Here and There on the Turf: Pimlico Stakes Closing. Training at Belmont. Kentucky Derby Hopes. Ownership of Carlaris, Daily Racing Form, 1926-04-08

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Here and There on the Turf ! — = t Pimlico Stakes Closing. Training at Belmont. Kentucky Derby Hopes. Ownership of Carlaris. Tuesday the various spring stakes of the Maryland Jockey Club, which are to be decided . at the meeting which continues from May 1 to May 13, inclusive, were closed. It will be some days before the various lists are com- I piled, but when they are it will be found that 1 the nominees are in good part the best horses in training from all the various age divisions. It is natural that most of the interest will center in the Preakness Stakes, the 0,000 race for three-year-olds at a mile and three- ! sixteenths. This rich race each year attracts practically such an entry list as that of the Kentucky Derby, which is to be decided later at Churchill Downs in Louisville, so that really a study of the Kentucky Derby list practically gives one a Preakness Stakes list. And, in addition to this list of stakes, there will be run at the coming Pimlico meeting the 5,000 Dixie Handicap at a mile and three-sixteenths. This is the one early closing han dicap of the Maryland Jockey Club program. It was closed January 2, and the weights were announced by Frank J. Bryan just a month later. The Dixie Handicap gives the first big opportunity to the horses of the handicap division and it has a value and importance that induce the trainers to make the good ones ready for its running. This year will be no exception and. while there has been a backward spring and unfavorable training weather, many good ones are coming up to Dixie Handicap condition. It was in 1924 that the Dixie Handicap was revived and made a 5,000 race and the Eng lish marc Chacolet was its winner. Last year Mrs. Vanderbilt H.s great gelding Sarazen took the race and Max Hirsch has visions of repeating with the son of High Time and Rush Box this year. He wintered at John E. Mad-dens Hamburg Place near Lexington, Ky., and for some time has been in training at Belmont Park, where he is rapidly coming to rac ing condition. Sarazen will always stand out as one of the most remarkable of American thoroughbred? and his most brilliant performance was at La tonia in 1924, when he raced a mile and a quarter under weight for age to beat Epinard in 2 :00%. At Belmont Park Sarazen is not the only notable that is showing excellent progress in spring training. Several others of the horse-of the handicap division are going along in a fashion that suggests a try for the Dixie Han dicap and the other handicaps of May, wb.iL- the two year olds are aL*o showing a degree of spe?d satisfactory for this season of the year. One of the handicap notables is Chilhowee. which was away from the races for a consid rrable time. It was the sj eed of Chilhowee that had much to do with the fast time that was hung up at Latonia that afternoon whc;i r-.truzen beat the Trench champion, Epinard This is the same Chilhowee that in 1924 raced a mile and an eighth in 1 :48%, and u mile and three quarters in 2:547:,. both Amen can records. There is every hoi e that he will come back for a 1926 campaign and, if he is still the horse he was two years bark, he i? sure to cut a big figure in the handicap tiivi sion. Chilhowee made most of his reputation in Kentucky, but the present plan for him is to race over the New York tracks. He is an . I 1 ! added attraction of real importance to metro- J politan racing and it is highly probable that he will keep the best of them exceedingly busy. And while the horses at Belmont Park are showing a becoming progress in their spring preparation, there are like reports from Kentucky. Many of the candidates for the Ken lucky Derby are in training at Churchill Downs, where the race is decided. It is fitting that they should be trained over the same ground on which the race is run and all reports tend to show that W. T. Andersons Coffroth Handicap winner, Carlaris, will find many fit and ready horses to oppose him when he goes to the post on May 15. Joseph E. Wideners Haste is one that is preparing for the 0,000 race at Louisville and the manner in which he has been taking his exercise would indicate that he will be ready when called on by Ham Keene. Then there is a division of the Harry Payne Whitney horses there in the care of Mose Goldblatt and some of them have attracted attention. Token one of the Derby eligibles. has progressed better than any of the others and he may be one chosen to bear the light blue and brown on May 15. Of course, he would have to improve wonderfully over any of his races during the winter months, but that is well within the bounds of possibility. And there are many others at Churchill Downs that are steadily coming to racing condition. It has been intimated that W. R. Coe is either already the owner of Carlaris, winner of the Coffroth Handicap and the most talked of colt for the Kentucky Derby, or that he is soon to become the owner. If such is the case, it would give the Coe stable two truly formidable three-year-olds in the English colt and Pompey, his champion of last year, but it makes no material difference, as far as racing itself is concerned, just what colors are to be carried by Carlaris. If he is the champion that his Tijuana Derby and Coffroth Handicap would suggest, he will make any colors prominent on the turf. Of course, there is another angle and that is should be in the same stable with Pompey it would remove possibly his most dangerous rival from contention, but it would be hard to make Mr. Coe or W. H. Karrick believe that Carlaris is the master of the son of Sun Briar and Cleopatra. There has been much speculation about the 1 actual ownership of Carlaris since he raced his I way into fame, but it is of no moment as I compared with just how he is going to acquit I himself when he is asked to race against the , recognized aspirants for the three year old 1 crown.


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