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ITR0PICAL PARK TURF NOTES j : Frank Bruen and his staff will vacate the temporary offices in the Calumet Building next week. Mortimer Mahoney is distributing the stake blanks for the Maryland Jockey Club spring meeting at Pimlico. There is also a distribution of nomination blanks for the 1934 Pimlico Futurity. Robert Shannon, who is wintering his horses in Lexington, was a visitor at Tropical Park. He arrived this morning and reports that his horses are doing particularly well. Before leaving Kentucky, he took up the pair of three-year-olds Stratosphere and Wine Color. Shannon plans to remain here a month or six weeks. News came down from New York of the death of C. B. "Blue" Walters, one of the old brigade, some few years back. Walters was one of the big operators in the field. Arthur Loftus is here for the winter. He was an arrival from Havana, where he spent a couple of weeks vacationing with Jake Lowenstein. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Norris, Jr., whose horses race in the nom de course of the Peconic Stable, got in from Chicago. They motored down with "Sonny" Moore and will remain here for an extended visit. Billies Orphan, the two-year-old that won here the other day, was raised on a bottle. Billie O., the dam of the colt, died three days after the latter was foaled. Starter Will Hamilton went fishing Sunday and returned with a large string of fish. He passed most of them around to his friends. He says he is a better fisherman than horse starter. Among the new arrivals of the day were: Mrs. Vincent Treanor and her fourteen-year-old son, Bob. Mrs. Treanor is the wife of one of the stewards for the Tropical Park meeting. Bob Treanor will stay here and matriculate at the Miami High School. Bill Eckert, of the Pinkertons, was at his usual post in charge of the jockeys room at Tropical Park. Eckert has charge of the jockeys quarters at all New York tracks. Norman A. Perry, owner of the Indianapolis baseball club, chaperoned a party of friends to the races this afternoon. Included in his party were manager Jack Hendricks and Steve Harter. They are the guests of Mr. Perry on his yacht, Margaret F. II., which is docked at Flamingo. Dave Heiseman, chief assistant to Mortimer Mahoney in the Hialeah Park mutuel department, arrived in Miami from New York today. W. E. Caskey, Jr., received word of the death of his father yesterday. Mr. Caskey, who has several horses quartered at Hialeah Park, left for their home in Ohio to attend the funeral. Joseph OShea, formerly turf writer for the New York World, has been appointed patrol judge at Tropical Park. Harry Bullion was originally named for the position, but has not yet arrived. Fifty or more horses will come to Tropical Park from Hialeah now that Joseph E. Widener has lifted the bar. They are expected tomorrow. Most of the best horses in training will be seen in competition at Frank Bruens plant. Eddie Ambrose, crack jockey, is now here. He says he is going to ride free lance.
