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F i i Here and There , on the Turf : Classic to Settle Title Cavalcades Foes Tough Narragansett Should Succeed Equipoise Out Until Fall r J Occupying the center of the racing stage this coming Saturday will be the Classic at Arlington Park, which several times in its five previous runnings has decided the three-year-old championship and promises to do it again this season. With a gross purse of nearly 5,000 indicated, the mile and a quarter special will be the second richest of its class to be offered, topped only by the Belmont Stakes, although the added money is greater. The coming Classic has struck the public fancy because advance reservations at the Chicago track indicate one of the largest crowds in the history of the course. Leading the field in quest of the championship is Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloanes Cavalcade, by virtue of his victories in the Kentucky, American and Detroit Derbys, and the Chesapeake Stakes. The public has accepted the English-bred son of Lancegaye and Hastily as a great horse and even if his opposition in the Classic was to be mediocre thousands of persons will be out to see him run. However, Cavalcades foes in the mile and a quarter will be far from weak and trainer Robert A Smith is taking no chances in his effort to have his star protege in top form for the engagement. Leading the opposition will be Joseph E. Wideners Peace Chance, whose sensational victory over High Quest in the Belmont Stakes has brought him out as a three-year-old of considerable ability. He also proved in the New York special that his Kentucky Derby effort was not a true test of ability, even though he finished fifth. He had no end of trouble in the early stages, which caused him to be far back of the leaders for a good part of the race, but he closed very fast through the stretch and in another stride he would have been third instead of Agrarian. In winning the Belmont Stakes, Peace ; Chance covered the long, gruelling test of one mile and a half in 2:29V5* the fastest time for the race and within two-fifths of Man o Wars course record. The remarkable . part of Peace Chances effort was his I final quarter in :23"%, which saw .him draw. :away from High Quest with remarkable ■ ease. It has been said that Cavalcades sta-blemate • was hot at his very best for the ! Belmont, but even that possibility cannot ; detract from the splendid performance of • the Widener three-year-old. The average racing • fan will be surprised at the number of - horsemen who, judging Peace Chance on his I Belmont race, believe he can beat Cavalcade. • Two other crack colts to be engaged in the - Classic are Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Discovery, - and High Quest. With the latter assisting Cavalcade, the Brookmeade Stable ! entry promises to be a strong favorite, but Discovery and Peace Chance should not lack t for supporters. Discoverys Brooklyn Handicap • race brought him out again as a dangerous foe of Cavalcade. Not only did he run the mile and a furlong in the smart time of 1:49%, but the son of Display gave Dark Secret as fancy a trimming as any horse ever received. As for High Quest, he has been training most satisfactorily and his appearance in the Classic will show whether he is a better colt than Cavalcade, not to speak of Peace Chance and Discovery. He beat his stablemate by a nose in the Preak-ness, at a mile and three-sixteenths after having come through a terrific brush with Discovery. Some persons have expressed the fear that Narragansett Park, the track being constructed at Pawtucket, R. I., will lose some patronage because it will run in opposition to Saratoga during August. Neither association should worry about the other taking their trade, because it will be negligible. Neither should either track have too many worries about racing material. Saratoga is assured of all the best eastern-owned horses now racing at Rockingham Park, Arlington Park and Empire City, as well as several hundred animals which were put away with the meeting at the popular resort town in mind when they were coughing several weeks ago, Narragansett Park will get practically all of the minor stables at Rockingham Park and a majority of the horses performing at Empire City, as well as some from Detroit, Chicago and other western points. From a racing standpoint the meeting should be successful, and this is because the persons back of the venture are known to be of the substantial sort. With the public in that vicinity definitely racing-minded, the meeting might be a financial success as well. Although the hope of Equipoise surpassing Sun Beaus world money-winning record this season has been abandoned because the pride of the C. V. Whitney stable is not expected to resume heavy training before another month and there are not enough rich purses on the autumn program for the Pennant veteran to make up the gap separating him from Willis Sharpe Kilmers retired star. However, Equipoise still has thj opportunity to jump into the lead before he is through with racing for good, and that will come in the 00,000 handicap being framed for Santa Anita Park, Los Angeles, during its inaugural meeting next winter. The Whitney board of strategy seems to be definitely committed toward pointing Equipiose for this race, which is to be at a mile and a quarter, and if the champion is at his best and not too heavily weighted he may reach the goal set for him by his connections.
