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Here and There on the Turf j Omaha Seeks No Quarter Meets Tough Foes in Brooklyn Florida Defeats Higher Take West Main Impresses in West Omaha steps out of the threeyearold di ¬ vision for the first time in the Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct next Saturday if no changes are made in the present plans of William Woodward owner of the Belair Stud star and James Fitzsimmons his trainer Should the son of Gallant Fox and Flaxnbino by Wrack accept this engage ¬ ment it will mean if nothing else that Omaha is not looking for any soft spots The Brooklyn by no stretch of the imagina ¬ tion appears easy picking for the three yearold leader and the writer will be one person who will not be surprised if the Woodward colt suffers defeat in the time honored handicap because he will be meet ¬ ing some very sharp horses over the mile and a furlong distance all of them save pos ¬ sibly Cavalcade receiving weight on the scale from him himTrainer Trainer Fitzsimmons had two weeks from the Preakness to the Withers Stakes to bring back Omaha from a condition per ¬ mitting a top effort at a mile and threesix ¬ teenths to one at a mile and the Belair colt found himself incapable of completing the process being laughed at by Rosemont a good miler Stepping back up to a perform ¬ ance at a mile and onehalf in the Belmont Stakes Omaha made Rosemont look even more foolish Two weeks will elapse be ¬ tween the Belmont and the Brooklyn and Fitzsimmons must remove the edge neces ¬ sary for a mile and a half effort and apply one for a first class test at nine furlongs No halfhearted race will gain anything for Omaha in the Brooklyn if his foes include King Saxon Discovery and Cavalcade CavalcadeIn In favor of Omahas chances of running well in the Brooklyn is the fact that Aque ¬ duct Is his home grounds and the track is so Jaid out that he has two long stretches en ¬ abling him to widen out his striding to its limit The course over which the Brooklyn Will be run should aid him materially in overcoming the disadvantage encountered In the shorter distance Started out of a chute the field in the Brooklyn has a Straight run of nearly a half mile before reaching the one and only turn which is about threesixteenths of a mile around Then follows the run in of nearly four fur longa BO jockey William Saunders will have the chance of holding Omaha in restraint Continued on fifteenth page HERE AND THERE ON THE TURFi Continued from second page for about five furlongs before reaching the final straightaway which is long enough to give the colt ample opportunity to assert his superiority if he happens to be better than his opponents opponentsIn In performing in the Brooklyn Omaha will be passing up an opportunity for great ¬ er earnings in the American Derby at Wash ¬ ington Park The latter event also is sched ¬ uled for the coming Saturday but it would Necessitate a trip from Long Island to Chi ¬ cago and Omahas connections apparently are not so keen about leaving the home grounds at this period even though the American Derby not only is valuable in monetary reward but is just as rich in tra ¬ dition as the Brooklyn Omahas absence from the Chicago special will have the ef ¬ fect of building up the Classic at Arlington Park into a more important event The Omaha camp has intimated that the colt will journey westward after the Dwyer which cpmes a week after the Brooklyn and in the Classic he will be engaged by horses which have entrenched themselves in the limelight by impressive efforts in the De ¬ troit and American Derbys Perhaps these races will produce a colt or filly worthy of challenging the son of Gallant Fox for the threeyearold championship which the Classic would decide as it has done several times in the past It is of considerable Interest to the rac ¬ ing folk everywhere that the Florida legis ¬ lature was not so foolish as to increase its share of the parimutuel takeout at Hialeah and Tropical Parks thereby raising the to ¬ tal amount to be deducted from each pool A bill was introduced which would have provided fora jump from three to five per cent in the states share making the total twelve per cent instead of ten with the breakage extra The latter runs nearly two per cent With California making every ef ¬ fort to reduce its take from twelve per cent it would have been foolhardy for Florida to vote an increase The West Coast will be making a stronger lid than ever for the better whiter stables and the Florida tracks would have lost much of its patronage by raising the take Winter visitors to the Everglade state take top much of a shellack ¬ ing under present conditions without having further holes punched in their pocketbooks by an increased takeout takeoutWhen When the stable owned by Elwood Sachs enmaier and Phil Reuter was all but dis ¬ persed with a public sale at Arlington Downs early this spring West Main was sold for 2700 Immediately after the auc ¬ tion the fiveyearold Westwick gelding was obtained privately at a 100 advance by An toine Pelleteri who was putting together a stable for Charles A Peck a leading mem ¬ ber of the Chicago Board of Trade West Main had been well campaigned through the winter and Pelleteri popular New Or ¬ leans horseman immediately went about the task of giving the veteran a vacation The horse did not return to the wars until the current meeting at Washington Park where in his first start he was defeated In five subsequent efforts West Main has been invincible taking one event in which he was entered to be claimed for 3000 and then four overnight allowance affairs His fine record furnishes another chapter to the glamorous pages of racing as well as prov ¬ ing again that race horses still are valued too cheaply
