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1 DETROIT TURF NOTES - : - . Jockey E. T. Moore arrived from Chicago and expects to swing into action at once. Jockey B. Thornton arrived from California and reported to Charles Irby, trainer of the Tranquility Farm stable. H. Woolf received the two-year-old Log Inn from Lexington. She is a daughter of Axenstein and Changing Moods, and a half-sister to the consistent winner Shady Gate. S. J. Brown sold the plater Matar to Carlton Palmer and he will be schooled through the field. He was sent to C. Douglas at Belmont Park. No one was more deeply grieved to learn of the death of Thomas Kirby Lynch than Dennie Jacobs, paddock judge here. "I have known Tom Lynch for forty years" said judge Jacobs, "he was a fine man, a splendid turf correspondent and his death was a great loss to me." Clarence E. Lehr,. president of the Detroit Racing Association, is in receipt of a letter from Preston Burch asking for a copy of the next book with a view possibly to shipping something to run in addition to what he may send for the Derby. Mr. Burch is training Commonwealth for Mrs. W. M. Jeffords and Firethorn for Mr. Jeffords and the letter would indicate that he has Detroits big race in view for one or both of them. Jockey L. Bernius arrived from California and had his first mount hero on Divide in the first race Saturday. The Lone Star Stables General Pulaski has been returned to training after recovering from a slight injury that kept him on the shelf the greater part of the winter.
