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T PIMLICO TURF NOTES | g e Arthur Bronsdon, a 17-year-old lad from Milton, Mass.. accepted the first mount of his career when he was astride G. L. Strykers Sakuntala in the third race Thursday. The boy is under contract to George P. Sherman and rides at eighty-eight pounds. M. Nelson Bond, Jr., prominent in Maryland racing circles, will join the ranks of the "benedicts on May 14. His bride will be Miss Margaret Scott of Baltimore. J. H. Stotler shipped thirty horses, the property of A. G. Vanderbilt, to New York for a campaign on the metropolitan circuit. Vanderbilt has five horses in New York at present. A division of the stable will later be transferred to Rockingham Park. Milton L. Veasey of Pocomoke City is a visitor at Pimlico. Veasey is interested in the proposed ten-day meeting planned on the eastern shore. James Thornton, operator of Agawam Park, arrived for a conference with racing secretary Edward J. Brennan. M. C. Shea, assistant to Brennan, will take over the duties of racing secretary at Agawam pending the arrival of Brennan, who will officiate at the ten-day meeting at Hagers-town, Md. William Shewbridge has been appointed to the position of paddock judge at Suffolk Downs. Shewbridge returned to Pimlico, Thursday, from the hunts meeting at Radnor, Pa. He will go back to that point for the racing there on Saturday. A division of the horses that P. M. Walker has here in various interests will be shipped to New York on Sunday. Jockey R. Merritt will accompany the shipment. William McNair shipped five horses from Bowie to Hagerstown for a campaign at that point. Robert E. Potts, trainer of the Bomar Stable, has made plans to ship the main division or that stable to Detroit at the close of the Maryland Jockey Club meeting. Grand Slam will head the shipment, which will number close to twenty performers, and jockey J. Bryson will serve as first string rider. George Foley, who has a useful stable at Pimlico. has arranged to transfer his string to Woodbine Park at the close of the Maryland racing season. The Foley performers will be routed to Woodbine Park. J. T. Kermath will handle the second division of the Bomar Stable, according to present plans of Markey and Bohn, joint owners of that establishment. Kermath will take eight or ten members of the Detroit-owned stable to Chicago to be campaigned at Hawthorne and Arlington Park. Richard Pending is considering sending a division of his stable to Hagerstown for the coming meeting of ten days to be staged at the Hub City plant. Edward J. Brennan has received the proof of the condition book for the meeting at Agawam Park and expects to have the printed pamphlet ready for distribution among the horsemen by Saturday. Albert Jump of Baltimore has been named treasurer and assistant general manager of the Southern Maryland Agricultural and Breeders Association, which operates the Bowietrack. Earl Porter has been signed by John Hay Whitney to ride for the second division of his stable, which is trained by William J. Norton. He will report to Norton at Rockingham Park on May 15, coming from Churchill Downs, where he has been riding with considerable success.
