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PIMLICO TURF NOTES | s 4 PIMLICO, Md., May 4. When rain came and changed the track condition at Pimlico trainer Buxton immediately ordered an express car and shipped Grey Coat back to New York. Frank C. Catrone, who came over to ride the horse, accompanied Buxton back to Jamaica. Arrangements for the broadcasting of the Preakness were completed this morning. Clem McCarty will be at the "mike" and the broadcasting will be over the National Broadcasting Company chain. Jack Healey entrained for Belmont Park yesterday, after superintending the loading of ten C. V. Whitney racers that were here under his care. Equipoise and a two-year-old were left in charge of Fred Hopkins. John Graver, agent for the Greentree Stable, got in from Belmont Park this morning with Twenty Grand, Surf Board and Anchors Aweigh. It is understood that all three of these horses will go to the post in the Preakness. Max Hirsch sent down three horses, one of the band being Clock Tower, the colt that finished second to Twenty Grand in the Wood Memorial at Jamaica Saturday. Clock Tower will start in the Preakness and P. Walls will ride him. James Rowe and jockey Charles Kurt-singer are coming over from Belmont Park. The three Greentree Preakness candidates i i will be given a trial on Tuesday. The sale of horses in the paddock at Pimlico Thursday will be one of the largest ever held at the hilltop course. Many of the prominent stables have made consignments to the sale. The J. E. Smallman and George Foley strings will leave here for Toronto tomorrow. The colors of D. K. E. Bruc son-in-law of Secretary Mellon, were seen in action for the first time on the two-year-old Dan Gay, one of the starters in the first race this afternoon. Skyfield, a plater that races for George Helum, broke down after a trial this morning and will be on the shelf for a while. Ben Chapman has decided not to race his horses this summer. Dr. J. F. Adams stated that Annimessic will be pointed for the Kentucky Derby. Edward Brennan. racing secretary of the Hagerstown Fair Association, received word that there were already 167 horses on the ground.
