a two-time winner at the Spa, while Chicalba, one which has not been postward this year, won two out of her three starts in 1938. HAS GOOD RECORD. The Blue Ridge Farms strength is brought j forth by its record at the recent Hot Springs j meeting. In the money-winning department, j it was nosed out by H. W. Jackson, ,325 to ,225, but of that amount, ,550 was won ! for Jackson by Ariel Toy, winner of the Arkansas Derby. In the training race, Bag-ley saddled eight winners, finishing second to W. Causey and C. N. Finch, who deadlocked for the lead with ten triumphs. Willie Prehm, the apprentice "find" of the stable, booted home twelve winners in his first meeting, despite the fact he was out twelve racing days with illness. Incidentally, Prehm will come to Fair-mount following the Keeneland session, and the veteran pilot with the stable, Tom P. Martin, will also come along. The establishment already has one youngster here, Hughie Lemmons, of Benton, 111., who will make his saddle debut here. He is 17 years of age and tips the beam at 100 pounds.
