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Here and There on the Turf i i Joseph McLennan has issued an ornately bound copy of the nominations to the various stakes of the American National Jockey Club for its meeting at Arlington Tark, in Chicago, from July 1 to August 2. There are eleven of these fixtures and the nominations for each have been exceptionally liberal. The richest prize of that season is naturally The Classic, a mile and a quarter test, to which ,000 is added, with an additional 0,000 should the winner have previously won the Kentucky Derby. Preakness, American Derby, or the Belmont Stakes. There were 137 three-year-olds named for this big prize and it is a list that naturally takes in all of the best, several of which, for one reason or the other, have not yet been seen under silks. It is confidently expected that this running will bring together the winners of the classics that have gone before, and the fact that it carries penalties and allowances, makes certain a large field. Under the conditions of the Classic, the weight is fixed at scale, 126 pounds, but non winners of a three-year-old race of the value of 5,000 are allowed three pounds ; of such a race of 5,000. five pounds; of ,000 at any time seven pounds, and maidens, if never placed in a sweepstakes, are allowed ten pounds. Thus it will be seen that while the top weight is only at the scale, there is a ranee down to 116 pounds. There is much of useful interest in this Imok of the nominations for the Arlington 1ark meeting, and it also contains the appointments for the conduct of the racing. The stewards named are Christopher J. Fi.z-eerald, Martin Nathanson, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, A. B. Hancock, and Major L.. A. Baird. The placing judges are Joseph McLennan, Noah McLelland, and Charles F. Henry. Joseph Mclx nnan is racing secretary and handicapper ; Martin Nathanson will also aid in the handicapping. Roy Dickerson will do the starting. Charles McLennan is clerk of the scales ; Dr. F. W. Ashe Paddock, jinle ; Francis P. Dunne and William Doyle, patrol judges; Charles Hughes, timer, and William A. Meyer, track superintendent. Announcement has been made of the stakes of the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association, whose meetings are conducted at the Hawthorne course in Chicago, the first being from August 3 to 24, and the second from September 30 to October 12. The stakes thai are to be closed July 13 are the fixtures for the first meeting. There are five on the list and the richest is the Hawthorne Handicap, to which 5,000 is added. This is a mile and a sixteenth for three-year-olds and over. After the recent bright hopes that after all a racing bill for Florida would be passed at Tallahassee during the present special session, the senate by a vote of 17 to 12 wrecked all chance Thursday. This was the Taylor bill that provided for a state-wide referendum introduced by Senator Taylor of St. Augustine and vigorously supported by Senator Watson of Miami. When the necessary two-thirds vote was obtained to bring up the bill for consideration, its proponents were cheered by the result, but the bill was only brought up, by some of the senators, who voted for its consideration, in order that it be slaughtered. There are some other methods proposed before the close of the present special session, but it cannot be conceived how the measure will come for any further consideration in the senate, no matter what may be done in the lower house. There is disappointment that all the efforts to make the thoroughbreds secure in the state of Florida have come to naught after the success that has attended the racing of the Miami Jockey Club, but as a matter of fact there appears to be reason for the support to be abandoned. There has come no change in the existing laws, regarding racing, and the sport was conducted at the Hialeah course, last winter, under the existing laws and within the law. With that meeting as a precedent there does not seem any bar against another season of sport, but. of course, it was greatly to be desired that a fixed law be enacted that would offer support and protection to the sport. Announcement has been made that Whiskery, the Kentucky Derby winner, is to be brought back to the races. It was in 1927 that Whiskery scored in the Kentucky Derby and last year he was sold to C. A. Stone, who campaigns under the name of the Mor-ven Stud. The son of Whisk Broom II. was bred to a few mares, but Mr. Stone has decided to return him to active racing and the intention is to show him at the Arlington Park meeting in Chicago. He has been engaged in the handicap fixtures there and should he stand up under severe training there is no reason why he should not he a valuable addition to the handicap division.
