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Florida Notes TROPICAL PARK, Coral Gables, Fla., i March 31. R. B. Archer shipped the horses he had here to Pimlico to await the resumption of racing in that state. Jockey J. R. Layton will ride Director J. E., owned by E. K. Bryson, in his Chesa- I peake Stakes engagement. Should the colt measure up to expectations in that race, Layton will ride him in the Derby and Preakness. Trainer John Stillman will ship his small i string to Narragansett Park on April 2 for a New England campaign. Trainer Lyle Phillips will ship his stable of 19 head immediately following the close j of the Gables meeting. Jockey Jimmy Brennan who recently joined Phillips, will accompany the stable to New England. A total of 30 horses remain on the stew- | aids, veterinarians and schooling lists at Tropical Park. They include racers barred for either unsoundness or for poor barrier manners. Carl Du Puy, co-owner of the Coward and Du Puy string, arrived from his Texas home, accompanied by Mrs. Du Puy. He , plans to remain through the closing -day | running of the Tropical Handicap for which Marriage is being especially pointed. Roy Dickerson was among the recent arrivals from New Orleans. He plans to do some fishing before reporting to Sportsman "s Park in mid-April. I Trainer Moody Jolley will ship the Lou- : isiana Farm horses to Belmont Park to be prepared for a Metropolitan campaign. Trainer John Hastings will ship the J. M. Seider horses to Jamaica to await the New York opening. j Bill "Winfrey returned from Camp Bald-! , ing, where he was rejected for Army j. service. j I Herb Lindberg, lightweight rider, packed his tack and left for his home in Philadelphia. He will resume riding at New York. Jockey H. Claggett, veteran lightweight1 who had a big year in New York during j 1943, will move on to Narragansett Park j following the final at Tropical Park. At I the same time W. Gerlock, an apprentice i who has been showing improved form of late, will proceed to New York to join his contract employer, L. H. Nimkoff. Xam, a Head Play four-year-old, has been purchased at private terms by Walter Daub. He moves to New York for activity I on that circuit. Due to the new tax schedule which becomes effective April 1, the clubhouse admissions at Tropical Park will advance from .25, tax included, to .50, tax included, and the grandstand admission will advance from .00, tax included, to .15, tax included. Sgt. Milton Feldman, best known to horsemen as Muggins," writes from the New Guinea area, where he is on the military police forces, that "alls well." His chief concern is the desire to know "how theyre running" back in this country. ; 1 Jules Fink, the Cincinnati owner, whose | ! horses have enjoyed no small degree of ] success at Tropical Park, will ship to Churchill Downs following the local finale and then proceed to the Chicago sector. Trainer Henri Torriente, improved in health following a rest, said today he would ship a number of publicly owned thorough- j breds to Louisville this spring for racing at Churchill Downs. i The horses belonging to A. Crouch and | I Gene Lutz made up the shipment that departed from here Saturday for New York. C. O. Ferguson stated today that Brie a Bac and Hindu Prince, owned by J. J. Han- I ! ley, will be turned over to trainer J. Powers j for racing in New York this summer. J Trainer Bert Griswold purchased the ■ j i two-year-old filly, Mightbold, from E. K. • I Bryson here at private terms. The juvenile will race for J. L. Taussig and will be shipped to Churchill Downs along with 1 five other horses after the close here. j Jockey F. A. Smith will ride through the • Gables meeting, following which he will I proceed to Pimlico, where he expects to do considerable saddle work for Calumet Farm, j However, Conn McCreary is first string , j rider for Warren Wrights establishment. , Jockey Karl Horvath, who was badly injured • i in a spill at Tropical Park about two weeks back, is resting satisfactory at Jackson -Memorial Hospital. It will be some I j time though before he will be discharged I from the hospital. A survey of the stalls at Hialeah Park : revealed that 562 horses are bedded down at that point. Fifteen carloads are expected to leave within the next week for various points. I
