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Illinois News and Notes LINCOLN FIELDS at Hawthorne Stickney 111 June 7 7Jockey Jockey Jess Higley has been engaged to ride the veteran Shot Put in Saturdays renewal of the 5000 added La Salle Hand ¬ icap The son of Chance Shot has fin ¬ ished first second and third in this Lincoln Fields fixture Second in 1940 he came back to win it the following year and last season was third behind Aletern and Val ¬ dina Orphan Clifford Porter sold Total to Mrs Irene Wendt and Monte Weil acting for Mrs Weil purchased Isaiah Girl from C R Valentine Entries for a 2000 handicap for three yearolds and upward and to be run at six furlongs on Saturday close Thursday morning with racing secretary William H Shelley This race may bring out many of the best sprinters quartered here hereLocal Local turf writers will be guests of the Arlington Park Jockey Club at a luncheon at the Washington Park track on Sunday The scribes will be taken over the entire plant and grounds following which lunch ¬ eon will be served in the clubhouse George A Adkins 21yearold apprentice from Cprbin Ky made his local bow astride Woodsman in the final race on to ¬ days program He came here from the east to ride for the stable trained by C H Pinon George Seabo was back in colors this afternoon Last Monday a mild illness forced him to cancel his mounts for the day Linger Along property of Pierini and Skaggs arrived here from Kentucky in charge of M J Skaggs R W Selden has taken Ima Brand out of training and she will be retired for breeding purposes She will be sent to the Indiana farm of her owner Mrs R J Murphy MurphyHaving Having sold all but one of the horses he had here C R Valentine left for Lexing ¬ ton with the twoyearold Brown Valley Following a layoff the latter will be pointed for fall racing Vista a twoyearold owned by Mrs Rose Weiner and trained by F Ghesquier has been registered for racing here Jeanne Curtis and W P Vogel Jr of the staff of Fortune Magazine will visit Haw ¬ thorne tomorrow They are collaborating on a comprehensive article covering all phases of race course operation operationFAIRMOUNT FAIRMOUNT PARK Collinsville 111 June 7 7The The second book of conditions arrived from the printers and were distributed among horsemen horsemenEdward Edward Grover Cleveland Porter for many years in racing secretary R A Leighs office departed yesterday for New Orleans to reenter a hospital Grover as he is known to racetrackers spent several months in a New Orleans hospital last year According to word received this morning by racing secretary R A Leigh Sr a car ¬ load of horses owned by Felix J Demary Orange Tex breeder left Mexico City Wednesday for the local scene The express car is not expected here until the week ¬ end Mel Duhon leading rider at Hipo dromo de Las Americas will accompany the horses Eddie Franklin arrived from Detroit and swung into action on the Wednesday card Joe Wood Franklins agent arrived with the jockey The jockey colony is the smallest in years Eleven apprentices and 13 older riders are registered registeredThe The Illinois Racing Board has instructed the local stewards to post a ruling on the bulletin board the racing secretarys office It reads anyone other than agent owner or trainer soliciting mounts for jockeys will be denied privileges of the grounds
