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Here and There on the Turf Bubbling Overs Condition Next Big Filly Stake The Stringer Plan Value of Publicity Each day seems to bring a new story of the condition of Edward R Bradleys great colt Bubbling Over When he was first hurt it vas announced by Colonel Bradley that the injury was slight and that his training would not be interrupted Then when it appeared that the hurt might possibly be inore serlous than was at first expected a veterinarian was called in and he diagnosed the injury as affecting a tendon in the near foreleg That naturally caused alarm and there was a slight interruption in training operations Then the winner of the Kentucky Derby was declared from the Latonia Derby to be run Saturday SaturdayNow Now there comes the cheering news that Bubbling Over is galloping and is just as sound as he was when he won the Kentucky Derby This news comes from Dick Thompson who developed the colt and a man that should know his horse better than anyone else Bub ¬ bling Over struck himself at Churchill Downs while in a workout and the leg filled slightly but Thompson galloped him a slow two miles on Tuesday and he surely would not have done so if there had been any indication of injury to a leg Bubbling Over had some trouble with a knoc last year and when it was reported that he had gone amiss it was easy to create the impression that any injury might be serious Now there is little doubt of this latest report on the condition of the swift running son of North Star III and Beaming Beauty being the correct one It means that while Bagen hajrgage and Boot to Boot will be depended on to represent Bradley in the Latonia Derby on Saturday there is no reason to fear that Bubbling Over will not be ready for his later engagements engagementsTliLs TliLs is cheering news for it is always a ca ¬ lamity when such a colt as Bubbling Over goes amis Such colts do more for racing than anything else for there is nothing like a hero in sport to give that sport a widespread popu larity Six of the fillies that started in the two divisions of the Beldame Handicap at Belmont Park on Tuesday are eligible to the Coaching Club American Oaks at a mile and three righths to be decided at the big Nassau County course on Wednesday There is a wide dif ¬ ference between threequarters and a mile and threeeighths but the Beldame Handicap served as a part of the preparation for that big race raceThe The eligibles that were raced on Tuesday were Walter M Jeffords Edith Cavell winner of the first half of the Beldame Handicap the Rancocas Stables Sabine James Butlers Turf Light Samuel D Riddles Corvette Richard T Wilsons Ethereal and William Ziegler Jrs Instructress InstructressBut But other notable fillies in the list of prob ¬ able starters are W R Coes Kentucky Oaks winner Black Maria and H P Whitneys Pim Hco Oaks winner Rapture P F Joyces Pa ¬ tricia J is still another that has been in training for the big race so that with the various others of lesser importance it is prom ¬ ised that the renewal will be a worthy one oneIt It is just a bit unfortunate that Taps was not named for this race as well as Corvette the solitary eligible from Mr Riddles Glen Riddle Farm Stable While Taps has not shown her real worth this year her races must not be takpn too seriously and she is undoubtedly a much better filly than her races would indicate Some fine afternoon she is going to run her real race andr when she does che will take front rank among the fillies But that has nothing to do with the Coaching Club American Oaks to which she is not an eligible P At this time Black Maria would surely have the call over the fillies for while she was beaten by Rapture in the Pimlico Oaks she adequately wiped out that defeat when she took the measure of the Whitney filly in both the Ladies Handicap at Belmont Park and in the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs DownsKentucky Kentucky is not represented in the big filly race next week so that the fillies of New York have nothing to fear of an invasion from that quarter quarterThis This idea of a campaign to thoroughly in ¬ struct the public on the constructive side of racing is an excellent one It is the thought of Harry Stringer this time and it is sponsored by Admiral Gary T Grayson one of the best sportsmen of the turf turfIt It has been promised that Joseph E Wid ener will bring the plan up for consideration at the next meeting of The Jockey Club ClubThere There is no good reason why such a sport as racing needs any bolstering up with the big industry that is back of the sport It is a sport that has taken a strong and constantly increasing hold on the public but too often this security has not been firmly established by just such a plan as is proposed at this time timeThere There will always be killjoys who will find racing a shining mark and on other occasions of dismal memory attacks have come just when prosperity was on its crest wave It will not do to let the fences fall down in the days of prosperity There are those to whom racing means nothing and they must be informed of j the industry that is back of the sport They have never bothered to find out that the thoroughbred horse has other uses than on the race course But they will listen to any argu ¬ ment that will show what an immense industry is back of racing The breeding of horses will interest them just as any other big enterprise is of interest These are the men that sucb a campaign would inlcrestkmt if is a campaign that would do much to set racing before all in an entirely new light It makes no difference whether the sport itself interests for thote who know the thrills of racing need no cam ¬ paign to hold their allegiance but those who are dead to the thrills of racing must be brought to realize what the big breeding in ¬ terests back of the sport have done for the country This is a campaign that should be gone into vigorously and continued until every voice against the turf is silenced And this is a campaign that should at once have the hearty support and cooperation of Kentucky Maryland Illinois Florida Louisi ¬ ana and in fact every section where horses are raced It is not a campaign of The Jockey Club and it must not be considered as such It is a campaign of the turf and a campaign that is of vital interest all over the turf world worldThere There must be a beginning and it may be begun in New York The other big racing sections are in perfect harmony and accord with New York and all will undoubtedly unite in such a campaign should it be begun by The Jockey Club ClubNext Next August a feature of the running of the Saratoga Special will be the dinner that is to follow at which the governors of racing from various sections will be the guests and it is confidently expected that such matters as this as well as other questions of interest to the sport will come up for discussion It is a dinner that should bring racing folk everywhere into a closer relationship and in this proposed cam ¬ paign there must be that unity of purpose that is sure to bring results resultsTo To see the vast crowds at race courses and to consider the great interest that is felt in racing one would not think that such a cam ¬ paign is needed but we who see these things forget the other vast communities that know nothing of racing they should know and the vast communities who have no knowledge of the breeding industry and what it has dojiej fore national defense j jThe The proper campaign at this time should so securely entrench racing in this country that all attacks would forever be silenced
