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PIMLICO TURF NOTES ] i * Resurrection, a scheduled starter in the eighth was excused from the race because he contracted shipping fever en route from Havre de Grace. Jockey Joe Wagner, contract rider for the I Greentree Stable, arrived from New York. Bert Alexandra, former trainer of the Er- indale Stable and a brother of George Alex-i andra, was an arrival from Canada. Alexandra has been commissioned by two prominent sportsmen of Toronto to purchase several horses as a nucleus of a stable to be ; campaigned on the Canadian circuit. The Maryland Jockey Club will be host to visiting newspapermen on the eve of May 1 15, and seats will be set aside for members of the fourth estate at the Preakness Ball, according to announcement made by Math- j ias L. Daiger, secretary. W. J. Norton, trainer of the J. H. Whit-, ney string, has recovered from a slight at-1 tack of influenza and is again in charge of Um Whitney horses. Jennings Smallwood is making riding engagements for jockeys C. Hanford and S. Renick during the present meeting at Pimlico.
