Current Notes of the Turf, Daily Racing Form, 1920-12-24

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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Trainer W-. Wallace-has seventeen of the McClelland Xalapu Farm horses wintering at Havre de Grace. There .-.Unit sixty yearlings at Oriental Park that will be ivnilable lor two-year-old races after January 1. . George W. Wingfield of Xevmhi has a large band -of yearlings at. Tijuana wliieh.be intends to start In the baby races after the first of the new year. Ihurmacie, the crack Knglish filly of the past season, is as quick as a cat in the starting slips :iuil won some of her seven races by her early advantage. She has not been Humiliated in any of the 1021 classics. Lewis Garth- has nineteen yearlings, the property of Thomas Fortune Hyau, wintering at Hclmout Park. All but one of these youngsters is by Sea King and were bred at Mr. Ityans Oak Kidge Stud, in Virginia. Sixteen hundred wagon loads of new soil lias been placed on the Havre de Grace track since tin; fall meeting and track superintendent J. I. Hoss expects to have the course in fine condition for the spring meeting of 1!C1. Intrios for the- New Years Handicap, to be run :il. the Fair Grounds on the opening day. will close Christmas Day. It has $:i.00l added ami entries can be made with Julius Keoder at Jefferson Park or with secretary Joe McLennan at the Fair rounds. An interesting trophy which has passed into the possession of the English York Knee Committee is a glass toddy goblet of the kind popular a century ago, and commemorates the victory of Oetavian over Woodman at the York August Meeting of 1S12. Hen Dale, a winner at the recent National Horse Show In New York had to be destroyed liecanse he laid become quite vicious and a dangerous rearer. Hen Dale was bred at Thomas Fortune Ityans Oak Itidge Stud in Virginia and Mas by Kllisdale Fairy Bird, by Clear the Way. He raced for W.. It. Coy beore being used as u saddle horse.


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