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1 TROPICAL PARK TURF NOTES s Starter G. R. Wingfield is conducting schooling at the barrier in the six furlongs chute at Tropical Park each morning. When the schooling sessions were opened. Wing-field reported that twenty-three yearlings and twenty older horses were brought to the, barrier. Lieut. Steffen Ryder, on furlough from the Pinkertons, will be in charge of the gates, parking and guards at Tropical Park. Robert J. Hart, Tropical Park mutuel manager, announces roll call for mutuel employes at the Gables track at 11 oclock Monday morning. Henry Collins, Tropical Park track superintendent, and Fred Dew, racing office attache, have a flock of high caliber fighting chickens which may see action in Florida mains this winter. Jockey Earl Steffen, contract rider for the Valdina Farms stable of Texas, is here to ride at the Tropical meeting. Trainer J. J. Flanigan has twenty-seven Valdina horses in Miami, one of the largest strings campaigning in this section. Jt includes seventeen coming two-year-olds and ten older horses, headed by Eagle Pass. Mickey Brooks, custodian of the press boxes in New England, Maryland and Florida, reported for the opening of the Tropical meeting. Racing secretary R. S. Shelley announced that entries will close at Tropical Park at 10:30 a. m. daily. Scratch time will be 8:30 a. m. Post time for the first race, 2 p. m. Eight races will be run daily. Jockey Charles Kurtsinger, War Admirals rider, was a visitor at Tropical Park. He may hje seen in silks on opening day. TwC carloads of horses from New Orleans, and one from Chicago, are en route to Oriental Park, Cuba, according to word received ; here by racing secretary R. S. Shelley. Thomas A. Steele, pacing judge at Tropical Park, will be at Hialeah Park, starting Saturday, to take entries and scratches for the races during the Gables meeting. James Ross, Jr., and Patrick C. Galliger will take the entries at Tropiical Park, announced racing secretary R. S. Shelley. "Bullet Joe" Simpson, manager of the Miami Ice Hockey team and ex-National League star, paid his first visit to Tropical Park. He was accompanied by Mrs. Simpson. and several members of his team, which is leading the Tropical Hockey League here. Final tests of the all-electric American totalisator at Tropical Park were completed by the engineers of the company. A new section has been installed on the board, to flash the time of day in minutes and register the post time for the next race.
