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Here and There on the Turf Shevlin and Dwyer. Tests for Crusader. Fairmount Derby Outlook. Racing at Brookline. Two of the three year old stake races that are to be decided during the present Aqueduct meeting which have great importance are the Shevlin Stakes and the Dwyer Stakes. Thj Shevlin Stakes had its first decision last year and is a mile dash, to which ,000 is added. This race is to be decided Tuesday. The Dwyer Stakes, before the death of the late Phil Dwyer, was known as the Brooklyn Derby, and it was run at the old Gravesend track of the Brooklyn Jockey Club. For the race this year the distance Ls a mile and a half and it is one of the most important three-year-old races of the year. Both of these races are restricted to entire colts and fillies. The fact that the Dwyer Stakes has penal ties and allowances prevents it being a Derby, but such conditions will undoubtedly make for u larger fie!d and a better contest. In both stakes the weights begin at six pounds under the scale and the penalties aggregate nine pound*, which would bring the top impost 129 pounds, while allowances reach down to a weight of 108 pounds. This is a wide range and one that should bring out a better field :han would race at even weights, though natur ally it is more to be desired in the running of he Belmont Stakes. There is a better reason for these penalties nd allowances on July 3, the date of the running of the Dwyer Stakes, than can be offered for an earlier race. By July 3, frequently, .here has been developed a three year-old that stands out so far over the others that the Dwyer Stakes might readily be little more than a walk over. Two runnings of the Dwyer Stakes only brought two horses to the post, but one of them produced a race that will never be forgotten. That was in 1920 when Man o War and John P. Grier fought out iheir memorable battle. The other occasion was when Rock View won from Prince Eugene. These are just a few of the facts about the Dwyer Stakes that are interesting to be brought to mind at this time. Crusader, by reason of his victories in the Suburban Handicap and the Belmont Stakes, must be generally agreed upon as the present hampion of the three year old division, with the exception ej Edward R. Bradleys Bubbling Over, winner of the Kentucky Derby, and W. T. Andersons Carlaris, the sensational winner of both the Tijuana Derby and the Coffroth Handicap. These two great colts are not eligible to the Dwyer Stakes so that as far as they are concerned the Dwyer Stakes mean*; nothing, but should it be decided to send the son of Man o War to the post under the penal ties he will be required to take up a victory would mean much. The penalties make Cru sader take up 123 pounds by reason of his Belmont Stakes victory, though should he also win the Shevlin Stakes it will bring him to the scale impost of 126 pounds. But much of the interest in these two races would be the chance for another meeting between Mr. Riddles great colt and William Ziegler, Jr.s, Espino. which ran such a magnificent race in the Bel mont Stakes. There are many who are of the opinion that it was only his misfortune at the start of the Belmont Stakes that prevented Espino from beating Crusader. There was rea son for the belief, but there are probably as many more who are convinced that the result would have been the same with an absolutely even start. Espino would have a weight ad vantage in the Dwyer Stakes that would prevent its being a renewal of the Belmont Stakes, but it would lend great interest to the running of the race if these colts could be brought together again. And there was another unfortunate in the Belmont Stakes that is eligible to the Dwyer. This one is Rock Star of the Brookmeade Stable, he had little or no chance in his Belmont Stakes by reason of his bad start and Fator did not persevere with him, so that the race was no index whatever of his worth. H. P. Whitneys Macaw, by his good race on Wednesday, proved that he has come to himself and he is an eligible. These are seme of the possibilities for the Dwyer Stakes that can riiake it a three year old race of great importance for its running on July 3. As is the case in the Belmont Stakes, Man o War and his son American Flag have both been its winners. Crusader kept the Belmont Stakes in the family and naturally Mr. Riddle is ambitious to have him add his name to the Dwyer Stakes with those of his great relatives. On the eve of the running of the Fairniount Derby at the Collinsvillo track there i3 wide spread interest in the big event. It is the initial running of this mile and a quarter race. to which 5,000 is added, and the promised field is one to begin the history of the new Derby befittingly. Haste and Rock Man are i well calculated "to uphold the honor of thi East and in Bagenbaggage and Boot to Boot the Middle West has a pair of colts from the Bradley stable well qualified to repel the invasion. The Bradley pair, by finishing first and second in the Latonia Derby, arc naturally prime favorites with Kentuckians and those who race in the Middle West and there is little apprehension over the coming of Haste. Bag enbaggagc took the measure of Rock Man in the running of the Kentucky Derby. This good colt has improved since the running of the Kentucky Derby, but Bagenbaggage has had the same chance to improve himself. With Haste it is another matter. Mr. Wid-cners good colt proved himself in the running of the Withers Stakes and, while Crusader turned the tables on him in the mile and a half of the Belmont Stakes, his was a good race over that trying distance. He will surely be a better colt at a mile and a quarter than a mile and a half and the same race he ran in the Belmont Stakes would make him a truly hard horse to beat on Saturday. Haste had Crusader beaten at a mile and a cjuarter in the Belmont Stakes and it was only in that last quarter that he gave way to the rush of I he Riddle champion. Whether or not he will give way to the rush of Bagenbaggage on Saturday remains to be seen. Mr. Bradleys colt is a rare stayer and it will not do for Haste to make any mistakes or there will be another Derby go to the Brad ley stable. And Rock Man must not be per mitted to steal away from his opponents of Saturday. Haste and Rock Man should naturally make the pace in such a race and, if that pace proves fast enough, there is sure to be a great finish come out of the big race. The return of racing to the famous old Brookline course on Thursday was of great importance to the turf. The revival of the sport, where it flourished so magnificently-some years back, was a notable one and it is racing that cannot fail to give great impetus to steepkehasing. It is racing that has a wonderful spotting appeal and it is racing that does much to show the sport in its best guise. Racing at Brookline means the making, of more amateur riders and amateur riders will ever be a tremendously imj ortant adjunct to com â– plete success in steepkehasing.
