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I AGAWAM TURF NOTES s and J. P. "Sammy" Smith, one of the best known trainers in the country, will commute between Aqueduct and Agawam Park during the next month. He has shipped in three more head for Victor Emanuel, in charge of Freddie Krieger, and also shipped in No Ending, a two-year-old owned by Mrs. Rigan McKinney, wife of the noted amateur rider. Charles R. Fleishmann will ship in six head from Suffolk Downs late this week in charge of Thomas Bonham. Scores of applications from the East Boston track have been refused because of lack of stall space. Miss Judy Johnson arrived from Aqueduct, and is now the only licensed woman trainer on the grounds. Eddie Yowell, one of the better riders a little while back, is booking mounts for Charlie Rosengarten. Rosengarten is in New York for a few days, to ride Aneroid, but he will return here on Thursday. Larry Daley of Montreal has purchased three horses from H. Guy Bedwell at Suffolk Downs, and is shipping them here. He is a son of Mike Daley, famous trainer and developer of jockeys. Suspensions incurred by riders here during the first part of the Agawam Park meeting were lifted by the stewards. Those returning to the saddle were F. A. Smith, F. C, Smith, and M. Mitchell. Jockey George Rose, who filled in the off day at Agawam Park on Monday by riding at Suffolk Downs, returned from the East Boston track to fulfill his engagements here. Edward J. Brennan, general manager at Agawam Park, spent Sunday and Monday visiting different tracks in Maryland. Brennan stopped at Belair, Timonium and Pim-lico, and reported that each of these tracks is making .improvements for coming meetings. At Timonium a. new sixty-stall barn has been erected, while new quarters for jockeys have been built in addition to a new office for the racing secretary. At Belair, steel has been erected for the grandstand and it will include a reserved section for club patrons. There will be 333 stalls to accommodate the horse colony and most of them have been recently built. At Pimlico, resurfacing of the racing strip is in progress and painters and carpenters are busy putting finishing touches to other parts of the hill top plant. Unable to get to Wheeling, W. Va., on his tour, Mr. Brennan was in consultation with Henry Horkheimer, who is sponsoring a meeting of fifteen days, and reports that much interest is being shown by the leading merchants and citizens in that section. The weight on Nancy Mae, a starter in the eighth race Tuesday, was 98 pounds, instead of 103 as sent out in the original entries.
