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Lincoln Fields Notebook - By J. J. MURPHY HAWTHORNE, Cicero, HI., May 26. We understand that Dr. Alex Harthill, the eminent young Kentucky veterinarian, has made a special trip to the Chicago area to put the Kentucky Derby winner, Hill Gail, through the firing process. Hill Gail arrived at Arlington Park last week and as tele-ph o n e facilities between this course and the Arlington racing secretarys office are not available as yet, the report could not be verified at this writing. However, it is common knowledge that Hill Gail is in need of leg treatment, and it is likely that trainer Ben Jones has decided that firing is the remedy. It is not unusual that Dr. Harthill should be called from out-of-town to perform the operation. Last winter he traveled from his home to Santa Anita to fire a couple of horses for the Reverie Knoll Farm. And once he made a trip to Europe on a similar mission . . Frank Butzow, Lincoln Fields publicity man and president of the Illinois Breeders Association, informs us that we can save our friend Evan Shipman some research through the information he Butzow has on Little Wichita, dam of Little Request, the new California sensation. Little Wichita is an 18-year-old brown mare and is the dam of Littletown, who defeated Occupation in the Joliet and Primer Stakes on Chicago tracks a few years ago. Littletown is the sire of the speedy Lextown and now stands at M. A. Kerns Lexington Fields farm, situated near Arlington Park. Little Wichita is also the dam of Boomtown Gal, who in turn is the dam of B-Battery, former track record holder at Laurel. Among other winners foale by Little Wichita were Frontiersman, Hand in Glove, Sweep the Sky, and Little James. Little Wichitas dam, Little Visitor won 22 races, including the Ashland Oaks and the Gibson Hotel and Provincial Handicaps, and was third in the Kentucky Oaks. Thank you, Mr. Butzow. Mr. and Mrs. Allie Reuben were here Saturday to view their entry of Inseparable and Seward try for the Fleming Memorial. They returned to their home in Toledo, Ohio.. .Jockey John Heck-mann has been engaged to ride Torch of Iran in Saturdays Narcissus Handicap And we believe that whoever dubbed the event "The Narcissus" missed their calling. Should be employed by the Pullman Company, or a perfumery. . .Stella Karr, who owns a small string here, is retiring from the racing business and has sold Clabbering Jim and Smart Eddie to William A. Visans, her trainer. . Jockey Herb Lindberg returned from Toronto where he journeyed to ride in the Queens Plate. Through some misunderstanding he failed to have the mount. . . Freeman Keyes, owner of the Reverie Knoll Stable, is hoping that the three-year-old Smoke Screen continues to improve. Smoke Screen showed signs of great promise last season when he finished second to Errards Guide in the Joliet Stakes. However, he ended up the season a maiden. Saturdays success was his third victory this year. " If you visit the track early, that man you see working industriously with a screw-Continued on Page Thirty-One Lincoln Fields Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Three driver and pliers on the pari-mutuel mechanism is John Montgomery of old Alabama.. Montgomery has made a career J out of repairing mutuel machines. Works : the year around. It seems, due to the deli- . cate mechanism, a certain percentage of . the machines go out of kilter every day. J They are labeled by the man in charge of t operations, and Montgomery goes to work I on them the next morning . Did you c know that 100 years ago a total of 267,653 . horses were enumerated in the State of Illinois. That took in horses of all breeds, s In addition there were 10,573 mules, and 76,156 working oxen... Also that Illinois was first included in the list of racing states in John Skinners American turf register in 1835, which was two years after Chicago t was incorporated as a town. The first race 3 meeting in Chicago was held in 1844. The T first race, one of a-series of two-mile heats, ; was taken by a four-year-old chestnut named Snag, who was owned by W. E. . Ellis, and bred in Indiana. t Jockey Wendell Eads would have had . his biggest day on a major track Satur- J day had not Haberdashery got up in time to beat Eads mount, Thank You Sir. The boy, who is riding well here, had two previous winners . . . Sidney A. Alexander has sold All Yen, Fighting Whiz and Volt to his son, Robert, and J. H. Logan will train. . .The two-year-old gelding Master Wind was sold by the Red Top Stable to Charles Longo and the latter made a quick turnover by selling him to the Hijohn Stable, and the young runner is on his way to Detroit . But seven entries -had been received through the entry box at 9:30 a. m. The track was very heavy during the morning hours. Trainer Milt Resseguet has decided against sending Oh Leo to the post in tht Peabody Memorial. The colt will likelj make his Chicago bow next week if a suitable event is arranged . . Telegrapher Paul James and clocker Charlie Billups, of the Daily Racing Form staff, celebrated birth- days over the week-end. Billups is foui years older than James. . Legs, a galloping winner in the mud here Saturday, is by the Irish stallion, Knights Caprice, who, according to Coleman Kelly, was a very good mudder. . .Andy B. W., winner of the Fleming Memorial, was purchased by his trainer, Ike Weil, from a Kentucky family as a nondescript looking yearling. Weil developed the colt, who is one of the more popular runners on this circuit. . .Owners of the Buddah Stable are very pleased with the improvement shown by Dance Nsing.
