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T. . Tr urfographs OCCASIONAL From Here and Abroad English exchanges say that Davy Jones was not only the unluckiest horse in the Grand National, but the handsomest He was the only entire horse in the race, a son of Pharos, and after practically leading all the way, jumping faultlessy, made a slight bobble at the second to last jump when the buckle of his reins broke and his rider was unable to keep in the course. He ran out at the last jump and thereby lost what should have been an easily achieved victory. Sir Colin MacKenzie, director of the Australian Institute of Anatomy, and Lady MacKenzie, are en route to the United States to join Dr. Herbert Evans of the University of California, to scientifically investigate the death of Phar Lap, the wonder horse of the Antipodes, which died suddenly April 5, 1932, on a ranch near Palo Alto, Calif. Experts disagreed whether poison found in his stomach actually caused his death. The totalizator receipts on the Grand National totaled 35,075, a record for the race where the "hand-selling" of tickets is in use. The total for Grand National day was 08,655. James Thornton, who resigned as the one-man racing commission of Rhode Island to reorganize the Agawam Park track near Springfield, Mass., is credited with saying that the paying of the debt to horsemen would be given first consideration. It is said that 0,000 in purses is due horsemen. The American amateur rider Louis E. Stoddard, Jr., riding his own jumper, Free Wheeler, won the Spring Open Steeplechase at Sandown, England, March 31, beating Oranstown by six lengths. Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks Artful Dodger was third. Free Wheeler was bred in America by T. W. Durant, and won here at three and four. He is by Wrack Bevy, by Fair Play, and is half-brother to the American winners Mad-rilene and Little Woman. W. R. "Togo" Johnstone, the former Australian rider, had a good day at the Paris Maisons Laffitte course on March 27, riding three winners. The scarcity of competent racing officials is the source of worry for a number of race track managers. Even Hawthorne has trouble securing a racing secretary with enough experience to handle the job on a major track. Baltimore, not to be outdone by Louisville, has announced, a "Preakness Week" with a Preakness ball and a flower show as headline attractions for visitors. Trainer Pete Coyne says that Brevity, Kentucky Derby favorite, is sixteen hands high, weighs about 1,050 pounds and is a good eater. King Edwards royal stud will be transferred from Sandringham to Hampton Court, which will revive full activity in the royal paddocks for the first time since 1894 when Queen Victoria bred horses there. Mrs. Ambrose Clarks Kellsboro Jack, win- ner of the Grand National of 1933, won the Champion Steeplechase at Aintree, March 28, and his stablemate, Flying Minutes, finished second. Pari-Mutuel, brother to Chance Shot and Chance Play, has been retired from racing and sent to the farm of C. Leroy King, near Memphis, Tenn. According to a writer in Horse and Hound, the Le Tremblay meeting is the best managed in France and is the most picturesque course with its finely flowered gardens behind the stands. Twenty-five of the eighty-three horses eligible for the Brown Ribbon of Germany, the richest race to be run in that country this year, are the property of foreign owners. Lady Rallis Finalist, a son of Winalot, won the Newbury Spring Cup at Newbury, England, April 2. Ralph Beaver Strassburg-ers Boethius did not start, and the only other American-owned entry, Corlette Glor-neys Canteneer, was unplaced in the field of twenty-three. For the Beckhampton Plate at Newbury, England, on April 1, forty-four two-year-olds started, and Lovely Woman, a filly by Stingo Fleur dEcosse, was the winner. Aga Khans gray colt, Mahmoud, which is almost white, and which is expected to be a strong candidate for classic honors, made his debut as a three-year-old in the Green-ham Plate at Newbury April 1, and failed to finish in the money. The track was considered too soft for the colt to show at his best. It is common for many to start and few to finish in steeplechases, but stewards at Melton Mowbray, England, were a little startled to find one more horse at the finish of the Leicestershire Hunt Steeplechase than had started in the event It did not lessen their surprise to find that one rider was a woman. It developed that Mrs. Leopold Partridge, wife of a well known race horse owner, had been watching the race from the back of her bay jumper. When the horses were on the last lap, with her husbands Pharoah Queen leading, Mrs. Partridge rode out on the course and joined in, finishing in third place. Lord Lonsdale, presiding steward, called the intrusion "monstrous," and imposed a 0 fine. Pharoah Queen won.
