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New Jersey Report By FRED GALIANI Errard King Hearing Racing Trim Being Pointed for Jersey Stakes Jockey Burr Running Into Bad Luck GARDEN STATE PARK, N. J., May 12. Errard King, one of the top performers of the New Jersey circuit last year, is re- covering from a quarter crack which he suffered soon after winning the Experimental Handicap and is ready to return to action shortly. The three-year-old son of Errard Darby Dover, trained by the capable Tom Barry, who is usually the -leading trainer at these meetings or right there, is being pointed for the Jersey Stakes. This 0,000 event on the last Saturday of the meeting, May 29, is at a mile and an eighth for sophomores and will test Errard King for the first time over such a distance. Winner of 7 out of 11 races in two years, Errard King started but twice this season after being wintered in Columbia, S. C. He was third in his first start, then came back to win the Experimental. Last year he won five races on Jersey tracks and romped in the Pimlico Futurity before failing in The Garden State, for which he was the choice. Errard Kings return will be eagerly awaited on this circuit. AAA Jockey Charlie Burr was involved in an auto accident last evening when his car crashed into a pole. He was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Camden. Speaking to him over the phone this morning, the lanky jock said that he was being: held for observation, for possible internal injuries, and that from what the doctors told him, he would probably be in the hospital for a week. Just the day before he was thrown from his mount, Blimey, at the start of the sixth race. Charley has been running into bad luck. Usually one of the leading riders at the session, he has found it tough sledding so far and has yet to crack the winners circle. AAA There has been foaling in the infield and the pair of swans that grace the lake are now followed by three little ones. . . John D. Mooney is on the lookout for horses to train and plans to get together a public stable . . . Working in the mutuels, beginning his second season, is Walter Cavanaugh, son of the late John G. Cava-naugh, who had charge of the books on the New York tracks before the -advent of the mutuels. Speaking of bookmakers, a few horsemen were reminiscing the other morning, and one of them recalled a character of those days who was accustomed to get a stake by cashing a 00 check with a gentleman of the lawn, making a 00 bet and taking another C note in cash. The check was seldom good. Thats the trouble with mutuels, you cant give them a marker. . . Sam Johnson, retired Camden chief of police, was much in evidence yesterday on the trail of some winners. . . Highest claim of the meeting so far was the 0,000 paid by Newland Stable for Neversink, taken from H. A. Kimball. As far as trainer Al Pupino is concerned the Camden Handicap is nothing but a big jinx race for him. Opening year of the track, 1942, he finished second with Valdina Alpha, beaten a nose. A year later the same horse finished second again.. Last year he tried in the sprint stake with Dark Peter and wound up in the place slot again. When Dark Peter duplicated Valdina Alphas performance Saturday, Pupino called it quits. Four seconds in four tries is too much. . .Basil James is compiling a good in-the-money riding record. Astride 16 mounts so far in the season he has won four, been second twice and third four times. . Jockey Robert Louis Stevenson, a native of nearby Philadelphia and a successful rider on the circuit, checked in from Chicago. He tried his hand in .the Windy City for the first time but got to longing for Jersey and returned home. "Too cold out there," was his comment. AAA Barney Tracey, Camden City detective, was out on one of his frequent appearances. Thats why he prefers the night side. With him was Bernie Lynch. Word seeping out of the Atlantic City dunes has Frank Fiore riding around in a snappy, glass topped new auto. . .Bullow, a well known performer on the New Jersey circuit, was bred to Greek Warrior at the Helis Continued on Page Forty-Three I NEW JERSEY REPORT By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Six farm and has been shipped back to Gene Moris East Acres Farm in Vineland. . .Mrs. E. H. Augustus, whose horses are trained by Jim Radney, was present Tuesday to see Canaris run in the opener, but was disappointed when the gelding threw his jockey and ran away before the start, eventually jumping the fence at the far turn. He was ordered scratched. . .Hughie Meehan was waiting in his car for a red light to change the other night when an errant "motorist plowed into his vehicle. Nothing was hurt but his car and vanity. . .George Ziegler, Newark restaurateur, made his first appearance this season.
