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TH0RNCLIFFE PARK NOTES $ i J. C. Fletcher, owner of Downsview Farm, has taken a three-year contract on the promising apprentice Edward Primrose, seventeen-year-old boy of Toronto. The youngster weighs 100 pounds and has been galloping horses for a couple of years and shows signs of becoming a first rate pilot. J. Labreche was an arrival from Montreal with four horses that were in winter quarters. The shipment was headed by Standout. Mrs. J. Bosley is sending four of her jumpers to Monkton, Md., to be rested up until later in the season. J. P. Macey arrived from Montreal with Learoyd, Secret Lover, Immune, Red Vamp, Squeeze- Play, Butterfly and Carissa. C. E. Fury checked in with the plater Crow-land Lad, which spent the winter near Wel-land, Ont. Horsemen intending to race during the Long Branch Jockey Club meeting, beginning June 10, have been requested to file their applications early. Blanks are obtainable at the racing secretarys office at Thorn-cliffe Parki In the absence of trainer F. Fox, who was taken ill, the racer Roche DOr, a starter in the first race, was saddled by E. Gleason.
