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Michigan Notes PAIR GROUNDS, Detroit, Mich., May 19. Doc Linabery, veteran program editor, is looking after those leaflets again this season at the Fair Grounds. Harry Bort, who has handled admission staffs at many of the larger sporting events in Detroit for years, is in charge of the gates at the Fair Grounds this season. Don Gardner, former newspaper scribe, who did a fine job with public relations before the Michigan Racing Association opened its 80-day meeting, is a daily visitor at the track. Brownell Combs Sequence, crack homebred three-year-old daughter of Count" Fleet and Miss Dogwood, and Dr. Eslie Asburys good mare, Brownian, are to be shipped to the Fair Grounds and the pair is to be conditioned by J. Price Sallee, who is also looking after the Thomas Piatt and Dr. Charles E. Hagyard thoroughbreds. Edward Meloncon, who handles the Mrs. S. Diaz thoroughbreds, arrived from Baltimore and registered Trance Sleeper, Nickie C, Maneen, Lady Nina, Dandy Pete and Petriad. Trainer Douglas Sekicky, who conditions the C. S. Popovitz estate horses, received Stone Hill, Gotanotion and Victory Blue from Toronto, Canada, and he will campaign the latter trio here for Lyle Dilger. Jockey Don MacAndrew arrived from Chicago and. accepted the mount on Buckley and Locklears Low Tension. J. W. Johnston, trainer of a large public stable, checked in from Churchill Downs with 13 horses. The Johnston-conditioned establishment includes McCosh, Kindly Miss, Coo, Four Pets, Cock Crow, Check Me In, Leading Man, Aunt Dora, Good Heaven, Country Editor, Dustlight arid Waza Wana. Through the cburtesy of MRA president E. E. Dale Shaffer, a television set has been installed in the jockey scale room for the local reinsmen. Mrs. George Haggarty, wife of the Michigan Racing Association Vice-president, sent a table tennis outfit toNthe jockey quarters. Harry Roble, custodian ot the jockey room at the Fair Grounds, reports that 48 riders are now registered here. Several other crack reinsmen are expected after the close of the Churchill Downs meeting."
