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Here and There on the Turf TurfJamaicas Jamaicas Successful Season Weights for the Metropolitan Brookmeade Pair in Classic Marylands Second Circuit With the completion of the first meeting of the New York season at Jamaica Tues ¬ day there is reason for congratulations in the new prosperity that has come to the eport under the CrawfordBreitenbach law From the beginning the increased liberality in the betting method has brought about an Infinitely better market and has brought about greatly increased attendance attendanceThe The Metropolitan Jockey Club has ob ¬ tained greatly increased revenue in the way of admissions while the contributions to the racing fund by the layers in the ring has undoubtedly added greatly to this new prosperity Just what these contributions have totaled is not known but it undoubt ¬ edly was a considerable sum for the twenty one days of sport sportIn In this connection the club is to be com ¬ mended for its appreciation of the return of better times When it was assured that the meeting would prosper under the new order of things there was a voluntary raising of the minimum purses from 800 to 1000 Such awards puts New York back where it belongs in the matter of overnight purses It is a worthy beginning and with the con ¬ tinued prosperity so confidently expected It will not be long before the special prizes will have values increased to recover some of the enforced curtailment of recent lean seasons seasonsFor For the first part of the meeting at Ja ¬ maica there was a serious handicap in lack of fit horses and as a matter of fact James Fitzsimmons and Bill Brennan are entitled to a vote of thanksi f orthe manner in which they helped out in the different programs Sunny programsSunny Jim from his vast establishment Bent many a horse to the post and Brennan was not far behind him in the thorough ¬ breds he saddled to bear the silks of the Greentree Stable The New York sport moving over to Bel inont Park Wednesday means there will come a further improvement in the racing offered Ttie Belmont Park season is really the opening of the New York racing year for many of the big stables Too many of them when they race their horses earlier have sent them to Maryland for the richer awards or fitted them for a whirl at the Kentucky Derby The Westchester Association meeting with Its many famous old fixtures always brought the best horses back home and they are all on hand for the new season It Is a meeting that will uncover a lot of new juveniles and with horses of every age division ready for the word it is safe to predict that the success attending Jamaica is a beginning that will be fol ¬ lowed by still greater prosperity prosperityThe The book of the Belmont meeting was prepared before there was any concrete evi ¬ dence that the laws would do all that has been already accomplished For that reason QVernight purses show a minimum value of 800 as was the scale at the beginning of the Jamaica meeting Undoubtedly the big Nassau County racing ground will come to the 1000 minimum of Jamaica though no announcement has been made of a change in the values up to this time It would appear that handicapper Vos burgh has made one serious mistake in his allotting of weights for the Metropolitan Handicap at one mile to b run Saturday That is asking the threeyearold High Quest to take up 117 pounds just five pounds over the scale At the same time he has the champion Equipoise a sixyearold at 132 pounds four pounds over the scale scaleUnder Under this arrangement of weights the winner of the Preakness is required to give Equipoise a pound That is a big contract In any month of the year and an unheard of impost for a threeyearold ln May MaySysoriby Sysoriby as a threeyearold and One of the most brilliant horses of all time carried JOT pounds in the 1905 running of the Metro ¬ politan to finish in a dead heat with the fouryearold Race King The only other threeyearbld to carry as much as 107 pounds successfuly was Wilctair in 1920 and he had no such horse as Equipoise opposing him when Thunder Clap was sec ¬ ond and On Watch third Incidentally On Watch was a threeyearold himself in that running and his weight was 112 pounds poundsMr Mr Vosburgh was also guilty of one other serious error in the Metropolitan Handi ¬ cap weights when in 1930 he permitted Jack High then a fouryearbid to get in under 110 pounds It was in that running that the track record of 135 for the mile was established by the Widener colt coltWith With all the existing engagements that have been made for the sterling Brookmeade Stable pair High Quest and Cavalcade there is another of first importance in the Classic to be run at Arlington Park in Chicago in July JulyThis This is a prize to which 35000 is added Smith has promised that he will name both of these colts and he has also promised that he will carry off the prize as he did last year with Mrs Sloanes Inlander The Classic has always brought out one of the best fields of the year First run in 1929 it afforded Edward R Bradleys Blue Lark ¬ spur an opportunity to wipe out his defeat in the Kentucky Derby In that running Clyde Van Dusen which had whipped him in the Derby could finish no better than third The following year William Wood ward champion Gallant Fox winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness earlier was winner Then in 1931 A C Bostwicks Mate was the vinner while Twenty Grand the champion of the year finished third having gone slightly amiss just before the running Gusto won for Morton L Scluyartz to finish out the year the greatest money winner for the season Then last year came the victory of Inlander Inlander is a colt that moves up consid ¬ erably hi the muddy going and the fact that the going was deep for the 1933 renewal was to his advantage For the coming re ¬ newal MrsSloane has a pair that had been at home in any sort of going Caval ¬ cade has shown a decided mudrunning qual ¬ ity arid has broken records when the foot ¬ ing was fast High Quest has run through all sorts of going and if both race in the Classic there seems to be every chance for a repetition of the Preakness finish with the popular silks first and second secondThe The Canadian change in the racing law making possible meetings of fourteen days duration instead of seven as has been the rule will doubtless be generally popular in Canada and in Maryland where the smaller tracks were only permitted five days of con ¬ tinuous sport the sarhe change having been made at Hagerstown HagerstownIt It has been the custom for Hagerstown to conduct two meetings spring and fall each of five days The meeting which began Tuesday at the Maryland course will go through for ten days There will be one idle day to remain within the prohibition against more than five days of continuous sport but it virtually becomes a tenday meeting meetingThe The coming of Charles Town W Va into the smaller circuit in that sector greatly broadened the second circuit of smaller tracks With the conclusion of the Hagers ¬ town meeting and only Sunday intervening the closely adjacent West Virginia course will open its season May 28 to continue until July 7 Then Charles Town is to come back Au ¬ gust 1 to continue until August 18 Thus with Timonium Marlboro and Cumberland Park there has been built up a circuit that keeps the thoroughbreds busy almost all through the racing year This second circuit takes care of horses of the second grade Continued on twentyfirst page HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page admirably and many sportsmen will never have occasion to ship from Maryland and West Virginia to find an abundance of op ¬ portunity for their horses horsesThe The Southern Maryland Association is to be congratulated on obtaining the services of J B Jack Campbell as its racing sec ¬ retary In his long association with the turf there is no better informed or more re spected official than Campbell His services have been sought in various sections of the turf map and he is as well known on the Pacific Coast the middlewest and in Can ¬ ada as he is on the Atlantic seaboard For several years Campbell has officiated at the Laurel meeting in Maryland and his efforts there brought a high brand of sport Asso ¬ ciated with Frank J Bryan at Pimlico and an official at Woodbine in Toronto and now at Arlington Park in Chicago he has always been a power in the secretarys office and his joining the official family for the Bowie racing is a distinct acquisition
