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LAUREL PARK TURF NOTES It is reported that Edward Riley will sign E. Decamillas to fill the vacancy caused when jockey Eugene James decided to retire due to increasing weight. Augie Hutchins, who handles the horses of J. W. Y. Martin of the Worthington Valley, will keep them in training until after the Bowie meeting next month. The Martin string will be stabled at Pimlico and vanned to the Prince Georges County track on the daTs they are slated to race. Nick Huff is making the riding engagements for W. Studley, the 104 pound apprentice, who is under contract to Joseph E. Widener. Studley has shown two nice winning races recently astride Hastipast. Edward Brennan distributed the books for the Pimlico meeting. The book contained conditions for the first six days of the meeting and the minimum purse is ,000. Willie Wilson is due at the Hill Top course with five of the horses he raced in Canada for Ryland New. Jockey W. W. Todd was discharged from the hospital. Todd is none the worse for his mishap the other day when he fell while riding Westys Folly. Richard Carman, Jr., has ten of the Nevada Stock Farms yearlings at. the Marlborough track. Jockey Floyd Baker was an arrival from New York and will finish out the Maryland season before leaving for California. Trainer Bill Brennan took the Greentree Stables Twenty Grand over to the. Laurel Park Studs course near here Sunday and worked him a mile and one-eighth in 1:56. This was done to see if his bad leg would stand training. Ex-jockey Paul Madeira states that he will winter a public stable at Pimlico and anyone desiring for him to care for their horses should address him at this track: J. Edwin Griffith, best known to racegoers as the owner of Canter and Singlefoot a few seasons back, will winter horses on his farm in Mount Washington.
