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Here and There on the Turf , ! ,i : -J Much depends on the success of the visit of Christopher J. Fitzgerald in England. Mr. Fitzgerald has gone abroad in quest of suitable foreign horses to start in the proposed International Race at Arlington Park on August 2. Three horses must come over that are acceptable to the race committee and at least one must start to have this big prize of 00,000 added value. It is not expected the Fitzgerald mission will fail, but should he fail to induce the shipment of acceptable horses, then another race will be substituted, with 5,000 added, and open to all comers three years old and upwards. It is to be at one mile and a half at scale weight and whether or not it has the international angle, it cannot fail to be one of the big events of the" turf year. One commendable condition of this race is that the invaders will not be barred from racing before the big event falls due. It is natural that as the prize is the child of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, there should be a prohibition against an invader being started over any other course before the date .of the big running, but there is nothing in. conditions to prevent a conditioning race over the Chicago course: Undoubtedly "Joe" McLennan will arrange some sort of a trial before the big event, in which any purses brought over may be started, and in this the conditions for the International will be much more attractive than the. conditions that first brought over Papyrus and later Epi-nard It is remembered that both of those invaders wetre prohibited from being raced until they had filled the big engagements. Ever since the reorganization of the Arlington Park Jockey Club the sportsmen of that organization have been doing big. things for the turf and this International Race promises to be the biggest of them all. Should it meet with the success that is. confidently expected, it will doubtless become an annual fixture of the racing at the beautiful course. William T. furnished a real racing surr prise at Havre de Grace when he was winner of the Dixie Trial over such as Toro, Inception, Sir Harry; Dr. Freeland and Don-nay. The William E. Caskey, Jr., gelding has hardly been rated as better than a top-notch plater, and the fact that he was in this mile and an eighth handicap under the light impost of 107 pounds was an index of just where he was considered in such company. William T. was in receipt of nineteen pounds from Toro, while he had an advantage of a year and seven pounds from Donnay, and a year and four pounds over Dr. Freeland. This was considerable advantage when Caskey brought him back to the races in such fit condition. Undoubtedly this race will do each one of the starters good, as a final for the mile and three-sixteenths of the Dixie Handicap to be run at Pimlico, Monday afternoon. It is confidently expected that at least Toro and Dr. Freeland will profit by the race of Friday, for that was a first racing effort of the year. Inception and Donnay had been seasoned by actual racing. Like Sandy Ford, it is possible that William T. has improved greatly, but the result of the Dixie trial suggested that he had been brought back to the top of his form and the weight advantage over better horses that were not completely tightened up told the tale of his victory. There was considerable surprise when Wal ter Vosburgh required the three-year-old Desert Light to take up 126 pounds in an overnight handicap of a mile and seventy yards at Jamaica, when he was meeting older horses. It was generally hailed as a record penalty an a .colt of such tender age when asked to race against the older .ones, over such a distance in April. As the race was run there was some vindication of the Vosburgh estimate .when this same three-year-old was a good second to Sandy Ford to which he was giving away a year and 10 pounds in actual weight. Now with the appearance of the weights ifor the Jennings Handicap, of the Maryland Jockey Club, it appears that Mr. Vosburgh is not the only handicapper with a high opinion of the three-year-old.. True, the Jennings is only a dash of six ? furlbngs, but it engages a better class than was .engaged in that overnight race affair at Jamaica, and Mr. Bryan has rated the three-year-old Flying Heels at 120 pounds when the top weight is 128 pounds, and assigned -to Victorian. The April weights for three-year-olds, racing six furlongs, is 116 pounds, while the five-year-olds, that is Victorians age, are required to take up 132 pounds. Thus it will be seen that Flying Heels is rated Contiuucd on twenty-second pagel"" . . ; I HERE AND THERE I ON THE TURF j I I e Continued from, second page. four pounds over the soale, while Victorian is four pounds below the scale. This means that Flying Heels is giving away eight pounds to the actual top weight. It matters not whether the weights are accepted, such handicaps all give the impression that there is at least a high opinion of the quality of the top-notch three-year-olds of the season. There was a rather unusual occurrence at the Wheeling course Thursday when the only three horses of one event sold in the "field" finished first, second and third. It is usual while selecting horses for the field to choose those having the least winning chance. The percentage of "field" winners is comparatively small, but the track handicapper missed his guess magnificently in this particular case. ;
