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• « Here and There on the Turf Dwyer and Latonia Derby. Three-Year-Old Situation. Riding of Sun Beau. The Sport Is Kept Clean. e $ The next high value three-year-old race is the 5,000 added Latonia Derby, to be decided next Saturday. It is a mile and a half dash, as is the Dwyer Stakes, which will be decided at Aqueduct on the following Saturday. These dates make it possible for an eligible to keep both engagements comfortably should such a campaign be decided upon. And of the eligibles to both, the two of greatest importance are A. H. Cosdens Vito acu H. P. "Whitneys Victorian. Leo J. Marks Misstep and Bdward B. McLeans Toro are not eligible to the Dwyer Stakes, but they are in the list fcr the Latonia Derby. Rcigh Count, winner of the Kentucky Derby, is also an eligible, but he probably will not be raced until August, according to the reported present stable plans. Vito took his place in the front division when he was the winner of the Belmont Stakes, at a mile and a half, but that victory will incur a penalty in both the Latonia Derby and the Dwyer Stakes. Victorian earned his penalty when he won both the Preakness Stakes and the Withers Stakes, while Misstep took up a penalty for the Fairmount Derby, and Toro earned his in the American Derby. Thus it is that with the exception of Victorian, no other three-year-old has taken two of the big races that have been decided. And the fact that the Withers Stakes is only a dash of a mile does not make it altogether comparable with the other races. Victorian won the Preakness Stakes and was not started in the Kentucky Derby, which fell to Reigh Count. Then Misstep won the Fairmount Derby, in which Reigh Count was not started. Later along came Toro to turn the tables on Misstep by beating him in the American Derby. Of course, it is possible if Victorian had started in those Middle West features he might have added one or more of them to his Preakness Stakes, and had Reigh Count gone through with the same engagements many who saw him win the Kentucky Derby are satisfied that he would have been the undisputed champion. Victorian slipped back in the Belmont Stakes and that cost him a deal of prestige, for the time being, while Reigh Count, in his two races, ran like a champion. Thus the only two different winners that have met more than once are Misstep and Toro. On all of his races it would seem that the mile and a half may suit Toro much better than it will Misstep and, unless an invader from the East goes after the Latonia Derby, the McLean colt will doubtless have the call over the others in the race, in spite of the penalty he has incurred. Possibly Sun Beau would have been the winner of the Gravesend Purse at Aqueduct on Friday, no matter how he had been ridden by Craigmyle, but he surely seemed to have been ridden to his best advantage. In the Belmont Stakes he was sent right along with Victorian and, no matter whether the time for the early racing in that mile and a half is considered fast or slow, he quit utterly as a result of racing along side the Whitney colt. On Friday Sun Beau was reserved back of the early leaders and he made one rush through the last quarter. It landed him an easy winner. There is no comparison between the horses Sun Beau was meeting in the Gravesend Purse and those that raced in the Belmont Stakes, but he was giving away weight, by the scale, to each one of them, and by making just one rush through the stretch he came home an easy winner. On occasions this son of Sun Briar and Beautiful Lady has suggested that he may be a better stayer than any of the progeny of Sun Briar, but, .like many another stayer, he is a colt of one burst of speed, and if he should be tip-toed in the early racing he will be beaten. There are few indeed that will not be beaten under such a ride. Sun Beau has speed in plenty, but he does not seem to be a hard colt to place and it would be interesting to sec ;test where he would fit in with the best of them in his future engagements over a long distance of ground if his speed is reserved for his one rush when it will do the most good. Sun Beau is a colt of awkward action and he does not like to be knocked about in running, but he is a fast one when settled into his stride, though it may not be a smooth, graceful one, and he has shown the ability to race the last quarter. Just now trainer Carroll is pointing the colt for the Dwyer Stakes, at a mile and a half, to ba run June 30. In that race he will enjoy a weight advantage over both Vito and Victorian, which have incurred penalties, and it is entirely possible that he will take his place among the important three-year-olds winners in that race. There is better than a chance that a thirty days race meeting will be conducted next fall at the Thistle Downs course, which recently came into the control of S. N. Holman and his associates. Already the plans are going forward for this proposed meeting and, while the dates have not been announced, it is known that the opening is not planned before October. Dates will be chosen that will offer no serious conflict with other racing and there appears to be every assurance that before long definite announcement will be made of the meeting. The no scratch rule seems to be working out with the same satisfaction at Aqueduct as it did in the initial use of the new regulation at Belmont Park. There have been various occasions when a change of track conditions, or for other legitimate reasons in the option of the stewards, there have been scratches, but the fields have been of ample size and the sport furnished has been high class. The ruling against jockey Bullman for his two rides on Ceylon Prince, as well as his riding of Gold Bet, was an event of the first week at the Aqueduct course that served warning on all hands that the stewards will see to it that nothing but an honest effort is tolerated. It was really the first flagrant offense of the year. There have been other rides that have brought forth criticism, but generally, from the opening day at Jamaica, the New York racing has been singularly free from anything that could be described as "queer." Incidentally the same may be said of the racing elsewhere. There always will be those who will cry "wolf," no matter how carefully the racing is conducted. There are those who are always prone to blame a rider or a trainer for their own lack of judgment in attempting to select the probable winner, but what they say or think is of no consequence. The fact remains that the racing generally thus far this year has been carried along in a manner that could bring no reproach.
