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New Jersey L By William Phillips William Penn Back on Jersey Schedule Give Busy Harvest Call for Top Honors Lloyd Murray Injures Lame Leg in Fall GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 8.— Two-year-old colts and geldings receive their full share of attention during the current meeting with the resur rection of the 0,000 added William Penn Stakes. This five-furlong sprint was dropped from the local stakes agerida last spring, but its absence left a gap in what otherwise was a fully-rounded stakes schedule that offered every age and sex group its opportunity. The William Penn is being run for the 14th time on Wednesday and, although the field of nine is lacking in previous accomplishments, they appear a. promising lot who should provide a line on the juvenile situation here in Jersey. Hunter Lyons one-eyed Florida-bred, Busy Harvest, will likely be the post time favorite. He brought a good record of farcing from Miami last winter and he will be ridden by Willie Hartack, whom the Jersey patrons virtually adore. Needles has done much to erase the stigma often associated with Florida-breds in the past, although technically the Kentucky Derby winner wat bred, in Kentucky and only foaled in Florida. Busy Harvest is a Florida-bred in the complete sense* and he is by the unfashionable sire, Harvest Reward. His dam is Busy Sis, who is by another sire of honest but unpretentious class, Busy K. Disregarding his bloodlines, which can be a misleading factor, we turn to his record in competition. Busy Harvest has been a slow breaker, but a fast finisher. His best race was in the Gulfstream Park Juvenile Stakes in which he finished third, beaten a length and one-half, by Encore and Kildee. Brook-meades Encore last week finished third in th Youthful Stakes at Jamaica. Other than the fact that Busy Harvest broke, he ran equally as good a race as Encore in the Gulfstream stakes. Encore found room between horses in the drive, while Busy Harvest was forced to circle wide, and he finished fastest of all, literally running over contention. Supper Money, Burma Charm Recent Winners R. T. Curleys Supper Money and Claiborne B. Carters Burma Charm both were easy winners the opening week of this meeting and they are well enough seasoned to prove .dangerous in a stakes race. The others are mostly an unknown quantity to us, although we are slightly familiar with Jumping Brook Farms Jumping Brook, a son of Rippey who is named as an entry with Gerald F. Stricklands Balaklava II. The first mentioned of the duo to be saddled by trainer Tommy Heard Jr. was reputed to have outworked every youngster at Gulfstream Park with whom he trained. He finished fourth in his lone Florida start. Jumping Brook broke in front, but his jockej used the whip ambitiously and it was our thought at the time that he sulked from this unaccustomed chastisement. "Walter Blum, who was to have ridden Busy Harvest -in the William Penn, was released from the assignment by trainer Frank Moore so that the capable reinsman could ride Maine Chance Farms Myrtle Jet at Jamaica Wednesday in the Correction Handicap. Blum has recently been the top-string rider for the stable owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Graham. . . . Lloyd Murray, who has the Boncrist Farm horses, was thrown from his pony who was acting up approaching the gap to the racing strip this morning. He fell on his lame leg and the bone splintered through the skin near his shin. Murray was taken to Cooper Hospital for an emergency operation and he will be laid up for several weeks. . . . Trainer Jack Long, of the Darby Dan Farm, was luckier and escaped with only a bruise when he was kicked this morning. Long was in the stall vitll Star Captain, one of the star juveniles, in the barn, and the son of Errard lashed out and landed his hoof on the upper part of Longs leg. Hartack, Burr Get Valley Forge Mounts Willie Hartack is scheduled to ride Calumet Farms Commodore M. this Saturday in the Valley Forge Handicap here. . . . Charlie Burr will handle Darby Dan Farms Skipper Bill if he is a Valley Forge starter. . . . Laurence Eversole, Covington, Ky. jockey who retired from the saddle in the late 40s, has taken over the engagements of jockey Layton Risley. . . . Trainer Art Caccese has shipped Dionysia and Fancy Set to Wheeling Downs for a campaign on the West Virginia circuit. . . . Trainer Frank Beattie has sent Billies Beam to be freshened up at the Willow Brook Farm in Pennsylvania. Tom J. Barry, the close-mouthed Irishman, has returned to Garden State with Joseph Gavegnanos High King. The Heliopolis colt finished 10th in the Kentucky Derby. Barry reported that he came out of the race and shipped back in good condition. Asked if High King had any excuse in the Derby, he replied, "Yes, he wasnt good enough." . . . High King is nominated to the 0,000 Jersey Stakes to be run here on May 26, but Barry was not saying yet if the colt was being pointed for it. . . . Kenny Noe says that he would like to start Mr. Patrick in another overnight race, and then try him in the Jersey Stakes at nine furlongs. . . . Telepost, a half-brother to Mr. Patrick, won the eighth race here on Monday, but pulled up lame. . . . Tommy Heard Jr. lost a consistent breadwinner when Warmed Over, owned by his wife, Anita, was claimed from the fourth race yesterday by E. W. Kinjr.
