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Shady Brook Unit Coming Here for Lincoln Meeting Harold White Presently Has String Stabled at Downs CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., May 1. — Theodore E. Mueller, former member of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, who maintains nearby Shady Brook Farm, arrived today from Pittsburgh, Pa. Mueller, a former resident of Louisville, is an executive with the American Sanitary Corporation, and he now makes his home in the East but still retains his interest in the thoroughbred industry. Immediately after reaching Louisville, Mueller inspected the stable he has quartered at the Derby oval under the supervision of the veteran turfman, Harold White. Included in the band that will carry Muellers Shady Brook Farm white silks this season are the homebred two-year-olds, Clevelander, a gray gelding; St. Louisian, a brown gelding; Cascadian, a brown filly, and Ohioan, a bay filly. The youngsters are the get of Litchfield, who formerly raced for Mueller, and who now stands at the Jefferson County nursery. Older horses in the Shady Brook establishment at Churchill Downs are Upstate, Midhy, Gotham, Paprika, Pamir, Sand-slinger, Duquesne and Merrymarch. Following the close of the Kentucky spring racing season, trainer White will-transfer the entire Mueller string to the Lincoln Fields-at-Hawthorne meeting. Apprentice Dale Pruitt, under contract to Shady Brook Farm Stable, will handle the riding assignments for the establishment during the Churchill Downs and Illinois sessions.