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New Jersey Notes MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 26. Jockey Ira Hanford has brought joy to the hearts of a lot of "golfers" who annually participate in the Monmouth Park tournament, scheduled in the latter part, of the meeting. Hanford, one of the top club swingers in racing, has announced that he will not play." Hereafter, he plans to confine his golfing activities to the winter season. Glen Haines, the former jockey, is handling the colors in the Monmouth- Park jockeys room. The condition book for the hurdle season at Monmouth Park, which begins on Tuesday, July 13, is off the presses and available at the secretarys office here, Aqueduct, Belmont and Delaware Park. Two stakes are listed, the Monmouth National Maiden Hurdle on July 16 and the Midr-summer Hurdle "Handicap on July 30. Only nine horses had been claimed during the first eight days of the meeting, but three of them had been taken from the stable pf Ralph Metcalf, handling the Elkcam horses. Metcalf, however, made the top claim of the meeting to date, taking Ifabody from Brookfield Farm for ,000. A suspension handed William Hartack by the Monmouth stewards has cost him a mount in the Colleen Stakes on July 3. He had been engaged to handle R. N. Websters Sorceress, winner of a division of the Polly Drummond Stakes at Delaware Park recently. Starter Eddie Blind -was taking some good-natured jibes in the stable cafeteria the other morning. They wanted to know how he spent all those years as an assistant starter without getting hurt, and then Tuesday was kicked by Miss Fran when be came down from his stand to help un- tangle a couple of horses in the gate. Blind is extremely sore on his left side. Trainer Cy Butler is purchasing horses for a newcomer to the sport, Dr. Gilbert Fineman of Elk Park, Pa. Doc "Walker, four-year-old son of Revoked, who races for James Cox Brady, was beaten narrowly Thursday in his return to action after a long layoff, but his effort was good enough to indicate that he may be a stout factor in a number of stakes coming up later in the meeting. The gelding has been nominated for the Salvator Mile, the six-furlong Rumson, the mile and a quarter Monmouth Handicap and the mile and a sixteenth Long Branch. Handicap. W. C. Partees Winning Count gave further evidence Thursday that he may prove a formidable opponent for the top three-year-olds when he won his second victory of the meeting. His time of 1:44 for the mile and a sixteenth was better than that of any previous Lamplighter Handicap winner, with one exception and the Lamplighter, on July 10, is Winning Counts first stakes engagement. Charley Burr, just back in action after an automobile accident, registered his first success of the meeting on Winning Count. Through one of those freaks of racing which occur on occasion, of the list of seven leading jockeys four have been on the sidelines at this meeting for one- reason or another. Bill Hartack in second position and Basil James, standing fifth, are both under suspension now while Sam Boulmetis missed some races because of illness and Dave Gorman has been idle a couple of days due to a badly bruised heel. , Apprentice Robert Barnett, who has been riding at Waterford Park, joined the jockey colony at Monmouth Park. He is under contract to Leonard Hunt. Trainer George Strate, one of the vet- erans of the business, was an arrival from : New York with two horses. J : rated by a neck, while a similar distance back in the three-way photo was George T. Weymouths Our Emblem. Adopt, under Norman Cox, was timed in 1:1? and returned 0.40.
