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i Here and There j on the Turf Jamaica Fields Should Be I Large j Miss Merriment May Stay j Home J Lincoln Fields Meet Satisfies j Good Juveniles to Retire j During the next two weeks New York racing fans will enjoy their sport at the Jamaica course of the Metropolitan Jockey Club, which is offering a program of five stakes, beginning with the Remsen Handicap and Belgrade Stakes Saturday. During the second week, which is started with Columbus Day, three features are on the program, two of them for the holiday. They arc the Inter-borough Handicap and Long Island Stakes, while the remaining event is the Continental Handicap, which, with ,000 added, is the most valuable of the Jamaica offerings. It features the closing day card. The Inter-borough, which has ,000 added, promises to break up the proposed match between Miss Merriment and Myrtlewood at River Downs, because J. P. Smith, trainer of Victor Emanuels crack marc, will not ship her as far away as Cincinnati for any engagement in less than a week before or after the Inter-borough unless the purse is worth while. The sum of ,000 is offered for the River Downs match and the date tentatively set was this coming Thursday, but Smith believes the opportunities at home are better. Some of the most important New York stables are heading for Maryland with the close of Belmont Park and the leading members of other establishments are going into winter quarters, but Jamaica will not lack for material. Many of the cheaper steeds have been Inactive since the close of Aqueduct, as Belmont caters to the better class when it can, but they will swing back into action during the coming two weeks at Jamaica to bring about good-sized fields and perhaps very spirited contests. After the session, at Belmont Park, where many important events were renewed, yet were difficult to see because of the massivencss of the course the general public will welcome the change to Jamaica, where the horses are in plain sight all the way and can be dis-; tinguished almost without the aid of binoculars, even at the far turn. The Metropolitan Jockey Club could very well have its best autumn meeting since boom days. Lincoln Fields moves into the home stretch of its twenty-eight day meeting today, and even though the Will County course did not have Labor Day, as has been its custom, it promises to close with the figures on the right side of the ledger. Columbus Day is not as important in the Middle West as it is other section of the country, so Matt in some cannot hope for a Winn and his associates birr attendance, but the patronage has been stfady and the mutuel play has increased r ht alons, so only good gather dunng th, necessary for a satisfactory final week is " Continued on thirty-IUth page. j HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. ending. Following the close of Lincoln Fields, racing in the Chicago area moves to Sportsmans Park, the half mile course located within a stones throw of Hawthorne. Sportsmans will run until the last day of October, which Is the legal closing for Illinois racing. Next year there may be a rearrangement of dates of the Chicago tracks, which may give Lincoln Fields the break denied it this season, with the coming gubernatorial elections having an important bearing. Patronage during the first week of Rockingham Parks autumn meeting of twenty-two days wasnt as pleasing as the management hrfd hoped, particularly due to the cold weather which prevailed, but improvement is expected now that the fans have been able to get a line on the horses. Although it serves an area of New England that gives but little support to Suffolk Downs and Nar-ragansett Park, Rockingham Park still must look to Boston for a large number of its customers and they have not been forthcoming. Perhaps they have been taking a weeks vacation since making the daily trip to Paw-tucket and plan to resume their train and automobile riding to the races during the new week. When Rockingham Park was the only New England track, its distance from Boston did not matter so much but with Suffolk Downs and Narragansett Park cutting in during the past couple of years the Salem course has not enjoyed the same amount of patronage as before. The Futurity having been decided some of its contestants have gone into retirement for the season, among them Pompoon. J. H. Louchheims colt is regarded as a good three-year-old prospect because of his rangi-ness and long striding and his Philadelphia I owner, on the advice of trainer C. F. Clarke, i has decided to give the son of Pompey every ! chance to develop before starting the hard ; training grind necessary to be ready for the ; Kentucky Derby and other important spring ! events. Calumet Farms Galsun, Milky Way 1 Farms Case Ace and other well-regarded two-year-olds already have been taken out of training to await next season. Case Ace 1 suffered a kneec injury at Saratoga which brought about his early retirement. Brook-meade Stables Knight Gallant is another two-year-old of promise that will race no more this season. It will not be surprising to learn during the next few days that the connections of Billionaire, Charing Cross, Sir Damion and Optic also have decided against further campaigning of these colts .this season.
