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Here and There on the Turf Bubbling Over Training. Aqueduct Chasing. Dwyer Prospects. Meeting at Homewood. It is good news, indeed, that Bubbling Cher is training a?ain and that there is a prospect of his being back to the races before long. Thv good son of North Star III. and Beaming Beauty has already been denied rich opportunities, but he still has a royal chance to climb even higher than he reached by his easy vie tory in th« Kentucky Derby. Taking a line through the Kentucky Derby and the Fairmount Derby gives one an excel lent idea of the high class of Mr. Bradleys champion. Bubbling Over beat his stablemate, Bas:enba?ga?e. with ridiculous ease after having made all the pace in the Kentucky Derby In the Fairmount Derby, Haste, winner of the Withers Stakes, from Crusader, the Belmont Stakes winner, was only able to beat the same Bagenbaggage by a short nose, through the masterly riding of Sande. Thus, merely on paper, Bubbling Over must be considered easily the master of Mr. Wideners colt. O: course Crusader wiped out his Withers Stakes defeat brilliantly when he turned the tables on Haste in the running of the Belmont Stakes, and just now Crusadei must be considered the best of the New York three year okls, just a* Bubbling Over is the undisputed champion of the Middle West, even though he has not yet met Carlaris, W T. Andersons Tijuana Derby and Coffroth Han dicap winner. The return of Bubbling Over to racing will be a big thing for the turf and if he is the same colt at Saratoga as he was on May 15, when he galloped home with the Kentucky Derby, it is safe to say that Mr Bradleys colors will be represented as they never have been represented before. It is also good to know that Mr. Bradley proposes to send Bubbling Over across the Atlantic to try against the best that can be mustered against him next year. It is due such a colt that he have every chance to prove his greatness. To have BubbUng Over out of the way in the American handicaps next year will be a loss to this country, but should he carry on successfully abroad, it would be of infinitely more benefit to the American turf and to American breeding than to have him remain at home for the edification of American crowds. Of course all of this is looking far ahead, but should this handsome big chestnut come back in 1927, there is no horse better quali fit to exploit the American thoroughbred in Fngland. He is every inch a champion and he looks .the part. There can be no great surprise in the an imuncement that steepleehasing is to be discontinued in future years by the Queens County Jockey Club and, unless there is a change in plans, there will be no course at the new racing ground when the dub moves further out on Long Island. The response to the steeplechase offerings at Aqueduct have not been what they should have been and that branch of racing has not been up to the standard desired. But there has been one excellent reason for the poor quality of racing and the, poor quality of the horses that took part. While there is crititism of owners of steeplechasers not showing a better apprecia tion by entering and running heir horses, it must be admitted that for most of the meet ing thus far, the field has been too hard for such racing and it is small wonder that owner* would hesitate to start a good horse. As a matter of fact, the steeplechase season in this country is all wrong. At Saratoga, in August, where there are a greater number of opportunities than anywhere else, unless it happens to be a month with an abundance of rain, that field becomes too hard for successful steeple chasing. Then, when the jumpers return to Belmont Park in September, the same diffi culty may be found. In France, Ireland and England, where steepleehasing has thrived so bountifully, there is no summer steepleehasing. It is confined to the early spring, late fall and winter months. At that time of the year, the turf is in fit condition for jumping and at no other time is it considered fit. It stands to reason that with steeplechasers taking up the weights they do, and jumping on hard turf, there comes a tremendous strain on both tendons and feet and it is small wonder that many of the jumpers go amiss, a far great »r number, proportionately, than go amiss in other countries. Chance Play did not suffer anything like the injury in the running of the Shevlin Stake?-: that was first reported. The good son of Fair Play met interference enough to account to a great extent for his showing in the race, but Ixmis Feustel has not had to interrupt the training of the colt. In some quarters it was reported that the colt had been injured to such an extent that he would be out of training for a time and that it would be im possible for him to keep his engagement in the Dwyer Stakes. Chance Play, barring some further accident, will be a certain starter in the Dwyer Stakes and it will afford an excel lent chance for him to prove himself against the pick of the New York three year olds. There is no question of the flcetnrss of this richly bred colt and should he show the stamina expected over a mile and a half dis tance it will mean that one more co.t is right in line for the championship of the year. At this time it is expected that ihe Dwyer Stake.-will bring out such a field that th- winner inu/ be considered as right in line for championship [honors. The good ones of the eligible list haw l een training well for the race and the field •.»• such to be a representative one. | Haste, winner of the Withers Stakes and the Fairmount Derby, is about the only high class colt about New York that is not eligible to the Dwyer. One publication announced recently that he might not be pointed for the Dwyer Stakes. Why should he be when he is not eligible ? But evidently no mistake was made when Haste was not named for the Dwyer Stakes. His race in the Withers Stakes and again in the Fairmount Derby, though he was winner of each, tended to show that a mile and a half is a bit beyond Mr. Wideners fast colt. Then in the Belmont Stakes it will be remembered that he ran a good race for a mile and a quar ter, but that last quarter was too much fo. him. There comes an assurance now that the new Washington Park track at Homewood, near Chicago, will be ready for its opening on July 3. From the beginning there has been some doubt expressed as to the ability to have it j ready for the proposed meeting, but wondeis ! in construction have been performed by the j Illinois Jockey Club and at the rate the work is progressing the gates will be opened as has been advertised. It was wise to have built the racing strip early, for it has had a thorough seasoning I The buildings will not all have been completed I for the first meeting, but enough will have | been completed to take care of the crowds and i horsemen have been invited to ship their horses ! to reach the track on Sunday.
