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Here and There la on the Turf - B Trainer Garth Thinks Highly a of Martingale. May Depend on Golden Rule in Preakness Stakes. a Sallys Alley May Race Next ll Week. a all tl Of the various Preakness Stakes and Ken F tucky Derby candidates that are making ready in Maryland, those William Garth is fitting . for J. S. Coeden are the most advanced ir v condition. Dunlin and Martingale are the two i particular stars of the five that have been en- ji in gaged, but Golden Rule is being pointed par- d ticularly for the Preakness Stakes and has J shown some good moves at Pimlico. The rea- F son for Golden Rule being the Preakness Stakes choice of the stable is the fact that he is entitled to a twelve pound allowance over both l Dunlin and Martingale and at that advantage t will meet General Thatcher under equal c weights. Those who have been watching the 1 progress of the colts are probably unanimous I in the opinion that General Thatcher is a i better possibility than Golden Rule, but the r Preakness Stakes is not to be run until May 12 and there is still plenty of time for a re- 1 vision of this estimate. I But Garth need not carry all his eggs in t one basket, for he still has Dunlin and Mar- t tingale and it is only because of the allow I ance named that Golden Rule is meant par- 1 ticularly for the Preakness. He does not i measure up to the other two colts on past per- I formances and he is not as well advanced One of the recent workouts of Dunlin and I Martingale was a mile that shaded 1 :45 and it was accomplished with case by both. They : will be raced at Havre de Grace and both . have been named for the 15,000 Chesapeake Stakes to be run there. This race will be a valuable part of their training for the Preak ness Stakes and it is a race the winning of which would incur a penalty for any Preak ness candidate that had not already won ,000. Both Dunlin and Martingale incurred I that penalty last year and winning the Chesa peake Stakes would make no difference in their Preakness Stakes weight. Of these Cos-den stars Garth seems to consider Martingale the better and is firm in the belief that he can beat any horse that raced last year in the two-year-old division. It is Martingale that the astute Virginian has wagered on in the future books. Some other good judges prefer Dunlin to Martingale and this is not the opinion of men who have carefully watched the progress of the two colts ever since they arrived at Pimlico. It will be remembered that in 1921 when Garth had both Blazes and Paul Jones in the Kentucky Derby it was Blazes that was his chief dependence, but it was Paul Jones that proved the winner. In this connection Garth still contends that Blazes was the better horse and that Paul Jones won because of the fact that he had better luck in the race. Over at Havre de Grace Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sallys Alley, the greatest money win ning two year-old of last year, is attracting a great deal f attention in her preparation and at that pa-ticulur training grounds she is the most admired of the eligibles for the great three year-old races. She is another that in curred all the penalties by her brilliant rac ing as a two year-old and there is no reason for her dodgingpthe stake races that lead up • to the Preakness Stakes and the Kentucky ■ Derby. £he is named for the Chesapeake l Stakes and it is the present intention to send her to the post. Shields need not wait for the running of I the Chesapeake Stakes, for Sallys Alley is also named for the Harford Handicap on the open : . I • ■ l I ing day and, if the weight allotment is a favorable one, she may be the stable choice for that race. Naturally. Mr. Kilmer would rather win with Exterminator, the victor in 1922, but the old campaigner has not been training anything like as well as the filly and it is possible he will not be brought to the post in the same condition he was twelve months ago. The racing thus far at Bowie has been better than at any previous spring meeting o.f the Southern Maryland Association. The prospects for the remaining days of the meet ing promise racing as good. The crowds have been better both in number and character than ever before. Good racing is invariably rewarded by crowds of character and horses of character. Maintaining his reputation for framing pro grams that afford real racing, Joe McLennans program for Tuesday had five of the seven races at distances greater than a mile. Thi-program abo contained a race for the two year olds, so that only one race in seven foi horses older than two was at a sprinting dis tance. The horses engaged were of the selling plater variety, but that made no difference. They were required to show something more than merely alertness at the post. They were in a i measure tested for stamina as well as for speed. All that remains to be done at the Havre de Grace track before the opening is the re pairing of the steeplechase course. The track proper is at its best and fit to be raced over today and the making ready of the jumps in the field is not much of a task. The winil-i storm that blew down the train shed at the entrance made necessary some repair work, bu.1 that damage was in no sense any handicap to the track itself. Each day stables are mov-I ing in and long ago every stall had been reserved. Many of the horsemen have found quarters adjacent to the track for their horses, while others will be vanned over from Pimlico to meet their engagements as they arrive.
