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I LAUREL PARK TURF NOTES $ Upon his arrival in Miami Thursday, James M. Bright, secretary of the Miami Jockey Club, announced that the admission fee to Joseph E. Wideners beautiful course would be reduced from .50 to daily. Trainer Willie Booth announces that he will ship John R. Macomb er"s Redbridge to the United, Hunts Racing Association meeting November 8 at Belmont Park, N. Y. After completing their daily chores Friday, scores of horsemen motored to Washington, where they attended the anniversary mass said at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church for the late James Rowe. Woodrow Wilson Todd, whose book is being handled by "Goldie" Mitchell; is riding in excellent form since arriving from the West. The apprentices performance astride Butter Beans could not be improved upon. Trainer Charley Rainer of Baltimore reports that the mare Tarnish was cut down in Thursdays seventh race. She finished a fast second to Black Board. Don Yates of Baltimore sold Barren Hill at private terms to John Markle. W. C. Trover, who campaigned during the entire summer on the Ohio tracks, arrived from Cleveland. The first issue of the book for the fifty-two day winter meeting at Jefferson Park.i New Orleans, is being distributed among horsemen by Ray Bryson. This session opens November 24. William Irvine, who handles the S. W. Labrot stable, may ship a division of his stable to Oriental Park to race during the meeting of the Havana-American Jockey Club season that begins January 21. James Arthur and J. P. Mayberry are considering shipping to Cuba at the end of the Maryland racing season. Jockey R. Leischman has re-signed to ride during 1933 for George D. Widener, the Philadelphia sportsman, according to George Woods, agent for Leischman. Cruising and Band Wagon, a pair of juvenile maidens scratched from the races, were worked a mile after the running of .the third race. Cruising went in :48 and Band Wagon was sent along six furlongs in 1:16. George H. Bull, president of the Saratoga Association, and Charles H. Thie-rot were visitors of the day, from New York. The fans started trekking through the gates at 11 oclock Saturday and the roads were jammed with automobiles as the field of two-year-olds went postward in the days opener. The race specials from New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Chester, Baltimore and Washington were crowded. President Andrew J. Cummins of the Maryland State Fair, Inc., states that he has already received 212 nominations for the 1934 Selima Stakes. The list closes Monday. Willis Sharpe Kilmer, who maintains breeding establishments in Virginia and New York, has made thirty-seven nominations for the 1934 Selima. This is the largest list handed in by any one sportsman.
