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t j j I ! [ I L 1 PIMLICO TURF NOTES ° s — : o Ira Gregory, who serves as starter at Hagerstown, Bel Air, Cumberland and Timo-nium, arrived from Miami, Fla. Gregory served on the ground crew of starter George Cassidy at Hialeah Park. Karl Kolseth shipped the useful distance performer Setemup to Narragansett Park and intends to stay for some time at the other New England meetings. White Cockade and Conville, members of the E. K. Bryson stable have been transferred to the Bryson farm on Bel Air road near Churchville, Maryland. Stake blanks for the meeting at Lincoln Fields are available to horsemen in Maryland. Major Ral Parrs Legal Light, four-year-old stake winner forced out of training last autumn, was returned to the training grind this morning. Legal Light will be handled by H. Guy Bedwell and is expected to be seen under colors again by the late summer or possibly not until the Maryland season opens in September. A prominent candidate for the Pimlico Nursery to be run here Friday, May 12, dis-l played a creditable training effort Wednes-; day morning. The Nursery hopeful was Ella K. Brysons Imprudent, winner of the Aberdeen Stakes last month. The filly was sent five-eighths in. 1:03%, handily. Jockey Manny Berg was the first rider to 1 score a triple. Berg won with Greeny, Pon-emah and General Mowlee, making his Maryland spring season total eleven. Humphrey Finney, field secretary for the Maryland Horse Breeders Association, distributed sales catalogues for the Merryland Farm dispersal to be held at Pimlico, Friday, May 12. This will be an open sale compris-L ing thirty-six head from William Elders Merryland Farm and approximately a dozen more head from nearby farms. Tommy Gorman arrived from Canada and is .interesting horsemen at the meeting to be staged on the Quebec racing circuit. , Jockey George Seabo, who is scheduled to ride W. L. Branns Challedon in the Ken-- tucky Derby Saturday, left after the running i of the last race at Pimlico Wednesday for Churchill Downs, f George Palmer, who served in the judges 3 stand during the meeting at Havre de Grace, 3 was a spectator at Pimlico Wednesday, i Palmer will do the starting at Delaware Park later in the season. •, The horses Manila Bay and Sea Captain :1 were additions to the schooling list at Pimlico. v The first edition of the condition book for :- the meeting of the Charles Town Jockey Club was available to horsemen at Pimlico 1, Wednesday. n Jockey E. Smith, who has been ailing with s lagrippe, recovered sufficiently to resume his y vocation in the saddle Wednesday at Pimlico. of if Steeplechase jockey A. A. Baldwin applied for a riding license with the Maryland Rac-d ing Commission and was seen in silks e Wednesday. y Charles J. McLennan reports that many A. i. two-year-olds on the grounds at Pimlico are e coughing, which accounts for small fields in is is events arranged for that age. Paul Smith, director of the New York d State Fair at Syracuse, New York, and :- Halton V. Noyes, commissioner of agrciul-ture, will bring a party of friends here to in n witness the Dixie Stakes and the Preakness.
