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Here and There on the Turf Three -Year -Old Quality. Fleischmann Dispersal. Miami Recruits. Name Duplications. Waller S. Vosburgh, handicapper for The Jockey Club, than whom there is no more astute authority on the thoroughbred horse, has said lhat the three year-olds of 1925 are not up to standard. That was to an extent forecasted when Harry Payn? Whitneys Moth er Goose was the winner of the Futurity of last year. In assigning the weights for the Met rnpolitan Handicap during the winter Mr. Vos-burgh treated the three-year olds in a manner to ernphasixe his contention and. up to the running of the Kentucky Derby, his estimate has been eminently correct. There have been many years when the three year -old crop was infinitely better than that of the present year. The Preaknrss Stakes of the Maryland Jockey Club, decided May 8, was the first rea.ly big opportunity for the three year old and when it fell to the high-priced Coventry there was the first positive prrof of the lack of high class in the thrre-year-old division. Then the Kentucky Derby was the additional proof. There remain many rich races to be decided, but by the middle of May it is possible to form an estimate of the three year old division and it is safe already to agree perfectly with the Vosburgh estimate. It is always particularly difficult to compare the horses of one year with those of another, but invariably when horses "beat each other as has been the cnf unong the 192" thre3-year-olds already, it is an unfailing index of a lack of high class. But there are some ad vantages to these bad years. Such a year affords chances for the ordinary horses that could not possibly com? in years of generally higher class, and after all the champion is the horse that beats those of his time. There are degrees of greatness in every class of hsrses and in a year when so many of th?m are close together in the matter of speed and stamina keener contests are likely to result. It is a condition that is conducive to larger fields in the big races. Anything in the nature of a walkover is unknown and whether it be a battle of giants or of the more lowly ones the battle is the thing to be desired. Thus there is even- chance for great racing right through the year. The dispersal sale of thoroughbreds owned by the estate of the late Julius Fleischmann. scheduled to be held at Belmont Park next Saturday, promt-es to attract wide attention from breeders, as well as from those who an? seeking good raring material. Many turfmen who attenae 1 the Nursery Stud sale with the idea of obtaining some brood mares, came away without accomplishing their purpose be cause of the high prices that prevailed for that vendue. The two year olds included i the Fleischmann sale which will go under the hammer Saturday arc decidedly premising a.-breeding stock. They are of the best blood in France and were carefully selected ! ecau.-e of their individual promise and conformation The breeders who failed to obtain the stock that they were seeking at the Nursery sale may be more fortunate at Belmont Park Saturda--. When Thomas McCreery, who has been rar ing these horses under lease from the estate, selected the youngsters as yearlings in France last year, he had orders to pick only the best. He did so and there was no hesitancy becau.c of price. The horses are thoroughly acclim ated. They have been in this country sinr ■ last November. After spending the winter it Aiken, S. C, they were brought to Belmont Park and placed in training last month. The sportsmen who entered racing as owners during the recent Miami meeting are demon strating almost daily that they are in th? ■sport to stay and they are making more purchases of good horses at frequent intervals and doing everything possible to strengthen their stables. P. M. Beacom, who races under the name of the Beacom Manor Stable, purchased the fa-t sprimer Baffling from E. U. Bradley Mon day at a cost of 110,000. Baffling should win plenty cf races over short distances this year. G. Frank Croissant, who paid a reported price of 0,000 for Kentucky Cardinal a we-k of the Derby, has or so before the running acquired several horses since -that time. His latest purchase is the two year eld Jack Knisht. which has s-hown considerable promise in several of his races, although he is still a maiden. I.. T. Cooper, another of the Miami recruits, has also bought several horses recently. The Cooper stable has had a remarkably fr?qu°nt change f trainers since its inception and, apparently, these constant shifts are by no ; mean* completed yet. Monday the horses of i the stable wrr* taken over by former jockey M. Crawford from A. I.. Kirby and Kay Spencc. j They are destined fox an Ohio campa gn. These turfmen are beginning to realize that building up a racing stable is not always as simple a matter as just buying horses and winning races with th;m. AU of them have enjoyed a certain amount of success with the readymade horses which they have purchased, but it will probably be a long time before any of these stables is realy able to pay its way with the money earned. Th; increased number of importations from abroad during the last year or two has resulted in an exceptional number of duplications in | names of horses, which are so frequent a I source of confusion in racing. It is customary | to add II." or even "III." and "IV." to such j names in regist?ring the imported horses for racing in this country. In cases where the previous bearer of the name is no longer in racing the duplication is i [ likely to cause confusion, of course, but in most j I cases no such condition exists. Tnus there is the flat ra:er Skyscraper and th? jumper Sky ! S-raper II.. the flat racer Grenadier II. and the jumper Grenadier, the two flat racers Roseate and Roseate II., and manj jther similarly con fu.-;ng. One of the most peculiar instances of duplication, however, is that of James W. CorrigcnB imported three year old Kitcat II., j which must carry the Roman numeral because a two year old luteal bad been registered in j this country before he was imported. | j | No solution for this peculiar situation ap- pears possible at the present, but it would eliminate a considerable amount of confusion and trouble if some method could be devised for reducing duplications to a ininimum.
