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Here and There on the Turf Interest High at. Suffolk Chicago Derby ChoiQe in Doubt Baby Talk Is Dark Horse Omaha Seeks His Goal Today Suffolk Downs was off to a muddy start Monday but a goodly crowd was in attendance with interest running" at a high level so the fifty-three day meeting should prove very successful. Better weather has arrived at Boston and the course should he in tip-top condition for the staging of the first Saturday program and the patronage then should prove an excellent index to what may be expected during the remainder of the meeting. More and more good horses from New York will he shipped to Suffolk Downs as the Aqueduct meeting nears its end and through July Boston racing should roll along with steady momentum with the climax due on July 22 with the running of the 5,000 added Massachusetts Handicap, The meeting opened with a stake, another added money feature was offered yesterday honoring Bunker Hill Day and still another worthwhile contest is on Saturdays program. Interest in the long term is sure to mount not only among the patrons but with the horsemen, because of the numerous events attiacting the better class of horses, Chicago racing fans are debating quite diligently at the moment whether they should make Hollyrood or Rushaway the favorite in the Chicago Derby which Is to be renewed Saturday at Hawthorne, Each holds a decision over the other, Rushaway having defeated Hal Price Headleys colt rather handily in the Latonia Derby the day after he had made a hit with Chicago enthusiasts by the manner in which he captured the Illinois Derby. Hollyrood has improved over his Latonia Derby performance, however, in showing good performances in the Belmont Stakes and Detroit Derby, the latter resulting in his victory over Rushaway. A. G. Tarns three-yeaiold had something of an excuse at Detroit, having lunged into the air at the start and he also gave the son of High Cloud and Mandy Hamilton four pounds. They will each shoulder 121 pounds Saturday. The E. R. Bradley entry of Bow and Arrow and Baby Talk also is sure to come in for considerable support, both having participated in the Derby Trial Handicap Tuesday, with the former gaining princlpnl honors with Holl Image, winner of the Arkansas Derby, in second place. Baby Talk was fifth, beaten three length after racing wide all the way but the writer has a notion that he Mill be in the thick of the stretch fighting in the Chicago Derby. The son of Blue Larkspur and Beach Talk, by Sundridge. is a natural distance runner but he never has had an opportunity beyond a mile and one-sixteenth. He will be going a mile and one-ciuarter Saturday and the extra distance should find him more at home. Baby Talk proved good enough at Pimlico to defeat Jean Bart, which afterwards ran third to Bold Venture and Granville in the Prcak-ness, and off that effort he is to be regarded with considerable respect. Continued on thirty-third page. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. Attention of American racing fans will be pointed towards England today where the I Ascot Gold Cup will be renewed. The favorite in the two miles and a half event is William Woodwards Omaha, the three-year-. old champion of this country last season. In two previous starts in England as a four-year-old the son. of Gallant Fox and Flam-bino has yet to taste defeat and he has won a. "very large following by the manner in which he has deported himself over the turf courses. Omaha hopes to become the ond American-bred horse to account for this great distance classic, -which had its inception in 1808, the other Yankee-bred Victor having been James R. Keenes Foxhall in 1882. Numerous other horses from this country have tried for the Ascot Gold Cup 1 but none came so near to being successful as Mrs. John Hertz Reigh Count which finished second to Invershin in 1929. A victory for Omaha will be signally celebrated in this country and it will prove further to the British that they could , well use American blood just as we import their stallions and mares to improve our thoroughbreds. Seen in a huddle at Aqueduct were Alfred Vanderbilt, J. H. Stotler and Phil Reuter, discussing what weights Discovery and Roman Soldier should carry in the Brooklyn Handicap. Horses with inside post positions in Aqueducts chute races havent the edge they formerly enjoyed except for saving ground at the-elbow turn. Several more trainers have found out to their sorrow during the past few days that it doesnt pay to be up against, the saliva test. One who does it must be very desperate. After saddling his seventy-fifth winner of the season, Hirsch Jacobs modestly said that he wouldnt be surprised to run into a losing streak and the next day he sent out three favorites which went unplaced. Jacobs has nothing to do with whether his horses are choices or not. because he doesnt bet nor is he interested in the wagering. Winners are all that concerns him. Johnny Bejshak, Discoverys regular rider, who suffered a fractured collarbone at Belmont Park, expects to resume riding by mid-July.
