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HereandTherej on the Turf i i Precocious Blood Is Successful I Salem May Get Barn Swallow Use of Blinkers Great Array of Prizes ♦ Wise Counsellor and Stimulus, both noted for the precocity of their get, are staging a race all their own for the honor of being the leading juvenile sire. With the summer season soon to be half over the unfashionably-bred Wise Counsellor is leading the list with thirteen two-year-old winners, the total of the Hanover Line exponent being two above that of Stimulus, a descendant of Domino. Stimulus is five winners ahead of the next stallion. Both these sires get early speed in their offspring and with the expansion of racing so great, their representatives have been able to win frequently. Headed by the Clipsetta Stakes winner Wise Bessa, the get of Wise Counsellor has i accounted for seventeen races, while .the I produce of Stimulus has gained a total of nineteen victories. Clang has accounted for four of the triumphs attributed to the Stimu- i I lus juveniles. Motto, a daughter of Sir Gal-lahad IU., has won the most money of any two-year-old, her first money earnings of 8,085 principally accruing from victories in the Arlington Lassie and Fashion Stakes. Plat Eye, son of Chicle, U second, with 1,830, by virtue of successes in the National Stallion and Juvenile Stakes. A new leadei will be in the field Saturday, however, with the running of the Arlington Futurity. Rockingham Park closes its summer meeting Saturday with a 37,500 added handicap at one mile and a sixteenth, named in honor of the track. A notable field of horses is likely to start, with a small percentage of three-year-olds among them, so the repeated successes of the younger horses in such contests may not continue. The weights as arranged by James Munro will have a lot to do with how the race will be run, as the Belair Studs filly Fleam may be very difficult to beat ir she is not asked to tote the impost which had -much to do with holding her back in the Hampton Cup Handicap last Saturday. Continued on nineteenth page. j 1 i 1 1 ] i 1 1 J 1 ; i , I j j ! ! | ! | 1 | 1 j HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. Barn Swallows name is noted among the entries. That miss is now at Saratoga, and if she is not asked to carry too much of a burden Col. Ed Bradley may direct train ei Dick Thompson to send her. over the Green Mountains to take part in the race, which distance just suits her. In her last race at Arlington Park Saturday, Barn Swallow met up with a real speedster in Gay Monarch and had to be content with second honors. Her connections thought she would run better, but the four-year-old Black Servant miss could not keep up with the flying soi. of Royal Minstrel. No horse in the Rockingham Park field has such speed as Gay Monarchs, which may influence the Bradley board of strategy in sending Barn Swallow to Salem to clash with such as Fleam, Sea Fox, Teralice, Dark Secret and other capable handicap horses. There was general surprise when Mrs. John Galvins Doorkeeper was winner at Empire City Monday. That was indicated when such a price as 60 to 1 was laid against her chances. Of course, such a price would at once tend to show that there was no great betting profit from the victory. There could have been no betting of importance with the price remaining so high, but there was a reason for the improved race. This was in the fact that blinkers had been added to the equipment of the daughter of Gonfalon and Lady Porter. It was a change in her equipment and as such announced on the notice board. This use of blinkers is of big importance in racing and with many horses the wearing of blinkers makes a great difference. With some they are essential to a good performance while with other horses their use is a big handicap, but almost every day it is found that changes have been made from a previous equipment. When a change is made permission must be obtained from the stewards but it is not known that the permission has ever been refused. The trainer reports that his horse does or does not wear blinkers. If it is a change he can readily explain that he has tried the horse with or without and he is convinced the change will bring better results. This may or may not be an honest reason for the alteration. What should be closely watched in the administration of this rule is the previous form of the horse. If he has shown good form with the rogues badge he should be made to wear it and if he has raced better without the hood it should be eliminated. Too often there are changes back and forth from the blinkers with many horses until there is less consistency in this equipment than in any other. In the case of Doorkeeper it seemed to improve her form but she is a four-year-old and it should have been discovered before this time just how she should be equipped to obtain the best results. The Los Angeles Turf Club promises to open its new Santa Anita track next December with a truly glittering array of prizes. The meeting is to continue until Februarv 23. and, according to announcement there will be a distribution of 68,000 in special prizes. This is toppe dnaturally by the 00,000 prize to be decided the last day of the meeting. What is of more importance to the average horseman is the promise that no purse will be of less value than 00. This is a liberal minimum for winter racing and it is evident the new organization by the weight of money, is doing all that is possible to make its first season a memorable one. Such money distribution will naturally attract many of the owners who in past seasons have campaigned through the winter months at other points.
