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Here and There on the Turf Whitney Stake Success. Captain Hals Record. Homewood Prospects. Kentucky Stakes Closing. The famous light blue and brown cap silks of Harry Payne Whitney are making ample amends for 1925 in the brilliant list of stakes that have gone the way of the stable this year. Since the opening of the Aqueduct meeting the Whitney horses have been almost invincible and in stakes alone the stable has taken a net total of 7,475 in first money. Of this Macaw contributed the Brookdale Handicap and Queens County Handicap, as well as the Shovlin Stakes and the Broadway Stakes. Pan-tella accounted for the Great American Stakes. Pandera the Clover Stakes, Witchmount the Hudson Stakes and Fresco th? Canarsie Stakes. And there were other winnings, including a victory for Ararat II. through the field, which swell the total. Just now the Whitney Stable ■ stronger in the two year old division than any other and the manner in which Macaw has been carrying on makes him a brilliant three-year-old and letter than he was generally rated earlier in the year. And with it all there has been an element of good luck following the popular colors. In the running of the Brookdale Handicap it was generally agreed that Robert L. Gerrys Pea nuts was a better horse at the weights than Macaw and should have been the winner. With riders reversed he surely would have been the winner, so that "Pony" McAtee is a wonder fully good "horse" in the Whitney string him self. He has shared in all of the successes thai have come to the stable and he has never shown more skill in the saddle than during th" present meeting. It is just as well for the reputation of the handicap horses about New York that Captain Hal ha been campaigned in Kentucky and Illinois. A. A. Kaisers swift running son of Black Toney and Wavering has been a real sensation and he appears to improve with vig orous campaigning. His race in th? Jefferson Hold Handicap at Fairmount Park Saturday when he took up 137 pounds and established a new track record of 1 :52Vi for a mile and ar. eighth, is right in line with some of his other brilliant performances. In this race he was giving Cudzcller thirty two pounds, but he raced the Bed well four year old to defeat in the first three-quarters when he covered that distance in 1:12% and then came on to win by five lengths in the record making time. He won with consummate ease and could readily have pruned the record down considerably more, had there been anything left to make him run at full speed through the stretch. The development of Captain Hal has been interesting. Karly in the year it was admitted that he was a wonderfully fast sprinter, but he was not considered other than a high class short distance horse. Now he has been stretch ing out the distances while his weight ha* been piling up until he has become one of the really great horses of the year. He stands up well under his drilling and it is to be ho[ ed that he will have a try against the best in tho East during the August meeting at Saratoga Springs. i It is no secret that Gwyn Tompkins is dodging the DwyeT Stakes with the Brook meade Stables Rock Star because of the fact that the son of Trap Rock and Star Emerald would have to give William Ziegler Jr.s Espino nine pounds. That is the one spot that is not attractive to Tompkins in the light of the race run by Espino back of Crusader in the mile and a half of the Belmont Stakes as well as the brilliant trial shown by the son of Negofol and Rose leaves on the occasion of his last start. Crusader did not give Espino anything like a fifteen pounds beating in the Belmont Stakes. even had the colts left the post on even terms, and unles- Mr. Riddles great son of Man o War improves over his Belmont Stakes form he cannot beat Espino in the Dwyer Stakes. But Crusader ha« ■ worthy stablemate to fall back upon in Dress Parade, which i- in the Dwyer Stakes under equal weights with Espino. Both colts have been training well for the big race and it is intended that both will go to the post. This arrangement will give the Riddle stable the advantage of a pacemaker, but trainer Speirs is well satisfied with Espino. a« well he should be, and with all the misfortun. that has attended Mr. Zieglers colors the Dwyer Stakes appears to be a spot where there will be a change in the stables fortunes. On Saturday the racing will be brought back to Chicago with the opening of the New Wash ington Park race course at Homewood. near the big city. It ha« been a Herculean task to oecome ready for the meeting and when the gates are opened next Saturday it will be found that the lig course is not complete in all its details, bnt it will be ready for the sport anri the program is one that should produce good racing. For the opening day the feature is the Debutante Stakes with ,000 added and the other rtakes arc the Washington Park Handi cap. the Illinois Oak* and the Rol»ert M. Sweil zer Handicap, each with 0,000 added; th« Homewood Stakes with ,000 added and the new American Derby, to which 00 000 l-adued. The American Derby, with its record taWed value, has tremendous importance and is down foi dc-ision on Saturday, July 10. The entries for this race include most of the best three year olds in training, as is easily understood when its value is taken into consideration. The plans for the initial meeting of the Illinois Jockey dub, at its new course, are indeed elaborate. Much depends on this meeting to open Saturday and its progress will be watched with great interest by the entire turf world. And while the Homewood track is about to be opened the work is being rushed on th; Lincoln Fields course, in the adjoining Will County, and it will be in complete readines-for its announced opening, August 9. This track is an ellipse of a mile and a sixteenth with two chute;, one for the mile races and the other for races of a mile and a half. Lincoln Fields has been constructed along lines of magnificence never before attempted in this country and no expense has been spared to make it the show course of America. There has been no end of handicaps in making the course read-, for work was begun much later than at the Homewood course, but it will be ready in ample time. No announcement has been made of the values that will be offered at Lincoln Fields but it is assured that they will be in keeping *ith tlv magnificence of the race course. It has ever b*en the policy of Col. Matt Winn to offer bountiful values and during August Chicago will be a tempting rival to the old Sara toga Association. Horsemen are reminded that two of the futures of the Kentucky Jockey Club are to Oc closed m Thursday. These are the Kentucky •lot key Club Stakes of 1927 and the Latonia Championship Stakes of 1928. The Kentucky Jen-key Club Stakes is a mile dash for the two year olds with 0,000 added and it is run at Churchill Downs during the autumn meeting. The Latonia Championship Stakes has an added money value of 3,000 and it is for three year olds and is at a mile and three quarters. Thus the closing for both races are for now yearlings and it is a closing that has an especial appeal to breeders who have yearlings intended for the Saratoga market. The good yearling without adequate stake engagements has nothing like the market value of the equally good yearling that is well supplied with engagements.
