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1 LAUREL PARK TURF NOTES I $ and Tony Bessesi, well known figure in eastern and western racing circles, came down for a few days of the sport from New York. G. L. Hamilton is considering shipping a division of his stable to New England for the meeting, at Narragansett Park. Tom Malone, T. Bonham, E. Lubbering, N. E. Stanton, B. A. Langmuir, A. S. Bowman, E. Eslick, L. E. Ogle, A. Hughes and A. G. Halliwell make up the population of horsemen quartered at Bowie. Richard Pending, track superintendent, expects the colony to increase as the Laurel meeting approaches the finish. Robert E. Potts, trainer of the Bomar Stable, stated that a draft of at least a dozen horses owned by the Detroit patrons Bohn and Markey will be campaigned in Florida. Potts will start the campaign of his charges at Tropical Park, where the season will be inaugurated on December 14. Zebarat, four-year-old in the Mrs. R..H. Heighe stable, which was recently gelded, will return to racing in the first race on Thursday. Mose Lowenstein, who has many useful horses in training at Laurel, was advised that his close friend, Harry "Barney" Sexton, died Thursday night in Providence, R. I. The body is being shipped to Buffalo, N. Y., for burial. Max Hirsch was an arrival from New York with Dawn Play, a candidate for the Selima Stakes, to be run here Saturday. The King Ranch filly was accompanied en route by Whichprint, another filly which is eligible for the same fixture. Cary T. Graysons improving two-year-old Ocean Roll will make his next appearance in silks in the Narragansett Futurity, to be run at the New England course in little more than a week. The son of Strolling Player and Rough Sea was shipped to New England in the same shipment that transported Pompoon to the scene of the stake. W. J. Hirsch will supervise his training. George C. Cook, for a cash consideration,! purchased the filly Tiana from A. G. Van-derbilt. No jumping races will be scheduled on the two remaining Saturdays of the Maryland State Fair meeting at Laurel, according to racing secretary John Purcell Turner, Sr. The cardwill be made up of the usual seven races. A special car with free transportation will be dispatched from Mount Washington chute, embracing horses that will be scheduled to race on the election day card of the United Hunts at Belmont Park. The horses will be recruited from stables racing at Maryland tracks. Guy G. Bunting, vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad, who made a special trip from Chicago to attend the wedding of Miss Cleo Irma Codd on Tuesday evening, was a visitor at Laurel, Wednesday. Jockey Harry Richards, who rode Pompoon in the Belmont Futurity for Jerome H. Louchheim, has been engaged to ride the colt in the Narragansett Futurity.
