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Here and There on the Turf Sun Beaus Mark Still Secure Equipoise Needs Detroit Stake Rockingham Park Expands Violet Ray Aids Burgoo King Equipoise has not been able to do much in the moneywinning line recently and unless the champion can get back into his old habits Willis Sharpe Kilmer will not be called upon to bring Sun Beau out of retire ¬ ment Not unlikely Cornelius Whitneys star will take it easy for several weeks with trainer Tom Healey bringing him back for the two 10000 handicaps on the Arlington Park program If he is to come even close to Sun Beaus mark of 376744 Equipoise must land first money in both of these spe ¬ cials and still he would be about 20000 away from the coveted total totalUnofficial Unofficial word has come out of Detroit that the Fair Grounds there will offer a 25000 weightforage affair for the purpose of luring Equipoise With that kind of cash available Equipoise would be sure to display his wares before the sportminded folk of the Motor City We asked Charles McLen ¬ nan racing secretary of the Detroit course several weeks ago about the possibility of his track staging a race that would attract Equipoise and his reply was that plans for the stakes to be offered during the final eighty days of the long meeting had not been completed completedA A weightfor age race would be soft pick ¬ ings for Equipoise arid he or rather the Whitney board of strategy would jump at the chance of sending the champion in such a race Very likely Equipoise would be sent to Detroit for such a race or even a handicap that had but 10000 added to it Among the several stakes on the Rockingham Park program is a handicap of one mile and a sixteenth with 7500 added It is reasonable to suppose that trainer Healey is considering the idea of sending Equipoise after that event even if it is offered only a week after the Arlington Handicap HandicapShould Should Detroit offer a weightforage or even a handicap of sizeable value andJHaw thdrne renew its Gold Cup with 25000 added Equipoise might compel the Bing hamton sportsman to follow his thought of bringing Sun Beau out of retirement before autumn racing settles into full stride Sun Beau is now a nineyearold and has been away from the wars since 1931 so the task of defending his championship is one that many horsemen consider impossible to fulfill fulfillRockingham Rockingham Park highlysuccessful ven ¬ ture of Lou Smith and associates in the Boston area will open in three weeks for a thirtyone day run that promises to be just as popular as either of the two meetings held last year Numerous and costly improve ¬ ments have been made at the New Hamp ¬ shire course the chief of which has been enlargement of the betting ring and installa ¬ tion of the electric totalizator which Arling ¬ ton Park and Pimlico have found so successful Rockinghams former mutuel department1 was housed iri a long narrow space underneath the grandstand but the construction of an addition in the rear of the building has had the desired effect of providing more working space as well as widening the ring fifty feet Greater room also is available on the other side where the very important payoff is made madeHorses Horses already have begun to assemble at Rockingham where several new stables have been constructed Horsemen at the New Hampshire course last year found it an ideal place to freshen up their animals and this is probably the reason why some stables have been sent there three weeks in advance of the meeting Smith and his associates will find that the thirtyone day i meeting will result in much keener sport and more enthusiasm from the public than could have been expected from the longer session originally intended intendedBurgoo Burgoo Kings return to winning form which he accomplished by running a mile in 137 under 121 pounds at Belmont Park Friday must be construed as a testimonial to the vjolet ray used extensively durftiFr the past year bjr E R Bradley The Bubbling Over and Minawand broke Continued on third page
