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t LINCOLN FIELDS TURF NOTES I $ — W. E. Snyder claimed The Greeter out of . the eighth race at Lincoln Fields, Saturday, from the Brown Hotel Stable for ,250. Trainer M. B. Cohn is taking the Superior Farms Bobs Boys to Detroit for his engagement in the Col. Alger Memorial Handicap on Saturday. Training operations at Lincoln Fields Monday morning were minimized because of the muddy condition of the track. All workouts were accomplished around the "dogs," the presence of which made it necessary for. horses to train about fifteen feet out from the rail. A check of registrations at Lincoln Fields reveals £here are a total of 995 thoroughbreds available for the local meeting. Lady Wo, owned by Mrs. R. H. Lloyd, and Wowo, the property of Lloyd and Hester, arrived here Monday from Louisville in charge of trainer A. F. Lloyd. C. Blair got in at Washington Park with the horses, Shawe Buck, Sleep Out, Lady Thirteen and Muscle In, owned by Mrs. F. F. Burrell. They came from Fairmount Park. Jockey Albert Bodiou and apprentice Robert Neilson left Monday for Winnipeg. Bodiou, however, will return for the Washington Park meeting. Jockey W. L. Johnson, who is serving a suspension for foul riding at Churchill Downs, stopped off in Chicago en route from his home in Philpot, Ky., to New York. Johnson will become affiliated with the stable of J. B. Partridge. R. A. Kindred, who trains a division of the L. B. Mayer stable, returned from Lexington, where he attended the funeral of his father, who died last week. Lee D. McCune, 20-year-old Chicago boy, began his riding career in earnest at Lincoln Fields Monday. He is under contract to J. J. OByrne, and is a brother of jockey Darrell McCune. Thus far, young McCune has had only one other mount and that was in Havana last winter. Grecian King, Funny Idea and Jacobs Ladder, turned out near here all winter, are in training at Washington Park under T. J. Donovan. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Norman, who have several horses, are visitors from Louisville. W. S. Walker registered on Monday the horses, Pierre Andre, Blondist and Wapella, which he brought from Louisville. They are quartered at Washington Park.
