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Belmont Park . il-- By Chuck Connors Jamaica Training Track Near Completion Will Help Horsemen in Preparing Charges Arcaro to Ride Traffic Judge in Peter Pan BELMONT PARK, ElmontrL. I.» N. Y., June 1.— An improvement, an important one to horsemen at the Jamaica oval, is about completed and will be ready for use in another couple of weeks. The innovation is a three-furlong training track, equipped with two chutes, and is located back of the fiye-furlong pole on the rear stretch. The strip is 50 feet wide and the soiLjis a mixture of sand and loam, with the first-named material predominating. The training track was designed and carried out as a means of "legging up" a horse in early training and to relieve some of the con gestion during the spring months on the main strip. The new training strip, according to horsemen stabled at the New York boulevard course, will fill a long-felt want, for it replaces the "bull ring" which was laid out by horsemen in the long ago and offers a much safer ground over which to gallop. Track superintendent Dick Strickland has worked over the project for many months and the other morning the posts to support the rails on the outer and inner perimeters were pounded into place. The grading machines were then ordered onto the surface and this work is expected to be completed in another week. The rails will be placed in position as soon as the grading is completed, and then another brief interval will be imposed for the track force to start harrowing and putting on the finishing touches. Jamaica will thus join Belmont Park as the only Long Island tracks to boast of a training track. The Belmont Park training ground is one mile in circumference, against . the shorter one at Jamaica. * Ship Maharajah for Suffolk Turf Stake Jockey Eddie Arcaro will ride Traffic Judge, owned by Clifford Mooers, in the Peter Pan on Saturday. ... Maharajah, owned by the Greentree Stable, will be shipped to Suffolk Downs for his start in the turf race, at that point next Saturday. Jockey Ted Atkinson will do the riding chores. . . . J. H. "Slim" Pierce of the Pin Oaks Stable stated that the two-year-olds in the menage have recovered from bucked shins and a siege of the cough and are back in training. James Aber-crombie, part owner of the menage who was here for several days, returned to his Houston home. Before leaving he stated that his daughter, Mrs. Robinson, the former Josephine Abercrombie, will present a horse show in Houston for the benefit of the crippled children of that city. Beechpark, who came over for the International Steeplechase, was returned to Ireland and landed a victim of the cough. The perm evidently was picked up during his stay here. . . . Bill Trundle and Vince Mara, from Monmouth Park, converged on this area seeking nominations and shipments to the New Jersey scene for the spring and summer meeting. . . Apprentice Barney Martin, he served three years in the Navy, accepted his first mountySince his discharge yesterday. He has a couple of winning mounts to his credit and started out with James Fitzsimmons at Aqueduct. He hails from Hialeah, Fla. . . . Trainer George M. Odom returned from Delaware Park, s where he saddled a brace of starters yesterday. . Trainer Charlie Shaw will leave for Toronto, Ont.,* to witness the running of the Queens Plate at Woodbine. This will be the final year that the stake will be contested at that track. . . . Trainer Fitzsimmons, in discussing Nashua, stated that following the running of the Belmont, the plans for the Belair colt were not definitely decided. He was uncertain about the Dwyer at Aqueduct, but positive about the Classic at Arlington Park. . . . Trainer Holly Hughes of the Sanford Farms is toying with the idea of starting Sacandaga, an easy winner on Tuesday, in the week-end Peter Pan. . . . The annual Aqueduct clambake will be held on Sunday and those invited are requested to remit their acceptances or declinations before the big event. Ponder Future Engagements for Dedicate Eddie Burke, he races under the nom de course of the High Tide Stable, arrived from his Miami Beach home for a few days. He will confer with trainer Cary Winfrey over the future plans of his three-year-old Dedicate in the Belmont on Saturday, June 111 Dedicate showed some effects of the hard racing surface last time out at Garden State. . . . Joe Johnson, who rode at Belmont Park opening day 50 years ago, relayed word from Winsted, Conn., that he will be down for the running of the Belmont on June 11. Johnson at present operates a gas station in his native city. . . . Max Prey, the Chicagoan, dropped in for a few days visit. Jockey George Glassner will go to Suffolk Downs over the week end to ride in the turf race at that point. . . .Dr. J. M. Lee shipped the horses that he had here to Delaware Park for that meeting. . . . Alphabetical, owned by William Grady "Big Bill Williams, was ordered destroyed by the veterinarians following his fall in the steeplechase event yesterday. Alphabetical, • a nine-year-old gelded son of Jack High and Directory, suffered a broken shoulder in his tumble. . . . Trainer Morris Dixon has compiled an enviable record with Kaster, owned by C. Mahlon Kline, this year The six-*year-old son of Unbreakable and Felicia n. is living up to his breeding. He has started 12 times this year, always carrying more than 120 pounds, and finished in the money in nine of his starts. t C I I 2 5 i * I ~ 3 I I f T l l I % I f « 1 ? i Z 3 t
