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Here and There on the Turf Espinos Dwyer Chances. Improving the Program. Pandoras Victory. Importation of Durbar. lupine William Zicgler, Jr.s. hope for the Pwycr Stakes, to be run next Saturday, qualified handsomely for that big race when he was such a fast coming second to Samuel D. Riddle.* Crusader in the running of the Belmont Slakes over the same distance and under equal weights. It will always be remembered how badly Espino was away in that race and many are of the opinion that with, an equal start, he would have been the winner. The only start since then for the son of Negofol and Rose Leaves was in the mile dash cf the seventh race at Aqueduct Thursday and that performance was one to indicate that he is ready for any question. He was a cantering winner under 116 pounds and was worked out to a mile and a quarter in 2 :05%, over a track that was far from being fast. While Espino met Crusader under equal weights in the B?lmont Stakes, he will have an advantage of fifteen pounds over the son of Man o War in the Dwyer Stakes and the same sort of a race he ran at Belmont Park would surely make him the winner. Ail along ii has been conceded that Espino had a royal chance in these races for stayers and the im portance of -the Thursday race was that it demonstrated that the brown colt is ready for any sort of race. He is sure to be a hard horse to beat next Saturday with only 108 pounds to shoulder, against the 123 on Crusader and a like impost on Macaw. Display and Navigator. Cantor. Mars, Chance Play and lilondin have to take up 120 pounds, while Rock Star and light Carbine are in under 117 pounds. Dress Parade, Banton and Light View are others that will carry 108 pounds, should they be sent to the post and it seems almost certain that Dress Parade will be sent to bear Crusader company. The Aqueduct program has shown a com nendable innovation in the publication of the probable field for the Dwyer Stakes, with Ihe weights that will be carried. This is the big feature for next Saturday and it shows a bit of enterprise in advertising the race this far ahead. R would be interesting to have the same plan carried out in other big coming events, when it is possible. There come so few program improvements in New York that it is indeed a pleasure to make mention of anything that adds to its value. Of course all hope seems to be gone to see a New York program that will present the names of the riders, as well a the horses. This was attempted at Saratoga and it met with only a small measure of success, for the reason that the horsemen did not lend aid. The same horsemen have defeated all at tempts to bring about an earlier hour for the dosing of entries or an earlier scratch hour. Thus it is that New York, with all its magnifi cent racing, is woefully behind all the other big racing centers in the matter of track rules, made for the comfort and convenience of the public. The horsemen have been unreason .ably selfish in their opposition to various-changes that could be brought about for the good of racing, but, after all, the racing asso nations are to blame for permitting the horse men to make the rules. The horsemen furnish the entertainment, but it must also be borne in mind that there would be no entertainment without the racing public, and the public and its convenience should come before the horsemen in the mat- ter of closing entries and the printing of the names of the jockeys on the programs. I. could readily be done if any association had courage enough tej impose a penalty on train ers who did not name the rider at the time of entering the horse. This has all been written before and it brought no resulls. There is no good reason to expect that residts will come at this time. But it is a subject that should not be let rest. In the meantime, the Queens County Jockey Club is congratulated on publishing the names of fourteen colts, with their weights, as a porsible field for the Dwyer Stakes. Pandora, Harry Payne Whitneys brown daughter of Peter Pan and Denelera, gave con vincing evidence of her high class when r.he was a cantering winner of th? Clover Stakes at Aqueduct Thursday. Pandrra was only meeting fillies, but she was giving away plenty of weight to each starter, with the exception of C. Leroy Kings Accomplish, and she did what was asked of her with supreme ease. As for Accomplish, she is paying for her Miami successes at this time in the penalties she has to take up in such races. This filly has been at it a long time and she has provee! her worth, but the penalties that came with her Miami successes promise to be too great a handicap against the best of the fillies that were saved from the winter racing. The Whitney horses of this year are atoning magnificently for the defeats of last year and it is safe to predict already that the stable will be among the leaders, if not the actual leader at the end of the racing year. At the same time the Rancocas Stable ha* had a slump thai can be attributed to sickness in the stable, that does not give the white and green trimmings its usual importance on the turf. It is of great interest to American the rough bred breeding that the good stallion Durbar j? to be offered at auction during August at Saratoga Springs. Durbar raced in England as Durbar II. and he was winner of the Epsom Derby of 1914 for the late H. B. Duryea. He is a son of Rabalais and the Meddler mare Armenia, well known in this country and on both tides of his house there is no better bred horse. The dam of Armenia was the Hanover mare Uranna and she was from the famous Wanela, a daughter of Mortemer, the next dam Minnie Minor, by Lexington. And Durbar has more than his Derby to recommend him for he earneel 343,400 francs and has been a conspicuous success since his retirement to the stud. The sale in this coun try was decided upon recently, after Mrs. Dur yea had sold her Haras du Gaxon to Marcel Boussac. Arrangements have been* made for the shipment of the horse to this country next week. He will be sent to Saratoga at once, where quarters have been reserved for him and the date of the auction will be decid? l upon later. ♦ .
