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1 FAIR GROUNDS TURF NOTES $, Johnny Mooney, riding hero of Black Golds brilliant Derby campaign of 1924, will ride again but it wont count. Feeling the urge of holding the reins again, Mooney will have a mount in the test race, feature event of Inspection day at the Fair Grounds, Sunday, November 20, four days before the official opening. In 1924, Mooney successfully rode Black Gold in the Louisiana, Kentucky, American and Ohio Derbys. Four years absence from the saddle is not a long time to Ralph Whitaker, the former riding star, and he will attempt a comeback during the coming winter season at the Fair Grounds. Whitaker, who has been training horses off and on in recent years, is down to 110 pounds. Two sets of riding brothers and possibly a third will participate in the coming meeting at the Fair Grounds. Melvin and Danny Knight, the first named, a former national champion, and Don and Ova Scurlock are already present. Hubert Le Blanc is also coming here, while his younger brother Euclid is considering joining him. -The remains of two turf heroes of yesterday lie. in the picturesque infield of the Fair Grounds. One is Black Gold, winner of four Derbys in 1924, and the other Pan Zareta, former Texas sprint sensation. A record number of twenty-four New Orleans owners are returning home to participate in the Winter meeting at the Fair Grounds. Tony Pelleteri, Frank Letellier, "Butsey" Hernandez, Johnny Zoeller and John F. Clark, Jr., the last named owner of the double world track record holder Clang, head the home-town delegation. "Big Boy" Peterson, Pal Moran and Al Pettinghill, heroes of the squared ring years ago, are employed at the Fair Grounds during the racing season. Peterson is a watchman, while Moran and Pettinghill are clerks in the mutuel department. Leon Haas, first string rider for the Joe W. Brown stable reported to trainer Theall. Haas has been on a hunting trip in Texas, going there after scoring an easy victory on T. M. Dorsett in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, the final day of the Churchill Downs meeting. Before leaving River Downs, Charles Zoeller, acting for C. R. Jordan, who owned Raymond and Domiworth, sold the pair. Zoeller who has had much success as a trainer, is without horses.
