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Here and There on the Turf Equipoise Seeks Big Cash Change Bothers Wise Daughter Mourn Death of Uncle Billy Mile Title Event Is Needed Aqueduct Needs Earlier Closing Fritz Werner Likeable Fellow No further doubt that Cornelius Vander bilt Whitney is anxious for Equipoise to supplant Sun Beau as the worlds leading moneywinning horse can be entertained since the announcement by Major Louie Beard that the veteran son of Pennant and Swinging would go to Los Angeles this win ¬ ter for the 100000 handicap planned for Santa Anita Park by Dr Charles H Strub and associates barring of course accidents to the horse and to Doctor Strubs plans Whitney wants to see Equipoise in the stud pretty soon and if such an inducement was not offered Pennants best son could be expected there in the spring of 1935 Mayhap hell be there anyway as the hundredgrand race will be run in February which will give Equipoise time enough to return to Ken tucky for the breeding season seasonDoctor Doctor Strub has been talking about his 100000 race for several months now and he really is very earnest about it imaginative proposition as it is so being a person of means and mixed up with more means the race probably will be held The Whitney board of strategy as expressed by Major Beard must be sufficiently satisfied that the 100000 race will be held or plans for Equipoise would not have been announced as long as six months in advance It was stated that Equipoise would not be at Arling ¬ ton Park for the entire meeting but would do his training in the East for the Chicago specials This means that the champion will dash out west for the Stars and Stripes Han ¬ dicap return to Belmont Park for ten days and then go out to the HertzMcCulloch Lehmann course again for the Arlington Handicap It also indicates that Whitney will have very few other horses at Arlington or he would be sending out a division large enough to warrant trainer Tom Healey also being there with Equipoise Wise Daughters two defeats since her sale to the Milky Way Farms Stable are puzzling those persons who have good mem ¬ ory of the filly beating the best twoyear olds in the land last August at Saratoga The Wise Counsellor Wise Mother filly also looked pretty shifty at Churchill Downs this spring when she won two races in her usual convincing style Perhaps it may be explained that Wise Daughter has been in the hands of a new trainer John S Stewart who does not understand her as well as did Sherill Ward the man who developed her Stewart inexperienced with thoroughbreds as he is has shown enough ability with the Milky Way juveniles to warrant the belief that one of these days he will have Wise Daughter back to her top form That may come in the Arlington Inaugural Handicap a week hence Continued on t oentyninth page HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page Uncle Billy Garth fine man splendid host and firstrate horse trainer is gone called by his Maker This good son of Vir ¬ ginia did much to maintain at a high notch the standards of the training profession even when weak turf governing bodies per ¬ mitted racketeers and bootleggers to have licenses to prepare and saddle horses The affection for Uncle Billy was widespread as he was always gentle and kindly with a good word for everyone To him a horse was a horse and not just a betting instrument Racing could use many more like him The statement has been attributed to the large James Healy that Singing Wood pos ¬ sibly could beat any threeyearold in the country at one mile and this brings to mind the fact that the United States does not have a really worth while race at this dis ¬ tance The Maryland State Fair has an at ¬ tractive and once a fairly valuable mile event in its Laurel Stakes and Belmont Park of ¬ fers a notable affair at this distance in the spring in the Metropolitan Handicap but lacking is a race that could determine the championship miler milerOnly Only a few tracks in America are equipped to offer such a race and they are those having only one turn at this distance like Belmont Park Aqueduct Arlington Park Churchill Downs and Washington Park Preferably the race should be held in the fall or at a time during the summer when the best threeyearolds could be attracted as such a contest could not determine the championship unless the young division was sufficiently represented The purse should not be meager but large enough to bring out the horses that should decide the question as to which is the countrys best miler Officials of the Queens County Jockey Club are to be commended for their decision to elevate the purses especially with the prospect of small fields for several days to come yet staring them in the face A cough ¬ ing epidemic is the reason for the insignifi ¬ cant fields at Aqueduct in recent days al ¬ though the races probably would have been made more attractive if secretary John Kane had had several more hours in which to work up his daily programs as would have been possible with the entries closing at 1030 oclock in the morning The sooner certain millionaires come to the conclusion that their horses belong to them and hot to hired men called trainers the sooner this un ¬ satisfactory situation will be remedied remediedRacing Racing loses a very likeable fellow through the death of Fritz Weiner who was a fair sort of jockey when he performed on th New York tracks not so many years ago and who has enjoyed more than moderate suc ¬ cess since he took up the training end of the sport Weiner always deported himself well both on and off the track which probably was one reason for his success as he was not a brilliant jockey as we are prone to speak of Coucci and Workman or of Werners contemporaries Linus McAtee Earl Sande and Laverne Fator The saddest part of Fritz death is that he was taken away while many of the best years of life were before him
