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. 1 i 2 Here and There 3 on the Turf ! 4 5 C 7 New Belmont Park. Honoring the Owner. Noahs Poor Race. 1 Peter Pans Triple. 3 The new Belmont Park, with which the patrons of racing will be greeted this year, ■ is the last word in magnificence and convenience of race course construction. Jos?ph Wid ener has taken a personal interest in seeing to it that there will be no more elaborate racing ground in this or any other country, and the first glimpse the public will have of the virtually new course will be at the Unit -d Hunts Association meeting that precedes the : opening of the regular New York racing set son at Jamaica. Then when the meeting of the Westchester Association comes along, with the running of the Metropolitan Handicap even- last detail will have been thoroughly completed. When it was announced that the weighing in from a race, as well as the weighing out for a race, was all to be done in the paddock it was intimated that such a procedure might result in delay in the offcial an nouncement that would be unpopular with the public. But it was also written at the same time that Mr. Widener with his practical knowledge of racing would undoubtedly obviate that delay. And that is just what has been done. There has been a telephone installed from the weighing enclosure to the stewards stand, and the clerk of the scales can make his report of the weighing just is ; promptly as is possible with the weighing, as formerly, at the judges stand. Thus it will 1 be seen that nothing has been left undone to make the new order a popular change in the weighing. Another innovation for American racing is the invitation for the owner of a winner of big stake races to lead the victor to the weighing enclosure. This is a ceremony that is carried out on both the British and French turf, and it lends to the interest in the event. Proud indeed are the turfmen whose colors are first home in a big race, and it is gratifying to that pride to invite him to escort his horse to the scales. It is a ceremony that will be appreciated by the public, as well as the fortu nate owners who may be called upon to lead , ■ off the winner. And while all of the many things have been accomplished to lend significance to the Bel ment Park racing there is also a like care in the preparation of the racing programs and all points to better contests than have ever | been enjoyed in New York. It may be that Noah "folded up" in his race at Bowie on Saturday because there was something not entirely to his liking in the going. That is hardly probable in the light of his previous impressive sprint over the same going. He may be lacking in courag-and if that is the case, then he will have to go in the discard, for there is no room any where f ;r a three year o.d that is so lacking in 1 gamencss as 1 be unable to stick it out for • five and a half furlongs. Parke, who rode Noah, said the colt sulked 1; under him. That would also be a bar minister against his ever attaining greatness as a i sprinter, or in fact in M other line of racing ; endeavor. But nine times out of ten a thcr oughbred sulks because something hurst him. . Few indeed are the natural sulkers. that is to 1 say horses that will not try though in the • condition. A three 1 best of physkal -year -old sulker is rare indeed, unlet"! there is som? disability of which the trainer himself may be i unaware. ■ , | 1 • 1; i ; . 1 • 1 i There are thoroughbreds that become cunning with age and will net always give up their b?st, but even they are scarce. Exception might be taken to this statement with a recollection of the races recently run at Bowie by both Thimble and Prince James. They may be two of the exceptions that prove the rule that natural sulkers are few and far between. Thimble has always been more or less temperamental and she has fooled Morty" Murphy many a time, as she did in her last race, while Prince James mixes up his good races with his bad ones in a fashion that is unexplainable, but with both of these all of the blame attaches to the horses themselves. Arcady atoned in a measure for the failure of Noah when he was the winner of the Capital Handicap under the top weight of 118 pounds, but his race was not entirely an impressive one. He made all the pace and he was first home, but the son of Peter Pan was hard ridden to the end to beat the maiden Bruns. Arcady was under restraint for a goodly part j of the race, but he does not gallop impressively , and his way of going suggests an effort. That, of course, means nothing if it carried him to victory, but he will have to do better than ; beat those that followed him home in the 1 Capital Handicap before he can be considered i I of high class. j This colt is not nominated to the Dixie ! Handicap among th? fifteen that James Rowe named for the 5,000 opening handicap of ! the Maryland Jockey Club at Pimlico, but | Noah is of the number. | Saturday Fred Hopkins had high hopes of taking three purses for the Whitney stable and 1 it was only Noah that broke up the triple by his unaccountable bad race. But it was a 1 great day for Peter Pan, the Whitney stock horse. Dedans and Arcady are both sons of the former James R. Keene star, while Tester, which won the race in which Noah faded. i I j ! is a son of the same stallion. So that it was a triple for sons of Peter Pan. At th? Aqueduet training grounds on Long Island James Fitzsimmons continues to lead most of the trainers in the conditioning of his horses and when he ships the Belair Stud string to Havre de Grace for the meeting that follows the present mesting at Bowie he will have a fit string of horses to bear the popular colors. The stable is well supplied with candidates for the Dixie Handicap, with Flames, Aga Khan, Prisciila Ruley, Beatrice, Marconi, Tetrazinni and Sir Roland all eligible. Of these Aga Khan, Flames, Beatrice and Marconi seem to be further advanced than the others and their training suggests that each will have a profitable outing at the Havre de Grace meeting. The stakes of the Maryland Jockey Club, to be decided at Pimlico for the meeting that begins May 1, close today. It will be some time before these returns are all compiled and the results made public, but it is known at this time that they have been more liberal than ever before. The bock for the eleven days of racing at the old course has b:en approved by the Maryland commission and issued by the club. It is a de cidedly attractive one and every variety of hiih class racing is provided for in the eleven days of the meeting. From Keutucky there continues to come excellent rej orts on the training of the various Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes candidates ami several, of the moves, both at Churchiil Downs and Douglas Park, would | indicate that the eastern cligib.es will find many a fit Kentuckian to battle with on May 16, when the big race of the Keutucky Jockey flub ifl decided.
