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i Here and There on the Turf j i Policies for Oni Oni and Sallys Alley Differ. The Latter to Battle the Colts Again. Some Reflections Touching Man o War. That Montfort Jones intends to reserve his s good three year-old filly Oui Oui for races 3 against those of her own sex this year seems indicated. At least she was not named for , the Kentucky Derby and it has been announced that she was not named for the e Preakness Stakes. i This filly won three stake races at a mile e last fall, winding up with the Endurance p Handicap at Bowie, and went into winter r quarters one of the brightest of three-year-old d prospects. In each of these races she won a from colts and she earned her right to try against them this year. But Mr. Jones has s elected to make it a bit easier for the daughter !- of Sir Jchn Johnson. There are many who o will agree that he is pursuing a wise course c with his good filly. There is a temptation, with the many rich races that are offered for the three year-olds, ■ to ask a bit too much of a horse. Some of ,f of the races are close together and it is safe e to predict that most of them will be hard-fought |. races this year, judging by the number ,r of good two-year-olds of 1922. It is possible e that Oui Oui is being robbed of some fame e that might come to her, but it is a sure .e thing that if she is confined to filly races she e would last longer in racing. Willis Sharpe Kilmer has not been so considerate of Sallys Alley, the queen of the 1922 two-year-olds and the mistress of the colts, which raced her way gloriously to the top and was only beaten in point of money won by Richard T. Wilsons three-year-old Pillory. Sallys Alley has been named for both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, and the Binghamton turfman has every hope that the daughter of Allumeur and aivola-tile will repeat the wonderful performance of Harry Payne Whitneys Regret, Derby winner in 1915, the only filly to win the big race The death of Eugene Wayland wia a rea! t calamity to the turf, but it was doubly so to Mr. Kilmer and his racing string. It was Wayland who developed Sallys Alley and kept her going all year to place her far and away above the other two year olds, and it is natural that Wayland, more than anyone else, was qualified to carry her through her three year old season. The filly thrived on racing under Wayland 1 and before his sudden death he expressed I supreme confidence in her ability to beat the I colts this year, just as she had last year. . SaMys Alley was fairly well advanced when i she was shipped over to Havre de Grace, for • there is no better training ground anywhere : than that at Sun Briar Court, where she was ; wintered. The successor to Gene Wayland I has a certain advantage in the preliminary I work that was done with the filly. Probably • j i j i s 3 , e i e p r d a s !- o c ■ of ,f e |. ,r e e .e e she will be ready for all her engagements and may do all that Wayland could make her do, but Wayland had studied the miss from babyhood. She had developed to her queenly place under his able guidance and that gave Way-land his knowledge of the filly that will take as able a trainer some time to acquire. This reservation of a filly for filly stakes is a policy that is favored by many owners, and then there are some who will not race a two year-old, or a three-year old, out of his age division. Excellent arguments may be offered for such a campaign, but there have been good horse robbed of just a bit of fame when this was adhered to strictly. No better example of this can be found than in Man o" War. one of the greatest horses ever seen in this or any other country. He was robbed of much fame because, with the exception of one race, h special with Sir Barton, his racing was confined to contests wth those of his own age. He was the winner of twenty races in twenty-one starts and his one defeat, as a two-year-old by Upset, was one that he should not have suffered. But how much greater would have been his fame if, as a three-year-old, he had been permitted to race against older horses. He wound up his career in the Potomac Handicap at Havre de Grace. It was a three-year-old offering and he shouldered 138 pounds to beat such a good colt as Wildair, with only 108 pounds in the saddle. Man o War had been permitted to go right through the racing year without taking the place that should have been his in the handicap division. The campaign of Friar Rock was * vastly different one and he went to the stud with the I reputation of being the only three year-old I of history to win the Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps and the Sartoga Cup. Friar Rock did not excite anything like the censation created by Man o War, but these achieve-y ments, when pitted against older horses, gave I him a place in turf history that was denied the son of Fair Play and Mahubah by reason t of the manner in which he was campaigned, In 1920, when Man o War was a three year-old, Cirrus won the Brooklyn Handicap under 108 pounds, whi.e the Suburban fell to Paul Jones, a three-year-old, carrying -106 pounds. Paul Jones had won the Kentucky Derby and for that reason it is not likely that Man o War would have been required to give him much weight. But it is hard to conceive of a weight arrangement that would permit Paul Jones to beat Man o War. Samuel D. Riddles wonder horse won 49,465 in his twenty victories, but under different campaigning he would have topped that amount until he would have established a record that probably never would have been reached. -— _ .
