view raw text
New Jersey Report By FRED GALIANI- Royal Note Arrives for Cherry Hill To Meet Right Down in May 79 Race Need for Horseshoe Board Stressed GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 11. One of the most highly regarded two-year-olds" of the young season, Wilton Stables Royal Note, arrived this morning for the coming Cherry Hill Stakes on May 19. Owned by Tilford L. Wilson and Carl T. Houston, of Lexington, who also bred him, the strapping bay comes into-town trailing clouds of glory. Winner of all three of his starts and a two-time stakes winner, the son of Spy Song Penroyal adds a touch of intersectional rivalry to the coming race. He has all the speed of his sire, breaking a track record in his debut at Oaklawn, and equalling the course standard in the La-Fayette Stakes at Keeneland. Just last Saturday at Churchill Downs he took the Bashford Manor over a slow track. He is certain to be tested by a big field of adversaries, including another unbeaten youngster, Sidney Jacobs Right Down, winner of the William Penn Stakes. Royal Note had been highly lauded even before he made his first start and he has lived up to his advance billing. The Cherry Hill Stakes should be an interesting event. AAA When Barker Seeley and Charlie Johnson were here last week showering: the place with stakes blanks, they ran into Tommy Heard, who said he wanted to keep Big: Bertha, the worlds smallest thoroughbred, foaled a month ago at Amory Haskells Woodland Farm, eligible for the New Jersey Futurity at Monmouth. "Then if t can find a boy small enough to ride her, Ill let her lead the others in the post parade." Seeleyretort-ed, "Dont worry. Maybe well write a race for two -year-old Jersey breds nine hands and under." John Turner, Jr., has arrived at the north Jersey course and is getting ready for the coming season. AAA The rain on Saturday and Monday focused attention on the lack of a shoe board. The information on whether horses are wearing steel or aluminum shoes, and whether they are caulked, is much sought after by a number of horse players. Jerseys other tracks have shoe boards as do the New York tracks. The best location would seem to be in the infield, over the tote board or alongside of the jockey change rack. . .William Foales Scobeyville, who broke down in the Long Branch Handicap last year when he had the race at his mercy, is coming along all right at Foales farm and has been bred to six mares... The tattoo crew has gone to Pimlico but is expected back next week to identify a few remaining horses . . . Among yesterdays rainy turnout were Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cudahy, of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Cort-right Wetherell, and Fred Hooper, of Alabama. . .Also in the crowd was Bill Ortlieb, of the Philadelphia brewery. . .Joe Mergler checked in with 12 head which he will cam- paign here. The unit is a division of Downy Bonsais large outfit. AAA Horse identifier Waiter Turnier has had to make corrections of 16 foal certificates which were wrongly filled out as to markings. He returned them to the breeders of the horses, who, in turn, must re-submit them to The Jockey Club. The markings on the foal certificates, along with the TRPB tattoo number, are two main guides in establishing the identity of a horse, although a capable identifier does not rely on these alone. Last year at Atlantic City, Turnier started the investigation of the horse Katric. Katric was entered in a two-year-old race and his papers stated as such, but Turnier was convinced the horse had the mouth of a three-year-old and recommended Katric be scratched. Later investigation proved Turnier to be correct and The Jockey Club cancelled the horsess registration. . .Frank Beaulieu, foreman for Lloyd Murray, announced the arrival of a seven-pound boy to the Mrs. at Hazard Hospital, Long Branch, N. J....Ivan Martin, father of Mrs. Charlie Gregg, wife of the publicity staff head, is in Physicians Hospital, Jackson Heights, Long Island. AAA Max Gluck owner of the Elmendorf Farm, came down from New York, accompanied by Robert Bricken, to watch his Snooty perform, but the race went to another New York raider when Lucien Laurin Continued on Page Forty-Three
