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Here and There on the Turf The Shevlin and The Dwyer. Quality of Rock Star. Coney Island Racing. Captain Hals Rating. Each one of the six colts that raced in the mile dash of the Shevlin Stakes Tuesday at Aqueduct is engaged in the Dwyer Stake* at a mile and a half that is to be run over the Kandme course Saturday. July 3. That pave the Shevlin Stakes an additional importance and the running of this race proclaimed that the Brookmeade Stables Rock Star is better cal culated to race successfully over the longer route than any of the other starters. Of course, in the Shevlin Stakes, by reason of the interference suffered. Chance Play did not have a fair racing opportunity and the race told little as far as he is concerned, but Rock Star gave a truly impressive perform ance and it uas evident that he would havr Ix-aton both Macaw and Dress Parade had the further. Rock Star raeeWn even an eighth was in receipt of three pounds from Macav:. but he was giving Dress Parade eight pounds. He received three pounds from Canter ami Chance Play, but he gave each better than ? three pound beating, and, as a matter of fact, he will have a like allowance over these colt/ in the running of the Dwyer Stakes. This sam" Rock Star wa- an unfortunate in the Belmont Stakes at a mile and a half. when, with Espino he was almost left at ihn post. It will be remembered that in the Belmont Stakes. Espino was the real sensation when, after his un fortunate start, he closed an immense gap to only be beaten by a length by Crusader. Smith had gone on with the Ziegler colt while Fator. when Rock Star left the post so badly, did not make a serious effort to make up the lost ground and he was far back all the way. For that reason the Belmont Stakes should not count against the son of Trap Rock and Star Emerald. His race in the Shevlin Stakes mak?* it appear that trainer Gwyn Tompkins had good reason to hope that he would take the measure of Crusader in the Belmont Stakes. Of course Crusader, by reason of his vicrorie* m the Suburban Handicap and the Belmont Stakes will naturally have the call in the Dwyer, but Rock Star himself, barring hi* misfortune in the Belmont Stakes, has been s promising hors:* this year, though he has not won a race. His first start was in the To boggan Handicap, in which he finished second to Sarmaticus. He followed that by finishing a close third to Sarazen and Senalado in the Metropolitan Handicap. HLs third start was in the Belmont Stakes and then came his race in the Shevlin Stakes. Crusader will take up a penalty of three pound-- in the Dwyer Stakes, which will make his weight 123 pounds. The conditions for the Dwyer Stakes are identical with those of the Shevlin Stakes as far as penalties and allow ances are concerned so that Macaw will also have to shoulder 123 by reason of his Shevliu Stakes victory. Rock Star will be in under 117 and Dress Parade will have a twelw pound allowance that will bring his weight to 108 pounds. Navigator will have to take up 12o pounds and. should Espino be sent to the post, he will take up 108 pounds. Canter and Chance Play will be in at 120 pounds, just a.-they were in the Shevlin Stakes. Dress Parade ran an excellent race when he fought it out so gamely with Macaw, but it was the weight allowance that made it pos sible for him to be such a close contender. And both he and Macaw are much better at a mile than a mile and a half, just as Rock | Star is a better colt at a mile and a half thai! j at a mile. Thus it would seem that Rock Star belongs high ;p among the three year old stayers This should be verified in the run ning of the Dwyer Stakes, a week from Saturday. It seems to have been a wise decision on the part of the governors of the racing at the Coney Island course, neai Cincinnati, to cut down the length of the meeting this year. That meeting will begin July 22 and continue for thirty days a« against the meeting of fifty-eight days of last year. This Ohio course held its first meeting lait year and with that long meeting and th? meetings at Latonia it gave Cincinnati , 118 days of just about continuous racing, beginning June 2 and continuing until October 17. This year the racing began r.t Latonia on June .. and will continue until July 5. but then there will come a respite until July 22, the OaaarJ Island opening date, and the cutting of the meeting almost in two can hardly fail to bring better results. Within a few days William Halpin will make stake announcements and it is assured there will be a renewal of tlie Cincinnati Derby, which was won by the Rancocas Stables Silver Fox last year, its initial running. It is to be regretted that Captain Hal does not make a trip to New York to have a try in the handicap division at Aqueduct or Empir" City, or even Saratoga That his accomplish nients in Kentucky anel Illinois have not gon" unnoticed by W alter S. Vosburgh is shown in his assignment of the weights for the Brook dale Handicap, to be run on Saturday. The only horses in that list that are required to take up a greater weight are Saraien and Mad Play. Saracen is h-inaicapped at 129 pound* while the impost for Mad llay is 127, and then conies Captain Hal with 126 pounds. Sarazen will not go to the post, unless Max — — — * Hir?ch changes his mind, while Mad Play is out of training, so that this midwestern champion is found at the top of a New York handicap. And Captain Hal has earned his way to the top by his brilliant racing this year. He has boen sweeping all liefore him in Kentucky and Fairmount Pirk and from a sprinter he has been built up to something much better. The Vosburgh estimate makes Captain Ha! a two pounds better colt than American Flag and a four pounds better colt than Silver Fox. which is climbing a bit in reputation, and there is no better judge of class than Walter S. Vosburgh. This same handicap proclaims Nc-dana best of the fillies that are engaged and her impost is 114 pounds, just an equal weight with the three year old Macaw, which jumped into high favor first this year when he was th? winner of the Queens County Handicap of last Saturday. That puts Macaw at the top of the three year olds in the Brookdale Handicap and he is rated a two pound- better coh | than William Ziegler. Jr.s, Espino over hs I mile and an eighth distance. Little Peanuts is another of the 114 pounders and his one start this year makes it appear that . lte ha« earned every pound when he was such j a close second to Sinele Foot in the running of the Brooklyn Handicap. These are some of the notables that are eligible to the handicap feature of Saturday. Black Maria is to try to duplicate her Ken lucky Oaks victory- in the I.atoma Oaks, which is to be run Saturday, July 3. W. H. Kar rick, who developed the daughter of Black Toney and Bird I oose for W. R. Coe, has promised that he will be on hand with his charge early next week in order that ther* will be a chance to give her a final workout over the Latonia course before the date of the running of the race. It is remembered that the Kentucky Oak;, decided at Churchill Down*, wa; run under adverse weather and track conditions whrn there was a heavy downpour of rain while the fillies taced. This may have given some of the fillies an excus? and it is greatly to b-desired that favorable conditions are found foi :he Latonia Oaks.
