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Here and There on the Turf • 1 Nine of the important tliree-year-old fixtures of tlie year have seen eight different winners. Beginning with the Preakness, it was Dr. Freeland that scored, and the order of the others has been : Kentucky Derby, Clyde Van Dusen ; Withers, Blue Larkspur ; Fairmount Derby, Karl Eitel ; Belmont Stakes, Blue Larkspur ; American Derby, Windy City ; Shevlin Stakes, Jack High, La-tonia Derby, Buddy Basil, and the Ohio State Derby, Thistle Fyrn. That is just how the three-year-old situation is mixed up at this time, and on paper, if for no other reason, but there are many reasons, Blue Larkspur must be placed at the top of the group. There are some races not far away, and then during the August racing at Saratoga Springs, where Reigh Count proved his championship, there will be an opportunity to dethrone Air. Bradleys colt, but until he is beaten, no one is really willing to seriously consider any other his master. There is the mile and a half of the Dwvir Stakes, to be run at Aqueduct Saturday ; then there is the mile and a quarter of the American Classic, to be run at Arlington Park in Chicago. July IS. The Bradley colt will, undoubtedly, keep both of these engagement:;, and opportunity will come then. As lor the Saratoga Springs racing, there is the Huron Handicap, the Miller and the Travers, three big features, and in the fall there is the Lawrence Realization. And, of course, a July prize that must not be overlooked is the Kmpire City Derby. It will be seen that there still remain many rich opportunities for the three-year-olds, and there should be ample opportunity for Blue Larkspur to be dethroned or make still more secure his claims on the championship. This Panuco, with which "Tom" McOreery won the Speculation Claiming Handicap for J. F. Byers at Aqueduct Monday, is a colt that lias not been fully appreciated since his importation or he would have attracted more attention before the running. A French four-year-old son of Tetrameter and Iomone, by Iommern, he was purchased in England for J. V. Byers by McCreery and he has already proved himself a good buy. As a three-year-old he was beaten in the Workingham Stakes at Ascot, but he finished a good third to Fleeting Memory and Yoho in the Royal Stakes, at the Kpsom June meeting. For his inches, Fanuco is surely a good colt, and his exhibition of speed in the Monday race was a revelation. He covered the first quarter of that mile in :22:;5, the three-eighths in rP.!-, the half in :46ri, the five-eighths in :5V-1-, three-quarters in 1 :12, and finished out the mile in 1 :39, to win by four lengths, and with ease. Such dazzling speed tells of just why the outlander was winner. The racing at AVashington Park will come to a conclusion Saturday, and Monday the scene will shift over to the big Arlington Park course. Creat preparations have been made for this meeting, and the American National Jockey Club is showing an altogether unusual liberality in the prizes that are to be offered. For an opening attractions, there will be the American National Handicap, for sprinters, and over the three-quarters distance. It is a race that has attracted the nomination of almost all of the best sprinters in training, and it should fittingly begin the summer racing. The Chicago racing has already attracted several horses from the New York circuit, and many others have had quarters engaged for the sport at Arlington Park, which will give the racing an added zest. It will mean a meeting of the best in the Middle Wts», with many of the best that would, under ordinary conditions, confine their efforts to the East.
