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Here.ndTwJ on theTurf Cavalcade Given Tough Job But Perhaps Will Duck Handicap Rules on Fouls Present Problem Spa Juvenile Racing Promising John B. Campbell, a very able handicapper and racing official these many years, went on record Monday as believing Cavalcade a better horse than Equipoise at weight for age. In his weights for the Arlington Handicap, mile and a quarter special, featuring Arlington Parks Saturday program, Campbell placed the three-year-old champion at ten pounds above scale and Equipoise only eight. Whether the public agrees with Campbell will not be determined Saturday, at least, as Equipoise certainly will not be a starter in the race and the appearance of the younger champion is very unlikely. Should Cavalcade go in the Arlington Handicap, the son of Lancegaye and Hasitly would be the starting top weight at 124 pounds, therefore compelled to give four pounds and age to both Indian Runner and Ladysman. The latter two are the most worthy of the thoroughbreds expected to compose Saturdays field. Not in many years has a three-year-old taken up an assignment such as Cavalcade has been given, but even if he should accept, the chances are that the public would make him a heavy favorite to defeat Ladysman, Indian Runner and the others in the field. Such is his grip on the fans. Tentatively, Cavalcades plans call for a rest until Saturday, August 18, when the Tra-vers will be run at Saratoga. Two weeks later Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloanes great colt will be asked for the first time to race be-yound a mile and a quarter, and he will be asked to make a jump of a half mile to the Saratoga Cup at a mile and three-quarters. He is not eligible to the Lawrence Realization Stakes at Belmont Park, but The Jockey Club Gold Cup, at two miles, is in his itinerary. Beyond that race, plans for Cavalcade have not been worked out by Mrs. Sloane and her trainer, Robert A. Smith. Cavalcade can hardly be expected to make any onslaughts on the money winning record because of the rich stakes Sun Beau, Gallant Fox and Equipoise formerly garnered are no longer to be had. The lone exception is the 00,000 special planned at Santa Anita Park for some time next February, but it is very doughtful if Cavalcade will be prepared for winter racing, although another star member of Mrs. Sloanes string might be. He collected 11,235 so far this season, which added to the 5,730 he garnered as a juvenile, gives him a total of 26,965. The Travers may net him 0,000. the Saratoga Cup ,000 and the Jockey Club Gold Cup ,000. Whatever else he earns this year may come out of a match race. Formerly the general rule governing fouls committed in races was that it was mandatory on the stewards to disqualify the offending horse. Modifications of this regulation have been made by The Jockey Club in New York and the Michigan State Racing Commission recently. Stewards on the Metropolitan circuit now are given discretionary power to disqualify a horse or not depending on the seriousness of his foul and whether it affected his chances of victory. Michigan stewards are given the right to shift the placing of two horses if they feel that one racer has been able to finish ahead of the other through foul tactics. In other words if two horses finish a race far ahead of the remainder of the field, the winner may be moved back to second position and the other advanced if he has fouled the other. Illinois, the principal racing center now operating under the old rule, has had three disqualifications almost within a week, all occurring at Arlington Park. In one case a winner was sot back, in another the second horse, and the third horse in the remaining case. As is always the case with disqualifications, a large howl went up among certain of the customers. Prince Splendor, the horse set back after winning, appeared the best horse in the race in which the stewards believed he fouled Fraidy Cat. On the Illinois rules the officials had only one course to take, and they took it. Under the Michigan rule they could have placed Fraidy Cat first and Prince Splendor second, these two having finished well ahead of the others. New York regulations would have permitted thtm to allow the placing to stand if the stewards considered Prince Splendor the best horse in the race. Owners, trainers I and public should make it known which of • the three rules they prefer. Saratoga should have some excellent two-year-old . racing this season, all because of the epidemic of coughing which sv/ept the . nations race tracks this spring and summer. The sickness had no lasting effects and few ■ cases of fatalities have been reported, but it was sufficient to compel trainers to halt the training of their charges. As a result promising youngsters which would have seen j service by now were put aside until the , Saratoga meeting. The upstate New York course always has good juvenile racing anyway, . because of the habit of most of the . important stables to wait on promising two-year-olds, ; but the number of the latter will be unusually heavy this season. Sterling contests may be forthcoming in such races as the Flash. United States Hotel, Saratoga Sales, Schuylerville. Saratoga Special, Spin-away, Sanford, Adirondack, Grand Union Hotel, Albany and Hopeful as a natural consequence of an ill wind blowing somebody some good. A ,
