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New York Notes BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L; I., N. Y., May 29. W. S. Swerseys Cencerro will be vanned to the Delaware Park track where he will compete, in the 0,000 Brandywine Handicap on May 31. The three-year-old Heads or Tails was acquired at private purchase from the Cain Hoy Stable by Bobby Merritt. The Coldstream Stud horses in charge of trainer Pete Battle will be shipped upon the conclusion of this meeting to Chicago. Jockey Paul Glidewell will go to Chicago to ride for Coldstream. Trainer Woody Stephens shipped the horses Firm Peace, Hadrian and Flag o Peace to the Atlantic City course, where he will remain for the duration of that meeting. Jake Freedman, who has a large string at Belmont in care of Frank Kearns, is due from his Texas home on June 1. Louis DeLatour of New Orleans recovered from a brief illness and was at Belmont today. DeLatour has a fair-sized stable campaigning in New York. Bert Williams reports that four of tha ailing juveniles in the Circle M Ranch string have recovered and are now entirely normal, but that he still has some sick babes in the barn. Walter Burrows has leased for this season the horses owned by Townsend B. Martin. The lease is for the mourning period imposed by the death ol Mrs. Martin at her Connecticut home. Stake nomination blanks for the Arlington and Washington meetings in Chicago were distributed here. H. H. "Pete" Battle, who conditions the horses belonging to Mrs. E. E. D. Shaffer, shipped the three-year-old gray filly, Dumpling, and the three-year-old bay filly, Half Shot, to Atlantic City for a campaign at that course. An additional draft of horses consigned to trainer Max Hirsch of King Ranch arrived from Texas. They are Scatter, Safe Around, Stalemate, Damion, Cherry Soda, Flying Missile and Enscroll. Terry Farley, custodian of the jockeys quarters, reports that he has 406 sets of colors belonging to various owners on hand. There are 114 riders on hand at Belmont Park at the present time. Twenty of these are steeplechase riders. Trainer Jack Skinner reported the arrival of two foals at his Middleburg, Va., farm. They are fillies by Star Bacon from Masked Queen and Sir Lancelot from Mezzo Tint. The two mares were transferred to Maryland and bred to Confiado, the Qouth American-bred.
