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! ROCKINGHAM TURF MOTES 4 . Willis Sharpe Kilmer is shipping to Rockingham Park and will race throughout the meeting. W. A. Crawford trains the Virginia sportsmans string. W. W. Adams, son of Suffolks C. F. Adams, and himself a director in the Massachusetts track, will race his string of horses at Rockingham Park. Jake Freedman, shipping to Rockingham Sunday, has entered his good grey colt, Singers Folly, in every handicap at Rockingham Park. The feature race at Rockingham on opening day will be the ,500 added Lawrence Handicap, which will likely have a capacity field of three-year-olds, according to the entry list of racing secretary H. D. "Jim" Monroe. J. Y. Christmas has been granted his st.1 space at Rockingham and the Marlboro, Md., sportsman has a useful string, led by the good gelding, three-year-old Rough Time, which is really a high class horse. Mrs. C. E. Allen, wife of jockey C. E. Allen, has a useful string which she will race here. Her trainer. O. L. Foster, has her horses in top form and her colors should reach the winning circle quite often. Miss L. C. Whites horses, which have had ; a good streak at the Suffolk Downs meeting, are shipping to Rockingham next Sunday. These horses have always had lots of luck hereabouts. Jockey W. Duffy rides for this outfit. The prominent stable of J. H. Whitney, which also includes the Manhasset Stable, trained by "Big Bill" Norton, is shipping to Rockingham and with its band of horses, which includes Peggy Porter, Last Lay, etc., should be very outstanding throughout the meeting. F. L. Flanders, who has been so successful during the Suffolk Downs race meeting, is shipping to Rockingham. The young trainer, Ralph Mcllvain, will have his star contract rider, Carrol Bierman, who re- centiy blossomed out as a full-fledged rider. W. F. Morgan, whose horses are. trained by H. Radtke, is shipping his useful stable to Rockingham. The Fighter is his outstanding performer. R. W. Collins has requested eighteen stalls for his large stable. This year he is training his own horses and has quite a few useful two-year-olds which should be heard from in the two-year-old stakes at Rockingham. W. C. Stroube is shipping to Rockingham next Sunday and in his string is the good two-year-old Huskie Boy, which is entered in all two-year-old stakes at Rockingham. Mrs. P. A. Shaw, who is a liberal buyer of torseflesh, is shipping her string to Rockingham. Richard Pollard trains this stable. 1 O r .. b:.iPV . . -i Giro I 3