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r f Here and There on the Turf Indian Broom Causes Two Surprises Sets Worlds Record, Beats Top Row The Fighter Impresses in Texas Vanderbilt Again Leads at Bowie ! The Marchbank Handicap, closing feature of Tanforans highly successful meeting, provided a pair of distinct surprises, furnished by Indian Broom, up and coming three-year-old in the expanding stable of Major Austin C. Taylor, Vancouver sportsman. The surprises were Indian Brooms defeat of Top Row and his worlds record performance for the mile and one furlong. The son of the Hopeful winner, Brooms and Kawita, made the defeat of Top Row and establishment of the new mark very decisive, as he was far in front of the Santa Anita Handicap victor at the end and clipped three-fifths of a second off the old mark of 1:48 for the distance, established last summer by Discovery in accounting for the Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, and equaled last month by Brevity in taking the Florida Derby at Hialeah Park. Indian Broomunder the feather impost of ninety-four pounds, fourteen under scale, dashed to the front right at the start and set such a scorching pace that his opponents were unable to get close to him at any time. Top Row, shouldering 124 pounds, or five under scale, came through with his usual honest performance and would have achieved victory under ordinary circumstances, but the easy manner in which Indian Broom was able to skim over the ground altered the situation completely. His .victory in the 0,000 added affair is the most important of his young career and demonstrated to Major Taylor that he also was a bargain purchase from the Brook-meade Stable, as was the four-year-old Special Agent, which won the first two stakes at the present Tanforan meeting before being forced into temporary retirement because of injury. The Marchbank was Indian Brooms fourth straight triumph in five starts in the Taylor silks, his lone defeat being by a nose at the instance of Valevic-torian at Santa Anita. Young Del Cannon, the Taylor trainer, naturally deserves much praise for his handling of Indian Broom and Special Agent, but the improved condition of the Tanforan track was an important factor in the establishment of the new record. It may stand for a long time to come. Indian Brooms wasnt the only record set" by a three-year-old in Saturdays racing, as The Fighter did some nifty running himself at Arlington Downs, where he is preparing for the renewal of the 5,000 Texas Derby this coming week-end. In racing a mile and seventy yards in 1:42 and taking the measure of Ttennob and He Did, two of the stoutest candidates for the Derby, the son of Bull Dog and Bridgeen gained many supporters, not only for Saturdays race but for the Kentucky Derby two weeks later. Coming from behind the pace under Alfred Robertsons strong riding The Fighter is inclined to loaf the Milky Way Farms colt defeated Ttennob by a half length with He Did, the Santa Anita Derby winner, another length away. The Fighter was unable to participate in the latter event because trainer Robert McGarvey was unable to get him ready. He carried equal weight of 109 pounds with Ttennob but was getting thirteen pounds from Mrs. Silas B. Masons colt and he did not give the son of Victorian much of a beating. Consequently, He Did did not lose so many of his supporters through his defeat. The Fighter now has accounted for four of his five starts this season, losing by a head to Valevictorian in his first effort as a three-year-old at Santa Anita. All of his victories this year have been at six furlongs until his latest achievement. As a two-year-old the Bull Dog colt did not race beyond six and a half furlongs, but met the best of his age most of the time. The Grand Union Hotel Stakes at Saratoga was his most important triumph, but he lost a narrow decision to Ned Reigh in the Junior Champion Stakes at Aqueduct. The Fighter promises to have Sangreal as a running mate in the Derby, and the Milky Way Stable entry may prove the choice in the Texas Derby, despite the more equitable arrangement of weights to be in force. Sangreal, a son of Bull Dogs brother Sir Gallahad m., also scored Saturday at Arlington Downs, but in a six furlongs dash in which he defeated such shifty older sprinters as West Main and Wise Daughter. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was the leading owner of the Bowie meeting just closed, an honor he gained last spring. Victories by Purple Knight in the Southern Maryland Handicap, and Irrepressible in the Kindergarten Stakes, features of the final days program, put the large Vanderbilt stable safely on top as well as giving the popular young sportsman his first double stake score of the season. During a protracted period of last season hardly a Saturday or holiday went by but what the white and cerise silks were borne to victory in two features, and on several occasions a triple was barely missed. Purple Knight and Good Harvest, which finished a good second in the Southern Maryland, were two members of the Vanderbilt stable not taken to winter racing, but it is evident that trainer J. H. Stotler has brought them back in excellent fashion. Irrepressible was a winner at Santa Anita Park, but she did not begin to show the ability of her more illustrious stablemate, the unbeaten Airflame. The latter may return to competition at Havre de Grace, where the Aberdeen Stakes is well worth his attention.
