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Here and There on the Turf On Suburban Weights. Cincinnati Season Begins. Quality of Silver Fox. Racing at Chicago. Every time a good hers? makes good one is prone to. for the time, forget the other good ones. When Sting was such an impressive winner of the Metropolitan Handicap he was hailed as possibly the best handicap horse cf th2 year by many judges. Then along came Joseph E. Wideners Altawood and Sting was forgotten. But before either one of them came into 1925 greatness Sarazen, the champion of last year, had, by his victory in the Dixie Handicap at Pimlico, proved himself adequate ly. Then Sarazen ran an unaccountably bad race in the Metropolitan Handicap, that fell to Sting, but the Metropolitan Handicap was so utterly bad for the son of High Time and Rush Box that it must not be considered in summing up the chances of Mrs. Vanderbilts great gelding. Mr. Vofburgh. in assigning the weights for the mile and a quarter of the Suburban Han dicap, to be run at Belmont Park on Saturday, has not taken the Metropolitan into his calcula tions, as far as Sarazen is concerned, for he remains at the 128 pounds he was required to shoulder in the mile feature of the opening day of the Belmont Park meeting. Of course, Sting has been raited from 114 to 122 pounds, but Sarazen remains at the top. as he should re main when his performance in the Metropolitan is forgotten, as it must be for the reason that it was no index of his racing ability. Altawood is required to give Sting a pound and in turn he is in receipt of a pound from Mad Play, two from Chilhowee. two from Ordinance, three from Ladkin and five from Sarazen. Thus Altawood, the latest of the handicap sensations, is just sixth from the top as far as actual weight is concerned. These are all four year olds, but in June the scale at a mile and a quarter is the same for that age division as for older horses. Samuel D. Riddles American Flag, by reason of his victor- in the Withers Stakes, tops the three year-olds with 110 pounds as his impost. His weight under the scale is 112 pounds, so that with two pounds off he has a four pound pull on the scale over Sarazen, the son of High Tune being at two pounds over scale weight American Flag is rated as a six pound better colt than the next three year old eligible when Captain Hal is in under 106 pounds. Chantey, from the Greenlree Stable, is just a pound under the Kentuckian and then comes Mother Goose, winner of the Futurity cf last year in the same notch of 103 pounds, with Hedge-fence, Young Martin and Lee O. Cotner. What is of interest is the estimate of Ameri can Hag. It is not expected that th? best of the three year elds will be shown Saturday It is to be expected they will be reserved for the Belmont Stakes that is to b? run the fol lowing Saturday, the last day of the Belmont Park meeting. That is a race that is exceedingly attractive and it is safe to assume that four year-elds will be fighting it out in the Suburban Handicap. The long term of racing for Cincinnati has brgun at Latonia an.l there will be continuous racing until October 17. a period of 118 days, including the meeting at the new Coney Island course and the two meetings at the Covington track. Both Latonia and Coney Island are strictly Cincinnati tracks and the fact that the new course in Ohio f. 11 ws right after the close of the Kentucky track on July 4 assures instant success. The horses will be on the ground and no new racing association has been more liberal in its offerings than this latest addition to the big Ohio circuit. The opening of th? meeting at Latonia was a favorable one and there is no reason why the present meeting should not be the best ever enjoyed by the Kentucky Jockey Club. i Of course the big race of the meeting is the Latonia Derby with its 5,000 added. This Derby is over a mile and a half distance and the fact that it is to be decided June 27 assures I that three year-olds which found the route too severe in May, will be ready for such a gruelling race date in June. The Latonia Oaks and the Independence Handicap each have 0,000 added and, in addition to these, there are six stakes to which ,009 each is added. It is natural that such a liberality should attract the best horses and show racing at its best. When Silver Fox was such an easy winner from Blind Play, Whetstone and Swinging, at Belmont Park Monday, it made the vie tory of American Flag in the Withers Stakes, appear just a little bit bettor than some wore dispi sed to credit it with being. The son of Man o War was particularly ■ unfortunate in the early running of the I Withers Stakes, while Silver Fox had no such excuse, in spite of this, American Flag fought 1 his way through in the stretch and literally smothered the gray colt with his speed through the final eighth. On Monday this same Silver Fox, mad? mest of the pace over the mile route and rac | ing Swinging into defeat, came away to win with an abundance to spare from as fast a four-year eld as Blind Play. The mile was run in 1 :37— ; and Silver Fox, a three year-old earning 107 pounds, against only 114 pounds 1 of the four year-old Blind Play, was just sevei pounds under the real?, while Blind Play wis twelve pounds und.T. Thus, on the scale, Sil ver Fox, gave Blind Play five pounds. If th" scale is right, it has been questioned from time to time, the Silver Fox race was a re markable one and to commend Silver Fox, is to doubly commend American Flag, for his easy victory over the Rancocas colt in the Withers Stakes. While Cincinnati has begun its long me~ ing the Chicago racing season will begin en Thursday, with the opening of the meeting at the Aurora course. The racing at Aurora is to continue for twenty one days, and with the fifty-eight that follow at Hawthorne, Chicago is to have seventy nine days of almost continuous racing. The only intermission is from June 27 to July 2. Joseph A. Murphy, general manager of the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association is in New York, in the interest of the big Hawthorne Stakes, that are to be closed Saturday and he has reported that he has met wi h a satisfying success in obtaining many no ni-na tions. The annual spring racing season at Omaha begins today. Purses aggregating 05,000, a daily average of ,775, will be offered during the twenty two days of racing. The Ak-Sir-Ben Exposition Co., which conducts the sport in Omahi, held its first thoroughbred race meeting in 1921, and each year has seen it grow in favor and importance. Omaha has every reason to be proud of its beautiful Ak Sar Ben Field, built by its own citizens, and operated without profit to any individual. This movement of civic pride has a commodious grandstand of steel and concrete, and one of the finest mib tracks in the West. Racing there is conducted under the auspices of the Nebraska State Racing Commission, which under the law of the state, permits the die of pari mutuels as the means of speculation. With a better grade of hors;s available this spring, the prospects are bright for a m--t successful meeting.
