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*, « ■ Here and There on the Turf Success of Schreiner. New Apprentice Rule. Wingfield Two-Year-Olds. New Arlington Rule. s e Max Hirscli and his apprentice George Schreiner were much in the limelight at Aqueduct Monday when four races went their way. And an idea is furnished of the many Hirsch clients, in that each one of the winners is owned by a different turfman. The first, Clatter, is the property of Bernard Baruch, who races under the name of the Kershaw Stable; One Hour ran for A. C. Schwartz ; Taras Hall raced for E. M. Byers and Crystal Broom raced for H. Disstons Pineland Stable. Hirsch seemed just as delighted over the successive victories of his apprentice rider as he was for the victories of the horses themselves. This Schreiner is a development of the year and Hirsch picked him for an excellent prospect some time ago. He has light hands on a horse, an excellent seat and, what is of greatest importance, he is a cool, heady rider. He showed excellent judgment in his riding of Taras Hall, particularly, by patiently waiting for one rush through the stretch. Then with Clatter he made his move at the right time. The One Hour gallop was an easy one, but with Crystal Broom he had to use plenty nf judgment and plenty of vigorous riding skill to bring the colt in a winner from Lady Capulet. Under the guidance of Max Hirsch, jockey Schreiner should go far along the road of riding fame. He has made a brilliant beginning and there is nothing succeeds like success. An amendment to the New York rule ■ governing apprentice riders, offered by William Woodward, is being considered I by the stewards of The Jockey Club. This amendment makes the apprenticeship continue for a year from the riding of the first winner, or until such time ■ as forty winners have been ridden. Then there is a graded scale of allowances. • Until the apprentice has ridden twenty winners he will be allowed seven 1 pounds in races where the allowance may be claimed, while for the rest of the ■ term .of his apprenticeship he is allowed five pounds. ■ ■ I ■ • 1 ■ Under the old rule and under the rules in*both Maryland and Kentucky there is a flat allowance of five pounds for apprentices for the full term of their apprenticeship. The committee appointed to consider this amendment to the rules is composed of William Woodward, its proposer, A. H. Morris and Joseph E. Widener. It will doubtless be adopted by The Jockey Club. r This is a decided change ;n the apprentice rule, but racing secretaries are 1 l always at liberty to write conditions that 2 2 will fix allowances to suit themselves. 3 3 They have been writing conditions giving 4 4 5 their own ideas of what allowances 6 should be given inexperienced riders and 3 many a race gives them ten pounds. It would be just as easy to fix penalties and riding allowances all the way from 1 1 maiden riders up to those who had not . 2 ridden as many as 100 winners. The rule makes no difference so far as 3 4 allowance is concerned. Though it may fix what may be claimed in a race that l 5 does not fix riding allowances definitely. , 6 It is an open question whether or not the crop of riders is being improved by 7 the apprentice allowance. One solution that would seem a good one is to have 1 the apprentice allowance apply only to 2 , the contract employer of the apprentice, i 3 In that way the man developing the rider 4 would have the incentive, though, of 1 5 course, he would not have the oppor- 6 7 tunity to peddle the services of his rider. 1 I The initial running of the American National Juvenile Stakes at Arlington 2 Park, on Saturday, speaks well for the : 3 future of this race. It is a five and a 4 half furlongs dash for two-year-olds and, with its 0,000 added, it had a net value I of 2,895 to the winner, putting it right 6 among the important stake races of the 7 5 year. And there were seventeen went to the post — that is evidence enough of its 1 1 r.ppeal to the owners. This race fell to Voltear, one of the ! two-year-olds that Preston Burch is rac- • ing for George Wingfields Nevada Stock , 5 Farm Stable. He is a bay gelded son of Volta and The Wife, bred by Mr. Wing- j field, and his performance was a high class one. Preston Burch has had ft full measure of success with the Nevada Stock Farm Stables two-year-ol ia this year. He began his eastern campaign at the Bowie meeting and started with a fit lot of young thoroughbreds. Several have been sold from the original draft, but Voltear is one that has been retained to good advantage, as demonstrated when he was able to carry off such a race as the first running of • the American National Juvenile Stakes. The Arlington Park stewards made an excellent ruling recently on the question of waiving the apprentice allowance. The ruling is that hereafter the waiving , of apprentice allowance and riding of an I experienced jockey will not be permitted unless the jockey originally engaged is I unable to take the mount by reason of suspension, injury or sickness. There is excellent reason for this rule. , Unless some regulation was fixed for . this changing from an apprentice to a I finished rider the way is left open to a L bit of sharp practice. The trainer may claim the apprentice allowance at time of entry and then, after the publication 1 of the entries, take up the additional five I pounds and ride the best jockey avail- able. The trainer almost invariably has a l rider picked out at the time he makes his entry and, if he has no rider of his I own, he has engaged one possibly days in advance. There is ample time to attend to all these details of sending a r horse to the post and there should be no , change of the named rider except for a 1 j good and sufficient reason. j July 10 is the date set for the closing j of several of the important fall stake j races of the Westchester Racing Associa- | tion, to be decided in September at Bel- ! mont Park. This list includes the Twin J City Handicap, at a mile and a quarter; I Manhattan Handicap, at a mile, and the i Fall Highweight Handicap, at three- - | quarters over the Widener course. These " I are for three-year-olds and over. Then 1 [ there is the Jerome Handicap, at a mile, 1 ! for three-year-olds, while three of the e I races for two-year-olds are of interest. I These are the Champagne Stakes, at t j seven-eighths, the Nursery Stakes, at t I three-quarters, and the Tomboy Stakes, [ a five and a half furlongs fash for fillies. • • 1
