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1 NARRAGANSETT PARK NOTES I $ Mrs. E. Graham Lewis Pagliacci is coming from New York for the Bristol Handicap, feature of Saturdays program. This was made certain by receipt of word from trainer Louis Feustel. Pagliacci was winner of two sprints in Bowie this spring and finished second to Johnstown in the Paumonok Handicap. Twenty-three of the thirty nominated for the Bristol Handicap are now on the grounds at Gansett. With the arrival of Pagliacci prospects for a large field are excellent. Steward Sam Nuckols, now presiding in the stand at Gansett, will miss the running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, the fourth time he has been absent from the Blue Grass classic. Sam has been in the stewards stand at Churchill Downs for sixteen Derbys, missing three because of illness. This year he informed Col. Matt Winn that he had decided to stay on the job here at Gansett. Three candidates for the ,000 added Bristol Handicap, to be run here Saturday, worked Wednesday morning. Blind Eagle breezed six furlongs in 1:17; Higher Cloud worked the same distance in 1:16%, and Pit Terrier, well in hand, worked a -half mile in :52% and three-quarters in 1:20%. Don Meade will be back at Gansett to ride Early Delivery in the Bristol Handicap Saturday. He will remain here for the final week of the spring meeting. Harry Krovitz has been engaged to ride Sheldon Fairbanks U-Boat in Saturdays feature. Mrs. V. S. Williams shipped in the two-year-old Jack Cloud from New York. Carlos Sims also brought in the two-year-old gelding Satin Rolls. Ben Lister returned to Gansett after a visit to his Kentucky farm, where he looked jover some of his yearlings. Mrs. M. H. Charles has taken over the contract of jockey Johnny Mearle, Chester. Idaho, youngster. Jockey Francis Kenney, Brighton, Mass., boy, will make his seasonal Gansett debut riding for Sol Rutchick Thursday. Mrs. Danny Shea has sold the five-year-old filly Fair Scout to Page Stephenson at private sale.
