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Here and There on the Turf Master Charlie Retired. Walden Outlook. Kentucky Season Waning. Winter Track Plans. The forced retirement of William- Daniels Master Charlie is unfortunate, for it was hoped that he would meet ths other aspirants for the two-year-old crown. But Master Charlie all through the racing season has been bothered with a splint that has prevented him meeting all his engagements, though his victories in the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga Springs in a large and fashionable field and his more recent triumph in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs will, in the opinion of many, stamp him as the best. Master Charlie gave an excellent account of himself in the running of the Pimlico Serial Weight-for-Age Race, over the mile distance, and it is entirely possible that the splint accounted for his defeat by Sun Flag. The imported two-year-old in that race, as he has done on other occasions, swerved out badly on the turns. This is easily accounted for by his infirmity, for Master Charlie is a true running colt with no bad habits. The running out was an effort to favor the ailing kg and it cost him many lengths, just as it did one afternoon at Jamaica, although he was the winner on that occasion. Master Charlie began his campaign early when he won the Tijuana Futurity. That victory, imposed a penalty that has made him take up considerable weight in all of his other " races. He shouldered 130 pounds in his Hopeful Stakes victory and until he went down in defeat on Saturday he had not lost a race after the Saratoga performance. Master Charlie has started twelve times and has won seven of his races. He has proved himself a colt of extreme speed and has also demonstrated that he is capable of maintaining that speed as far as any other two-year-old. Going into retirement at this time, it is more than likely that Andy Blakely will bring him back next year one of the best of the three-year-olds of . 1925. While there was general regret at the retirement of Master Charlie, there has come another retirement that is also regrettable in the decision that Marshall Fields Stimulus will not be raced again this year. Stimulus was not retired by reason of any infirmity, but merely because the decision was made that his campaign would end with his victory in the Pimlico Futurity. This was the most notable victory of the son of Ultimus, but he has proved himself a remarkable colt and his winnings for the year will reach well over the 70,000 mark. Stimulus was an eligible for the Walden Stakes, as well as a Kentucky stake race, and it was hoped that he would keep both of those engagements. With Master Charlie out, Stimulus would have been the top weight in the 0,000 added Walden Handicap, to be run at Pimlico next Friday. He had earned that place in the handicap by reason of what he has accomplished and it is not intimated that his weight assignment had anything to do with the retirement. He is sound and fit, but it was decided that he would be put away for the winter and reserved for the many rich three-year-old races to which he is eligible. With Stimulus out of the way, it is William Ziegler Jr.s Star Lore that becomes the top i weight in the Walden Handicap. This good colt has proved himself, over the mile route by his victory in the Junior Champion Stakes i at Aqueduct. Then in the Pimlico Futurity he : was beaten only a matter of inches by Stimu- j 1 4 ! 5 6 : : ; " i i : lus. At his assignment he is required to give a pound to both H. P. Whitneys Candy Kid and Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sunny Man and he does not seem to have been unfairly handicapped. But going back to the meeting between Star Lore and By Hisself at the Yonkers track of the Empire City Racing Association, there might be a criticism of the handicap. At the New York track By Hisself administered a sound beating to the winner of the Junior Champion Stakes. Then Star Lore came back to turn the tables on the Jeffords colt. The handicapper must always take into consideration the present condition cf horses and if the Pimlico Futurity was truly run, Star Lore is able to give By Hisself three pounds; if it was not, By Hisself will have a royal chance in the Friday race. Senalado, the Richard T. Wilson candidate for the Walden Handicap, has been coming up to its running in promising fashion. Following recent fast work that he has shown, he was a winner Monday and won in a fashion to suggest that a mille will be much to his liking. This colt is in under the feather of 102 pounds and with the penalty that comes from his winning he will still be a light weight that must be considered. Going on through the list of eligibles for this mile handicap the conviction is forced that the coming race should be one of the most notable of the renewals of this good stake race. With the closing of the meeting at Churchill Downs there remains but one meeting before the Kentucky racing season ends for 1924. It brought to a close the turf season of the Kentucky Jockey Club; for the racing at Lexington is conducted by the Kentucky Association. The meetings at Churchill Downs and La-tonia, both spring and fall, have been the most remarkable in the history of the big association, and new records have been set in values and in attendance. Lexington has many good races to make the closing of the Kentucky racing season memorable, and the horses from which to draw will make the racing up tothe best of Lex-: ington traditions. Practically all of the horses that furnished the entertainment at Churchill Downs have been moved over to Lexington, and with them, naturally, have gone the jockeys and the followers of the sport. And while the racing in the cold climes is rapidly coming to a close preparations are going forward for the winter meetings. Jefferson Park, at New Orleans, and the Tijuana meetings are to open Thanksgiving Day, while Havana will begin its meeting on the Saturday following. Then on January 15 there will come the initial meeting of the Miami Jockey Club, so that horsemen and the followers of the turf will have more entertainment this year and in 1925 that ever before. Each of these meetings holds out great promise and all of this means that the thoroughbred is constants becoming more valuable.
