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| BELMONT PARK NOTES • — • Col. H. Green, racing commission steward at the Hunt meetings, was among the visitors during the afternoon. W. B. Miller, owner of the Greenwich Stud, was a visitor Thursday afternoon. T. J. Taylor stated that the fleet two-year-old Planetoid, would be shipped to Latonia to fulfill her engagement in the Clipsetta Stakes and then shipped to Belmont Park. J. V. Stewart arrived from Pimlico with the horses that he will race here for the remainder of the season. Jockey Carl Hanford left for Toronto to report to his contract employer, J. H. Grattan. He Did, owned by Mrs. Silas Mason, will be rested up and then pointed for the Shev-lin and Dwyer Stakes to be run during the Aqueduct meeting. A departure in the program order was inaugurated during the afternoon when horses which raced coupled in a race were grouped together by parenthesis marks. The post positions were indicated in front of each starter. Al Copeland, racing correspondent for the Daily News, returned from England, where he spent the past month as guide and mentor to the Golden Gloves boxing contingent. Jockey L. Pichon suffered a fractured hand when thrown from a two-year old filly Thursday morning and will be unable to ride for some time. Thomas Bragg, a director of the Los Angeles Turf Club, has arrived from California for a brief visit. For the accommodation of such patrons as wish to purchase grandstand or enclosure badges for the Belmont meeting and thereby avoid standing in line at the railroad stations or at tha gates at Belmont Park, the Westchester Racing Association is prepared to sell such badges to the general public at its New York City offices, between the hours of 9:30 a. m. and 12 noon each week day.
