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HAVRE DE GRACE NOTES Starter Jim Milton brought the following horses on his schooling list from the Bowie meeting, which ended today: Clodion, Vendors Lien, Kitsy S., Shooting Scout, Sun-crax, Marcabala, Cleaning Time, Pompeys Rose, Wise Counsel, Portunus, Maesak, Red Foot and Cyrus P. Racing secretary Charles McLennan, in an effort to give horsemen tip-top service, has stationed Albert Dosch at Pimlico to accept entries each morning during the meeting. Fred Hayward, secretary of the Maryland Racing Commission, spent a busy day accepting applications from owners, trainers and riders. H. Guy Bedwell, who topped Americas list of trainers seven times, has thirty-one horses here. Agent Tom M. Kelly and jockey Lucas Dupps left for New York, where the latter will report to trainer Max Hirsch. General manager G. Ray Bryson states that his Belair track has been enlarged into a three-quarter mile one. It is seventy-two feet wide. Bryson is considering starting ten horses in all races during his meeting, which opens July 26. Pansys First heads the string of eight horses which Charlie Beal will race for Mrs. A. A. Gray and others during the forty-eight day session, beginning May 15, at Charles Town, W. Va. For the accommodation of patrons of the old clubhouse at Pimlico, beginning with the spring meeting at the Baltimore track in May, betting booths wilr be installed, according to word released here. Booths have been missing from that area since pari-mutuels were adopted at the historic Maryland track. Dave Heisman, on the mutuel staff of M. M. Mahony, will leave for Boston Wednesday to prepare the mutuel plant at Riveria Beach, Mass. The new odds board being installed in the center field at Pimlico will be a triangle-shaped board, which will give patrons a clear view from all sections of the principal enclosures. Earl Walden stated that he would leave for New England on Tuesday to assist in getting the mutuel plant into shape for the approaching meeting at Narragansett Park. Jockey F. Kelly will affiliate himself with the stable of J. W. Y. Martin of the Worth-. Jockey Eddie Smith has made plans to leave for. Narragansett Park Thursday and will remain in the New England sector for the balance of the season.
