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| ! j ! I ; ; , i • ! i j | I j ! j I J i j J j j 1 SUFFOLK DOWNS NOTES f $ — : $ Flying Horse Farm was enriched an addi-■ tional 50 when the Massachusetts-bred Ed-1 wardian won the opening race Friday. The rule governing Massachusetts-bred winners has been amended as follows: "The winner i j must race in the silks of the breeder and , 1 will get the 50 only on the first visit to the winners circle." j j ! It developed that Westbrooke broke a leg in the closing event Friday and it was found • necessary to destroy the Canter gelding. i Glen Felkner had a claim in for the J. Durante plater and was out ,400 on the transaction. Latest reports from the Chelsea Hospital, where jockey Warren Van Tassel was taken after his fall in the last race Friday, are to the effect that he had suffered no serious injuries, but an X-ray would be taken Saturday. Next Wednesday, May 24, apprentice Euclid LeBlanc will lose his "bug." He has been engaged to ride Kenty Miss in the Tomasello Memorial Handicap on Tuesday, May 30. Apprentice Robert Ross, 18-year-old lad who rides at ninety-eight pounds, signed a contract with P. A. Kelley. Ross was born in Oklahoma and now makes his home in Detroit, Mich. Jockey Arthur Brondson accepted his first mount of the New England season Saturday when he was up on Holophane in the first race. Alfred Shelhamer, contract rider of the A. C. C. Stable, who has been slightly "under the weather," will leave for his home in Blue-field, Colo., Saturday to visit his folks. Jockey Ruperto Donoso. left for New York Saturday evening to ride in several stakes before returning to Suffolk Downs later in the meeting. Jockey N. L. Pierson returned to his home in Seattle, Wash. — — «
