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Maryland Notes PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 8. William Zakoor claimed Excel Lad from Mrs. Jimmy McGee out of yesterdays Pim-lico program for ,500. Zakoor has been a most active member of the halter brigade this spring. Yesterdays handle of 69,130 bettered the same Monday a year ago when 47,647 was handled. A year ago there was no steeplechase. Attendance was slightly under a year ago, 9,754 against 10,060. Genancokes victory in the first steeplechase of the season was pleasing to trainer Jack Skinner, for the nine-year-old son of Gino has been very consistent, failing only once as a three-year-old. Yesterdays victory brought his total earnings to 5,871. E. W. King, who is campaigning at Garden State Park, has secured stalls at the local course and will have five representatives here throughout the meeting. King saddled a winner here yesterday in Billie. Sam Boulmetis, who rides for King, also will commute between the two points. Mrs. Charles E. Nelsons Winship will be transferred to Garden State for a week-end engagement in the 5,000 added Colonial Handicap, a six-furlong event for fillies - and mares. Trainer Pat Brady will supervise - the shipment and saddle the filly for * her New Jersey race. L. E. Stoddard, Jr.s, Port Raider Is due e in today from Belmont Park to fulfill his is engagement in Fridays Jervis Spencer * Steeplechase Handicap. Trainer E. C. Coates is handling 20 0 racers who will campaign for Mrs. W. W. T. Vaughan. Coates, who recently conditioned d a small string for his wife, will continue to o train the Vaughan string until Royal Roberts is able to resume his duties in this [I capacity. Roberts suffered a heart attack k earlier in the season while active at Pim-lico. i- L. E. Torreyson, who campaigned during g the early days of the Bowie meet, has transferred j_ four head to Beulah Park. They y were Grand Mars, Green Isle, Fast Freight tt and Halogi. C. O. Ferguson, who maintains a farm n at Mt. Airy, Md., advised this morning that it his two top mares, Crowflight and Patsy y T., are in Kentucky to visit the court of f the imported, Rustom Sirdar. Dan Katz, Wilmington, Del., patron who .o is building a modest stable under trainer :r Willie Zimmerman, augmented his string g by one Wednesday with the acquisition of f Thistle Jay via the claiming route. The [I k i- g j_ y tt n it y of f .o :r g of f amount involved was ,000, with Katz ■ "outshaking" another prospective claimant. L Richard Pending this morning shipped d New Nation and Mebon to trainer Hirsch h Jacobs in New York, while Brave Lass, s. Luscious Fruit and Born for It have been n transferred to Cannady Farm. Escarp, Kipper and Heres Luck were e arrivals at Pimlico from Charlottesville, %t Va., consigned to trainer W. G. Jones. — Attendance and wagering figures for »r Pimlicos opening on Saturday were encouraging. _ A crowd of 15,821 was on hand d compared to 15,714 a year ago, and this is despite threatening weather. The handle e of 91,873 beat last years 36,892 and d this too, was considered a good showing g since the Dixie Handicap was only a four-ie - horse affair with no show wagering.
