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1 TROPICAL PARK TURF NOTES $ W. L. Brann, owner of the triple Futurity winner Challedon, is visiting at Boynton, Fla., and has taken a box at Tropical Park for the season. The son of Challenger II., which won the Maryland, New England and Pimlico Futurities, is turned out at Branns farm in Maryland. Tom Thorp, Tropical Park racing steward and referee of the annual Orange Bowl football games here in past years, arrived from New York. He officiated at the New York Giants-Green Bay Packers pro final in New York Sunday, December 12. Jockeys Paul Ryan, T. P. Martin and C. Swain are additions to the Tropical Park riding colony. Harry Stevens n., scion of the well known sports catering family, achieved the golfers No. 1 ambition when he sank a hole-in-one on the 190-yards third hole at the Coral Gables Country Club course here Sunday. He was going around with "Pinky" Blackburn, the eastern trainer. Alfred Robertson, contract rider for the Milky Way Farm of Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, will ride in Miami for the first time in three seasons. The Milky Way horses, which formerly raced each winter in California, are being laid up at the Mars farm at Pulaski, Tenn., this winter. In an effort to speed up the races, Robert S. Shelley will have the horses on parade earlier at Tropical Park this year, striving for a twenty-minute interval instead of a half hour between races. Jockey George Seabo, who rode Challedon last summer and fall, will be seen in silks at the Tropical Park meeting, opening here on December 19. Joe Copps, member of the Arlington Park press staff, was a visitor at Tropical Park today. He reports that John Hertz, Warren Wright and Charles A. McCulloch are expected to arrive within a few days. Ernie Hart, trainer for the Snow White Stable of New York, has resigned his post and has turned over the horses to J. G. Wagnon, Hart said at Tropical Park Wednesday. He will leave Thursday on a fishing trip to Key Largo. He will sell the two horses racing in his own name. John Patton, Chicago official who is the new treasurer at Tropical Park, and Abraham Allenberg, New York attorney who serves as comptroller of the Gables meetitig, report that the plant is ready for the opening on December 19. Two thousand cubic yards of top-dressing have been applied to the racing strip. George Alexandra has twenty-six horses racing for the Medway Stable, and his brother, Bert, is training sixteen horses for the Cosgrave Stable at Tropical Park. Bert Alexandra is second leading trainer of America, next to the pace-setting Hirsch Jacobs.
