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I Here and There j on the Turf Keeneland Hopes for Eosemont j Laurel May Get Dupont Star I Miss Merriment Cant Break j Jinx Has Compiled Unique Record j William Dupont, Jr., owner of the Foxr i catcher Farms Stable, is on something of a spot because he has the desire, of starting Rosemont in the first running of the Breeders Stakes, feature of Keenelands inaugural meeting, but the good son of The Porter and Garden Rose is in Maryland, where he has an immediate engagement in the Laurel Handicap. The latter race, which is at one mile, is to be renewed on Saturday with a purse of ,000 and the Breeders Stakes is scheduled for the following Wednesday with the same value in force. A horse like Discovery when in his prime would not have paid much attention to racing on Saturday, shipping 600 miles and -performing four days later. The Delaware sportsman and his trainer, Richard Handlen, may not consider Rosemont to be the type of colt that could step through such a program without ill effects. Discovery and Granville were to have run in the Breeders Stakes, which is at a mile and one-quarter, according to the early intentions of their respective boards of strategy but both horses are on the side lines due to infirmities and in the case of the three-year-old star he definitely is done until next season. Discovery probably is also and perhaps for all time. Their absence from the Keeneland event leaves Rosemont as the standout candidate and if Dupont believes the honor of winning the first running of the Breeders" Stakes is great enough the Narragansett Special winner will show his wares in the Blue Grass, whether or not he assays the Laurel Handicap in the meantime. Conditions of the Breeders Stakes are unique in the weights, particularly in that the imposts must range from 132 pounds down to 112 pounds in order that the event will not be won by a third-rater carrying a feather. With Discovery and Granville the top weights under 132 and 128 pounds, respectively Rosemont gets in the Breeders Stakes attractively under 123 pounds. His opposition would not be strong numerically, only fourteen having been named for the race nncl of these the likely starters with their weights are Sun Teddy. 119; Count Arthur. 5.9 "Black Gift, 112; Memory Book 112; and Tatterdemalion, 112 pounds. The field in the Laurel Handicap promises to be much stouter a factor which also may play a part in Duponts calculations although the Delaware sportsman doesnt care how tough the opposition be if other conditions are suitable. Roscmonts appearance in the Breeders Stakes will do much to get that event off to the excellent start wished for it by the Keeneland sponsors, who hope that in time the race will become one of the most important in America. One of the strangest records ever.com- piled in racing is that of Miss Merriment. Victor Emnauels good daughter of High i Time and Nobility, by Nassovian, now a f ive-1 year-old. In every one of her four seasons of campaigning, including the present one. Miss Merriment has won exactly seven victories, regardless of the number of times she went to the post. J. P. Smith, her train-lras confide"t after she had won the Ju l HShweight Handicap at Belmont Park, .that the High Time mare would break the I Jinx and she was pointed espesially for the Interborough Handicap with that idea in iview. Assigned top, weight of 126 pounds. Miss Merriment found the load too severe and she was compelled to bow to Bill Farns-worth. Smith will keep on trying with Miss Merriment as she has several more engagements this year and appears to be still in ex- fCgHtnufdqn,ticent-irst3uge.J., HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. cellent condition. Just as she has won seven races each year, the Emanuel miss also has gone unplaced three times in each campaign and her record to date stands at twenty-eight victories, twenty seconds, nine thirds and twelve instances out of the money in sixty-nine starts. Her earnings have mounted to 1,490. Whether or not Miss Merriment is able to get over the seven mark she always will be remembered by persons now familiar with her performances. It is unfortunate that tho special race between her and Myrtlewood to settle the supremacy as to which is the best sprinting member of their sex in the country will not be realized. In steadily elevating her earnings to more than 0,000, Miss Merriment had no rich prizes to seek. Her inability to go a distance prevented the daughter of High Time from accounting for any of the Oaks and she did not bag any of the more important two-year-old filly events. Yet few fillies and mares ever have gone into retirement with higher earnings compiled in campaigning as long and steadily as Miss Merriments has been. Members of her division arent endowed by nature to last so long on the firing line and if they-won big money they got it as two- and three-year-olds.
