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Here and There on the Turf Sandes New Connection. Crowding in Juvenile Races. A Wise Selection. Aga Khans Training. It was inevitable when Earl Sande became available for other turfmen, by terminating his contract with the Rancocas Stable, that there should be many bids for his services. Joseph E. Widener is to be congratulated on obtaining the services of such a skilled rider, and Sande is also to be congratulated on associating himself with the stabb of such a high-class turfman. It means much for both. With Sande under contract, Mr. Widzners stable should come to a new importance and the horses that will be raced by the chairman of the standing committee will afford Sande every opportunity to go on to further fame in the saddle. This spring there has been an unusual amount of rough riding in the two year-old races. At both Bowie and Havre de Grace, when a field of two-year-olds is a large one, it has been almost inevitable that those on the outside of the field cross over sharply and pile up the others in the race. It is natural that there should be a certain amount of leniency where the gre?n two year-olds are concerned, for it is not always the fault of the rider. The horses themselves are lacking in proper education and frequently it may be the horse itself that is to blame, but when it is demonstrated that the fault is with the rider, he should be punished for such an effense, in a mile race as in any other. In the running of the race at Havre de Grace Priday, Nat Evens and Miss Blaze, the ones to finish first and second, came over from the outside sharply soon after the rise of the barrier and the others in the field were piled up to such an extent that several of the runners narrowly escaped going down in the crowding that could not be avoided. This gave the offenders a big advantage and they were first and second at the finish, while Wrackalette, the one to be third, also came from an outside position. It has ccme to be that an inside position, particularly in a two year old race, is a particularly hazardous one and unless this riding is curbed it may result in a serious accident. The Jockey Club made a wis? selection in naming William Woodward for the vice-presidency. No member of the Jockey Club shows a greater interest in the turf than the master of the Belair Stud in Maryland, and no member ! will give more unstintingly of his time and talents to the government of the sport. Mr Woodward is a member of the standing committee with Joseph E. Widener and Joseph E. Davis, and these gentlemen may be depended upon to administer the high office with force and wisdom. Aga Khan, winner of the Lawrence Realiza tion Stakes of last year, is coming up to his engagement in the mile and three sixteenth* of the Dixie Handicap of the Maryland Jockey Club in a fashion that must be leasing to Mr. Woodward. This sterling colt ■ a natural ■tapaT, and for this, his first important ea-frapciiient, he looms up as surely a dangerous eligible. All of the horses that James Fitzsimmons has been grooming at Aqueduct for early engagements, have been doing all that has been asked in a manner to promise great things, and, while the popular oolon met wih a full measure of success last year, the pros-l ects for 1925 are even brighter. And Aga Khan is only one of the establish- ! ment that is about ready for racing. There are some three-year-olds that will take a deal of beating, while the two-year-olds are a band that should bring new fame to the stable. Mrs. Vanderbilts Sarazen, champion of last year, is one that is intended for the Dixie Handicap. He is the top weight of the race, and Max Hirsch has brought him to a condition where he is looked upon as a certain starter on May 1. Sarazen is at Havre de Grace at this time, and the program is to send him to the post during that meeting Hiirch has as good as promised that he will rao the son of High Time and Rush Box, but it is not expected that he will go to the post in one of the stakes where victory woui incur a penalty in the Dixie Handicap. This opening feature of the Pimlico meeting has an added money value of 5,000 and, apart from that value, it has a sporting importance thnt would make any trainer of one of the high weights in that handicap avoid any further penalty. Sarazen was ready for the Philadelphia Handicap, but it was his coming en gagement in the Dixie that decided Hirsch against sending him to the post. The race run by J. S. Cosdens Permanent Wave at Havre de Gri.ce Friday suggests that she will be a three-year-old filly well ab.e to earn her way in the best company this year. This swift running daughter of Crimper and Queen of the Sea has not yet tasted defeat. She was only started twice as a two-year-old and, while she was the winner on both of those occasions, the rates were of lit Lis moment. William Garth has brought her back to the races a truly speedy one and she may go on to a place among the fillies that will give her real importance. There is just a possibility that the muddy condition of the track was a help to this miss, but she is in rare condition and her performance testified to her careful preparation. Permanent Wave is one that was named for the Chesapeake Stakes by Garth and it is a race that should put a real test on her worth. It is over a mile and a sixteenth for three-year-clds and the list of eligibbs contains the names of most of the good ones. Should Permanent Wave race well among the stars of that race, then she will indeed have earned a real place in her age division. ! In this race, while James Rowe named H. P. Whitneys Mother Goose, winner of the Futurity, it is not expected that, she would be J asked to race against the colts this early in the year. Moth:r Goose was reserved for races of her own sex last year, until the running of the Futurity and that was the only race in which she has met the colts. She is engaged in all of the filly fixtures of impor- j tance during the year and shs will be busy i enough without going after the colts until in the fall. Captain Hal continues to attract a consider able amount of attention in his preparation for the Kentucky Derby. He has been taking his exercises at Churchill Downs, the ground over which the big rac? is to be decided, and his steady improvement keeps him to the fore- front in the opinion of the Kentuckians. Lee I O. Cotner ■ the other Kentuckian of prominence and it may be that Kentucky will try and claim Quatrain for its own when it comes to the battle between East and West for the i big race. With two steeplechases already decided at Havre de Grace there were some of the riders who ignored the rule of the Maryland Racing Commission that requires the wearing of the protecting skull caps in all races through the field. Hereafter fines will be imposed on jockeys who are not so equipped when they ride in steeplechases. It is remarkable that I when this rule was enacted for the protection of the riders that they should be compelled to I live up to its provisions, instead of obeying willingly.
