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I Kentucky News and Notes J I | i , j ! j I ! I I i , : ! i i I i CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., April 28. Mrs. Joseph Hubbard reports that three I of Preston R. Kurtzs mares at the Hubbard Brookside Farm near here, have colt sucklings at heel. Onritas son is by Bal-ladier while Lady Flash is nursing a colt by Kings Blue and Swing Corners offspring was sired by Port Au Prince. A fourth Kunz mare, Miss Johnnie, is to foal by Hash. Fred Burton, racing secretary and handi-! capper for the Keeneland Association. leaves tomorrow for Grove City where he will serve in the stand at Beulah Park during the early days of the season opening at that Ohio course on May 6. From Beulah Park he will shift to Charles Town where the spring session opens on May 15. Private Eddie Blind, former assistant to George Cassidy and other top flight start- ers, sends wrord from Camp Lee that he would like to hear from more of his many , friends in racing. He is with Company E. of the sixth quartermaster reserve corps, battalion 245. at Camp Lee, Va. ■ i Hamilton C. Applegate. co-owner of Old Rosebud, winner of the 1914 edition of the ; Kentucky Derby and former treasurer of j the American Turf Association, renewed I acquaintances at Churchill Downs yesterday. i Otto Luke, of the H. M. Stevens Catering ,Company. arrived from New York and announced that Joe Stevens, one of the executives, would be here Monday to remain until after the Derby. Charles J. Gormley has severed his connection with the Charles Town course and will continue on the staff of William H. Shelley, racing secretary at Churchill ; Downs and Lincoln Fields. | J C. R. Valentine has requested stalls at Hawthorne for the Lincoln Fields meeting, and will keep his stable on the Chicago cir-i cuit for the entire season. Trainer R. H. McDaniel brought J. War- i field Rodgers Task Force, Miss Punch and j | , i ; j i ; | J i j | Mighty Tough from Douglas Park tc Churchill Downs. Louis De Latour. New Orleans turfman, sold Superfine and De Latour to K. S. Cleveland, and they will be included among the horses their ne*w owner is shipping to Randall Park. Floyd West, whose wife owns one of the more prominent Texas stables arrived from his home at Dallas and will remain until the close of the meeting. Bell-Buzzer. Derby candidate belonging to Detroit patron, David Ferguson, will have the riding services of jockey Billie Thompson should the son of Bel Aethel gc postward in the 70th running of this historic event. Up and about following a weeks illness, Gen. J. Fred Miles, vice-chairman of the state racing commission, had the permission of his physician to spend this after-I noon at Churchill Downs. Air Cadet Arthur Kuprion. Jr.. son of the chief of the photo-finish camera staff at Churchill Downs, is home on furlough from San Angelo. Texas. His brother, Kenneth, lost his life in an air force training crash a month ago. Flight officer William Flanigan left yes- terday for Lincoln. Nebr., where he will be assigned to a bomber crew. The young bombardier is the son of John J. Flaniban, well known horseman. J. W. McEwen is transfering T. L. Grahams Kenilworth Stable of eight horses to Detroit tomorrow. Douglas "Slim" Foy who brought the Fernandez Brothers, V. Nodarse. M. N. Gonzalez and a number of other riders from Cuba, came from his home at Colum- bus, Ohio, to visit with Rollie T. Shepp. Larry C. Bogenschutz, assistant racing secretary, was called to his Cincinnati home, due to the death of a brother-in-law. He will resume his duties Monday. During Bogenschutz s absence, Fred Burton will substitute for him.
