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Here and There on the Turf Sarazens Defeat. Filling the Races. Pimlicos Big Day. There may be a different opinion about the rhowing of Mrs. Vanderbilts Sarazrn at Jamaica Friday, but all must agree that the race was not within many pounds of being as impressive as the showing of George D. Wideners St. James when he was an easy winner of the Paumonok Handicap on the opening day of the meeting. It will not do to take the performance of Sarazen in the race seriously as an index of his present form. It was too far below what he has been showing in private to be true and too far away from all of the races that he won last year. Sarazen may not be a champion this year. He may have lost some of his two year-old brilliance, but the Lynbrook Handicap was f little or no value in demonstrating his present worth. While discussing Sarazen it might be worth while to say a word for Bracadale. The race run by the son of Fair Play and Loch Linnhe was a smasher when he finished out the three-quarters in 1 :12. according to the official time. Bracadale was in receipt of eight pounds from Sarazen, but he gave seventeen pounds, on ihe scale, to as fast a horse as Brainstorm. He was giving ten pounds to the seasoned Thorndale and fifteen pounds to Lord Granite, one of the leading winners that raced through the Maryland spring season. The race run by Bracadale was a truly good one and he may prove a three year old depend trice of the stable. Hildreth showed another three -year -old Friday that raced brilliantly. This one is Finn Lag, a son of The Finn and ! .none, by Sain. He was not started last year, but ha« come out this spring a well-made and fast running colt. He equaled the track record of 1:05 for the five and a half furlongs, and the race was one that merits no end of respect. It is just a bit remarkable that with so many fit horses en hand the races at Jamaica do not fill better. For Friday it was found necessary to split one race into two fields of seven each because of the fact that an originally carded race did not fill. The card for Saturday was an attractive one, but it did not bring the response from horsemen that was deserved. Distances hae been ridiculously reduced in an effort to bring about fields of an interesting mzo. but it is of small avail. Only one of the races Saturday, the Kings County Handicap, was at a greater distance than three quarters. This brought a better response, but when it is I ossitle to fill programs in Maryland over lcnger and more worth while distances it j-hould be possible in New York. The horses are here and they are ready to run and it is up to the horsemen to give a better co opera tion in the furnishing of the entertainment. Pimlico has had its first big day of its sprin? meeting in the running of the 5,000 Dixie Handicap and the Green Spring Valley Stee plecha-*. This is the beginning of the revival of a famous old race in th Dixie Handicap Lnd it will doubtless continue one of the most valuable and the most important of the early handicaps. The Green Spring Valley Steeplechase was first run in 1907 and its roster of winners contains the names of many cross country per formers of note and its first winner was Dr. Keith. For that race it was worth 25 to the winner, while now it has an added money yalue of 15,000. This eld race was won twice by Algie and it was won by Sea Tab both in 1922 and 1923. Duettistc has the honor of carrying the greatest weight to victory when he scored under 164 ! pounds in 1920. The Welkin in 1913 took up i 163 pounds and successfully, and it was J. S. Cosdens Bullseye, whpn a four-year-old in 1921, that won under the lightest weight of any winner when he shouldered 135 pounds. of less than ,000 in added money and there will be a cross country event every day. The* Montreal Jockey Club races under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Racing Associations. In addition to the big end of the ,000 stake the winner of the Windsor Hotel Handicap will get a cup from the management of the Windsor Hotel, one of the oldest, best and most widely popular hostelries of the North. With the Connaught Cup purse goes a challenge cup presented by the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. The Duke, a field marshal of the British Imperial forces, an uncle of King George, was recently governor general of Canada. The support he and his IK pular Duchess accorded racing during their residency at Ottawa did much to popularize it. The Connaught Cup is restricted to horses foaled in the Dominion of Canada. A starting feo of hB5 is charged in the Connaught Cup, also in the Prince of Wales steeplechase and the Kindergarten The starting fee of the Windsor Hotel Cup is 0. No entrance fee is charged in any Montreal special or overnight races. •*
