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i MLandfcjandsasa Balmoral I — By J. J. Murphy • Denham Long-Time Illinois Trainer Horsemen Busy With Sales, Trades The Chicagoan Draws Eastern Colts WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, HI., June 7.— Dwight Denham is one of the more experienced trainers at this course. He conditions the horses of the Buddah Stable Stable and and has has had had a a good good meas- i Stable Stable and and has has had had a a good good meas- measure of success in so doing. Denham makes his home in Greensville, HI., about 200 miles south of Chicago,. and but a few miles from where he was born. Has a 160-acre place there that is known as Floral -Trail Farm and breeds and raises a few horses. Denham saddled his first winner at Bainbridge Park, Cleveland, 25 years ago. Name of the runner was was Sturdy Sturdy Stella. Stella. However, However, he he was was Sturdy Sturdy Stella. Stella. However, However, he he MLandfcjandsasa does believe he really embarked on his training career in 1938 and since then has handled thoroughbreds for the Jerry McCarthy Stable, Dearborn Stable, and Mrs. Lottie Wolf, all of whose horses did most of their racing on Detroit tracks. He also trained a few for ex-governor John Stelle and racing commissioner William Miller, of Illinois, prior to being hired by the Buddah Stable a couple of years ago. Believes that Sunny Dale, fine race mare in the Buddah Stable, was the best runner ever to come under his care. That mare, now a seven-year-old, won over 00,000 during her career and was bred for the first time this year, when she was mated with Polynesian, the sire of Native Dencer. Has on his farm three other mares that were bred to Tahitian King, a son of Polynesian. They are Stell, the dam of the useful performer, Baby Tucky; Royal Queen and Jockerita. Another mare is Blue Tower, who never started. Carstens Has Mount in Joliet Stakes Robert Hart, Jr., son of the supervisor of pari-mu-tuels at Sportsmans Park, flew to Chattanooga, Tenn., Monday to be with his wife, whose automobile figured in an accident near that city. Fortunately, Mrs.- Hart escaped uninjured. . . . Willie Carstens has been engaged to ride Doc Eggers in the Joliet Stakes. . . . Trainer Tracy Bougon left for Belmont Park to attend the sales. Was accompanied by Claude Mauberret, veterinarian for the Louisiana Racing Commission. Incidentally, Bougon is desirous of getting in touch with trainer C. Palmer Sowers Say Baby, a two-year-old owned by Harry Rosset, fractured her left front sesamoid during the running of the first race here on Monday and was destroyed. . . . William Hal Bishop sold Amulika to H. Hoffman and she has been shipped to Fairmount Park. . . . Al Kelem traded Lismore Prince to W. J. Schmidt for What a Guy. . . . Harry Stark sold Colonel Phil to Charles Lord. . . . Trainer Cliff Martin, who has some horses at Fairmount Park, was a recent visitor. Word has been received that the eastern division of the Calumet Farm stable will arrive Wednesday in charge of trainer H. A. "Jimmy" Jones. They will be bedded down at Arlington Park. . . . Jockey John Heckmann, after riding in Wednesdays Joliet Stakes, will leave for his home in New Orleans to take his Army physical. Will be back Saturday to have the mount on Tritium for the Brookmeade Stable in the .Balmoral Turf Handicap. . . . Summer Solstice, clever winner on the grass in his first outing in this country, was not named for the Balmoral Turf Handicap. . . . Received a couple of unusual letters this morning. One, written in 1947, requested a couple of passes for the Caliente rape track. Another, informing me of the opening of Balmoral, has been to several West Coast addresses and has just arrived. . . . Patricia F. Hoban has purchased the three-year-old Mad Harham from Mrs. H. Florsheim and Henry. Strauss. Parke Sells Two Hooper Juveniles The racing strip was in such bad condition Tuesday morning that the feature race for the day was declared off and another substituted. . . . Trainer Ivan Parke, acting of Fred W. Hooper, sold the two-year-old Proprietor to Ed New, and the colt will be shipped to River Downs Owner Carl Graham is visiting from . his home in Terre Haute, Ind. . . . Now that the horses of the B and W Stable have been turned out, trainer C. A. Cranford is at liberty. Expects to obtain a few other racers to condition. . . . Mr. and Mrs Charles H. Knox, of Indianapolis, are spending a few days visiting the sport at Washington Park. ... A slight epidemic of coughing among the two-year-olds here is reported. Wonder they do not all have pneumonia what with the changeable weather here. . . . Clifford " Mooers Traffic Judge and Hilton Dabsons Nances Lad, recent stakes winners in the East, are expected to try for the 0,000 The Chicagoan on closing day. Joe Inzelone, who is here with Honeys Alibi and the laters" stablemate, Sisters Alibi, was the leading American jockey of 1928. Broke in under the .watchful eye of Bennett Creech, who has some horses in training here. . . . Mrs. Norman McMaster sold the three-year-old filly. Britches, to Gerald Bloss, and the miss has been shipped to New Mexico. . . . Trainer Joe E. Bilbrey sent Philnor, Fairn Square, Away Away and Happy East to Fairmount Park. . . . Jockey W.M. Cook has been engaged to ride Munchausen in The Chicagoan. . . . The annual hurdle race at Arlington Park, only event of its kind staged in this district, will be run June 24. . . . Jockey Willie Boland will come from New York Friday and will have the mount on County Clare in Saturdays Balmoral Turf Handicap.
