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Colorado Notes CENTENNIAL PARK, Littleton, Color, May 27. Darrell Cannon brought in five head belonging, to Mrs. John W. Marchbanks. He will also condition seven head for J. H. Thatcher, former Colorado . Racing Commission member, and a pair owned by T. D. "Pinky" Grimes. H. M. "Mickey" Dwyer, mutuel manager at Centennial race track for the past two meetings, arrived over the week-end to discuss this years operation with officials. Dwyer came here from San Mateo, Calif., where he handled the pari-mutuel department at Bay Meadows. Tod Netterfield arrived from Golden Gate Fields with the two -horse unit of Vermont n and Tobys Girl. Vermont II., an Argentina-bred, set a three-quarter mile track record in 1:09 here in 1950 that still stands. H. R. Talmage of Tucson, whose Heno. Sissy captured last years Colorado Futurity at Centennial race track, has another promising candidate for the same event in String A Way. Both have exceptional breeding, being by Piggin String out of Wayward Girl. Col. Phil T. Chinn, who maintains Old Hickory Farm in Lexington, Ky., advised director of racing Barry Whitehead that hes sending his stable here this summer-under the guidance of his grandson, Hal W. Steele, Jr. ; H. M. "Bud" Robineau, president of Centennial race track, has a three-year-old filly, Fitz, running at New York tracks. The youngster is being handled by J. P. "Sammy" Smith. Robineau plans to bring Fitz back to Colorado, when the meeting opens here. Director of racing, Barry Whitehead, has borrowed ari old-time "tote clicker" from Churchill Downs to place on display during the coming meeting. The old hand-operated board was used at the Derby course shortly after the turn of the century. It has already created much interest among visitors to the racing secretarys office, where it is being kept temporarily.
