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Here and There on the Turf Juvenile Stake Dates. , Avoiding a Conflict. Weather and the Big Special. Junior Champion at Aqueduct. Colonel M. J. Winn is to be commended for the changing of the date for the running of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs this fall. It was originally intended that this great mile dash for two-year-olds would be run November 11, but it has been moved up to November 1. This change was made to avoid a conflict with the running of the Pimlico Futurity, also a mile race for two-year-olds. Many of the best two-year-olds are engaged in both of these rich races and the Pimlico Futuritys chosen date is November 7. By advancing the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes to November 1 it will become possible for eligibles to start in each. Last ysar the Pimlico Futurity was run first and was decided at the Baltimore course on November 3. It had sixteen at the post and resulted in a Kentucky victory when Edward R, Bradleys Beau Butler took the first money, which amounted to 154,030. The Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes brought out a field of ten starters and again Kentucky was victorious when Wise Counsellor, the subsequent conqueror of Epinard on Labor Day this year, was the winner from Mad Play, from the Ran-cocas Stable. The race was worth 6,990. The importance of the races in both Kentucky and Maryland when meetings conflict have afforded some problem in the past, and the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico has been run on ice same day as the Kentucky Derby, while in other years the races came so close together that it was impossible for an entry to fill both engagements. On other occasions this conflict has been happily avoided and it is always commendable to have these associations working together in the matter of stake dates, so that the horsemen will have the fullest opportunity with their horses. Weather conditions will play a part in the running of the International Special at Aqueduct Saturday. No stress of weather will prevent an enormous crowd baing on hand and it would seem that no kind of track condition will be a serious handicap to Epinard. It is the popular belief that Wise Counsellor would be suffering a handicap over other than a fast j track, but last year he ran brilliantly over tracks that were not fast. But it is admitted that most of his fame was achieved when the going wr.s fast. Ladkin has failed in muddy going and it was the track surface at Hawthorne that was blamed to a great extent for his defeat in the Chicago Derby. The son of Fair Play and Lading has not shown mud running ability, but it is possible that Aqueduct mud will be no handicap to him, for in every other respect he is particularly at home over the course of the Queens County Jockey Club. Then there is Zev to fall back on. While the son of The Finn and Miss Kearney has shown littb this year, he is a rarely good mud performer and, if a track of that character should be present Saturday, Hildreth will probably send him to the post. My Own, palpably short in the running of the Jockey Club Gold Cup, is another that is seriously handicapped when ths going is other than fast and it is not thousht likely he will be saddled unless it is firm. But no matter what the track condition, there are enough fit and ready eligibles to make it a great race and Epinard himself is well able to defend the fair name of the French turf. Col. M. J. Winn will pass up the racing at his home courss Latonia to be present for the racing at Aqueduct Saturday. Col. Winn was at Belmont Park for the running of the first Special, and it is a sure thing that when Epinard journeys to Latonia for the big mile and a quarter race on October 11, there will be many of the big men of the Eastern turf who will make the trip to the Kentucky course to witness the running of the race. To New York will go the honor of furnishing the first mile race for two-year-olds exclusively. This is tha first year that New York has had milo races for thoroughbreds of such tender age, and it is a big thing for the sport in the East. Mile stakes for two-year-olds have met with tremendous success- in Kentucky, Maryland and Canada, and doubtless they will be equally successful in New York. The Queens County Jockey Club is showing the way to the other New York associations with its Junior Champion Stakes, to be run Saturday, a big step in the right direction. This Junior Champion and the International mile coming on the same day, makes it indeed a big day of races. This Junior Champion Stakes has ,000 added, and its popularity was attested when there were seventy-eight nominations. This list contains the names of most of the good two-year-olds that have been shown, and. among the eligibles are Beatrice, Goldbeater, Nicholas, Swope, Sua Hathor, Blue Ridge, Young Martin, Joe Marrone III., Nedana, Nina, Swinging, Mother "Goose, winner of the Futurity; Senalado, and many another that has already shown high speed; . The Junior Champion Stakes is a real beginning in the matter of mile races for two-year-olds, and there is no reason why such races should not become a truly important part of the New York fall racing. Following the Aqueduct meeting, which comes to a close next Tuesday, the various jumping stables will journey to Maryland for the cross-country racing that is to be offered there. Havre de Grace, Laurel and Fimlico will each offer many an opportunity for the steeplechasers and some of the best are already on the ground. Laurel has a brand new steeplechase named in memory of Governor Ogle-and the Pimlico meeting is always a big one. Steeplechasing, this year has shown, a decided improvement and it is sure to be an interesting part of the racing at the three Maryland courses. -
