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Maryland Notes PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 9. Steward Sears, business manager of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association, reports that the program for the annual yearling show to be held here Tuesday, May 19, will be available shortly. Jockey Jimmy Combest, who rode Royal Bay Gem in the Kentucky Derby last Saturday, returned to Pimlico and will be in action here for the remainder of the meeting. Combest has been handling the horses of Eugene Constantin, Jr., trained by Clyde Troutt. Additional bus service to the Pimlico race course from Washington, D.C, was announced today by Trailways bus line, its buses will leave the Trailways station at 12th St., and New York Avenue N.W., in Washington each day from 11 until 12:30 and will return after the last race. Stake nomination and condition books for the Arlington-Washington Park meetings are now available in the local secretarys office. They can be obtained from F. G. "Pat" Farrell. Three horses owned and trained by E. Barry Ryan, former director of the Maryland Jockey Club, were arrivals from Belmont Park. They are Home Fleet, Smasher and Staunch Friend. British Sea has been shipped to Pimlico from the Shamrock Farm at Winfield, Md., to join the string which trainer Carl Han-ford has in action at the local meeting. Trainer Joe Mergler advises that Mrs. R. H. Heighes Sate, injured in a Bowie race, suffered a fractured sesamoid in the left foreleg. Sate will be returned to farm quarters in the near future. The Baltimore Sports Reporters Purse will be one of the features of the Monday program at Pimlico and officers of that organization will be in the winners circle following the race to present a trophy to the winning owner. Regular weekly luncheon of the sports writers will be held in the members club at Pimilco and the men will be the guests of the management for this affair. Business continued .brisk at Pimlico on Thursday, the attendance being 10,204 and the handle 31,597. In view of threatening weather and an off track this was a remarkable showing since the first Thursday in 1952 was opening day and yet only 9,357 were on hand and play amounted to only 21,899. Jim Arthur became the first trainer to score two victories at the meeting when he saddled Cee Vee to carry his colors in the second race Thursday. Previously Jim had sent out Tampero to score, this victory also coming in the second race last Tuesday. Trainer J. Bowes Bond said today that Mrs. S. M. Pistorios Brazen Brat, recently purchased from the Bobanet Stable, probably would represent that sportswoman in the Baltimore Spring Handicap on May 16 and that Tuscany, recent winner of the Toboggan Handicap, likely would fulfill an engagement at Garden State Park. Racing secretary J. Fred Colwill has received word from New York that Mrs. Ray Staritas Giorgetti, a candidates for the Baltimore Spring Handicap on May 16 and three other horses will reach Pimlico the first of the week. F. G. "Pat" Farrell, a member of the racing secretarys staff here, is soliciting local horsemen in behalf of the stakes at Arlington and Washington Parks in Illinois. Farrell will depart for Chicago at the conclusion of this meeting to serve as assistant to racing secretary Frank E. Kilroe for the ! two Illinois meetings.
