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t WASHINGTON PARK NOTES I s Benjam, tworyear-old in the Bomar Stable, which will fill his engagement in the Moslem Stakes at Detroit, worked three-quarters, breezing in 1:18 on a good track here Tuesday morning. Sky Larking, the Milky Way Farms , Bashford Manor Stakes winner, which injured himself slightly in a training mishap about two weeks ago, is taking his exercise regularly again. A heavy fog, which settled over Washington Park Tuesday morning, held up heavy training activities for several hours. The mist lifted about 7:15 and then followed one of the busiest training periods of the meeting. Don Scurlock, seventeen-year-old Lexington, Ky., boy, under contract to R. O. Hig-don, rode the first winner of his career when the Bedford Stock Farms Bobbrax won the first race at Washington Park Tuesday. Miss Nan OMalley of Chicago has adopted a new set of colors for her modest stable and these silks, a striking combination of dubonnet red and canary yellow, were seen for the first time when Xelovely, which she owns, carried them in the first race here Tuesday. Jockey Charles Parke, his arm in a sling, was a visitor at Washington Park Tuesday afternoon. He received a dislocated shoulder lh a fall here more than a week ago. Working between the second and third races over a fast track at Washington Park Tuesday, the Blue Ridge Farms Cardarrone went a mile and the Milky Way Farms" Murph travelled five furlongs. Cardarrone was timed in 1:46, the half mile in :52 and three-quarters in 1:20 and he was only breezing. Also breezing, Murph stepped a quarter in :25, half mile in :49 and the five-eighths in 1:01. Kirby Ramsey, Kentucky horseman, got in at Lincoln Fields from Latonia with seven horses owned by himself and W. J. Sprow. The string includes Live One, Indian Head, Saracen, Palamede, Panalong, Barbara S. and Glassy Eye. Frank Hackett, business manager for the. . stable of Mrs. J. D. Hertz, has been called to New York because of the illness of his ather-in-law. In a private transaction at Washington Park Leo Beyda sold the mare Donnahona to R. O. Higdon. Although the ankle he injured Monday morning still is giving him some trouble, Alfred Robertson filled his engagements Tuesday. Monday he was obliged to cancel two mounts after riding John One in the Opening race.
