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2 Here and There 3 on the Turf 4 5 € Exterminator Must Wait a 7 While. Chickvale Now a Prominent 1 Preakness Candidate. Anna M. Humphreys Excellent Form. It was natural that there should be some disappointment when Exterminator barely i failed to win the Old Dominion Handicap at Havre de Grace Saturday by a matter of inches. It was the race that was to make him the champion American money-earning thoroughbred, but the three-year-old Chick-vale, with thirty-one pounds less to carry, forced a postponement of that attainment. Exterminator will have other chances later on and it is a foregone conclusion that he will be the champion American money earner before he completes his Maryland campaign. He now only lacks ,010. In the defeat of Exterminator in the Old Dominion Purse there came to the fore another of the three-year-olds that may be destined to play an important part in the big races for horses of that age. Chickvale is an eligible to both the Preakness Stakes and the Kentucky Derby, the first two of the great races for three year-olds, and in his defeat of Exterminator and the other older horses that opposed him he at once raced himself into new importance. This was the first start of the season for the son of Chicle and Green vale and the nature of his performance testified eloquently that James Rowe has not lost his skill as a "first time out" trainer. He has never had to race his horses into condition and the race run by Chickvale offers a line on what is to be expected from the others that will come from Brookdale. In the meantime, Richard T. Wilsons Wilderness has taken a long stride forward both the Preakness Stakes and the Kentucky Derby favoritism. His victory in the Chesapeake Stakes was a clean cut one and served j to further impress observers with his speed and fitness. This was a mile and a sixteenth 1 offering and, while under the weight arrangement he would have to concede ten pounds I to Chickvale, Rowe made no mistake when 1 he chose Exterminator for his opponent rather . than the son of Campfire and Genesta. It would be pleasing if Sallys Alley had I started in the Chesapeake Stakes, for it would have afforded a better fine on the topnotchers. The Kilmer filly has shown that she is back [ to the races as good as if not a better filly than 1 she was last year. Wilderness still has to 1 prove that he is her master. Trainer Tom Healey has begun his 1923 season auspiciously and at this time the prospects of the Richard T. Wilson stable are brighter than they were at the same time in 1922, yet Pillory wound up the year its great est money winner. And while Wilderness was brilliantly racing ? his way to a start in the Preakness Stakes and 1 Kentucky Derby, J. C. Milams Anna M. . Humphrey was brought out at Lexington to 3 be an easy winner of the Ashland Oaks. This s good daughter of Peter Quince and Eden IlaJl 1 has never tasted defeat. It is true that her r campaign as a two year-old was limited - she e was only raced twice— but one of these victories was in the Clipsetta Stakes at Latonia. i. . 3 s 1 r e i. Great things were expected of Anna M. . Humphrey in the Saratoga meeting, but she went amiss and was not again seen in public after her Clipsetta victory. Her triumph in i the Ashland Oaks was a decidedly impressive ■ on?, for she greatly outclassed her opponents I and raced in fast time over a sloppy track, The excellent form of this flying filly may • . i ■ I • 1 mean that Sallys Alley will have anything I but a clean sweep among the fillies of 1923. , as has been predicted for her by some good 1 judges. In fact, no three year-old ha* as yet t shown ands well in racing as Anna M. Humphrey ¥ did in the Ashland Oaks. Taking a line through the performance of f Major F. W. Whites Faskadale in the Cherry f I , 1 t ¥ f f Malotte Steeplechase at Belmont Park Saturday, it seems that the foreign-bred junipers are destined to play an important part in our steeplechasing this year. Faskadale is anything but an impressive horse. In fact, he looked less like a jumper than any horse in the field. But jumpers come in all shapes and sizes and this may be a good one, although it is probable that Major : White has better ones in his string, while others that are on their way over are sup- posed to be of better class. What is worth noting is that a horse of apparently such ordinary appearance was good enough to beat the American jumpers that opposed him. II he can win races the others should play a much more important part in that branch of racing this year.
