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I __ Florida Newsand Notes i i j | ! I | j ! ; : S j i j : ; I j j : i TROPICAL PARK, Coral Gables, Fla., April 6. Marriage and Four Freedoms, slated to jmeet again in the week-end Tropical Handicap, also have a similar engagement on Long Island four Saturdays later. Both i are candidates for the mile and a furlong Grey Lag Handicap at Jamaica, a 5,000 added event. However, the last-named Greentree Stable colt is in the 0,000 Dixie I Handicap at Pimlico on the same after- I noon. Marriage was not named for this mile and three-sixteenths stake. i Jockey J. R. Layton, engaged to pilot j : Sweep Swinger in the Tropical Handicap, ! leaves for Pimlico the following day. There he will report to Ray Bryson and assist in the preparation of Director J. E. for the Chesapeake and Preakness engagements. Ernest White, mutuel attache at Trop- i j ! ical Park, departs for Louisville following j the close here, where, as mutuel manager • at the transplanted Keeneland meeting, he will assemble his crew for that session. ! Lou Monti and Bobby Morris are the two j outriders appointed to handle the paddock- I to-post parades the final week at Tropical. Both act in the same capacity at the Detroit Fair Grounds meeting. Fred Caposella, the versatile turf commentator, scribe and official, departs for New York Wednesday to take over the an- ; nouncing duties at Jamaica. Tommy Daly i ; will handle the public address system the | few remaining days at Tropical. i Pat Farrell of the horse identification ! crew and a member of secretary C.J. Mc- j i Lennans office staff, became a father for j the second time when his wife, Kathryne. gave birth to a seven and one-half pound i baby girl Monday. Not Tomorrow was the second of the get of Tedious now campaigning at Tropical j Park, to gather brackets. This youngster, ; • who is out of a High Time mare, appears a likely prospect to garner more brackets. Great Albert was purchased at private terms Wednesday by N. Skelly and turned over to F. Rand to condition. Skelly ac- quired the plater from W. Rosen. ; R. Robertson added the A. F. Plock string of five head to the contingent he ! is taking to Narragansett. C. Hyde formerly trained the stable. . Three carloads of horses left from the Hialeah siding Wednesday, each bound for a different northern racing sector. Lou Schaefer and J. J. Barker made up a ship i I I i j : ! j ! i j ! j I ; i ; | i ! j i j i j ; • ; ! . ment destined to unload at Jamaica, Phil Reuter and C. Reynolds consigned a car bound for Pimlico and G. Alexandra sent his charges to Narragansett. R. A. Coward will ship Marriage and others in the considerable string he now is campaigning at Tropical Park to Jamaica following the finale at the Gables course on Saturday. Queens Risk, a Riskulus filly in the sta-i ble of Mrs. K. L. Huntley, was cut down so badly in the running of the Oleander Purse that she will not be able to get to the post I again for several months. j Ed McCuan has purchased the contract which Bill Hartman held on the Detroit apprentice, Mark Little. This 18-year-old youth rode his first winner at Narragan- sett Park last August. R. B. Odom shipped the Arthur Wentzel horses to Belmont Park. In the same car went a draft of those owned by J. B. Par-- tridge. A. Charles Schwartz, executive vice-president of the Gables Racing Association, j obtained a leave of absence from his airplane production duties to participate in j the final week of charity racing at Tropical. ! Trainer R. Robertson has taken over the j j conditioning of the sizable string that will ! j race for the Christopher Ranch at Nana- | I gansett following the close here. Alfred j j Robertson formerly trained the contingent. | but is reported to have taken a band of j j juveniles to New York for campaigning. i i Trainer E. Yowell added Friar Scout, Ed B. and Our All, property of H. H. Price of Columbus, Ohio, to the string he will ship j | to New England. I Jockey C. Mojena has been ordered by I j his local draft board to report for induction I into the armed forces April 13 at Camp Blanding. i A j Maurice Oliver has left for Middleburg, Va., where he will attend the seasons first ! j hunt meeting to be presented by the Mid- | I dleburg Hunt Race Association on April 8. | j Henry L. Straus, president of the Gables ! | Racing Association, has obtained sufficient time off from his duties in connection with the Signal Corps of the Army to view the final three days of Tropical Park competition. Floyd Smock has resigned as trainer of the H. H. Price string, a cluster of three.
