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1 CHARLES TOWN TURF NOTES I $ s The Shenandoah Valley Jockey Club has arranged a nine-race program for Independence Day, headed by the Fourth of July Handicap. The first race is scheduled for 2:30 p. m., and there will only be twenty-five minutes between the various contests, insuring an early running of the last race. Special arrangements have been made with the railroad and bus companies to facilitate the handling of the large crowds expected from Washington, Baltimore and surrounding cities. At the conclusion of the present meeting here Dick Jackson will ship four horses to Narragansett, R. I., to await racing at that point. W. E. Merrick shipped Prince T. from Timonium, where the gelding has been training and immediately entered him for Wednesday racing. The five horses that were sent to Culpepper from this point to take in the horse show and steeplechases will return here Thursday. Frank C. Frisbie will remain at Charles Town after the conclusion of the meeting, resting up his stable. Later he will ship to Narragansett, R. I. M. W. Smith has taken out a trainers license and will handle War General and Clear Knight for H. Foote. H. Thompson, who has been handling the pair, will depart for Timonium to prepare the stables horses at that point for the forthcoming meeting at Cumberland. The two "about" a mile and a quarter races arranged for Independence Day are the first to be contested over that route at the meeting. These races are approximately 350 feet short of the regular distance. L. M. Carver reports that Happy Lope, which has been turned out, struck a fence and it was necessary to inject a serum to prevent lockjaw.
