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NEW YORK TURF NOTES : a J. Simon Healy decided to winter his recent purchases secured during the Empire meeting at Jamaica this year. Gilded Knight, the Wheatley Stable candidate in the Narragansett Stake fixture was returned to Aqueduct and will be turned out for the winter. Jockey J. Stout will rest up following the close of the Pimlico meeting, then go to Miami for the season there. The Val Crane horses will be shipped from Aqueduct to Louisville on Thursday to go into winter quarters. Mrs. Graham Lewis was a Belmont Park visitor. She has Grand Union at Narragansett awaiting a, stake engagement. Winter plans for the stable are under consideration. Clyde Phillips will winter his own horses and several for the Maemere Farm at Belmont Park. A meeting of the board of directors of the Saratoga Association was held yesterday with George H. Bull presiding. Stake events, overnight purses and other matters were discussed. John Morris, who, with George Bull, under the nom de course of the Saratoga Stable, own the two-year-old Volitant, left for Pimlico, to root for his starter in the Walden. A carload of horses owned by W. B. Streett, Mrs. John Bosley, Mrs. McKay, J. R. Skinner and Dion Kerr, arrived from Pimlico for the Hunt meeting. The horses are stabled in the receiving barn and will return to Maryland on Wednesday. Andy Schuttinger, following the running of the hunt meeting, will ship to Stromboli Farm, Jobstown, N. J., for the cold months. Schuttinger has a two-year lease on the New Jersey property. A change in the Sage Stable plans may find Henry McDaniel wintering the horses at Belmont Park instead of at Aiken, as first planned. Selby Burch may winter the Mrs. Thomas Somerville horses at Belmont Park this season. He is seeking suitable quarters for the cold months. Following the hunt meeting starter George Cassidy planned to loaf for a week or two before leaving for Miami to await the open-: ing at Hialeah Park. His assistants will be on the ground at least two weeks in advance ; of the opening to school two-year-olds and 1 older horses.
