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r 1 Here and There on the Turf Cavalcades Name Is Magic Ban Quarter in Fast Time Peace Chance Hardly His Equal Hadagals Effort Is Pleasing Even with Peace Chance in the Classic field, we can not conceive of any difference » in the result as far as Cavalcade was concerned. Joseph n Wideners speedy and j capable colt might have wrested the place ! from Discovery, but as for knocking over the champion, that hardly seems possible to believe. Cavalcade had too much in reserve at the finish to be beaten by any horse even 1 able to complete the mile and a quarter in 1 2:0214 as he did. His task was consummated so easily that Cavalcade wasnt blowing hard enough to shoo away a fly. Even i the aging Garner was less exerted than if t be had rolled over in his sleep. Of course, Cavalcades championship claim i is not entirely clear until Peace Chance has s had his opportunity. Any colt that won a t race like the Belmont Stakes in the fashion i ■ Peace Chance did, deserves his time at bat. That should come at Saratoga in the Travers j Stakes and if not then perhaps at Belmont t Park in the fall. But, whether the two ever , meet, the son of Lancegaye and Hastily is heralded as the three-year-old champion of the season by all but a very small minority of experts and fans alike. Cavalcade has gone down the line — Shenandoah Purse, Chesapeake Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Preak-ness, American Derby, Detroit Derby and Classic — swinging his powerful bludgeon on his foes. Only his stablemate, High Quest, was spared and in another stride in the Preakness he too would have felt a champions punch. Of the remainder of the Classic field, Discovery and Hadagal were easUy the best. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts colt again proved himself a good colt, but unfortunate Continued en twenty-third page. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. that he came out in the wrong year. Hada-gal told his owner, Warren Wright, and trainer, Bert Williams, that he has staying qualities even though he had been marked in most circles as a sprinter. Hadagal was not ridden like a sprinter by Eddie Arcaro and he came through in the stretch with a rush that steadily carried him to Discovery. But for losing more ground than the Vander-bilt colt, the Chicago-owned three-year-old might have taken second honors in the Classic. Arlington Park and Cavalcade, or it should be said, Cavalcade and Arlington Park, entertained thirty thousand persons Saturday. Every person in that vast throng went to see the Classic with the notion it would be won by a great horse, and they were not disappointed.- Cavalcades name is now magic, and lucky will be the associations that will present him in his remaining engagements and especially so the track where he will have his inevitable clash with Equipoise. Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloanes colt is as popular now with the public as Equipoise ever was, or even Man o War. The tremendous popularity of Cavalcade is not alone due to his marvelous ability. He has what is found in all great champions— color. Max Baer has it, Babe Ruth has it, Earl Sande had it, Jack Dempsey had it, and of his own kind Man o War and Equipoise were distinguished from the common herd by their extraordinary manner of doing things. Cavalcade strikes human fancy hardest by the destruction and havoc he causes among his rivals with one short, but very explosive, burst of speed. As the season has advanced, Cavalcade has won his races with shorter, but faster, rushes and in keeping with his improving ability to master his rivals with ease the colts popularity has increased. In the Classic, Cavalcade was practically a trailer for three-quarters of a mile and was on the outside of the field. Yet he was never more than eight lengths back of the leader and little, if any, consternation over his chances was felt in the large crowd. All Cavalcades thousands of admirers knew he had his run to make and were confident he would make it when Mack Garner felt the moment propitious. Few, however, of the spectators had a feeling Cavalcades dash for the lead would be so electrical. The quarter in which Cavalcade went from eighth position to first was timed in :24%. Mrs. Sloanes brilliant colt had about six lengths to make up and he had to lose about the same distance while doing it, because he was well on the outside, so, in putting on his great and now famous charge, Cavalcade must have run that quarter mile in close to twenty-two seconds. No wonder his opponents wilted before Cavalcades challenge and the thirty thousand patrons accepted him -as a great horse and a real champion.
