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, j ; • 1 . . 1 ; 1 i New Jersey Notes MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport. N. J.. June 24. Jockey Johnny Covalli has joined Monmouth Parks saddle fraternity and will see action throughout the balance of the season which continues through August 9. Tom OMalley, who suffered a broken shoulder last season while working for Jay-Cee Farm and has been training for a saddle comeback, remains inactive with * recent shoulder sprain. He expects to be in silks before the close of the Monmouth Park meet. White Skies, a candidate for the coming ; Select Handicap for three - year - olds, showed an excellent training move Friday I morning as he was clocked six furlongs in 1:14, going from the gate. Jockey Charles Burr, under 10-day sus- ! pension at Monmouth Park, left for his I Arkansas City, Kansas, home to spend his free time with his family . He returns to action during the week of June 30. When Confederacy, a two-year-old filly i by Balladier — Forerunner, stepped onto the j running strip last week all southerners in the crowd let. out a rebel yell. The colors she wore were a replica of the flag of the confederacy. Interest immediately focused on the owner of the horse, and a check of New Jersey racing commission files revealed that J. W. Denis, who registered the silks, is from White Oaks at Brentwood, Tenn. Denis is well known in Midwest breeding circles and is in the real estate i business in Nashville. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Cudahey. of the I well-known meat-packing family, arrived from their Chicago home over the week-I end and will remain for a few days. ! Cudahey has a useful stable campaigning here under the direction of trainer Paul L. Kelley. Jouett Shouses Cinda established a new record for the Regret Handicap when she won the first division of the event on Saturday in 1:11 Vs. The Regret has had but j three previous runnings and the best former time was the 1:11% hung up by Drifting Maid in 1950. When the Regret was divided with nine horses in each end, it marked the second time in Monmouth Park history that a stake was divided, the other being the 1949 renewal of the Colleen I Stakes. Apprentice Fred Ryan, a "double bug" boy who was prominent at the Garden State Park meeting, donned silks here today. The young contract rider for trainer Eddie Yowell has been sitting out a 10-day suspension handed out by the Delaware Park stewards. William J. Lee, prominent New Jersey thoroughbred fancier, has four yearlings romping on his Solar Farm acreage, three fillies and one colt. The fillies are by Vez- Reaping Reward and Why Alibi and Izano, the colt by Challedon. The Why Alibi youngster is a half sister to the good handicap runner, Chrisinda, and all were bred in New Jersey to become eligible for the 1953 renewal of the New Jersey Futurity.
