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Here and There on the Turf Preakness and Derby Candidates Developing. Bo McMillan, Chickvale and Tall Timber Enhance Their Claims. Zev Slated to Start in the Preakness Stakes. Remarkable Irish Family of Turfmen. Richard T. Wilsons Tall Timber and Harry Payne Whitneys Chickvale were two candidates for the big three year-old races that made good at Pimlico Wednesday, while at the same time at Lexington T. J. Pendergasts Bo McMillan accomplished something worth consid eration when he won the Blue Grass Stakes. It was at a mile and an eighth and the son of Ballot and Nettie Hastings at least demonstrated that he is a good mud runner. Back of him were Anna M. Humphrey, Aspiration, Chittagong and Everhart, and at least three of them have bren prominently mentioned from time to time as among the best of their age. The fact that Bo McMillan took up his weight and won over such a distance made the race important and one to indicate that, should the going be heavy at Churchill Downs on May 19. he may have better than an outside chance to win the Kentucky Derby. The race run by Tall Timber was only another proof that he is a remarkably fast sprinter. He gave away great lumps of weight and won in easy fashion. Doubtless he will be the sole hop3 of Mr. Wilson in the Preakness Stakes Saturday and on his showing in that race will largely depend whether or not he is to be sent to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby. It was a real calamity that Wilderness should go amiss whfn his prospects were so bright, but Tall Timber may be a colt well able to carry on for the stable. Chickvale has proved himself before and when he defeated Exterminator at Havre de Grace at once came into importance in any consideration of the Preakness and Derby pos sibilities. When he won the Arundel Purse at . a mile and a sixteenth he readily disposed of three that have been named for the big three-year eld races, but the victory was only evidence that the gocd son of Chicle is coming up to his important engagement still in first-class condition. At Jamaica Great Man, from the Riviera Stable, was also a winner, but his success at five and a half furlongs did not m?an much. He failed so utterly in his previous race, in t which August Belmonts Messenger also disappointed, that this race does not say much in his favor. As a matter of fact, with the possible exception of the Rancocas Stables Zzv, no three-year old has yet been uncovered during the I New York racing that can begin to compare I with the best of the three year-olds that have I bren racing in Kentucky and Maryland. Zev will be a starter in the Preakness Stakes Saturday, barring accident, and that race should ! . t I I I ! thoroughly demonstrate whether or not he is merely a sprinter, as some of those who watched his winning of the Paumonok Handicap have maintained. Since his Paumonok Handicap victory Zev has trained exceedingly we.l. Hildreth has a fashion of making his horses run all the way and the fact that he is sending him to start in the Preakness Stakes is in itself proof that he has no doubt concerning the ability of the colt to stay. Zev is bred to go on ; he is ready, and much depends en the running of the Preakness Stakes to place him just where he belongs among the three-year-olds. When Harry S. Page rode old Gold Plate »t Belmont Park at the United Hunts race meeting much was made of the age of both the horse and the rider. But over in Ireland Harry Beashy, of the famous Beasley family of gen tleman riders, now past his seventy-first birthday, rode his old mare Pride of Arras to victory over the four miles of the difficult Punchestown course en April 10. Only three completed the trying journey and this robust old man of the sadcl", with 159 pounds up, was first over some of the best cross country riders, where there are real riders. St. Jago, second to Pride of Arras, on the following i day, won the Conyngham Cup. The fame of the B?asleys has been world wide for generations and the venerable but still vigorous Harry has a younger generation of the clan riding as straight and true as has been the family tradition. No Liverpool Grand National seemed complete without one or two of the Beasleys in the race and Thomas was on the winner on three different occasions. Harry, whose most recent success has just been mentioned, won i with Come Away in 1891, just thirty two years ago, while William, another brother, finished second on Frigate in 1888. In the saddle for more than fifty years, i Harry Beasley is a striking example of the clean living, vigorous sportsman. There are other old men of the turf, for no sport is better calculated to bring robust , health, but Harry Beasley stands alone for • his marvelous skill and vigor in the saddh at : his advanced age. It is in part his calling that : , • : : enabled him to reach his ripe age with reten-t tion of the snap of youth that is so essential for race riding. The Punchestown course, over which he piloted Pride of Arras to victory, is one of the most difficult of all courses and it is an adage as old as the course itself that the horse racing successfully there needs no further education for the Liverpool Grand National. And Harry Beasley is not through yet. The grand eld man will go en through the year, for he is as hale and hearty now as many a man less than half his age.
