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i , . [ . j T CHURCHILL DOWNS NOTES | $ Q Tommy Root shipped Brown Ben and Sink or Swim to Tom Nugent at Fairmount Park and received Jennie May and the two-year-old Albert J. from that point. Horace Nuckols, who is a visitor here, announced the purchase of the two-year-olds Chinker Chek and Little Gay from his brother, Charles Nuckols. The juveniles, along with the three-year-old Nore, which he will train for Charles Nuckols, will be shipped from Keeneland Park to North Randall. William Fox, of . the Indianapolis News, who became ill while covering the Keeneland meeting for his paper and who has been confined to a Lexington hospital for a week, stopped off for the opening program en route to his home. He returns here Thursday. Two claims were registered in the opening race of the season when Mrs. E. Haughton acquired Lady Ariel for Sl-,500 and J. All-geyer took Lucky Ducky for the same figure. Jockey Alfred Robertson, almost completely recovered from the injury he received in training accident at Oaklawn Park, expects to get back into action in another week. Mrs. Bessie Franzheim, owner of the Derby horse, Xalapa Clown, and her mother, Mrs. Edward F. Simms, came over from Paris, Ky., for the opening. Jockey George Seabo is due here Wednesday to report to Louis Schaefer, trainer of the W. L. Brann horses. Seabo is to have the mount on Branns Challedon in the Derby. Irvine Kort reported the arrival of a black colt at his Kort Manor Farm by Apprehension—Ma Yerkes, and a bay colt by Apprehension and Little Indian. The bay colt is a, half-brother to Visigoth and Billbo. Kort stated his sire, Apprehension, was booked to eighteen mares this season. W. L. Brann, whose silks are to be carried in the Kentucky Derby by Challedon, is due here Thursday with his wife. They will-come from Frederick, Md., and their Derby party here will include many friends. The horses which J. J. Greely, Jr., brought here from Lexington for the Shandon Farm stable are: Gold Flag, Aglow, Bluefield, Blue Field, Syracuse, Cooperstown, Boreen, Baroda, Blossom Queen and Countess Maid. He also brought Delovely for Miss Nan OMalley. Greelys father will bring the re-, mainder of the Shandon horses from Maryland after the running of the Dixie Handi-, cap May 10. Burning Star is a scheduled starter in that fixture. Jockey Leon Haas checked in from New York this morning. He is here to ride Joe W. Browns T. M. Dorsett in the Kentucky Derby. W. E. Coburn, trainer of the horses owned by Conn Smythe, transferred Shoeless Joe, Sir Marlboro, Skating Mad, Indignant and Skating Fool here from Keeneland. The remainder of the horses, five in number, are due here later.
