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LAUREL PARK TURF NOTES S $ Plucky Play, conqueror of Equipoise this year and Sun Beau a year ago at the Hawthorne track in Chicago, is being brought to tb i Washington Handicap nicely. This mile and a quarter test is not to be run until October 29 and Thursday morning the son of My Play and Plucky was sent along for a nice mile in 1:42. His stablemate, Gallant Sir, is also progressing nicely in his training when his mile was run in 1:41. This one is an eligible for the Laurel Stakes, to be run Saturday and is also in the Maryland Handicap. A. Sands has taken over the book of jockey L. Laurin, who rode two winners in four mounts here. Laurin hails from Montreal. He can do 107 pounds and has six more winning mounts to go before losing his apprenticeship allowance. Charlie Kurtsinger, contract rider for the Greentree Stable, states that he will continue on through the Bowie meeting and then head for the winters sport at Miami, Fla. "Sonny" Workman, ace of this countrys riders, is seeking his one hundredth victory of the year and will ride out the Pimlico and Bowie meeting in order to accomplish the feat. While no papers were signed as yet, it is known that Mrs. Katherine Elkins Hitt is dickering for the services of jockey Don Meade. The latter is anxious to ride for trainer Tom Roderick and will sign, if the terms are satisfactory. Track superintendent Woods Dickerson has brought the track to tip top condition, but with dark clouds hovering over the course, it is likely to be spoiled any hour. It would be a bad break for Dickerson if rain spoiled the track before the completion of Saturdays big program. Mrs. M. R. Reisers Muslet and Peacock Blue have been shipped to Latonia, Kentucky. Mrs. James M. Austin, of Old Westbury, N. Y., who races under the nom de course of the Catawba Farm, was a club house visitor. According to trainer Matt Brady, she has purchased Jim Gaffneys old stable at Belmont Park, N. Y., and will winter her thoroughbreds there. Jack High, an eligible for the ,000 Laurel Handicap, at a mile, for all ages races on Saturday, went a handy mile in 1:44 Thursday morning. Horsemen were sorry to learn of the accident to Freddie Hopkins in Washington Thursday morning. The C. V. Whitney trainer numbers his friends among the thousands and everyone is pulling for his speedy recovery. The pari-mutuel handle Wednesday went slightly above 90,000, which should about end the wails that the sport of Kings is on its last legs. Karl Horvath packed his tack and departed for Latonia, where he is slated to pilot the Le Mar Stock Farms Misguide in the Breders Futurity Saturday. Major General is the latest adidtion to the schooling list. Trainer Bill Irvine states that he will take a division of the S. W. Labrot stable to the winters racing in Cuba. Pete Clausen has already applied to The Jockey Club of New York for the name of Port OSteel, which he intends to use for the get of his mare, Port Harlem, which is now in foal to S. W. Labrpts Sir Greysteel. Dr. J. Fred Adams of Catonsville states that he will campaign a division of his stable at Miami, Fla. S. W. Labrot, prominent breeder of Annapolis, has three fine looking yearling sisters to Springsteel, Tred Avon and Open Hearth at his Holly Beach Stud, which are being made ready for 1933 racing. Vernon Wisner, a Baltimore boy, led the list of winning riders last week at the York, Pa. He won nine races, being aboard Mordrom, Blaze By, Most Always, Diddy Riddy, Mina F., Tenant and three times scoring with Single A. He is under contract to Len Carver and will be seen in silks the remainder of this meeting.
