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1 FAIR GROUNDS TURF NOTES g $ Pokeaway, Dear Me, Legion, Determined, Patrol Scout and French Bread make up the string Al Lamoureaux has here for Mrs. C. C. Winters of Detroit. Jockey Jose Marrero is attached to the stable. E. N. Bisso, local patron, will begin the New Orleans season with three horses, Whip-owill, Reiim and a yearling named Long Distance. The latter is a chestnut son of Blob and Mariolet. Freeze, Off Duty, Blazing Sun and Little Dream are the four horses E. E. Major has registered here. Bruce Mclntire has three two-year-olds to race for Phil T. Chinn. They are Grand Villa, Col. Hatchett, and Snowflower. Mrs. M. E. Martins Little Drift and Ona-boy, and Mrs. Claude Feltners Unfurl, are the three horses C. J. Martin is training at the present time. W. L. Dowling, will begin the Fair Grounds season with Strolling Home, Gold Color and Carlade, owned by himself, and Rustic Joe, which he is training for Mrs. N. D. Thompson. Steward John T. Ireland, arrived Monday morning from Florida where he spent a vacation of several weeks and joined Thomas C. Bradley in perusing applications for jockey and trainer licenses. Buddy Haas, contract rider for the Joe W. Brown stable, who has been on a deer hunting expedition with jockey Eddie Arcaro in Texas, is due to report to his contract employer Tuesday. Apprentice Willie Page, one of the sensations of the past few months, arrived from Shreveport accompanied by J. H. Yerian, who will book the youngsters engagements during the Louisiana Jockey Club meeting. I Joe Barr, who managed the ticket room at the State Fair Grounds in Shreveport, motored from the north Louisiana metropolis and put in his appearance at the track. Jockey R. L. Vedder, who was among the leading reinsman at the Fair Grounds last winter and who is well up on the jockey list for the year, arrived and seeks to make a connection with one of the larger stables at the local course. The prominent local turfman, Anthony Pelleteri is expected from Baltimore Wednesday, according to advices received by Burley Parke, who is looking after the stock owned by Mrs. Pelleteri and the Mills-dale stable. After a vacation of several weeks in Dallas, Texas, following the close of Detroit, jockeys Charles Hanauer and Melvin Calvert arrived in New Orleans to ready themselves for the opening of the Louisiana Jockey Club season on Thanksgiving Day.
