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t Here and There on the Turf " 4 While Crazy Coot was showing that he has returned to the races in winning form, scoring at Havre de Grace Tuesday, James Fitz-simmons was demonstrating the training progress of William Woodwards Gallant Fox at Aqueduct. The Whitney colt was only required to race six furlongs, which he did impressively, while Gallant Fox was worked a mile and a quarter over the old course of the Queens County Jockey Club. Both performers have attracted much interest. Of course, there is a wide difference between six furlongs and a mile and a, quarter, but there is also a wide difference between a trial and an actual race. That six furlongs is sure to advance Crazy Coot considerably in his preparation and, as a matter of fact, there is no good reason to believe that he will not race on as far as any other colt. Gallant Fox has been training so steadily and for such a time that he must be given a place right up with the best of the candidates for the big May prizes. This . most recent move was tremendously, impressive, and the promise that he will be started in the Wood Memorial, at Jamaica, lends additional interest to that running. There are several other of the best three-year-olds that have been pointing for this test, and with most of them, it is taken as an important and truly profitable part of the training for the Preakness, or the Kentucky Derby. Then there is the Chesapeake Stakes, like the Wood, exclusively for three-year-olds, as the big opportunity at Havre de Grace. The Chesapeake has always been considered as affording a line on both the Preakness and the Derby, but the only winner at Havre de Grace to go on and win one of the other big events in May was Whiskery. After winning the Chesapeake in his year, "Whiskery raced third to his stablemate, Bos-tonian, and the Canadian campaigner, Sir Harry, in the Preakness, then moved over to Churchill Downs to be winner of the Kentucky Derby. One of the few conflicting dates come with the Wood Memorial and the Chesapeake, and it is unfortunate that two such similar races should be decided on the same day. They are both down for decision April 2G, but each will attract several Preakness and Derby candidates from present indications. With- the steeplechasers enjoying their first racing opportunity with the two days of sport of the United Hunts Racing Association, at Aqueduct, the steeplechasers will come to more frequent opportunities at the Pimlico meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club, which begins April 28. For a considerable time the cross-country stables have been busily making ready for what is to be offered, and the season will see the return of many an old favorite, and the appearance of several new ones that have been hunted and schooled through the winter months. The open steeplechases should see bigger and better fields this year than ever before, while a surprising number of qualified hunters are available for such races. That is evidenced by the response to the Billy Barton Steeplechase, to be run at Pimlico May 1. Por that running there are no fewer than sixty-six nominated and it is a roster of just about all the top class hunters in the country. Some of these will unquestionably be seen in open steeplechases later in the year, and with the many others that are not qualified as hunters, there should be no trouble in making the sport of more importance than ever before. The adding of steeplechasing to the Arlington Park racing in Chicago will have a tremendous effect for good in this branch of racing. There has been general complaint of lack of racing opportunity by those who go in for that branch of the sport and the opening of the Chicago field is for that reason of great importance. Some of the Chicago sportsmen have been shipping Fast to find employment for their horses and with opportunities at home they will take a new interest in the steeplechasing. And it will be sport that will attract several of the horses from the East, just as the flat racing promises to attract some of the best. After the conclusion of the racing at Pimlico the jumpers will have to travel to Canada to find racing opportunity or await racing of the Westchester Racing Association at Belmont Park. Unfortunately there are only three of The Jockey Club courses that cater to the steeplechasers. These, are Belmont Parle, Aqueduct and Saratoga Springs. There have been times when even the three seemed too many by the way the races were patronized, but times have changed and, with the present interest, it is unfortunate that all five courses do not put on such racing. As the new two-year-olds put in an appearance there seems to be reason to expect that the crop will be considerably above the ordinary. And, as each one of the new winners put in an appearance, it becomes apparent that such winter celebrities as Mrs. Allens Vander Pool, the unbeaten son of Campfire and Bramble Rose, and Siskin, the Epinard youngster that was winner of the Agua Caliente Futurity, will be hard put to it to carry on successfully. The 0,000 Aberdeen Stakes, of the Harford Association, may bring about a new classification of the early juveniles. It will see both a big and representative field at the post, according to present indications, and it is possible that some of the trainers will have regretted that they passed up easier opportunities for a chance at that prize. This Equipoise, the son of Pennant and Swinging, that raced for H. P. Whitney, is one that has improved since his first winning effort at Bowie, while there are various others in the big establishment that are much more highly considered. Pennate, beaten by Up, the opening day of the Havre de Grace meeting, shapes up like a truly good one, and he is sure to show to better advantage with racing. In his only start he was so utterly green that he was beaten before he settled into a racing stride. Through the final quarter he was racing in earnest and, when he finished second, it was evidence that only the lack of education brought about his defeat. Uncle Sam, which races under the silks of Lee Rosenberg, is another of high promise, and he will undoubtedly bring some fame to his young sire, Sun Pal. These are just a few of- those that have been shown under silks that indicate a good juvenile year, and there are numerous others that are still to be heard from. A goodly number of them will be uncovered at the opening Jockey Club meeting at Jamaica, while various others will make a first appearance at Pimlico. What is cheering in those shown is the size and conformation. As" a: general thing they all have the appearance of runners.
