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. u,,..... Brief Paragraphs From Racing Points Illinois LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, 111., May 28. The veteran horseman, Joe Umensetter, Tuesday introduced a new rider to racing fans. He is Wm. Miller, 17-year-old Chicago boy, who has been galloping thoroughbreds for about a year and a half. Millers riding weight is 106 pounds. After a visit of several days, State Senator Simon E. Lantz is returning to his liome in Congervjlle, 111. An enthusiastic racing fan, Senator Lantz has sponsored much of the states legislation controlling the sport. E. A. Weidekamp, chief of pari-mutuel betting at Lincoln Fields, will have a full staff of sellers and cashiers working on Saturday when every ticket selling machine and paying window will be manned. I. C. Mishler came here from his home in Chattanooga and may spend much of his time at the Lincoln Fields meeting in Chicago. He has three horses here in charge of A. J. Plack. There will be no change in post time for the first race Saturday, Memorial Day, at Lincoln Fields. The holiday sport will start promptly at 2:15 oclock, with eight races on the program. C. V. Carr, part ownerof the Lookout Stock Farm stable, arrived from Jiis home in Covington, Ky., for a few days of racing. ; The Lookout horses are trained by G. E. Lewis. - Ownership of the two-year-olds Shifting Sand and Distant LightT has been trans-, f erred from J. J. Flanigan to his son, W. F. Flanigan. . , William Westerfield is taking Flighty Marie, Hi-Lutrecia, Tony W. and Busy to Thistle Down for Gus Simpne. They are leaving in a few days. R.. C. Groff s Forever Prince arrived here Wednesday from Columbus. He joined Miss Harriet, Skating Mad and King Bassel, who haVe been here for some time. The horses Servant Kan and Gene Kan, which D. D. Fuchs had under lease, have been returned to John D. Mikel. Fuchs had 1 the horses at Sportsmans Park. Dr. T. A. Donald of Lincoln, 111., has been appointed to represent the Illinois Racing "Board as veterinarian at Fairmount Park.-He is leaving Friday for Collinsville. Jockey Billie Pearson has been engaged i to ride C. U. Yaegers Pumpgun in Saturdays - running of the Francis S. Peabody Memorial Handicap. Recent visitors at Lincoln Fields were e T. A. Donald, who maintains a breeding y establishment at Lincoln, 111., and state e Senator Simon E. Lantz. Jockey Steve Brooks is . considering an 1 offer to go to Detroit to -ride Cerebus in 1 an engagement Saturday. Jockey Thomas Manzor came here from i California with the stable James Sinnott brought in from the West Coast. Jack Rieser, son of the horseman, Milton 1 Rieser, departed for Louisville where he was" called by his draft board. L. H. Thompson got away for Fairmount Park with the horses Brown Ben, Sure e Swift, Buss, Lazarus and Wicked Time. E. B. Shipp-left here late Wednesday for Fairmount Park with the horses Beamy, Remarkable, Happened and Snow Apple. Blondie Jayne, a juvenile filly, reached here from Lexington and was added to the stable trained by Mose Lowenstein. G. Smith got away for Detroit with the e horses Clock Time and Dawn Portage, owned by W. Parman. Jockey Andy LoTurco packed his tack and. left for Fairmount Park. Jockey August Sylvester- left today for r Winnipeg to ride fre lance. Jockey George Wallace is leaying here e for Thistle Down. FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., May 28. The St. Louis-owned stable maintained by Basil and Bernard Neel is on ,the e grounds and going through preliminary y work for a busy campaign under the direction of R. B. Richardson. In the establishment i- are Cambau, Maiden Dream, Geologist, i- Donna Dale and Flying Banshee. Richardson is also conditioning Silver Horn n and Cally Ann for J. W. Brewer. The annual banquet arranged by general il manager P. C. Burnett and the board of f directors of the Fairmount Park Jockey y ; 1 i - e y e 1 1 i 1 e e r e e y i- i- n il of f y EDWARD L. KILROE General manager at Aqueduct and Jamaica, has re- ceiyed a senior lieutenants commission inthe United States Navy. : i Club was held at the Lennox Hotel in St. Louis Wednesday night. Guests of the association were newspapermen and radio sports announcers from St. Louis and the , J St. Louis area. George-ilYum Yum" Dominick is" on the . J grounds and he has been appointed stable ; agent for the Rivermont Ranch, maintained by Mrs. Elizabeth Muckler of St. Louis, , j Dominick, in addition to looking after the . making of entries for the stable, will also i 1 book riding engagements for jockey Harold l Allgaier, stable contract rider. Unable to work because of a brolcen hip , 1 received in an automobile accident two , : years ago, William Pultz, former trainer for the Reichert Bros., of Belleville, 111., was a i visitor today. He reports the injured mem- ber improving and hopes to be back train- . Ihg horses in the next few months. Turned put near here since last season, , the horses of Edward Wortman are in l training at Fairmount Park and are sched-y - uled for an early campaign. Making up the ; stable which is owned and trained by Wortman are Vera O., Oddesa Plucky, Harry V., Florizan Aria and Rollsfast. Louis A. Guyot, stable agent for D. C. . Wilhelm, announced this morning he would i book riding engagements for Willie Lee Johnson and apprentice R. W. Reeves. The j latter is a maiden and has had many r mounts since accepting his. first engagement - last year, Frederic Grafton, one of the stewards s representing the Fairmount Park, Jockey j Club, is improving steadily from his recent t illness. Mrs. Crafton joined her husband I -e here Monday, coming from her home in i Providence, R. I. Rejected by the army when he reported i for his physical examination Monday, E. E. Major, Jr., has returned td Fairmount t Park and resumed the conditioning of Par- lor Trick and Bilkan, which race in his own i colors. Top Half and Real Edge, two Texas- breds, are the only horses Mrs. L. M. Les-e ter, Texas owner, will race during the coming - meeting. They are in quarters at the local track and in charge of Fred P. Haldy. r. F. A. Roenigke has in training for H. F. . Luer, the three-year-olds, Cannons Flash i and Straw Basket,, as well as the two-year-k - olds, Hada Lass and Alca Eve. He is also o conditioning Wbodrab for F. Demko. Ted King, a veteran reinsman, has departed - for Detroit, where he was to accept t a position with the R. A. Coward stable. King was here several months breaking S two-year-olds for Harry Murdock. Track superintendent John LeBlanc is s supervising the altering of the jockey quar-d - ters. All lockers, are being rearranged and d more space will be available when the work lc is completed. Another Texan on the grounds is John ti Massey, Jr., who is training Inwood, Ath-2. ens Maid and Brill for his wife, and Star r of Dondra and Police Matron for Jesse e Brin, Dallas breeder. . Walter Wilkerson, Kentucky owner and d trainer, expects to receive two other horses from the Chicago area. i , J . J ; , j . i 1 l , 1 , : i . , l - ; . i j r - s j t I i i t i - r. . i - o - t S is s - d lc ti r e d New York BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 28. Graceton Philpot, trainer for Louis B. Mayer, was highly pleased with1 the Withers performance of Kings Abbey and plans to start the English-bred, colt in the Belmont Stakes. A portion of one of the colts front shoes broke off during the race, but -fortunately did not injure the son of King Salmon. Just when it seemed that Wilbert Mul-holland would have little difficulty leading the trainers at the meeting, the George D. Wideher two-year-olds; almost without exception, developed bucked shins. Red -Sonnet.i apparently the leading juvenile so far, may be next seen under colors at Saratoga. Jockey George Woolf sustained a painful shoulder injury Saturday while astride the two-year-old Menex. The youngster reared while at the gate and pressed Woolfs shoulder against ah upright. The heavy safety pin that holds the shoulder number was pressed deep into the flesh. Jack Zeiss, head of the Stevens dining ropm at Belmont Park, isf lopded with reservations for Army-Navy Day, although the date is nine, days .hence. The Harry M. Stevens company already has lost 97 of its regular personnel to the armed forces. Steward Francis Dunne was presented witha tin hat this morning, part of his equipment as an air raid warden. The presentation was made by Miss Lockwpod of The Jockey Club staff. The tin derby -" is several sizes too small. Alsab has brought Linus "Pony" McAtee back to the races. The little Celt arrives at Belmont every-morning at daybreak and J does hot leave until after Alsab and Sarge Swenke. have finished their chores. McAtee 1 and Swenke are buddies of long standing. a 1 The Fasig-TiptonjCompany will conduct a sale of horses in training on Friday i morning, June 5, in the paddock at Bel- mont Park at 10:30 oclocw. Entries for this sale close-tomorrow. - i Elmer Dale Shaffer, master of Cold- stream Stud, arrived from Lexington for an 1 indefinite yisit. He is part owned with 1 Jack Howard of the ColdstreamStable. Robert Morris indicates by his steady training that he will be back among the 1 top notchers of the handicap brigade with- 1 in the next.six weeks. Riggs Mahoney, who was stationed at Camp Wheeler, Ga., is due here this week to visit his parents. He will enjoy a.-seven-r day furlough. , 5 Remy Dorr, New Orleans sportsman, un- 1 able to make his annual visit to Belmont Park, has sent his binoculars for inclusion of local racings aid to the Navy. s 1 Herbert Bayard Swope stated thismorn- ing that racing would go all out at Bel- mont Park on Saturday; June 6, for the Army and Navy Relief. Mr. and Mrs. William Leavitt Brann are arrivals from Maryland to view Challedon in action in the Suburban Handicap -Saturday. Trafner J. W. Healey will ship Zacatine, 1 owned by F. J. Buchanan, to Suffolk Downs tot a stake engagement on Satur-!. day. 1 - i Trainer Willie Jones stated he would i ship six horses to Delaware Park. He will campaign six jumpers at Aqueduct during thatvineeting. , . Mack Garner, Jr., son of the late famous jockey, is in the Navy, stationed at Brdok-e lyn. He was married while on a furlough in March. His home is in Covington, Ky. Trainer Walter Carter shipped the Glen Riddle Farm stable horses to Delaware Park for that meeting. He left War Hazard here to stay for the Top Flight. Jockey John Gilbert will go to Delaware Park to ride Ocean Blue in his Delaware Park stake engagement on Saturday. Gil-i. bert is due back here on Monday. Horsemen were notified this morning that those having subscriptions for the : Saratoga Special must name their candi- dates by June 8. Jockey A. Robertson will be out of the saddle for a few days due to ah injured digit. A horse stepped on his finger on Tuesday. Miss Dorothy Mallon, formerly secretary to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, has joined the office force of The Jockey Club. Walter Tournier of the horse identifica-s tion bureau, expects to leave in the near future for Camp Upton to join the Army. J 1 a 1 i i 1 1 1 1 5 1 s 1 1 1 i i : KENNETH ROBERTSON Rides for the last time today as an apprentice, having ridden his first winner at Fair-mount Park on last May 31. Ohio BEULAH PARK, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 28. I. J. Collins of Lancaster, chairman of the Ohio State Racing Commission, was visitor. He reports his horses, including Kenneth K., are again rounding to form following an accident in which they were injured considerably jvhen the van turned over while en route liere from Kentucky. Pvt. Orville Shirkey,9. is reported missing in action on- Corregidor Island. Frank Shirkey, his father, track-foreman at Beu-lah Park, was so notified by the War Department. The boy was inducted into the service April 17, 1941. Forrest and Piatt dissolved their partnership Monday morning, Edward C. Piatt buying the horses Vindicare, Dinner Horn and Belle James. W. V. Reeves will continue to train them. B. H. "Brownie" Held is confined in White Cross Hospital, Columbus, following an operation last week. He will be an absentee from his-Beulah Park duties for the remainder of the meeting. PatpDonnell has replaced J. M. Booker as trainer of the S. Jones stable of four head, including Roaming Again, -a winner at this meeting. : C. N. Finchs Yar, Surgeon Dick and Henry Hatter arrived from Churchill Downs to join the rest of the stable at Beulah Park. C. M. Wilkinson of Detroit registered Morpan and San Ardo with the racing secretary Monday morning and turned them over to Paul Morris to train. On Decoration Day, Saturday next, Beulah Park will have a nine-race program, including a two-mile race, with a trainers award. - Trainer P. ODonnell arrived with Gillespie and Muriel Lee, the property- of " H. Stokes. Starter Daley has only four horses on the schooling list Ashore, Flying Dawn, Ozzie and Zaph. Jockey J. Wray received word Saturday to report to his draft board at Kansas City, Mo. Trainer W. Russell has added Uncle Peter to his stable. The horse is owned by W. H. Weitz. J. Simpson has replaced F. Sharpe as trainer for the stable of G. S. Kilpatnck. A. D. Homan has secured the mare, Miss Mint Drop, from H. H. Temple, Jr., but Temple will continue to train her. Jockey J.. Flinchum returned from Detroit and will ride here during the remainder of this meeting. Jockey K. WhiUock lpst his apprentice- -ship allowance whn he won on Sheriff Eugene here Saturday, last. Jpckey K. Whitlpck left tpday for Thistle Down, Cleveland, where he will do the riding for the F. C. Barrows stable. Jockey V. Bush has departed for Omaha.
