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JAMAICA TURF NOTES s Trainer Bill Brennan brought over Memory Book and Brush Hook, owned by the Greentree Stable, for a .six furlongs trial before the first race. The two colts went along together and turned in a fast test after being waved down by Brennan. The fractional time was :11, :24, :34, :4G, :59 and 1:12. Memory Book was raced in an overnight race at Jamaica before shipping to Pimlico for the Preakness. Trainer George Odom will ship Mower, owned by Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewart, to Nar-ragansett for the opening day sprint at that point. Marshall Lilly took a dozen of the Green-tree Stable to Narragansett for that meeting. First Minstrel headed the list. Jockey I. Hanford resumed riding after an X-ray examination revealed that no bones were broken and that the injury received was a superficial one. He will ride Bold Venture in the Derby. W. S. Kilmers Ned Reigh, according to advices from Louisville, is on the ailing list with fever and has been declared from the Derby. R. Workman will arrive here to ride Saturday. He was slated to ride Ned Reigh in the Derby. Jockey J. Gilbert will ride Mantagna in the Dixie, according to present plans. His mount on Dnieper in the Derby was canceled when trainer Stewart decided against starting his charge. Dick Merrill, well known aviator, will take a party of fourteen from here to Louisville Saturday morning to witness the Derby. In the party will be Premier Hepburn, of Ontario, and E. Bickell, his traveling companion. Track superintendent Boyle at Belmont Park stated that schooling over the steeplechase course would be permitted on May 7 and 9 and each Tuesday and Friday thereafter between 7 and 9 a. m. Schooling over the Widener course will be allowed each Tuesday and Friday between 10:15 and 10:45 after May 5. When schooling is over the Widener track the training track will be closed at 10 a. m.
