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t--------------- - - - 1 ! HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE j LATEST NEWS OF THE TURF - - -- -- .-----------.----4 Earl Sande, providing he can make the weight without injury to his health, is planning to stage a comeback in the saddle and will ride for Warren Wright, the Chicago sportsman, who will be represented by quite a pretentious stable in this years racing. The continental turf lost a prominent figure when Baron Von Oppenheim died recently at Cologne. He was one of the leading breeders and owners of thoroughbred horses in Germany. His star racer Weis-dorn invaded England after sweeping everything before him in Germany, but was only able to win three races out of nine starts. Answering the question "What year produced the greatest number of top-notch American horses?" Clem McCarthy, whose latest specialty is presiding at the "mike" in broadcasting all the big races for the National Broadcasting Company, says his choice is 1878 . . . Foxhall, Iroquois, Hindoo, Eole, Thora and Crickmore. He also mentions 1884 . . . Hanover, Kingston, Firenze and Tremont. Two women are owners of the Bowie track in Maryland and the Pleasanton course in California. They are the widows of the late James OHara and Gadsden D. Bryan. Culver City, California, where an attempt to revive racing was made quite a number of years back, may be selected as the location for a new race track in which Alexander Pantages, and his associates are said to be interested. Culver City is close to Los Angeles. It may be news to some that the Havre de Grace track fared better financially than any of the other Maryland courses in 1931, at least that is the information revealed by the report of the Maryland Racing Commission. "The speedy Boojum Willi be a pronounced success in the stud" is the statement credited to Major Beard, who presides over the-destinies of C. V. Whitney and the Greentree Stable breeding interests. Top Flight has filled out and lengthened since Pimlico Futurity day last fall. She has grown a little and now stands about 15.21,.. Trainer Healey says she never will be a big filly, but firmly believes she will go on to greater fame than she achieved as a two-year-old. "Dont let the talk about only one filly ever winning the Derby keep you from betting on Top Flight if you think she is good enough to Win the historic Kentucky race," said an old sage of the turf. He calls at- tention to the fact that very few fillies have started in the Derby. The last of the crop of the great sire Fair Play are among the juveniles in the stable of J. E. Widener, which trainer Henry McDaniel will race over the New York tracks this spring. The Fair Play young-, sters are two colts Even Stephen and Canon Law, also the fillies Fair Weapon and Fair Day. The popularity of the Bowie track in Maryland is indicated by Over 2,5,00 applications for some 1,300 stalls. Bowie will have no opposition during its spring meeting, opening April 1, except clear across the continent at Tanforan Park.
