The Washington times., 1929-04-29
Turf News
By TY SHEA =

PIMLICO RACE TRACK, Nd,
April 29.-The Seagram stable of
Waterloo, Ont, has paid Jockey
Leslie Pichon in full and given him
his release. Pichon. who rode in
poor form for the Seagrams, has
departed for Kentucky, where he
will ride this summer.
Phil Goodwin, formerly with Bob
Smith, has been signed by the Sea-
grams and accepted his first mounts
| today.
Jockey George Duller, who will
ride the steeplechase horses belong
/ ing to Victor Emanuel. took series
of pictures of the c. NJ. Waite stall
starting gates used the past two
weeks at Havre De Grace. Duller
will take them back to England
and will endeavor to have the Of
ficials in England use some sort
Of stall gates for their flat races.
Johnny Tammaro, of Baltimore,
will ride the steeplechase horses
which Bob Smith is training this
year. He succeeds Specs Crawford,
who has opened a public stable in
New York.
At the conclusion of this meeting,
E. s. Welter, one Of Starter Milton's
assistants, will break the yearlings
belonging to r. J. Walden, of Mid
dleburg, Nd. Welter is starter at
Cumberland and Marlboro and is
we'll qualified to break young horses.
Steeplechase horses can be schooled
here every Monday. Wednesday ana
Friday from until 10 a. m. There
are more steeplechase horses per-
forming in Maryland this spring
than any other year. The first jump
| ing test is carded tomorrow and
some fine sport should result.
| Dick Pending. track superintend-
ent at Bowie, who was here today,
| states that a new State road is be-
| ing built from Collington to Bowie.
| 1t will be gravel and 80 feet wide.
! Pending will construct road from
| the track to the State road, thus
affording race fans several means of
getting to and from the Prince
Georges county course.
| Work will be started this week on
! parking space at Bowie to accommo-
| date 10000 cars. A woods Will oe
| destroyed and several gulleys filled
| in to make room for the new i'm
| provement.
There are % horses on the school
ing list. They were carried over
from the recent Havre De Grace
| meeting.
Jockey r. Halbert. who rode in
| fine form the past winter at New
Orleans, is here with the Waldrose
Farm. He came on from Chicago.
fields during the Kings Park, Mont
fields during the Kinks Park, Mont
real, meeting. beginning May IL. has
signed Bob Steele, of Baltimore, as
one of his best assistants.
Secretary and General Manager
Mattias L. Dagger, of the Maryland
Jockey Club, who has been Ill re-
Gently, was one of the earliest ar
rivals. He grew up from boyhood
around this historic track and 1t
would take more than a light illness
| to keep him away on opening day.
He had the plant looking prettier
than ever and deserved all the nice
| things said about him by race fans,
| scribes and horsemen.
The racing strip, due to hard work
! on the part of Track Superintendent
John Ryan, was fast. Quite feat,
when one stops to consider that 1t
rained for several hours yesterday.
| Walter J. Salmon brought party
of 10 down from New York and
entertained them at dinner in the
| Old Club House prior to the opening
race. He had high hopes of Dis;
play winning the $4,000 Dixie
Handicap, the days mile and three
sixteenths feature.
A dinner will be given officers
of the various hunts associations
of America on Thursday. prior to
the running of the Billy Barton
Steeplechase. Covers will be laid
for Is.
! Edward T. Brennan, who has
been i'll for the past 10 days, was
around lending valuable aid to Race
Secretary Frank j. Bryan.
Jack Campbell, race secretary at
Laurel, Is here as a placing judge.
He did fine work the past winter
as racing secretary at Tia Juana.
Officers of the Maryland Breed
ers Association will be guests 10 a
dinner here at Z p. m. Friday
C. L. Heiser is president of the
Rssocia ton, which has done excel
lAnt work during it's short career.