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Wagner to Ride Daylight Express Graves Story, assistant to William Hal Bishop, was called to paducah, Ky., last week end due to the illness of his wife. . . . Don Wagner has been engaged to ride Daylight Express in Saturdays Chicagoan. . . . Jockey agent Walter Haljean became a father for the fourth time when his wife presented him with a seven-pound, 10-ounce boy last Saturday. Mother and child are doing well at Mercy Hospital. . . L. M. a Weckworth has purchased Bloody Warrior fromMrs. H. B. Reid, and Harry Saladin has been engaged to do the training. .. . . Owner Pernie L. Grissom has a new "toy" in the form of a twin-motored plane, and is spending considerable time flying back and forth between Chicago and Detroit. . . . Joe Bollero has taken over the training of Dotty Noble, a two-year-old owned by Mrs Minnie Case. He succeeds Nick Burger. "What a horse," remarked jockey Dave Erb after having returned from Hollywood Park, where he rode Swaps to a new record Saturday. The purse was the richest ever won by Erb, who last season was the regular reinsman for Sir Mango, at that time the best runner in the Chicago area. . . . Trainer Mike McGee;- -° brought Bold Man and Desist from New York. Re- * , cently purchased them at the Belmont sale for the account of Patricia F. Hoban. Mikes brother, Robert, who is studying,,, for the .priesthood at St. Meinrad-Seminary in Indianapolis, stofred off for a visit. He is en .route to New Jersey- to spend a short time with his father, the well-known eastern tYandmer» Jimmy Mc-Gee. . . ..By Zeus, a; five-year-old mud and grass runner ,who w.ori the rich San -Juan Capistrano Handicap " aVSanta Anita in ld5i and was consigned to trainer Jake Lowensteih by trainer Buddy Hirsch, put in an appearaiice frqm California. Is owned by Mrs. Ed- l ard Lasker of Hollywood.
