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Here and There I on the Turf I ♦ Clyde Van Dusen, winner of the Kentucky Derby through the Churchill Downs mud on May 18, was beaten last Saturday, in the running of the Grainger Memorial Handicap. ]3ut the son of Man o War gave a good account of himself in that mile and a quarter race in which Edward B. McLeans good four-year-old Toro ran the mile and a quarter In 2 .05 over a slow track. Broadside also Jed the Kentucky Derby winner home, but the latter is a five-year-old that carried only 106 pounds against the 115 taken up by Clyde Van Dusen, a three-year-old. Altogether, it was an excellent performance for the unxed son of Man o War and can nardly be rated as a failure. And while Toro was winning the Grainger at Churchill Downs, another son of The Porter was making good adequately at Fair-mount when Greenock galloped off with the Collinsville Handicap, the opening feature of that meeting. The Collinsville Handicap was only a dash of three-quarters of a mle, but Greenock took up the top weight of 115 pounds and made a show of his company to set a sizzling pace and finish the distance In 1:12%. Greenock, which was bred by Edward B. He Lean, as was Toro, began his racing career under the silks of the Washington •portsman, but he now races for V. Sutro. Incidentally, the opening of the Fairmount meeting was an auspicious one and it holds out high promise for a successful season. This year the Fairmount Jockey Club is departing from its usual custom and there will be but this one meeting, instead of two, as has been the former rule. The present meeting is to continue for a period of thirty-seven days. The manner in which W. R. Coes Sweep Out continues to win races makes her the real sensation of the sprinting division in New York. When she was sent East to join the New York string she left Tijuana Without a score to her credit, proving she was a bit unsound, and her real quality was not appreciated. She has not lost a race since her arrival on Long Island, the score Saturday being her sixth consecutive in the East and her seventh straight victory. Trainer Creech gave the daughter of Sweep On her most ambitious task Saturday when he pitted her against sprinters a degree above the platers, but the swift-running miss beat them just as she had led home the horses of lesser quality. Racing a first half mile in :46%, she was home the winner of a three-quarters dash over the main course, in 1:1114, to beat Lace. J. R. Macombers Petee-Wrack ran a good race to be winner of the Metropolitan Handicap, at Belmont Park Saturday, but it was In no sense a remarkable performance when the mile was run in 1:40 against the 1:39% hung out by the platers over the same distance in the last race of the day. Of course, time is of little moment in rating the quality of a horse, but the fact that Petee-Wrack had to run no Castor to beat the others in the old handicap, did not make the renewal in any sense a notable one. In the race run just before the Metropolitan, Sweep Out had covered three-quarters in 1:11%, which would indicate that there was nothing much the matter with the going. And in the Metropolitan, the fractions reveal that the first quarter was run in :23%, and the half in :47%. That is fast time for the early stages of a mile journey, but the tfsiwc-cjaaru.a i...rk was reached in 1 :13, and then the last quarter in :27 completed the mile. Jn the cruy-den race the first three-quarters were run In 1 :12 and the final quarter in :27%, but Croyden won with greater ease than did the eon of Wrack. All of this time analysis would tend to show that the early pace was in no sense too hot to account for the manner in which Os-mand and Byrd tired in the stretch of the Metropolitan. Of cotarw I • - a severe burden when shouldering 128 pounds, but his race was net in.- t.i» . i . formanee in the Toboggan Handicap. Os-mand is at best a sprinter, but he did not prove himself in any sense a sensational ■printer in the Metropolitan. , 1 ■ ,
