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Michigan Notes FAIR GROUNDS, Detroit Mich., June 7. Bill Dawson, who formerly managed the local mutuel department for the Detroit Racing Association, arrived from his Fort Worth, Texas, home and plans to remain for several days. Jockey W. m. Cook checked in from Suffolk Downs and will free lance during the current Detroit season. Cook was accompanied here by his agent, Pete Tmei. Apprentice Russell Gaudreau, under contract to D. W. Carroll, accepted his first mount yesterday astride Cresson Farms Knights Knave, who is conditioned by Gaudraus contract employer. M. Joseph Lynch, manager of the Michigan Racing Association, and public relations director Don Gardner visited the new site of the local racing organizations proposed track at Schoolcraft and Middlebelt Road on Sunday. Work on the new plant is to get under way in the near future, according to word from vice-president George Haggarty of the MRA. Jockey Paul Miller arrived from New York and will ride free lance here. Millers engagement book is in the hands of Early Taylor. Mose Lowenstein will ship Valdina Seer, Station Agent and Pistol to Lloyd Gentry in Toronto, Canada, and the trio is to be campaigned there. Robert E. Wingfield, who has a public stable quartered at the Fair Grounds returned from Latonia, Ky., after attending the wedding of his daughter, Betty, to Glen Pauley, on Saturday, at Holy Cross Church. Trainer Stanley "Buck" Hazzard shipped Fleet Roman and Harts Comet to River Downs where they will be conditioned by C. Ruebusch. Fleet Roman is the property of Max Stone, while Harts Comet will race at the Ohio course for Max Cogan. Trainer John Winans sent Extortion and Polka to owner E. W. Thomas Timberlawn Farm, Paris, Ky., and the pair is to be turned out there. Kenneth Noe, who has a useful public stable in training at the local oval, received the aged grey gelding, Onecbill from Churchill Downs and the son of Foray n. and Palma is to carry the colors of Edward Davis, of Louisville, at the Fair Grounds, Jockey Carl R. Miller, affiliated with the Cary C. Boshamer stable, accepted his first mount of the meeting, Tuesday, astride Boshamers Devils Breath,,
