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r - T Here and There on the Turf Blue Sheen Is Smart Filly Looking for Titular Honors Bow and Arrow Opposes Holly-rood Cavalcade Training Smoothly A--- 4 Toro, whose stud career was headed for great success only to be halted by death, was represented by a two-year-old filly in Forever Yours last season which many observers considered the best. The ill-fated son of The Porter and Brocatelle now has a candidate for three-year-old filly honors which has. gained the respect of all who have seen her race this season. She is Blue Sheen, the property of Whitney Stone whose father, Charles A. Stone, is a partner in the Virginia breeding establishment, Morven Stud. It has been and is the custom of the Morven Stud to dispose of its yearlings at Saratoga, but for some reason or another, the bay daughter of Toro and Blue Eagle was reserved from the 1931 vendue and came to the races last August at Saratoga to triumph at the first asking. She did no more campaigning as a two-year-old and her name was lost in the shuffle of more important doings. Trainer James Fitzsimmons brought her out twice at Jamaica and Blue Sheen kept up her pood work by turning back respectable fields of her own kind each time at six furlongs. Blue Sheen became ambitious after her Jamaica triumphs and went against Good Gamble, Split Second and other capable fillies in the Firenzi Handicap at Belmont Continued on ticenty-ninth page. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. Park, Thursday. This was a dash of seven furlongs and the Stone miss appeared to care for the added distance as she came away in the stretch after Good Gamble had challenged, to defeat that four-year-old by more than a length. That performance stamps her as the probable favorite in the Acorn Stakes, mile dash foe three-year-old fillies featuring Wednesdays program at Belmont Park in which her most dangerous opponents appear to be High Fleet, consistent member of George D. Wideners stable, and C. V. Whitneys Tonys Wife, winner of the Kentucky Oaks., Split Second may be another troublesome candidate for the Acorn as she probably was in need of her effort in the Firenzi in which she weakened after three furlongs. A week after the Acorn comes the Coaching Club American Oaks at a mile and three furlongs and Blue Sheen also is eligible for this event which ranks with the Alabama Stakes as the most important three-year-old filly race in the country. Bow and Arrow, which won all three of his starts in Maryland this spring before finding his Preakness opposition too tough, will oppose Hollyrood and the others in the Latonia Derby field this afternoon and must be treated with the utmost consideration. Although the Whichone gelding goes into the mile and one-quarter event equally weighted with Hollyrood under 118 pounds, it is an impost he can handle much better than the 126 pounds he shouldered in the Preakness in which he set or forced the pace during the first seven furlongs. The E. R. Bradley gelding is less than average size, so the lighter impost should make a material difference to him. Also the Latonia Derby field will not have the speed and class that characterized the Preakness lineup, and while Hollyrood is being held under restraint, Bow and Arrow may be" but in front going so easily that he will be able to offer respectable resistance through the stretch. Of course, some of the other contestants are not to be overlooked, the weights being what they are, but everything considered the race appears between Hollyrood and Bow and Arrow. Robert A. Smith is happy to report that Cavalcade has been going along smoothly in his training at Belmont Park since the arrival of the Brookmeade Stable from Columbia and has fully recovered from the accident which prevented the son of Lance-gaye and Hastily from participating in the Santa Anita Handicap. Cavalcade threw a shoe in a workout through the muddy going at the Arcadia course and the plate bruised his other foot, the one which has given him previous trouble, but all signs of the injury have disappeared. Smith is in no hurry to get Cavalcade to the races and the present schedule is calculated to bring the three-year-old champion of 1934 back to the battle front in time for the 5,000 added Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs. The Saratoga Cup and the Jockey Club Gold Cup are other fixtures on Cavalcades tentative program. With the runings of the Illinois Derby yesterday and the Latonia Derby and Withers Stakes, the three-year-old situation should become more clarified. The heroes of the Illinois and Latonia Derbys with the possible exception of Hollyrood, if he happens to do well at the Milldale course, will be groomed for the Chicago Derby at Hawthorne and the Detroit Derby. These events will determine to a large extent the western candidates for the Classic, which can be expected to attract the outstanding Eastern three-year-olds. Hollyrood is an eligible to the Belmont Stakes and will be returned to the Nassau course after his Latonia effort this afternoon and will remain in New York at least until the end of the Belmont meeting, although he may begin travelling again after that. A. high-class field will go postward in the Withers and the race will have a direct bearing on the Belmont Stakes as it always has done.
