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1 HAVRE DE GRACE NOTES t s For a consideration that was not made public, A. E. Munyre acquired the five-year-old gelding Mariato from J. Emerson and the gelding performed in the sixth race Monday for his new owner. The deal was transacted early Monday and trainer Phil Reuter has been retained. Officials of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association were informed that Duval Headley is shipping Bourbon King here from Keeneland Park to fulfill his engagement in the Chesapeake Stakes, to be run here next Saturday. Jockey Raymond Workman, contract rider for A. G. Vander-bilt, has accepted the offer to ride the colt which will reach here Wednesday. Condition books for the Suffolk Downs meeting in New England and the Lincoln Felds meeting in Illinois, can be obtained from racing secretary Charles J. McLennan at Havre de Grace. The schooling list was augmented by the additions of Higher Cloud, Minstrel Star and Virginia Boy after their unruly actions recently. Jockey Harry Richards has been engaged to handle Chaps in the Chesapeake Stakes, 5,000 added number for three-year-olds, to be decided Saturday at this course. Eleven horses owned by Townsend B. Martin, headed by the good three-year-olds, Cravat and Galapas, arrived at Pimlico in charge of trainer Walter C. Burrows. Edward J. Brennan returned from Jamaica, where he spent Saturday circulating among the horsemen in New York regarding the supplementary closing of the Preakness Stakes. B. F. Whitaker, who races a fashionable stable headed by Mythical King and Crepe, has purchased the contract on jockey Kenneth McCombs from J. Y. Christmas. The deal was completed late Saturday at Havre de Grace, and the lad joined his new employer after the signing of papers. The amount given to terminate the transaction was not made public.
