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■ — — — ■ Kentucky News and Notes j KEENELAND at Churchill Downs, j | Louisville, Ky., April 22. Sewell S. Combs, member of the racing j j commission, and Marshall Scully were j among the many Lexingtonians present for todays sport. j Jack Irvine, old-time attache of the mu-j tuel department, has returned to his old duties. Irvine, former Lexingtonian, now resides in Bardstown, Ky. Milton James purchased the plater Silver B, Terms were private. Trainer Base Howell, who trains the ! horses belonging to his son, Sgt. George Howell, reported the juvenile Two Score is on the shelf temporarily with bucked shins. The younger Howell, now stationed at Ft. Monmouth, N. J., formerly trained for Capt. Baylor O. Hickman, of the Marines. Jack McKnight sent the three -year-old Castraw to Lexington, where a small division of the McKnight string is training at Keeneland. W. J. Raybould purchased in a private j transaction today the two-year-old Eliza Jane from W. E. Smith. Century, Golden Harvest and Tetra Lily, ! property of Charles O. Miles, arrived from j I Miami in charge of R. B. Allen and were j quartered at Douglas Park. I. Newton Combs, Jr.. nephew of S. Se-! I well Combs, member of the racing commis-i I sion, was a visitor today. Leo ODonnell, who is conditioning a public stable, today purchased from Ira Drymon the two-year-olds March Brigade and March Tune. ODonnell has reserved stalls at Hawthorne for the Lincoln Fields meeting. Heretofore, he campaigned at Detroit and New England. Olin Johnson, trainer of the main division of the James C. Ellis stable, sent Colonel Doo and Quette to Dade Park, where Sidney Bulcroft has 20 horses in training for the president of that western Kentucky track. Johnson will receive a chestnut two-year-old daughter of Appealing and the three-year-old Dixie Del. Like in former years, this division of the Ellis stable will invade the Detroit Fair Grounds for that long meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Lucas B. Combs. Joe H. Smith and Augustus B. Gay, Blue Grass owners and breeders, whose horses are trained by John M. Goode, were early morning visitors at Churchill Downs today. Gay was forced to return to his Lanark Farm, but the others remained for the program. Lester Rice, former rider, was granted a trainers license and he took over the Lawrence James horses from Calvin P. Winfrey. James, resident of Paris, Ky., entered the owners ranks last fall when he acquired two yearlings at the Lexington fall auctions. Trainer J. M. Goode sent Mrs. M. C. Stevens Devil Sands and A. B. Karles K. Durable to Lexington today to be trained at the Keeneland oval. When Bell -Buzzer and Alorter. both Kentucky Derby candidates, raced one, two respectively, in the seventh race Thursday it brought to light an interesting sidelight pertaining to their two-year-old records. Each went postward 17 times with Bell-Buzzer winning eight races and Alorter accounting for five purses. The latter, however, earned 4,240 while Bell-Buzzers gleanings totaled only ,960. Jockey Paul Glidewell announced his intentions to leave Monday with his agent, Joe Woods, for Sportsmans Park, where he will ride free lance. Frank Podesta, who has several horses here in partnership with Henry H. Knight left for Memphis on a business mission. He expects to return in time for tomorrows racing. Thomas Young, superintendent of tracks for the American Turf Association, reports that the Lincoln Fields meeting, opening at Hawthorne on May 16, is assured an increased number of strong stables now active here or under preparation for mid-western racing points. "We will have more of the better class horses than a year ago", said Young here today, and our stakes are certain to benefit accordingly." Pfc Thomas Donaldson, a son of former jockey James Donaldson, was a visitor at Churchill Downs Friday afternoon while on leave from Camp Breckinridge, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Parker, whose good three-year-old By Jimminy may not get to start in the Kentucky Derby because of a setback in his preparation resulting from an injury sustained here Thursday, were early morning visitors at their barn here today. Jockey George Wallace is a probable addition to the many young turfmen in the fighting colors of Uncle Sam. Wallace sends word that when called he hopes to be accepted by the Navy. J. Graham Brown, owner of the Brown Hotel Stable, is considering racing his horses in two divisions — one at Detroit and another on the Chicago circuit. A definite decision will be reached within the next two or three weeks, he stated here this morning.
