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New England Notes NARRAGANSETT PARK, Pawtucket, R. I., April 22. Apprentice Patrick Patterson, who accepted his first mount of the meeting recently, is an 18-year-old lad hailing from Longview, Texas. He took his first lessons under Monte Parke, then finished out a contract with Harry Trotsek. Patterson will ride here for Marvin Level. The Texan won his first race at the Tropical Park meeting, then went on to win fifteen races In Florida. Two smart sprinters, De Kalb and Watch Over, were shipped in by L. H. Nim- koff from Jamaica and consigned here to Mort Stuart who is part owner of both horses. Mark Harris will do the training. Jockey Charlie Durando checked in at the jockeys room Monday. Harry Barnett may take a call on Durando s services. Monte Preston, veteran rider who rode his last race at Fort Erie in 1910, is training nine horses here for Fred Browning of Fort Worth, Texas. Preston was one of the countrys top riders at the turn of the century, rode many winners for the late Joseph E. Widener and later was employed at Valdina Farm until the death, last year, of owner Emerson F. Woodward. Robby Robertson, Sr., trainer for the Christopher Ranch, engaged jockey Jimmy Brennan to ride for the stable throughout the current meeting. C. L. Templeton, who trains three horses for his wife, was rushed to Notre Dame Hospital, Central Falls, over the week-end, suffering a severe attack of ptomaine poisoning. His condition has improved today. Danny McAuliffe, one-time star rider, who now trains the Roy H. Schwartz thoroughbreds, was a Narragansett visitor on Wednesday. Several members of the Schwartz stable are en route to New England. Dave Alexander, well known turf writer and publicist, now in the U. S. Army, is seriously ill at Nichols hospital, Louisville, Ky. At 37, Dave made a valiant try to make the grade with the U. S. Tank Corps. Walter Hapgood, editor of the Horsemens News, returned to Narragansett after a business trip to New York. Caesar B., the five-year-old who pulled up lame in a race here last Friday, has been turned out at Whitings ville, by trainer Joe Camac. Lt. A. E. Brown of the U. S. Army, now stationed at Lordsburg, N, M., reports the arrival of a daughter on April 14. "Brownie". a Danvers, Mass., boy, was a member ox the Daily Racing Form chart crew and very well known in New England circles.
