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: . , ; 1 LAUREL PARK TURF NOTES ? Jockey" Townrow, who rode with good success in Canada during the past season, was an arrival from Canada and will be seen in the saddle shortly. Ernest Myatt unloaded his horses at Bowie Tuesday and was a spectator at Laurel Wednesday. J. Badame, with the good performer, Khorasan, and other racers, was another to arrive from Canada and was housed at Bowie. Among the prominent American stables that have made nominations for the Bowie Stakes are Audley Farm, F. A. Carreaud, Belair Stud, Wheatley Stable, H. C. Phipps and Sylvester W. Labrot. Horsemen around here were sorry to learn of the accident to Gilbert Elston, who had been riding in sensational form on western tracks. Elston went down in a jam during the running of the eighth race at Latonia. It may cost him whatever chance he has of ousting "Hank" Mills as Americas leading winning rider. Elston kicked two winners home on the day prior to his accident and was showing a total of 168 winners as against 199 for Mills. Everyone hereabouts is pulling for his speedy recovery. Joseph McLennan, racing secretary of the Miami Jockey Club, stated here Wednesday that the demand for stalls at the vinter meeting at Hialeah Park far exceeds the supply. He will leave Sunday for New York, where the stall allotment will be made. Johnny Loftus and Frank Ortell, turf scribes of New York, and Ty Shea and Lester Scott of Baltimore have been named judges of the costume ball to be held by George Chaneys Georgetown Democratic Club November 28 at the host organizations club rooms, Belair Road and Kentucky Avenue. A big delegation of owners, trainers and riders are planning to attend in cos-: tume. Many of the big American stables that annually went into winter quarters at the conclusion of the Bowie meeting, have decided to keep divisions of their horses in training and race them during the winter meeting at Joseph E. Wideners picturesque course at Miami. Trainer Elmer Trueman engaged the promising apprentice, Woodrow Wilson Todd, to ride Howard Bruces Acautaw in the Spalding Lowe Jenkins Handicap Saturday. Acautaw has shown great improvement since finishing second to Rush Hour in the Maryland Futurity, as he beat the Futurity winner in their meeting Monday. Bill Obert of Laurel," one of the oldest riders now performing on this side of the Atlantic, was an arrival from Canada. There are 182 riders on the grounds, according to Jesse Bennett, custodian of the jockeys room. Tom Healy, head trainer of the C. V. Whitney stable, arrived Wednesday morning from New York and carefully inspected his charges as they breezed. Jockeys Mack Garner and "Sonny" Workman made a hurried trip -to Baltimore Wednesday morning to visit Max Jacobs, whose wife was injured in an automobile accident. The Baltimore business man numbers his friends by the thousands in the racing world.
