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# . ? Here and There on the Turf March of the Season. Empire and Lincoln Fields. Big Races to Come. Steeplechasing Promise. « ? The Aqueduct meeting of the Queens County Jockey Club is rapidly coming to a conclusion, the last day is July 4, but there remains some of the most important races of the meeting to be decided. Of these the Dwyer Stakes is the most notable. It is down for decision on Saturday and, aside and apart from its value of 0,000 in added money, it has a greater sporting importance than any race of the meeting. It is a mile an a half, for three-year-olds, and much of its interest will naturally come in the promised meeting between A. H. Cosdens Vito and Harry Payne Whitneys Victorian. When Vito defeated Victorian in the Belmont Stakes, at a mile and a half, at Belmont Park, many who watched the I running of the race agreed that it was only the excitable temper of the son of Whisk Broom II. and Prudery that brought about his undoing. Others of racing wisdom marked him a non-stayer. He certainly was in no manner distressed after the race and, after galloping along in front with Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sun Beau, he quit unaccountably, except lack of stamina is accepted. But there are others who hold to the belief that Vito is the master of Mr. Whitneys colt over such a distance of ground. They still contend that Victorian is not a stayer and that Vito will repeat his Belmont Stakes victory. Then, of course, there is Sun Beau in the Dwyer Stakes. He will have a big weight advantage over both Victorian and Vito, which he did not have in the Belmont Stakes, and there is a possibility that he will be troublesome, though he has not shown ability to stay over such a distance. Another of the big events to come, and also down for decision on Saturday, is the Tremont Stakes for the two-year-olds. This will be the first big test for the two-year-olds over a three-quarters distance and the list of eligibles contains the names of all the best that have been shown in the East, as well as many of the fashionables that have not been to the post. Among those that are expected to start are Donnay, Chestnut Oak, Blue Larkspur, Red Bank, Comstockcry, Chief Executive, Battleship Gray, Soul of Honor, recent winner of the Great American Stakes, as well as others that have shown high speed. The racing of Saturday and that of the Fourth of July, the closing day of the Aqueduct meeting, is of a real holiday ouality and racing that will keep keen interest alive in the meeting to the closing day. And after Aqueduct comes the meeting of the Empire City Racing Association over James Butlers Yonkers course. This year, more than ever before, the meeting in Westchester County holds out great promise. I For the opening feature, the mile and a quarter Empire City Handicap, there is a chance for a meeting between the winners of the big handicaps that have gone before, while Vito, winner of the Belmont Stakes, is also in the eligible list. The meeting has its usual stakes and this year there is more interest in them for tho reason that it is possible that the meeting will settle some of the disputed questions of supremacy. No horse in any age division, thus far, stands out far enough to be hailed as the champion and he may be crowned at Mr. Butlers meeting. Enough of them are engaged to make this entirely possible. No matter what the outcome of the Dwyer Stakes on Saturday, both Vito and Victorian are in the Empire City Derby and it is confidently expected that both will be seen under colors for that race. The racing of Saturday will bring to a conclusion the twenty-four days meeting at the sumptuous Arlington Park course. Then the Chicago scene of racing changes to Lincoln Fields on Monday. The meeting of the American National Jockey Club, which only came into being last year, has been, barring some bad weather, a tremendously successful one and plans that have been made for the second meeting, to begin August 27 and continue for seventeen days, have an importance that will make it a notable success. H. D. Brown and his associates of the magnificent Arlington Park course selected choice racing dates for their two meetings and the racing that has been furnished has been bountifully patronized. Several novel features are promised for the second meeting, one of these being a mile and an eighth for all ages, which has the high sounding name of American Thoroughbred Championship. It is to have 5,000 added and to be run September 1. Another of the big fall features is the American National Futurity, for two-year-olds, to which 5,000 is added. In the meantime all is in readiness for the opening of the meeting at Lincoln Fields and that beautiful racing ground will be at its best when the gates are thrown open on Monday. The opening feature is the Crete Handicap, a three-quarters mile dash, to which ,000 is added. This Lincoln Fields meeting is to continue until July 28 and the big event of the meeting is the 5,000 added Lincoln Handicap, a mile and a quarter dash, to be decided July 7. Other big features are the Dearborn Stakes, at three-quarters mile, and the Marquette Handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth, to each of which 5,000 is added. Then there is the Chicago Heights Handicap, at three-quarters mile, for the two-year-olds, to which 0,000 is added. With many races with ,000 added there is no summer racing at the same time with anything like the importance of the Lincoln Fields racing. For a considerable time horses have been shipping to Lincoln Fields and with the close of the meeting at Arlington virtually all of the horses that have been engaged there will be moved over to this other Chicago racing ground. Steeplechasing, which has been such a satisfying success this year, will be no part of the New York racing programs after the close of the Aqueduct meeting until the August racing at Saratoga Springs. Through the Belmont Park meeting and the following meeting at Aqueduct, so soon to come to a conclusion, this brand of racing has been particularly attractive and it has been carried on in a fashion that has excited public confidence as well as admiration for the spectacle. It is said to have been promised that H. D. Brown will introduce the crosscountry racing at an Arlington Park meeting, and should this be done for the second meeting at this Chicago course, it is said that many of the stables that race at Saratoga Springs may send horses there for campaigning as an experiment. Virginia is justly proud of its thoroughbred interests. This was shown recently when a Kentucky publication referred to Reigh Count, winner of the Kentucky Derby for Mrs. John Hertz, as a western colt. One of the loyal Virginians promptly wrote this particular publication that, while Reigh Count was a western colt as far as ownership is concerned, he remains a product of Virginia. Reigh Count was bred by Willis Sharpe Kilmer at his Court Manor Farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
