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Florida Notes TROPICAL PARK, Coral Gables, Fla., » April 11. A. Charles Schwartz, executive vice-president of the Gables Racing Association, left Sunday night for New York City. President Henry L. Straus will depart at 1 the end of the week, following a check on i the meetings operations. Golden Count, claimed by W. W, Crenshaw at Hialeah Park for ,000 upon the occasion of his initial appearance, ran as if ■ ; well worth that sum in skipping four and a half furlongs in :531s in his Tropical Park graduation. He is one of the many Jimmy Wallace will campaign in New York for the Californian this spring. Lon Copenhaver is sending his horses to Narragansett Park. With them goes apprentice Evan Jenkins, a lightweight who , won his first race at Tropical Park just a short time back. Many pronounce him a good prospect. Charles E. Hughes, veteran trainer and I official timer at Hialeah Park, stated he i would leave here May 15 for Lexington, «"? .■..*• i* -x-A uim There a uric 1:51 j..«jj. b u » 1 i ; ■ , I i Ky., and remain there several weeks before departing for Wilmington, Del. The Turners, senior and junior, left for Baltimore Sunday, there joining Charles McLennan for the 28-day meeting at Pim-. lico. Trainer Walter Burrows supervised the loading of the T. B. Martin contingent here Saturday and then departed for New York. Heading the shipment are the handicap performers Bankrupt and Bolingbroke. Jockey E. Campbell has been notified to report to Camp Blanding on May 18 for induction Into the armed forces. Apprentice W. Rudert, under contract to Guy Lunsford, departed for his Newark, N. J., home to report for an Army physical examination. Trainer Potts loaded the Bomar Stable horses for shipment to Maryland to await the resumption of racing in that sector. Don Murray, son of Jack Murray, Daily Racing Form docker, is missing in action somewhere over Germany. He was a mem-, ber of a flying fortress crew, and his par- ents were notified by the War Department. Another son, Jimmie, is interned in a neutral country, the result of the plane in which he served being forced down. Sweet Chimes, with two straight to her credit at Tropical Park, is well on her way toward winning herself out for Frank Hooper, the Upper Floridan, who was a liberal buyer at the 1943 yearling sales. The daughter of Epithet — Isolt was acquired for ,000, the improvement shown in Tropical Park competition suggesting that she is well worth that sum.
