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Michigan News and Notes FAIR GROUNDS, Detroit, Mich., May 26. John Zoeller turned »over Col. Phil T. Chinns Royal Wedding, Record High and Stop Me to R. F. Curran for conditioning. Zoeller has a large division of the Joseph A. Goodwin stable quartered at the Fair Grounds. The totalisator observers booth, which is now located in the press stand, is to be moved to a point directly in front of the field board. This change will alleviate crowded conditions in the press box. Jockey Charles Beasey has been granted a license and he accepted several mounts for his contract employer, Edward Melan-con, who trains the Mrs. S. Diaz stable thoroughbreds. Jockey Joe DAugustino checked in from Churchill Downs and entered the employ of Mose Lowenstein, veteran turfman, who has a useful stable quartered at the Fair Grounds. L. Hurwitz announced that Billy Lark-mead, who was recently put on the stewards list, has been taken out of training and turned out at a nearby Michigan farm. Jockey Peter Gifford, English-born graduate of the Detroit Jockey School, checked in from New England and was granted a license. Vic Citelli will make Giff ords local riding engagements. Kenneth Noe, who has six horses in training at the Motor City oval, returned from his Jeffersonville, Ind., home and resumed the conditioning of his public stable charges. Trainer James Arthur has engaged jockey Ronnie Nash to ride S. M. Newmeyers Turbine in the renewal of the Col. F. M. Alger Memorial Handicap, Mondays holiday stake attraction. Al Wellman, whose horses campaign under the silks of the Detroit Stable, Inc., has secured stalls for six horses due here from Ohio. Benny Civitello, clever apprentice under contract to James Radney, packed his tack and left for Delaware Park with his agent, Mark Fator. Civitellos papers have been leased to Aibert "Spec" Dunne, who has a large public stable quartered at the Wel-mington course. Walter J. Susini, who raced at the Detroit course during previous seasons, is a visitor. Susini, in ill health, is presently without horses. Jockey Euclid LeBlanc, who is affiliated with the Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffer Stable, will depart for New York Friday to handle The Fat Lady in the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont Park. Addison Stables good three-year-old, Arise, arrived here to fill his engagement in the Frontier Stakes, six furlongs Saturday feature. J. C. Bentley, trainer for the Addison Brothers, prominent Canadian thoroughbred breeders, is due Friday. E. E. Dale Shaffer, president of the Michigan Racing Association, outfitted the local jockey colony with a complete se$ of baseball equipment. W. E. Ball, who formerly campaigned at the Detroit Fair Grounds, was a business visitor Thursday. Balls stable is presently quartered at Thistle Down.
