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Here and There on the Turf Good Gamble Is Just That Vanderbilt Coffers Swell Chicago New Deal Spreading Nellie Flag Back at Work The horses of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt need only to bag two or three major prizes or just the Futurity to give the master of Sagamore Farm a record this season that may not be surpassed by any other stable. Victories of Good Gamble and Postage Due at Belmont Park Tuesday furnished just another of the numerous doubles scored by the Vanderbilt horses since they swung into action for the year at Bowie. That of Good Gamble was particularly significant because it added ,325 to the Vanderbilt treasury, the largest amount gleaned by one of his colorbearers so far during 1935. Identify, accounting for the Toboggan and Granite State Handicaps, and Dreel, first in the Harford Handicap, were the other stakes winners for the large stable presided over by J. H. Stotler. As Identify was a fortunate purchase last fall for ,500, so was Good Gamble for ,500, that being the amount giyen for her at .the Morton L. Schwartz sale no longer ago that Saturday. The first start of the three-year-old daughter of Chance Play and Triangle for Vanderbilt was in the Acorn Stakes Tuesday, when she easily defeated fourteen others of her age and sex at long odds. Her triumph was most unexpected, but it had been generally believed she was incapable of sustaining her speed over the mile distance, but she had little difficulty forcing the pace in the Acorn and then coming from behind in the stretch to race into a long lead in a slow-run race. Whether she does anything more as a racer for Vanderbilt, she has well earned her purchase price, yet she continues to be a likely prospect for the stud at Sagamore. The Acorn failed to produce an outstand- ing foe for Black Helen in the Coaching Club American Oaks, which is to be renewed at Belmont Park a week from Saturday. Now at Washington Park, E. R. Bradleys speedy filly will soon be transferred to the Nassau course to complete her preparation fo? the -mile and three furlongs, richest and most important of the spring specials for three-year-old fillies. The Oaks cannot be accepted as a championship affair because of the absence of Nellie Flag, but the latter will be ready for other leaders in this division in the Alabama Stakes at Saratoga. If she continues te train smartly, her latest trial having been three-quarters in 1:14, easily, Judy OGrady will be Black Helens chief rival in the Coaching Club American Oaks. The Jeffords miss was one of the better juvenile fillies last season, placing to Continued on ninth page. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF .Continued from second page. Nellie Flag in both the Matron and Selima Stakes. Appointment of C. W. Hay as general manager of the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association, an action expected before the end of the week, will place the operation of Hawthorne in the hands of a veteran and capable official. Numerous changes have occurred in the Chicago sector during the past few years, and elevation of Hay to the post of manager at Hawthorne can only mean a furtherance of racings new deal in that district. Hay formerly managed Washington Park for the American Turf Association, of which Matt Winn is a principal, and the latter is a substantial stockholder in the Cicero course. Popular both with the horsemen and public, Hay should do much in putting Hawthornes racing on a par with the standards set by Washington Park, Arlington Park and Lincoln Fields. Well satisfied that Nellie Flag was not herself for the running of the Preakness and that poor racing luck prevented her from showing to better advantage in. the Kentucky Derby, the board of strategy of the Calumet Farm Stable has decided to keep her in light training following her brief vacation at Warren Wrights Kentucky farm and she has been shipped to Washington Park. After settling down at the Home-wood course and taking regular exercise for several days, the daughter of American Flag and Nellie Morse probably will be tried for speed and then a decision will be made as to whether she will be prepared for tho American Derby. However, she may not start in that 5,000 added special if Omaha is a contestant unless the track is sloppy, a condition favoring her considerably. An inspection of the Calumet miss shows her looking as well as at any other time during the spring, thus indicating that she suffered no ill effects from her long, hard preparation for, the Derby. With the number of books at Belmont Park during the current meeting hovering around the eighty mark, the ring has been just as crowded if not more so than was the case a year ago when the commissioners totaled above a hundred. The crowded conditions make it imperative that the odds-purveyors be permitted to use larger slates to display their quotations. They want the new boards and so does the public, but someone In authority has the mistaken idea that legal difficulties would be encountered if the change was made. New Yorks State Racing Commission is out to do what it can towards improving Interest in the sport and it should make the suggestion that the patrons and bookmakers receive greater freedom so that all concerned would be in a happier frame of mind.
