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, l ~l , * £ J i | i r . , i I I , j t "t d g 1 I * g | j WOODBINE PARK NOTES « "Lex" Wilson, who rode Sea Soldier in the Grand National at Liverpool, England, brought the two jumpers Thistle John and Poison Ivy to Woodbine from St. Marys, Ont. The division of the Ryland H. New establishment, which was campaigned during the winter and spring season, were arrivals from Pimlico. Included in the lot were Frumper, Babble, Wrackell, Paldomar and Huraway. J. J. Burns arrived at Thorncliffe Park Sunday with Wacket and Horatia. Burns acquired the latter during the Pimlico meeting via the claiming route. W. L. Brodie was also an arrival at Thorncliffe with Flair, Hieaway, Louis Merryman, Old Sport, Zaila and a couple of others. Dick Pending and J. J. Farrell, Jr., are expected to arrive today with their respective stables. The big string of H. G. Bedwell arrived at Thorncliffe Sunday night headed by the good sprinters Vacillate and Fair Jack. There are thirteen others. Jockeys A. Hunt, P. McGinnis. L. Fage and J. OMalley have joined the rider colony at Woodbine. Judge Dave Gillies and J. J. Farrell, recently appointed clerk of the scales on Canadian Racing Associations tracks, were both at Woodbine Wednesday busy attend-. ing to the many details that go with the opening of a race meeting. Steeplechase jockey Doug Fuller has severed his connections with the W. J. Skene stable. Logwood, the Canadian-bred three-year-old which J. Boden has been looking after for J. Cattarinich, was vanned to Thorncliffe to join the string that Eddie Seremba has in quarters for the racing magnate. Four head of the R. J. Pending stable were moved down from Thorncliffe to Woodbine and have been assigned stalls back of the Thorncliffe stable. A. G. Weston, Maryland sportsman and breeder, who has raced in Canada for the past few years, will not have his silks dis- played in Canada this summer. Weston stated that he would leave his string in quarters at Pimlico until the fall season in Maryland. Mr. Weston, accompanied by his trainer, R. W. Mitchell, is motoring to Toronto and plans to stay for both Wood- bine and Thorncliffe meetings. Jockey Tommy Burns, son of the late Tom Burns, who was one of the greatest riders in America, was an arrival from Jamaica, at which meeting he rode. Burns can do 108 pounds. _4
