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- __ , s Here and There on the Turf Nassak Goes Amiss. Genie Shows Form. His Chance in Belmont. The Pimlico Futurity. g $ It is disappointing indeed that Reigh Count, after his brilliant beginning, when he won the Kentucky Derby, should be denied his chance in the Belmont Stakes, and there has come another important declaration from the big race in Nassak, from the Rancocas Stable. The son of John P. Grier and Ethel D. was looked upon as the chief dependence of Hildreth for the race, but he has gone amiss and will not bo started. Up to the running of the Preakness Stakes, Nassak loomed up as the possible three-year-old champion of 1928. When he was forced to the outside rail by Victorian in the running of the Wood Memorial Stakes he appeared to have that race at his mercy. Two days later Nassak cams back with a winning performance that made him the public choice for the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. On his previous meeting with Victorian he seemed so much better than the Whitney colt that it was natural he should be the public choice. The Preakness Stakes is well remembered. Victorian made all the pace, withstood several challenges and nosed out Edward B. McLeans Toro, while Nassak, after never shewing anything in the running of the race, was soundly beaten. The race was one to suggest that Nassak was in no sense at his best. After that showing it was decided that Nassak would not be sent to Churchill Lowns to race in the Kentucky Derby. Victorian was also kept at home to run an even better race than he did in the Freakness Stakes, and he was the winner of the Withers Stakes. By that time Victorian was forgiven for his crazy move in the Wood Memorial Stakes at Jamaica, but there were those that had an abiding faith in either Reigh Count or Nassak taking his measure in the mile and a half of the Belmont Stakes. Now that both of them are out of the race a new challenger will have to be discovered. Giffcrd Cochrans Genie has only won two races in his -career, but his victory in the Rock Sand Handicap, at a mile and an eighth, at Belmont Park on Tuesday, moves him up considerably and he seems to have a right to race against Victorian in the Belmont Stakes, a week from Saturday. It must be remembered that in the Rock Sand Handicap, by the scale, Genie was giving away weight to every other starter. At this time of the year a three-year-old, racing against older horses, at a mile and an eighth, should carry 112 pounds, while the four-year-old weight is 127 pounds. Thus it is that under 114 pounds Genie gave Dangerous, which finished second, sixteen pounds; Kentucky II., which was third, four pounds; Brown Flash, three pounds; Priscilla Carter, one pound, and Festival, the other starter, twenty-four pounds. Of course, figuring the handicap from the scale, it seems that Priscilla Carter was treated even more harshly by Mr. Vosburgh than was Genie. That filly is a maiden, though on the scale she was required to give away weight to Kentucky II., winner of the Dwyer Stakes of last year. The scale is an arrangement of weights that has been carefully thought out years ago. It has been slightly mended from time to time, and it may need other amendments, but it is hard to understand v.hy a maiden that has been raced frequently should be asked to give weight to a colt that was the winner of such a race as the Dwyer Stakes. That the filly was soundly beaten is easily understood. And Genie, after all, may prove a worthy rival of Victorian in the running of the Belmont Stakes, should he meet with no setback in his training before that date falls due. Henry McDaniel knows his horses, and there is no better conditioner of thoroughbreds. He has brought the son of Man o War along to bis present excellent condition gradually and with rare skill. This same Genie was started in the Wood Memorial Stakes, which fell to Distraction so easily, after the elimination of both Victorian and Nassak, but he is a different colt today. In the Wood Memorial Stakes Genie was in under 110 pounds, against the 120 pounds that were carried by Victorian, Nassak and Distraction, while Doctor Wilson carried 123 pounds, the top weight. In the Belmont Stakes Genie will have no weight allowance, but, as has been said, he is greatly improved. He seems ready for the mile and a half and should Henry McDaniel decide to send him to the post on June 9 he is sure to give a good account of himself. The Maryland Jockey Club has issued its list of nominations to the Pimlico Futurity of 1930. This is the big race for two-year-olds that is decided each fall. The 1930 race is over a mile and a sixteenth distance and, as usual, the Maryland Jockey Club adds 0,000 to the race. When this race was first conceived by the late William P. Riggs and his associates of the Maryland Jockey Club, at the time, it was planned that it be a Maryland race, for Havre de Grace and Laurel as well as Pimlico. It was suggested that the three associations alternate in giving the race, while all three should contribute to the added money to make it the richest of all the two-year-old races. This plan fell through and the Maryland Jockey Club took it over alone and gave its first running in 1921, when Morvich was the winner. Then the following year the race had grown to such an importance there were two races on the same day, with the fillies Blossom Time and Sallys Alley being returned winners. The race has steadily increased in importance until it has become one of the richest of all the fall offerings for the two-year-olds, until the high value was reached in 1926, when it was worth 9,960 net to the winner and went to William Duponts Fair Star. Closing at this time for the 1930 race means, of course, that it closes for the produce of mares bred this year and its tremendous importance is reflected in the fact that 1,889 nominations were received. These nominations are of 0 each, so that if it were possible for each mare nominated to have a live foal, there would have already been subscribed ?1S,890 towards the great race of 1930. Of course, that is impossible, but the list of mares nominated is decidedly interesting. The list is one that gives an illuminating idea of the breeding operations of 1928 and it affords a good idea of the breeders of importance in the country. It is shown that there are 238 different nominators and there are 260 stallions represented in the list. This is naturally a breeding list and only breeders make the nominations. While many of them are turfmen as well as breeders there are other breeders for the market that have nominated liberally. The largest nominator is H. P. Whitney, with 202 mares named. Harry F. Sinclair has named 189 from his Rancocas Stud. Ninety-nine were named from the Audley Farm of B. B. Jones. Willis Sharpe Kilmer is represented by fortysix; W. R. Coe by forty-two; the Greentree Stable by thirty-nine; William Woodwards Btlair Stud by thirty-five, and Gifford A. Cochran by thirty-two. Then among those that breed for the market are found A. B. Hancock, with seventy-one; John E. Madden, with sixty, and Phil Chinns Himyar Stud, with thirty-eight. There are several others, both turfmen and breeders, that are variously represented, and altogether it is an interesting record for the booking , of mares this year.
