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iy * Here and There on the Turf Latonia Derby Prospects. Some Yearling Buys. That Long Island Service. Foals at Rancocas. « The mile and a half of the Latonia Derby, to be run Saturday, will be witnessed by no invasion from the East. It had been hoped that Max Hirsch would decide to send A. H. Cosdens Belmont Stakes winner, Vito, after the race, and there was also a hope that Victorian might be sent to bear the H. P. Whitney colors, but both of these are to stay at home and there does not seem to be any others that would be a serious menace to such colts as E. B. McLeans Toro, winner of the American Derby, or Leo J. Marks Misstep, winner of the Fairmount Derby. Both of these are sure starters, barring accident, and it is hard to go beyond them to find the probable winner. In all of his races Misstep has been used to make the pace, and has done so with rare success, though in the Kentucky Derby he succumbed to the rush of Reigh Count, as most any colt will when Mrs. Hertz champion is at himself, while in the American Derby it was the steady going Toro that ran him down. It would be interesting to find out on Saturday whether or not Misstep would show to better advantage by being "placed" in that mile and a half. The opinion of some is that he will find the route too far, but he is game and skillful "placing" might turn the trick. Last August, at Saratoga Springs, Col. Phil Chinn had in his consignment to the yearling market a chestnut son of Flit-tergold and Sly Wink, a daughter of Mordant, that was sold for ,000. This same yearling of last August was named Roguish Eye, rather a happily selected cognomen for a son of Sly Wink, and he now races for J. J. Coughlin, the Chicago turfman. Incidentally this same celt seems destined to finish out the racing season right up among the best of the two-year-olds. In four starts Roguish Eye has earned ,480, which is, to say the least, a handsome return on an investment of ,000. His first start was on Derby Day at Churchill Downs, when he was beaten. In a second start he was also beaten, largely through lack of education, but in his third start he was the winner of the Bashford Manor Stakes, which had a net value of ,580 to the winner. His only start at Arlington Park was en Tuesday, in which he was again the winner, after having run a sensational race. The Bashford Manor Stakes was run over fast going, while the track at Arliigton was decidedly heavy on Tuesday, so that Roguish Eye is not only a good colt, but he is one that is calculated to make his way thrcugh any co~ dition of going. And, while on this subject of a yearling bargain, it is not amiss to call attention to the fact that Hustle On, the bay son of Hurr: On and Fatima II., for which W. R. Coe paid the record price of 0,000, has not even been brought to the races. Chianti, a Iialf-brother to the ?50,500 failure War Feathers, which won his first race at Aqueduct on Tuesday, cost William Ziegler, Jr., 6,100 and he has not yet proved himself a bargain. While on these high time high-priced ones that have not yet made good, there might be mentioned Zacaweista, a son of Lucrative that fell to the Three Ds Stock Farm Stable for 1,000; and Holiday, a son of Humanity, for which Mr. Ziegler paid 4,000. Of course, the racing season is comparatively young and all of these still have an opportunity to warrant the higli price for which they were purchased as yearlings last August. While Click, the son of High Time and Photo, that cost E. M. Byers 5,000, seems to be making good decidedly. There has been no time that the Long Island Railroad has shown a proper consideration for the racing pascengers that each year add many thousands to revenue that would not otherwise be obtained. Invariably the fares for the same haul to and from the race courses are greatly in excess of the regular fares, and there has been scant accommodation for this extra charge. TLc race patrons, who use the long Island to and from the various courses, have become so accustomed to the charges, and the lack of comfort in the service, that they take it as a matter of course, but there come times when the service is such that even the long suffering New York patrons howl their disapproval of the service. One of these times came Tuesday when the crowd was leaving Aqueduct. There was a steady drenching downpour that kept the waiting crowd under the shelter of the roofed entrance to the track. There was no good reason for not stopping the train, for which the crowd was Availing, in front of this shelter, but, for some unaccountable reason, it was whisked by, forcing the patrons to dash out into the rain to make the train. It was about as stupid a bit of management as could be imagined and there were loud complaints all the way to the Pennsylvania station. Incidentally, this platform at the Aqueduct course is a disgrace. In the first place, it is dangerously narrow. It is muddy in rainy weather and deep in dust when the weather is dry. A crowd on such a narrow strip is always n peril from the crowding that may readily topple someone to the tracks, that are in no manner protected, and altogether it is the most dangerous of all the landing stations at any of the New York race tracks. No more has been done to make a special station of the Aqueduct race track than might be found at the smallest flag station on the line, yet spring and fall it is a station that is of vast importance in the revenue that is obtained. Frank Hackett has reported the arrival of fifty-four foals at Harry F. Sinclairs Rancocas Farm in New Jersey. It is one thoroughbred nursery that has been particularly fortunate when of this number thirty-two are colts. The sires represented are Purchase, Lucullite, Kai-Sang, Zev, and Bud Lerncr. Of those, Bud Lerner showed the greatest proportion of colts. Of his eleven foals, ten are colts. With thirteen foals by Zev, seven are colts; the twelve by Lucullite show seven colts, and Kai-Sang has four celts from seven foals. Purchase is the only one with a majority of fillies. Seven of his eleven foals are of the gentler sex. These Rancocas stock horses are really only at the beginning of their careers as sires, but each is a roundly bred horse and each an individual of sterling racing ability. There is every reason to expect that such horses, mated with the carefully chosen mares at Rancocas Farm, will restore much of the former fame to New Jersey as the native heath for the thoroughbred horse. .
