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Here and There on the Turf The Holiday Racing. Offense of Bullman. Reigh Count Coming Back. Juvenile Fall Prize. — • • Each Saturday throughout the racing year is a big day for racing and today is one of the truly important. In New York it marks the running of the Brooklyn Handicap and the Hudson Stakes at Aqueduct. At Latonia there is a renewal of the Harold Stakes and the Enquirer Handicap. At Arlington Park there is the American National Juvenile Str.kes, and at Fairmount Park the attraction is the Statler Handicap. And in addition to all these it is a big day in Canada, for it marks the opening of new meetings at Blue Bonnets, Dufferin Park and Windsor. And of all these races the Harold Stakes, a five and a half furlongs dash for two-year-olds, to which ,000 is j added, has the most venerable age, since | it was first run in 1883. The Brooklyn ! j Handicap, at a mile and an eighth, with j 2,500 added money, is the most valuable of the day and comes next in age, for it was first run in 1S87. The Hud?on Stakes had its first decision that same year. It has only ,500 added and is a five furlongs dash for two-year-olds, but it has always attracted a good field. The American National Juvenile Stakes is at five and a half furlongs for two-year-olds, as the name suggests, and I 0,000 added. This prize attracted 295 i nominations and it is one of the truly important chances for the two-year-clds, , though the youngest of all these holiday features. Indications are that at each of the s various courses the class of the horses I contending will be worthy of the values I that are offered and, taking a line S through the past big days of the spcrt, , there is assurance that the attendance J will be of the usual holiday numbers. The prompt action of the stewards of p the Aqueduct meeting in suspending the license of Jockey S. Bullman and referring his case to The Jockey Club is to be , commended. It is also commendable that t further entries from the Dyker Stable be refused for the time being, at least. = j | ! j j I i , s I I S , J p , t = With this good start it is hoped that the stewards will go right through to the end of the string. Bullman rode Ceylon Prince when he ran a bad race and he rode him on Thursday when he was a winner. He also rode Gold Bet from the same stable on Wednesday and the riding of that colt, to say nothing of the performances on Ceylon Prince, may have merited punishment. But there is some one back of all this. Bullman is not much of a rider when he is doing his best, but he has been punished for these rides, so it seems he has been proved guilty. It is natural to suppose that some one profited by these rides and it is unnatu- ral to think that he was guilty cf his offenses of his own initiative. There is something back of it all and it should be dug up at this time. Thus far the racing has been kept clean and free from scandal in New York and convicted offenders must be taught -that only clean racing will be tolerated. That Reigh Count is back in training is indeed big news for the turf. The Kentucky Derby winner is back under saddle for the first time since his glorious victory in that race at Churchill Downs on May 19, and he shows no evidences of the injuries that have kept him away from the races since that time. Trainer Michell gave Reigh Count an abundance of galloping before he sent him to the post for his first race on May 14, but he sent a fit horse to the post. It will be remembered that Reigh Count was an easy winner on that occa- sion and he followed that victory by scoring in the Derby. Those were his only two appearances under colors. That the colt has been robbed of much fame and many dollars by his enforced idleness must be agreed. Taking a line through his Kentucky Derby and the collapse of Victorian in the running of the Belmont Stakes, it seems certain that only the disability of Reigh Count prevented his adding that rich race to his list. But it has been the policy of Mr. Hertz to see to it that Reigh Count be afforded every opportunity to be thoroughly at himself when he is raced. Undoubtedly Reigh Count might have been made ready for the Belmont Stakes, but it would have been taking a chance that he might be permanently broken down in the race. There is every disposition to have the son of Sun Reigh meet all the best of them, when he is fit and ready, and it would appear at this time that, barring any later interruption, he will be keeping his Saratoga Springs engagements. Victorian is still training and his supporters are not willing to take the Belmont Stakes as his true form. As a matter of fact, no one should take that race too seriously, for it was too far below what the son of Whisk Broom II. had shown on other occasions. This, and the fact that Vito has come up among the good ones, while others have advanced a bit, suggests that Reigh Count may find plenty of interesting competition in his Saratoga Springs campaign. The time expired yesterday for the sec- ond closing of the American National Futurity, which is to be decided at Arlington Park on September 8. This is a three-quarters mile dash, to which 5,000 is added, and the first closing on March 1 brought 358 nominations, which brought in ,1C0. It costs 50 addi- tional to start, so that the value of the race may be readily understood. For this second closing the nomina- tion fee was 00 and, while the results are not known at this time, it is safe to predict that the additional entries will swell the handsome total materially. This second closing of a stake is not altogether unusual, but at the time the £ original nominations were invited an- ! nouncement was made of the second I I closing, which has just been completed. j By this second closing it made possible I the adding of such two-year-olds as had j shown racing prowess to warrant nomi- I i nation since March 1. It frequently hap- ! pens that a backward two-year-old is I denied many an opportunity in early I closing races and a second closing gives I i it a chance. : j It might be argued that those who I made nominations by March 1, when, as ! a matter of fact, it was impossible to ! | | know little of the speed of the two-year-I |j olds, were at a disadvantage when some I highly developed youngster is dropped in • | at the later closing, but it must be re-I j numbered that this was a condition writ-I I ten at the time of the original closing, r 1 2 3 4 * 5 7 8 1 , ; : . , i • . [ I [ - r j and the second fee is fixed at 00, against the ?20 for the March 1 closing. The American National Futurity, by reason of its second closing, should contain the names of all the best two-year-olds of the year in its eligible list. ■ ■
