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Here and There on the Turf Aqueduct All Dressed Up New Attire Should Please Public Detroit Derby Next on Bill Partridge Horses Star at Bel-! mont - . ......4 John E. Cowdin, president of the Queens County Jockey Club, is reticent about how much money his organization spent in the rehabilitation of the ancient and odd Aqueduct plant, but all those who take the short trip there Monday for the opening of the V summer meeting will see for themselves that substantial inroads into the treasury were made to carry out the improvements. The principal alteration was the addition of a hundred feet to the grandstand heading up the stretch and the installation of 1,200 seats will give the track a seating capacity of about 10,000. As the addition also is a hundred feet in depth, the betting ring beneath the grandstand has been enlarged by 10,000 feet thereby giving Aqueduct one of the most commodious wagering departments on the Metropolitan circuit. One hundred stands in pairs have been set up for the bookmakers and their crews and they are located in two long rows with plenty of space between them and to the rear of each, thus facilitating both the betting and paying off. The clubhouse porch has been extended out towards the track so as to accommodate the layers who will operate in that enclosure. They will be located at the end of the clubhouse nearest the paddock so the other end where stairs lead to the boxes and other parts of the plant will permit free passage. The stairs have been altered and enlarged and a new roof over the clubhouse and box section has been constructed. Other improvements in the clubhouse include modernization of the toilets and washrroms, installation of new windows and an extensive lighting system and painting over all inside and outside, with the motif green and white. Another story has been added to the judges stand to house the finish camera and as the apparatus will be located higher than is the case at Belmont Park, it should give better results. Two electric flashboards have been placed in the infield. Still other changes include construction of a new hospital and installation of adjustable windows in the paddock. Only through entire reconstruction will Aqueduct ever become ideally appointed, but the many changes made since last year have Bkit the plant in the best possible condition. only reasonable to expect that the im-Hwemcnts will meet with so much favor Pith the public that greater interest will be Klisplayed in Aqueducts racing and the at- V tendance therefore will increase, perhaps K enough to pay for the rehabilitation in a A comparatively short space of time. The pro-W gressive spirit of the Queens County Jockey r Club, regardless of who induced it, should be reflected in the racing, which ought, to be of a calibre not seen at Aqueduct for quite a few years. Belmont Parks sport .Continued on fourth page. i I j ! has been of a. very high order and it will be continued at the Queens course, even though many of the topnotch horses will be leaving New York for stakes engagements in the West and Northeast After the Belmont Stakes this afternoon, the next important test for three-year-olds is the Detroit Derby, which will be renewed next week-end at the Motor City course. Only Hollyrood of the Belmont candidates is regarded as a certain starter in the Detroit Derby, the bulk of whose field will be forthcoming from three-year-olds now located in the Middle West. Most important of the prospects appears to be A. G. Tarns Rushaway, which accomplished the unheard of feat of winning two Dcrbys in as many days, the Illinois and Latonia. Previously the speedy Ilasto gelding won the Louisiana Derby and ran second to The Fighter in the Texas Derby. Ho. was shipped directly to Detroit from Latonia and a vacation of two weeks may eliminate any harmful effects of this iron horse trick. Mrs. P. A. B. Widen-ers Dnieper, which finished second to Rush- away at Aurora, and E. R: Bradleys Bow and AnoW, Avhich was third in the Latonia Derby, are expected to be among, those also present at Detroit next Saturday. John B. Partridge is meeting with considerable success with the modest stable he is campaigning in New York, two of his horses, Prince Abbot and Sunanair, displaying vast improvement in their victorious efforts Thursday. Prince Abbot, six-year-old gelding by Abbots Nymph and Queen Men-ilek, once ran with lowly platers but in his most recent outing he ran a mile and one furlong in 1:49 to easily defeat such capable horses as Mantagna, Palma, Count Arthur and Bright Plumage. Sunanair, which only recently joined the Partridge stable, having been claimed for ,500, stepped a mile and one-sixteenth in 1:431 to score by eight lengths. The Belmont track was faster than at any time during the season because its sand had been packed down by the previous nights rain but nevertheless the efforts of Prince Abbot and Sunanair were topnotch. Count Arthurs failure to prove a factor was a great disappointment to the public as well as to his connections and it is quite evident that the son of Reigh Count, one of the better, three-year-olds of last season,, is far from himself.
