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Here and There ! on the Turf i New York Opening. j Bowies Unpopular Rule. i Noahs Good Performances. , Carlaris Ailment. With the publication of the book for the , meeting of the Metropolitan Jockey Club, which opens the big racing season in New York at Jamaica within less than three weeks, Jamaica will conflict with a part of the Havre de Grace meeting and it will be conducted simultaneously with the racing of the Maryland Jockey Club at Pimlico, but in this it will not differ from the usual custom and this is a conflict of no moment. New Yorkers have been patronizing Maryland racing at Bowie and these same New Yorkers will swing back to the Long Island track when its gates are thrown open. The book that has been prepared by Fred Iteh berger is built along the same lines as books of other years and it may be confidently predicted that the opening will be a notable one. Horses that are to make a first appearance at Jamaica are beginning to come to real racing condition at Belmont Park, Aqueduct and Jamaica itself, the three Long Island training grounds, while not a few that have been going through the seasoning process at Bowie, will be shipped to New York for the Metropolitan opening. But with all the reports from winter training quarters it is admitted that as a general prop osition the horses are not as well advanced as they have been in other years when the train ing weather was more favorable. There has been considerable dissatisfaction over the recent ruling of the Bowie stewards that prohibits the starting of any two-year-old front the old Benning track until it has been schooled regularly at Bowie. The horsemei vho are training at the course of the old Washington Jockey Club say, and with good reason, that it would have been a fair ruling to have a crew sent to Benning to conduct schooling at that training grounds. It is pointed out that it would be a much easier procedure to send a schooling crew over from Bowie than to force the horsemen to go to the expense of shipping two-year-olds from that track merely to have them schooled. As a matter of fact that really seems to be a fairer arrangement. Benning has a colony of sufficient importance to warrant a school being established there, and it does seem a bit of a hardship to ask trainers to ship their young horses to Bowie, only for the purpose of educating them to the barrier. This schooling is absolutely essential, but the Bowie management should not require the shipping expense to carry out the plan. Noah. Harry Payne Whitneys swift running bon of Peter Pan and First f light, by Thrush, made anoint i long step towards the Harford Handicap when ho won the Princeton Handicap at five and a half furlongs at Bowie on Wednes day. It was a second appearance and a second victory there for Noah and the fact that he shouldered 126 pounds mad? the performance a decidedly creditable one. In his first start at the meeting, the opening day. under equal weights with H. G. Bedwells Senator Norris, he was an easy winner at three-quarters. Following this race Senator Norris came back last Saturday and won the Springtime Haiuli cap, at five and a half furlongs, in l:06lf.. which is just a fifth of a second slower than the track record for the distance. This woull indicate that Noah beat a fa-t horse in his firs? race. In his second time out, under the hither weight, Noah was a much easier winner, but he had no Senator Norris back of him. Bedwell intends Senator Norris for the Har ford Handicap and at this time it is entire! possible that he and the Whitney sprinter will be fighting it out for the initial stake race of the Harford Association meeting. Noah was the* winner of the same stake last year, when under 105 pounds he beat Leopardess and Princess Doreen. Incidentally the only other three-year-olds to win the Harford Handicap were Billy Kelly and Fathom. This stake was first run in 1913 when it fell to . . r Springboard, which carried the famous old Cassatt colors with such distinction over sprint- 1 ing distances. Fathom was the winner of its ; second running and then followed Ten Point. 4 Kewcssa, Sand Marsh and Tea Caddy. That j 5 brought the race to the Billy Kelly year and : J I that remarkable horse was the winner in j 1919. 1920 and 1921. In 1922 he was just beaten home by old Exterminator and the other | three winners have been Blazes, Flint Stone and * Noah. Thus it will be seen that the roster of j winners of the opening Havre de Grace stake 4 race is truly a notable one and it is a race that has never gone to a bad horse. Now comes word from Tijuana that Carlaris. winner of the Tijuana Derby and Coffroth J 7 Handicap, is suffering from a slight infection. It is not expected that any serious results will follow the present indisposition, but anything . that happens to the English colt at this time is I of great turf interest by reason of his prominence as an eligible in the Kentucky Derby. W. T. Anderson makes light of the swollen leg, : but the fact remains that he has decided to | keep the colt at Tijuana a couple of weeks longer than was his original intention. Of course, this may be greatly to the benefit of Carlaris, even should he be entirely sound and enjoying the best of health. It has been demonstrated that the colt thrives exceedingly well at the Mexican track and it may be the best place to fit him for the Derby. Of course, there remains the long and trying trip across the country to bring him to Louisville, but Anderson may be depended upon to have Car laris at Churchill Downs fit and ready for the Derby, if it is humanly possible. The racing at Bowie has demonstrated that there is room for many a good rider this year. During the winter W. Munden was the out standing development when his brilliant riding ; at Tijuana made him the winter sensation. This youngster is making good at Bowie, but there are few others, in the apprentice division, that have attracted much attention. McAtee, Maiben and Turner are three veterans that head the riders and then there is W. Harvey, who has had considerable experi ence, but taking the riders as a whole there is plenty of room for improvement. D. Froggatte, who has been riding with a fair amount of success and who brought home three winners on Wednesday, is something of an old timer himself, but he has done most of his riding over the smaller circuits and on various occasions he has employed some of the small track methods, which takes scant account of the right of other horses in ■ race. Chalmers showed a degree of skill in some races, but his rough riding on Noon Wednes day earned a suspension for the rest of the meeting and there are others that bid fair to go the same way.
