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Here and There on the Turf Sting on the Shelf. New Chicago Track. Latonias Big Features. Improvement at Jamaica. It ii indeed unfortunate that James Butler will be. denied the us? of his champi.n, Sting. 1 for his own meeting of the Empire City Racing | , Association at the Yonkcrs track in July. Mr. Butler has always put his best fjot for*an! for the entertainment of his neighbors in that vicinity and there were high hopes for this year. Never before have the Butler silks raced to the prominence that has been enjoyed this year and it presaged big things for the July meeting. Tho quarter crack that has sent the son of Spur into temporary retirement is only cured 1 by the growing out of new horn on the foot, and this remody of nature naturally take? some time. It means that Sting will be unable to keep his engagements at the track on the hill and it is possible that he will not be seen in publ.c until late in the Saratoga meeting. This is naturally a real disappointment to Mr. Butler, but even if it should so happen that Sting is not brought back, even for the closing days of the Saratoga meeting, he has already accomplished big things when he was the winner of the Excelsior, Metropolitan and Suburban handicaps. There are those who contend that he would have also taken the Brooklyn Handicap but for going lame in its running, but that is debatable. In any event he was greater in that defeat than he was in any of his victories. Sting had raced himself to a position where he was a public idol and his progress toward a recovery from his foot injury will be anxiously awaited by the racing public in general. It has been announced that the Chicago Busi ness Mens Racing Association is to have a new course. The land has b?en purchased for this undertaking and the plans provide for the largest and most modern racing ground in the , Middle West. The Chicago Business Mens Racing Association has by its successful meet j ings at the Hawthorne course demonstrated I that Chicago will bountifully support racing of the right sort. It has also demonstrated that in spite of all that has been done to modernize and enlarge the Hawthorne track. it is really not adequate for Chicago racing. No city is entitled to a better or more commodious racing ground thnn Chicago and the new venture is to give the city a course that will be the last word in race course construction. The sportsmen who are back of this new yen ture are men of means and importance and, taking a line through what has already been accomplished by the association, it is safe to predict that every plan will be carried to a successful conclusion. Racing has c me back to Chicago in a f.isli ion that should make for permanency anil, so long as the pr sent organization conducts its ineetings along the Iine= that have brought sue cess, it should continue. Saturday, June 27, will be a treniend u.-!y big day in the Lalonia meeting of the K-n tucky Jockey Club, with both the 0S 0 I I added Latonia Derby and the Cincinnati Trophy, with 16,000 added, doara f,,r d These are feature that will attract turfmen from the East as wed as l!i best in IvntiicWy They arc n-t only ih M who have ■tirtnil but turfmen who would not f run! anything to prevent them s.iing the n.nr.iug of the l erby. While there are a number of No.-, York nominations to the Ctir iitmti Tr phy, a three quarters Uach for two year olds, it is the Derby that is really the big event. New York is variously represented in the big mile and I half race, and an effort wiil be made to duplicate the perfofBiaBea f Gifford A. Coch ran in tnking the Kentucky Derby with Hying Ebony. 11 at col;, as a matter of fact, i» i.n eligible, but Ne.v York has even better reprc .::i D than the Cochran o!t in its loaf string of eligible*. Wnh th? big race only nine days away, trainers have about completed the training of I their eligibles and it would seem that a field | of goo. iy sue will go la ihe pa t. lliouth the u-i of the race is one that thoroughly Marehai tin hors.- and, at the MM time, tests highly I the skill of both the trainer and the jockey Ii i unfortunate that American I lag, win in r of the Withers Stakes and the Belmont Stakes and undoubtedly at present the best tare- faH old in the East, is n„t an eligible lo the Latonia Derby, but the East should be adequately represented from the list of those that have been entered. The two Aqueduct engagements of American Ha» lit in the new Shevlin Stakes, at a miie, to be run Tuedjy. and the Dv.yer Stu I :! t ii.de and five sixteenths, down for aaaaaaaa rn the fourth of July. On his magnificent pcrformanc?s in the Withers Stakes and the Belmont Stakes this ■tririinf sen of Man o War stands out promi nently for a victory in both of these events. Bat re the fall meeting of the Metropolitan Joel, y CM al the Jurnaica course, it is p.jm i.-ed there will be installed a new »at-r y-tcrn, which will be a welcome improvement to that course. The work U being pushed for ward and houl 1 be entirely compl.tcd baton IOC full Il.Mtlllg. I
