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! TROPICAL PARK TURF NOTES v In the future the field in the two-year-old races will be limited to twelve. Fourteen starters will be permitted to go to the post in all other races. The George D. Widener establishment was loaded on an express car at Hialeah last week which was attached to the Miamian, leaving for the North. The Widener horses, in charge of assistant trainer W. F. Mul-holland, went direct from Hialeah to Erden-heim Farm, near Philadelphia. It is possible that the three-year-old filly Evening will be nominated for the stakes, for which she is eligible at the spring meetings in Maryland. Jockey R. Workman and his family left for Washington, D. C, Friday morning. Workman will stop over in the Capital city until Sunday, when he will continue on his journey by motor to Brookdale Farm at Red Bank, N. J. Workman was called back by head trainer Thomas J. Healey to assist in the preparation of the crack filly Top Flight for her early engagements. Equipoise, who is again back in training at Benning, is being prepared for the Dixie, which will be run at the Pimlico spring meeting. Jesse Bennett, who had charge of the jockey room at Hialeah, will be at St. Johns Park and at the conclusion of that meeting will report at Bowie. Bennett is the Major-Domo of the jockeys rooms at all of the Maryland tracks. H. G. Bedwell was an arrival from Havana. His mission here is to arrange for stabling for three more horses, which he is sending over from Oriental Park on his return to Cuba. George Read is certainly versatile. A first class docker, judge and track superintendent, Read is now broadcasting every evening for Tropical Park over station WIOD and he is good, at his new job too. Jockey A. Prain was fined 5 by the stewards for fighting in the jockey room after the seventh race last Wednesday. Prain got into an altercation with V. Arthur, whom he accused of cutting him off. j George Read received word that his brood mare, Pavia, .the dam of the two-year-old Lady Sunbeam, which won on the opening day of the Tropical Park meeting, had foaled a fine looking colt by Justice F. at the Blue Grass Heights Stock Farm Stable near Lexington. Superintendent, Keegan will cover the track at Hialeah Park; with a coating of manure. Up to date the manure has been spread on the chutes and as soon as the horses now stabled at Hialeah leave, the remainder of the track will be covered. Trainer J. P. Mayberry reports that the plater, Sir Byron, is on the shelf. The horse is troubled with a piece of gravel that has worked up in his hoof. Charles Zoeller was an arrival from Cuba. He is here to make the engagements of jockey Buddy Ensor. Pat Remillard has given first call on his services for the Tropical Park meeting to H. C. Brown.. H. C. Hatch, the well-known Canadian breeder and sportsman, whose colors have been seen in action all winter at Hialeah, left Monday morning for his home near Toronto, Ont. J. E. Smallman, of London, Ont., whose horses won twenty races at Oriental Park, came in from Havana Monday morning. He stopped off for a few days before continuing on his journey to Canada. At the conclusion; of the Oriental Park meeting the Smallman horses will be shipped to St. Johns Park. J. Simon Healey will remain in Florida until the conclusion of the racing season in the Palmetto state. The horses that he is training for J. C. Curtis and Richard Whitney will be shipped to St. Johns at the conclusion of the Trooical Park meeting. W. C. Weants Oakland Farm is a bay filly by Dodge Girl in Red. Bon Bain received word of the death of his mother in Braidwood, 111., and immediately left to attend the funeral. The late Mrs. Bain, was 87 years of age. One of her sons, Frank Bain, has been in Cuba all winter managing the ring at Oriental Park. Islam came out of his last race at Hialeah Park with a bowed tendon, which means that he will be on the shelf for a time. John Brown left with a division of the B. E. Chapman stable for Bowie. W. C. Westmoreland was an arrival from Cuba, where he has been racing his stable. Jockey D. Smith packed his tack and left for George "D. Wideners Erdenheim Farm, near Philadelphia. Smith is under contract to the Widener stable. P. Remillard left for Cuba to ride Fortu- 4 nate Youth in a race at Oriental Park Sunday. At the conclusion of the Tropical Park meeting, Jack Howard will ship the six horses he has t Hialeah Park back to Lexington. Howard has ten horses in training at the Lexington track, in charge of Al Hammell. His plans, are to race his own horses until such time as he makes a connection with some big establishment when the entire lot will be disposed of. C. Cor-bett will be the stable jockey. Howard, who won fifty-six races last year, is rated as one of the cleverest trainers in the West.
