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fi k Here and There "; on the Turf 5 Preakness Entries. Absence of Carlaris. I Kentucky Racing Outlook. J Interval Between Meetings. v s . — — — — — — — i — s As was expected the 0,000 Preakness , J Stakes of the Maryland Jockey Club attracted I a a particularly notable entry list of three-year- t to olds. It always does. But what is of greater . j importance is that this spring, with the gen- ■ a oral report of so many of the good ones I backward in their training, that sixty-six : should have been made eligible to the race. Had the closing been an early one the number would have been greater, but when a stake race L- closed on April 6, for decision on : May 10, the number is of great significance. A greater nuutbei of the nominees may be expected to go to the post than wilh an earlier i closing. And *nth the late closing it is always found there are fewer complimentary entries. Earlier in the spring serious doubt was ex- pressed of Canter or Pompey making the Kentucky Derby, yet both are named for the Preakness Stakes, which is run May 10, against May 15 when the Derby will be run. ] It was natural that they should have been nominated to the Derby, with its early closing and the hope that spring training conditions would be favorable, but that was not a like reason for entering in the Preakness Stakes, wiih its closing about five weeks before its | ri itming. It would not be at all surprising if these two i great colts met in the Preakness Stakes and arain in the Kentucky Derby, in spite of the ] earlier announcements tha« they might not i even make the Derby. It all depends upon I brw they prjg*ess in their training between now and the date of the running of the first : of these two great spring races. Sir Barton is the only colt to have won both races and, apart from the value that attaches to each big race, to win both is a sporting i achievement greatly desired. Both Pompey I and Canter have been training exceedingly well. Pompey has been doing his exercise galloping at Belmont Park, while the son of Wildair and Virginia L. that races for J. E. Griffith, is at Havre de Grace, where his progress has attracted general attention among the horsemen at the Maryland track. W. T. Anderson did not name Carlaris, the English-bred winner of the Tijuana Derby and the Cof froth Handicap, for the Preakness Stakes and it may be that his absence will add to the interest in the Pinilico race. It is not meant that this good colt would cause apprehension anion? the other stables later in the yt ai, but it would be natural that some trainers would git him great importance by reason of bis having the benefit of a seasoning by winter raciDg. Carlaris may be the colt of the year, but he will not scare the others out until he proves himself more conclusively than he did in his brilliant Mexican races, when the other high class aspirants for the championship are hard and fit. Just now it may be a bit different. Crusader, Dress Parade, Corvette and Taps, two sons and two daughters of Man o War, are named from Samuel D. Riddles racing establishment and it is the fond hope of the Pennsylvania turfman that one or the other of them will duplicate the victory of their notable sire when he was the winner of the 1020 renewal. It is not expected that any : i ] | i ] i I : i I one of the qaartet is the equal of American Flag, which swept all before him last year, but each has proved a worthy offspring of a mighty sire. Some of the other nominees to the Preakness Stakes that should make the race next month one of its most notable renewals are Bubbling Over, Bagenbaggage, Chance Play, High Star. Timmara, Ingrid, Penstick, Rock Man, Flight of Time, Macaw and Color Sergeant, to say nothing of many other of possibly almost a like class. One thing is assured and that is the Preakness Stakes of 1926, with anything like favorable weather and track conditions, will produce one of its most worthy renewals. Next Saturday will mark the opening of th? Kentucky racing season at the Lexington track and it will be the first racing opportunity that will come for the Kentucky Derby candidates which have been training in that state. Elaborate preparations have been made for this opening and for a considerable time there has been much useful work accomplished by the horses that are training over the old racing .Tound. Most of the Derby candidates in Kentucky have keen in preparation at Louis-vile, either at Churchill Downs or Douglas Park, excellent training grounds, but some of them have betn training at Lexington and some of these others will be shipped from Louisville for the Lexington* racing, so that it is safe to promise that many a good one will be shown at the post at that meeting. Then the meeting will introduce a number of the new two-year-olds that are destined to play an important part in the two-year old races of the year. There tames two off days between the closing cf Havre de Grace and the opening of the Pinilico meeting. The racing of the Harford Association meeting comes to a conclusion Wednesday. April 28, and the Maryland Jockey Club begins its meeting Saturday, May 1. This is as it should be and it would have been well if the Maryland Racing Commission had allowed a like interval between the closing ] of the Bowie meeting and the opening of i Havre de Grace. The horsemen need shipping : time to move from one track to another and I i to have meetings crowd upon one another, without this shipping time, invariably works a hardship on one track or the other. At Bowie on the closing day. Joseph Mc Lcnnan had no end of trouble in filling his program satisfactorily, for the reason that so many of the good horses had been moved to Havre de Grace, whde with adequate shipping time the horses would have been available to the closing day. That is only one reason for this shipping time and it would be well if on every circuit there should be at least one open day to provide for the movement of the horses.
