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I hTaleah park Gossip I Preston Burch and J. C. Fletcher were club house visitors. They motored down from Washington to look over the horses they are racing at Hialeah Park. Burch has under his care one of the largest strings in training thatxwill be raced on the east-ern tracks this "year. Frank Riggs, treasurer and director of the Maryland Jockey Club, returned to Baltimore Tuesday. Mr. Riggs made a special trip to Miami to watch the operation of the j "Tote." Bud Fisher, whose horses are being looked after by Frank Bray, was an arrival. He is here, for an extended stay. J. I. Smith, who looks after the racing interests of H. Teller Archibald, reports the first foal of the season at Archwood Manor, The Plains, Va., when Candy Fox dropped a fine looking brown colt by Westy Hogan. Mr. Smith has arranged for Dark Hero and nine others of the Archibald racers to be shipped from the farm direct to Bennings, where they will be prepared for the Bowie meeting, which opens the racing season in Maryland April 1. Dr. Finch, the well known veterinarian of Jeffersonville, Ind., came in from Havana this morning where he was called to perform his famous throat operation on several of the racers at Oriental Park. A. G. Weston, steward at Pimlico and Bowie, who is here racing a. couple of horses of his own breeding, reports that the yearling full-brother to The Spirit, by Buce-alus Windigo, is growing to be a big lusty fellow. Windigo, which was not in foal this spring, will be bred to Bucephalus. The Mrs. R. L. Rogers stable will be shipped from New Orleans in time for the opening of the second meeting at Tropical Park. Dr. Haggard of Lexington, was an arrival from Kentucky. O. A. Simmons, father of Merle Simmons, who races, among others, the shifty plater Griffin, got in from the North this morning. Tobe Trotter leaves for Kentucky Sunday to report to Rome Respess, whom he has contracted to train for this year. Harry E. Brown, who recently disposed of all of his horses, got in from Jefferson Park. The preferred list posted by racing secretary J. S. Wallace is as follows: Older horses: Chipola, El Puma, Wakefield, Spunky, Sweep Mar, Zevar; two-year-old fillies: Dusky Dame, Jesemola, Paprice, Princess Vale, Royal Purchase; two-year-old colt: Try Mack. Pete Walls, veteran rider employed by Mav Hirsch, had his first mount of the winter season on Glenside in the first race. Walls will ride free lance here.
