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Here and There 7 on the Turf 1 3 On Winter Racing. Need for State Control. Kentucky Cardinal Again. Glenister II. s Good Eace. Now there comes more news of additional winter race courses. It has been rumored that Florida is to have three, attracted by the . phenomenal success that attended the racing of the Miami Jockey Club at its Hialeah course. It is also intimated that there will be one more course constructed in Louisiana, and presuma bly close to New Orleans. That would make three for New Orleans, the Fair Grounds and Jefferson Park being the existing courses in that state. Ever since early in the Miami race meeting there have been threats of other racing grounds in Florida and one after another they have failed to materialize. Now, with the recent victory for racing in the Florida legislation, it is possible that there may be Fomething in this latest rumor, but thus far the promoters of the new racing grounds have made no pubjc announcement cf their plans. It was demonstrated at Miami that Florida i, an ideal state for winter racing and it was also demonstrated that the sport is tremen dously popular with both the tourists and the Floridians. That naturally attracts other pr moters and there is small wonder that these rumors should be heard, and it is just as natural that there should be an element of truth in the rumors. But to the Miami Jockey Club goes the credit of paving the way for the others. It was the fine courage of the founders of the Miami Jockey Club that restored racing to Florida in the face of a deal of opposition and the Miami Jockey Club j should surely continue to reap the benefits that come from the sport. This promise to establish other race cours?s in Florida emphasiies the importance of a racing law in every state. There should be a law placing the racing in th? government cf a commission and there should be a restriction on the number of tracks which could be de termined by population. There is no desire to shut out any legitimate race meeting, but there is real danger when it is attempted ta have a number of meetings in the same territory with possibly conflicting dates and in ternal strife that would work great harm, if indeed, it would not bring disaster. The Miami Jockey Club, with every oppor tunity to conduct a meeting of on" hundred days, with a tremendous profit, contented it self with a meeting of fifty one days. When there was unheard of prosperity and a suggestion was made that th? meeting be prolonged, it was turned down and the club held religiously to its original plan, the only change being an increase in the purses that were of fered. Throughout the meeting it was conducted along sporting lines that were highly com mendable and. at the close of the meeting, stake announcements were made for the meet ing of 1926 that were extremely liberal. The best of these offerings is the Miami Cup Han dicap. to which 125.000 will be added. In addition to this big race, there are eight other fixtures with ,000 added each. This is the manner in which the Miami Jockey Club is sharing its prosperity with the horsemen and it is calculated to keep the as aociation in the fore front of winter racing grounds. With other race course! established it would be almost inevitable that there would be con flict with the Miami racing and, while the Miami program need fear na opposition that would work a hardship, too much winter racing might be unpopular with the Floridians them selves. Without having any definite information on the promoters of the proposed new race tracks in Florida, they must conduct meetings alon» clean sporting lines if they arc to succeed. If it is only the success of Miami and the money-making opportunities that has attracted the new propositions, then they are not worthy of support. There is always a real menace in success itself and those with the best interests of the turf at heart will at once resize that without laws that govern and to an extent restrict the sport there is sure to be confusion and an amount of devastating internal strife. Frank Croissant, who came into racing dur ing the Miami meeting, is going to have a try for the Belmont Stakes next Saturday with Kentucky Cardinal. This is the colt that Mr. Croissant purchased from Dc-hu. Breckinridge shortly b?fore the running cf the Kentucky Derby. At that time William Daniels Master Tharlie had gene amiss and Kentucky Car dinal loomed up prominently as the probable winner of the big race. But Kentucky Car diiial failed in the Derby and since that he lia- not justified the estimate that was had of his racing prowess before its running. Now the son of North Star III. and Lucra-: tive is to go after the big race at Belmont Park Saturday afternoon. There is no denying that this celt is a better one than his preformance in the Kentucky D.rby would indicate, but he will have stiffer opposition in its trying mile and three eighths than he had that May afternoon and he will have to be better than he has ever shown, eithrr in races or in private, if he is to be the winner. In the meantime American Flag has been doing all that has been asked of him in his preparation for tho big rac? and trainer Tomp kins is not worrying about what the other I gibles are doing, or how many or them go after his sterling son cf Man o War. Glenister II., winner of the Metropole Purse at Latonia on Monday, is an eligible to the B Imont. There is no intention of this colt making the journey to Belmont Park for the running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. out the mannrr in which he defeated Almadel. , the Hal Pr.cc Headley eligible, gives him real | three year old importance. This race was only over the mile and seventy yards distance, but it was r.n in track record time of 1:41% and GlenLster II. was carrying | equal weights with Almadel. It is also to his credit that he made the pace throughout and hung on with commendable gameness in the rush through the stretch when closely pressed by the four year old Buck, which was in under just a pound more weight, though a year older. Altogether it was a sterling race and this same Glenister II. may find his way to a much more important place among the three year-olds before the end of the racing season.
