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1 HAVRE DE GRACE NOTES j $ — — $ Jockey Warren Yarberry, contract rider for the J. E. Widener stable, is due here from Keeneland Park to ride Burning Star for the Shandon Farm stable in the Philadelphia Handicap, Saturday. W. L. Taylor, lightweight apprentice, who rode successfully in New Orleans, is having his riding engagements made by Al Davis. Racing secretary J. P. Turner of the Laurel State Fair, Inc., expects to release nomination blanks to horsemen on Thursday for the 1940 edition of the Selima Stakes. Apprentice H. Dupuy will depart for Louisville, Ky., late Thursday and report to his brother, who has six horses at Louisville and who holds his contract. Robert P. McAuliffe, an official of the Narragansett Racing Association, arrived from New England to interest horsemen in the meeting now in progress. McAuliffe reports that there are stalls available to horsemen wishing to ship. Carouse and Coursing are the latest additions to the schooling list at Havre de Grace. Jockey A. Bayley accepted his first mount of the meeting when he rode Autumn Echo in the first race Wednesday. Charles Beal is sending five members of his stable to Pimlico at the conclusion of the meeting here. Jockey E. DeCamillis returned to Jamaica to report to trainer W. L. Moore who trains for C. S. Madison. Trainer George Phillips, who came here Wednesday to saddle Maetran for the Aberdeen Stakes, returned to Jamaica. Jockey J. Renick also departed. Dave Wood, publicity director of the Maryland Jockey Club, will be host to newspaper men at Pimlico early Saturday morning for breakfast, and later will have the Photo Chart, a new innovation at the Maryland Jockey Club grounds demonstrated for his guests.
