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j BELMONT PARK TURF NOTES f ♦ ■ $ NEW YORK. N. Y., May 23. Frank Bray received word from Brandon n Farm. Virginia, that the colt Proxima is a a nice specimen, probably the best of the present crop. Rigan McKinney and Bayard Warren have leased the G. A. Cochran stable at Belmont l- Park. They take possession immediately after the disposal sale. George Odom, acting for his employer, has turned over to Mrs. Stewart the three-year-old - Permere and the two-year-old Morte-main. They will be converted into steeplechasers this summer. J. P. Smith, acting for the Dorwood Stable, purchased from Henry McDaniel the contract on the apprentice F. Munden. E. K. Thornton, part owner of the Pen-thorne Stable, arrived from Louisville after r witnessing the Derby. Price McKinney, a brother to Rigan, will apply for an amateurs license. He has the e horse Golden Gorse. which he secured from his brother. Edward R. Bradley, master of Idle Hour Farm, was an arrival and will stay for the e season. Whether or not A. J. Joyner finds an opportunity »- to start Geoige D. Wideners s Jamestown in a condition race before his s engagement in the Withers Stakes there e need be no fear of the son of St. James not being fit for that old prize. He has been going along magnificently in his training g and Friday a mile in 1:39% was accomplished i- in a manner to indicate that he is s ready now. The first half in this was run in :463j and the six furlongs in 1:11%. Poly-dorus - galloped his mile in 1:39%, handily, r, and Mad Career showed a handy mile in n 1:43. Harry Hunt, a steeplechase rider under r contract to Rigan McKinney, suffered a a broken leg when he was thrown from a a horse while schooling yesterday morning. Jockey W. Curran suffered injuries to his s back at Aqueduct. He was thrown from a green two-year-old that he was airing for r J. P. White. He canceled his engagements s and will be an absentee for several days. Jockey P. Remillard was removed to the Mary Immaculate Hospital, Jamaica, for t further examination after his fall from Gli-delia Wednesday. An X-ray revealed a broken collarbone. Jockey P. Walls suffered a badly bruised d brow, which required a stitch to close, when n Emancipate threw back her head. Jack Healy will ship his stable to Con-naught i- Park. At the same time M. Colford will ship to the Canadian city. Bill Southam. which was the first two-year-old started by E. R. Bradley here, is ts named for a friend of his from Hamilton, i, Ont., who owns a number of Canadian newspapers. 3- Joseph Widener was congratulated on all sides on the passage of the Florida pari-mutuel i- law and among others John Hertz -z sent the following wire from Chicago: "Heartiest congratulations. It was purely a a case of personality. Everyone who loves a a horse must rejoice over victory." Tommy Queen stated after a morning workout that Angry Queen developed a leg-filling, j- causing her withdrawal from the last race. Vice President Curtis has had to decline an invitation from Joseph E. Widener to be ,e his guest for the running of the Belmont 11 Stakes on June 13. Mr. Curtis will be in Kansas all during June, but he promised ,j that nothing would prevent his being at ig Belmont Park for the running of the Futurity j. in September. John J. Curtis, who purchased Flying g Heels out of the Cochran dispersal sale, has LS turned the horses over to J. Simon Healy ly to train. Mr. Curtis has been breeding thoroughbreds r_ for the past three years. He became e. interested in horses several years ago, 0 and purchased several at the J. S. Cosden ,n dispersal sale. He scored his first victory .y last season when Uncle Herman was a winner jj. of a race at St. Johns Park. He maintains a_ his breeding farm in Virginia. Arnold Hanger, who purchased Epithet, ,i shipped the horse to the main division of jl his stable at Louisville for a western campaign. a. James Butler was on hand to witness the ie effort of Questionnaire in the Metropolitan n Handicap. Joe McLennan arrived from Chicago to interest horsemen in the forthcoming meeting t° and stakes to be run at Arlington Park, k, Chicago. Jamestown was breezed an easy mile over er the main track. He was timed in 1:47. 7. Ladder breezed along a slow mile in 1:55. .5. Mr. and Mrs. K. Kagami and Mrs. and id Mrs. I. Wasaki of Tokio, Japan, were guests ts of W. R. Coe for the running of the Metropolitan t- Handicap. Mr. Kagami is associated o- with the Morgan interests in the Far it East.
