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1 TANFORAN TURF NOTES T : 4 Track superintended Fred Volkner reports the erection of the new barn, which will house 110 horses had to be deferred for a week on account of the delay in obtaining the necessary lumber. However, work will be resumed this week and the new structure should be completed soon. Volkner received many compliments from the horsemen for the condition of the racing strip, which never was in better condition since the erection of the historic plant. Apprentice Leonard Scott, under contract to Charles S. Howard, arrived here Saturday morning from Maryland. Scott, a native of Sabinal, Texas, is a lightweight, tipping the scales at eighty-four pounds, and is 16 years old. The youngster gives good promise of developing into a capable rider and trainer M. Buster" Millerick intends to give him plenty of work, which means the lad will don colors soon. Included in the registrations filed Saturday morning with racing secretary John Maluvius was that of R. McClellan, who owns and trains Alice Byrd. J. Starkie was p.nother who checked in with the three-year-old filly, In Spades. The latter is a daughter of Transmute Puryear. Mr. and Mrs. F. Scheihing, parents of jockeys F. Scheihing and F. Scheih, brothers, but the latter adopted the abbreviation dropping the suffix, have returned to their home in Shoshone, Idaho. The elder Scheih-ings visited this region for two months. Jockeys N. Merritt, D. Neal, H. Duncan and N. L. Pierson have departed for Agua Caliente, where they will ride free lanee at the forthcoming meeting below the border. The board of stewards at Tanforan have added the two platers, Early Hour and Swift Gal, to the stewards list. Both horses showed very dull efforts in their last races and will have to be passed on by the track veterinarian before they will be permitted to start. Elmer OConnell has shipped the plater Blindfold to Agua Caliente, where he will join the stable OConnell already has at the Mexican track. Jockey Bernard Fels arrived here last week from Chicago and will do the riding for the Schwartz stable, which recently arrived from the midwestern city. Trainer R. Hoffman, in charge of the J. F. Gunn horses, has transferred his four charges to Tanforan after the return of Gunn, who had been visiting in Los Angeles. The quartet is comprised of Lauras Pride, Canyonconard, Orphan Conard and Smoky Jack. Infinite Lady, recently acquired by the Ventura Stable, will be under colors soon, according to advice obtained from trainer Fitz Gerald. The filly has been inactive since the recent Hollywood meeting.
