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Here and There on the Turf Luck of S D Riddle On the Added Starters Lack of Sporting Spirit How Horsemen Offend Samuel D Riddle is in a fair way this year to finish out the racing season with tha cham ¬ pion twoyearold as well as the champion threeyearold racing under his silks Ameri ¬ can Flag winner of the Withers Stakes and Belmont Stakes will find few to dispute his championship of the thre yearolds division and better ones than have come to the races will have to be shown if Friars Carse is not best of the twoyearolds Her victories in the Keens Memorial Stakes and the Clover Stakes were of a character to put her away out in front of all the others It was the ease with which she won both of these races that pro ¬ nounced her much better than anything in her company Friars Cars2 is a daughter of Friar Rock and Problem by Superman and is a filly of heroic proportions She is as agile as a cat and while she has a peculiar habit of switching her tail as she runs she has excel ¬ lent action and shows a disposition to race on as far as such a disposition can be shown in the short twoyearold distances distancesThis This good filly has been started five times and her only defeat was when she was second to George D Wideners Galetian in the running of the Juvenile Stakes at Belmont Park Sin was first brought to the races at Pimlico by trainer Tompkins and galloped home a winner by five lengths The Juveaib Stakes was her second effort and she was a good second to Galetian What she has shown since would suggest that she is capable of turning the tables on the Widener colt at the first asking askingThe The next appsarance of the daughter of Friar Rock saw her an easy winner of the Fashion Stakes for fillies Then she took 01 the colts as well as the fillies in the Keene Memorial Stakes and was again an easy win ¬ ner Her other race was in the clover ran at Aqueduct Wednesday and it was little more than a formality formalityIn In these five races Friars Carse has won almost 20000 for Mr Riddle and that it almost twenty times as much as Mr Riddle paid for the dam of this great filly With Man OWar purchased as a yearling for S5000 and Friars Carse costing something like 1100 it might be remarked that Samuel D Riddle wins the capital prize for luck It was natural there should be some com ¬ plaint over the fact that Friars Carse was an added starter It is always unfortunate when there is an added started to a stake race and from tune to time a rule has been suggested that would make added starters impossible In fact such a measure was introduced and it failed of passage before The Jockey Club When all is said and done the principal suf ¬ ferer in the case of an added starter such as Friars Carse is the association itself Such a filly is sure to be a strong drawing card and had her name been sent out in the overnight entries it would have induced some to come to the course who remained at home Of course it upset some of the calculations of those who speculate but it has ever been the inviolable rule of The Jockey Club for many years that it should take no cognizance of betting Thus if the only argument to bar added starters is to help the speculation it surely would be inconsistent to enact such a rule ruleThe The adding of a starter of high class robs the association of the advantage that would come from the nazne appearing in the entries and that apepars to be the only legitimate reason j for such a bar If that is of sufficient im ¬ portance the rule would be a good one but it could not consistently bs passed for the other reason reasonWhat What is infinitely more pernicious than the adding of a starter is the carding of stars when there is no intention of sending them to the post To pad a program with good horses will attract the crowd and if that crowd does not see what is advertised it is cheated The scratch rule is the one that could be improved by The Jockey Club and is of much more importance than any prohibition against added starter starterWith With all the great abundance of thorough ¬ breds it was found necessary to declare a race off at Latonia Wednesday and run a sub ¬ stitute while at Aqueduct though some of the cheap races are bverpopular with the trainers it is something of a problem to fill the races that promise good sport There was an excuse at Latonia on account of the muddy going a condition that invariably brings inany scratches but there does not seem to be the same excuse at Aqueduct For the racing Tuesday at Aqueduct one race brought out only Feysun and Vigil after Cartoonist Sunsini and Flagstaff had been withdrawn With all five starting it surely ought to have been a worthy contest contestThen Then when entries were invited for the rac ¬ ing of Thursday only four of the fiftyfour eligibles to the Broadway Stakes were named through the entry box while what was meant as the second best race of the day only at ¬ tracted five entries At the same time the other four races were filled to overflowing overflowingThis This is not the right sporting spirit for the horsemen to exhibit and they should surely show a better response to the races that are offered by the Queens County Jockey Club It is nobodys business whether a horseman shall or shall not start his horse and it is not intended to attempt to help any trainer con ¬ duct his stable but to say the least it is not an j edifying spectacle to sec the gcod horses dodge one another It lacks sporting spirit and the Queens County Jockey Club is surely entitled to a better cooperation among the horsemen The programs are carefully prepared and if the horsemen would show the proper spirit excellent racing would result but it cannot result if they are so lacking in sporting spirit as to dodge one another when there is a chance for a real turf battle Top many trainers wait for spots and many of them are still waiting in November
