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1 CHURCHILL DOWNS NOTES "1 $ — $ In addition to the eighteen head he has here, J. Price Sallee will have Miss Alert, Calling, Plainview and Shanwee under his care during the Lincoln Fields meeting. The quartet, now quartered at the Brookdale Farm of Thomas Piatt, will be shipped from Lexington to the Crete course to await the arrival of the main division. Fred Weller reduced his stable to three when he disposed of the six-year-old mare Social Error to T. G. Jones in a private transaction. The Weller trio goes to Lincoln Fields at the close of the Churchill Downs meeting. Johnny Gormley came from California in quest of racing material and if successful the horses will be sent to Hollywood Park. John H. Galway, Sr., and John, Jr., the former who joined the owner ranks during the past winter, returned to New Orleans Sunday after a visit of several days in Louisville. Among the first of the turfmen to make their departure for Illinois was the veteran, Frank Rector, who sent Floragina to Lincoln Fields to be rested up until the qpening of the season in the Chicago area on May 25. In addition to the six horses that C. E. Dale has at Douglas Park, which are intended for campaigning at Lincoln Fields, he will take up Sleepy Joe, which was left at Oak-lawn Park, due to illness, when the stable shipped from the Arkansas track. The eight horses owned by the Spring Valley Farm, are scheduled to be campaigned at North Randall, according to J. E. Mason, who plans to leave Douglas Park several days in advance of the opening of the Forest City track. C. Hyde Smith vanned Don Creole and Od-desa Knight from Keencland Sunday and found quarters for them at Churchill Downs. Smith, who holds the contract on apprentice George Wallace, gave J. W. Barnes the second call on the lads services for the re- mainder of the local meeting and for the Detroit season. Edward Haughton, who heretofore has campaigned his stable in. the Mid-West and along the Atlantic Seaboard, will ship twelve head to Hollywood Park on May 21. Apprentice Chuck Charlton, Americas fourth leading rider, will accompany the stable. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Vedder, who have been visiting their son, jockey R. L. Vedder, departed for Collinsville. The Vedders are quartered at Fairmount Park. John E. Oros, Americas leading rider, will j become a full-fledged jockey when he dons colors Thursday, May 12. Oros rode Miss Balko in scoring his initial success at Aurora last year. Silvio Coucci will ride at Hollywood Park, Elmo Dauenhauer, his agent, stated Monday. Coucci left for the Inglewood track Sunday, where two offers await him, and Dauenhauer will leave for the same point Tuesday. Incidentally, Coucci blazed his comeback trail in California last year. The horses of the W. S. Kilmer stable that are concentrated here by trainer W. A. Crawford will be transferred to Belmont Park for racing. The division is scheduled to leave Tuesday.
