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Here and There on the Turf Possibilities for Oaks. Outline Seems the Best. Track Handicap at Latonia. Aqueduct Comes Saturday. Priscilla Ruley, by her excellent race Tuesday, won new importance as an eligible for the Coaching Club American Oaks, the closing feature of the twenty days meeting of the Westchester Racing Association at Belmont Park. Mr. "Woodwards speedy daughter of Ambassador IV., the sire of St. James, and The Beef, by Trap Rock, gave an excellent account of herself when she beat Margin, Eagerness, Venus and Filomar over the mile of the race and worked out to a mile and an eighth in a fashion to suggest readiness for her race of Friday. The Coaching Club American Oaks is at a mile and three-eighths. It is truly a trying test for three-year-old dies, but Priscilla Ruley seems to measure up to each a task. It is peculiar of the sons and daughters of Ambassador IV. that they are qualified to race over a long route and this filly seems to inherit the family trait in no small measure. Should Priscilla Ruley be the winner Friday it will be the first time that the Belair Stable has triumphed in this important stake and it will go a long way in atoning for the showing of Aga Khan in the running of the Belmont Stakes, when he raced below expectations. Priscilla Ruley was bred by Mr. "Woodward and that naturally makes all of her accomplishments doubly pleasing to the sterling sportsman and breeder. At this writing it would seem that Priscilla Ruley has most to fear from the Rancocas Stables Outline, the filly that will doubtless be chosen by Hildreth to carry the white and green of his employer. Outline is a daughter ■ of Chicle and Sketchy, by Peter Pan, and was I bred by H. P. Whitney, being one of several that were purchased by Mr. Sinclair as a yearling. This filly has been coming up to the Friday engagement in excellent style and, though she was recently beaten by Joseph E. Davis* Relentless, there was every excuse for • that defeat from mistakes that were made in the race. Relentless herself must not be overlooked in considering the possibilities in the big filly fixture. She is in rarely good form just now and has shown ability to go on that gives her an undoubted chance. She is a daughter of Vulcain and Himation, by Her-mis, and was bred by the late H. T. Oxnard. She only cost Mr. Davis ,200 as a yearling at the Saratoga sales, and has already proved to be a remarkable bargain. She is surely close to the top of her form at this time and is sure to have many supporters Friday. And 1 Kentucky will be well represented in the stake if Princess Doreen races to expectations. . This good daughter of Spanish Prince II. and Lady Doreen, by Ogden, Ls of rare blood lines, and even though her Kentucky Oaks victory • carue only after the disqualification of Glide, , she must be given consideration. This filly was bred by John E. Madden and sold privately to Montfort and B. B. Jones of the I Audley Farm. These just about make up the I contenders for the Coaching Club American i Oaks. The other eligible?, for the most part, , have been tried and found wanting. Trainers at Latonia are beginning to despair • of the track ever becoming fast again. For f the first seven days of the meeting there have J pnly been two days, last Friday and Saturday, [ 1 . • , I I i , • f J [ when the going was fast. It will be remembered that on Friday, when the track was fast, Mrs. Louise Viaus Audacious equaled the mile and seventy yards track record of 1:41%. This would indicate that the horses are fit and ready if only the weather and track conditions were favorable. Rains have been of almost daily occurrence and the wonder of it all is that the meeting has been meeting with success in the face of such adverse conditions. But all along the crowds have remained faithful. They have been more liberal than ever before in their patronage and it is an ill wind that blows no good, for the horses which are at home over the muddy and heavy going have been reaping a harvest. The Latonia Derby is not to be decided until June 28, two weeks from Saturday, and there stiil remains an ample chance for the long delayed summer weather to put in an appear-, ance. There is consolation in the fact that with all of the bad weather piling up at this time it is natural to expect that there is to be compensating bright sunshine and a fast track surely not much farther away. Earlier in the year the track condition at Latonia would be a serious handicap to the preparation of the Latonia Derby candidates, but at this time most of them have already been hardened by actual racing and any interruption in preparation is not as serious a handicap as it would be in bringing a soft horse up to a race. Saturday there will be a change of scene for New York racing, when the racing moves over to the old Aqueduct track of the Queens County Jockey Gub. The opening feature, as usual, is the Brooklyn Handicap, the weights for which were announced several days ago. At that time it seemed that Aga Khan was in exceedingly well when only asked to shoulder 97 pounds. But that was before the running of the Belmont Stakes, in which he failed so signally. Now as the weights appear Mr. Mutt has a big advantage over Mr. Woodwards celt when he is handicapped ut 99 pounds. This is simply taking a line through the running of the Belmont Stakes. It is not meant by this that these colts are best of the three year olds that are engaged. They are far from being the best, but it is just set down to show the difference that was worked in the handicap by the running of the Belmont Stakes. It is possible and probable that Aga Khan is a three-year old that does not know how to carry high weight successfully. That was pretty thoroughly demonstrated by a comparison of the Suburban Handicap and the Belmont Stakes. Weight always makes a difference. It is by difference in weight that horses are brought together, but there always are horses better able to take up weight than others. It is a test of racing ability and Aga. Khan has failed to show that ability.
