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f EPSOM DOWNS TURF NOTES 4 General manager Frank Rietman of the Texas Breeders and Racing Association announced that beginning with Mondays racing and throughout the final week of sport at Epsom Downs, the post time for the first race has been moved up to 1:45 p. m. Donald Manifold, sixteen-year-old brother of jockey Hank Manifold, will join the E. B. Shipp stable in New Orleans within the next two weeks, the Missouri trainer announced. The youngster has been galloping horses for the past two years and weighs eighty-five pounds. He is a native of Kilgore, Nebraska. Jockey Leland. Lake, who Is making a strong bid for the riding honors and the gold watch prize at Epsom Downs, motored to Fort Worth Friday night for the week-end. He will return Monday to Houston to resume riding. Headed by the double winner, two-year-old filly Girls Chance, the Stengel-Cattarlnich- Seremba horses were vanned to Arlington Downs Friday afternoon. Others in the shipment included are: Goosefiesh, Nellie Mc, Rudolph Lad, Anne L., Legion Girl, Julius Lazard and Maissonneuve. Sammy Hicks, trainer of Trina, Dreei, My Blonde, Takus and others owned by D. J. Sullivan III., San Antonio banker and sportsman, is seeking stall reservations for the Arlington Downs meeting for his charges. Following the close of the Texas fall season. Hicks contemplates going after some of the stakes offered by the Louisiana Jockey Club at the Fair Grounds, then returning to San Antonio for the start of the. Alamo Downs meeting. Jockey W. J. Root received his first mount of the meeting and his Initial in almost two years when he rode Polaris in the third race on Saturday afternoons program. Waldo T. Freeman, Texas turfman and trainer of the W. McCafferty horses, who has been suffering from a leg injury for some time is greatly improved and Is able to get around without the use of a cane.
