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CHARLES TOWN TURF NOTES T 4 Arthur Hullcoat, Maryland owner-breeder, will transfer his horses at the close of the meeting to Darlington, Md., where they will be put away for the winter at his farm. On February 1 the horses to be campaigned during the spring of 1939 will be shipped to Pim-lico to get their final preparation. Jockey W. E. Snyder packed his riding equipment and departed for Miami, Fla., to await the opening of the Gables Racing Association meeting at Tropical Park. Ralph McBain, custodian of the jockeys room at Charles Town, stated that he would depart Thursday for Tropical Park to prepare the jockeys room for the approaching meeting. The latest applicants for stabling room at Hollywood Park in Florida are H. E. Yorke, Mrs. M. C. Keefe, H. B. Marcus and J. Ryan. Trainer Irving Fletcher, who trains the horses owned by George P. Sherman, entered the Charles Town Hospital Saturday. Jockey Hilton Dabson, who is spending idle days at his home in Laurel, Md., was a visitor Saturday. He stated he would leave for Florida next Saturday and would ride at both tracks in the Miami area. Al J. Boyle, general manager and president of the Charles Town Jockey Club, will apply to the West Virginia Racing Commission shortly for permission to install a movie camera atop the starting gate used here to take pictures of each start and the manner in which horses leave the starting point. The idea will go into effect at the summer meeting here in 1939 if passed upon by the commission. The horses that A. J. Abel raced during the fall season in Maryland, headed by Honey Cloud, were shipped to California to race at Santa Anita Park. The car in which the horses were transferred was attached to the crack train The Chief, of the B. and O. The A. Pelleteri stable, numbering twenty-four head, were bound for the same destination.
