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Here and There on the Turf Two -Year-Old Filly Title at Stake Smart Field to 60 in Selima Memory Book Uncovers Speed Sanford Stud Keeps Going Not only will Saturday see whether Myr-tlewood or Miss Merriment is the best of the fillies and mares four years old or over, but it also may determine the top ranking among the two-year-old members of the division in the running of the Selima Stakes at Laurel. A choice field of the young lassies is being lined up for this mile affair, which promises to have more than 0,000 for the winner, arid a clean-cut victory for Apogee, Maecloud or Wand would have the effect of giving that filly a solid claim on titular honors. Apogee, the good daughtei of Pharamond II. and Summit, which won the Belmont, Fashion, Old Colony and Arlington Lassie Stakes for Hal Price Head-ley, also has run some fine races against some of the top notch colts, but she W51 .-disappointment in the Matron Stakes. This may be explained, however, by the suggestion that she may not have been quite ready for that engagement, Apogee has trained well for the Selima, and as she will not be compelled to shoulder any penalties, her chances appear exceedingly bright She, with Maecloud, winner of the Schuylcrville and Spinaway Stakes, and Wand, victorious in the Matron, must carry 122 pounds each, whereas the other starters will get allowances of from four to twelve pounds depending on what they havent done in a racing way. Of those which get allowances, the one to fear most appears to be the King Ttarichs Dawn Play, which f"c the Walter M. Jeffords miss a hard fight in the Matron, barely missing victory after coming from far back, Maecloud seems to have come back to herself after her fine work at Saratoga, judging by her score over the Selima distance at Laurel on Tuesday DeWitt Page now may feel confident that his Maemerc Farm colors will be borne by a dependable representative tomorrow. Other probabilities for the Selima are E. D Shaffers Evening Tide, John Hay Whitneys Royal Raiment, Wheatley Stables Drawbridge and C. V. Whitneys Peplum. Only three horses went to the post in the Breeders Stakes, which Keenlands sponsors hope in time will develop into one of the most noteworthy events in the country, and with one of the trio considered hopelessly outclassed, the race still resulted in a surprise. Count Arthur was expected to win hands down because he had beaten Memory Book by four lengths in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, with each horse carrying scale weight, whereas in the Kecneland race Mrs. John Hertz four-year-old was giving his younger adversary only three pounds actual-weight. The son of Reign Count and Abbatissa was unable to meet the demands Continued on,itnirfyfJt pagej c , y HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued Jroni second page. of two hard races within four days, with a twenty-four hour rail trip in between. However, as Memory Book displayed more speed than has been his wont the Greentree Stable colt took the gold and glory. From a time standpoint, the race" was a good one, as the mile and one-quarter was run in 2:04 with the track still dead from recent rains. As the season progressed, the handicap-pers were compelled to revise their opinions regularly as to the relative merits of the two-year-olds. The latest set of weights is that made by John B. Campbell for the Ards-ley Handicap, juvenile feature on tomorrows Empire City program. Pompoon and some of the other top-notch youngsters are not eligible to the Ardsley, but Campbell had enough good ones among the entries to the event to give him a chance to make a decent comparison. Calumet Farms Privileged and C. V. Whitneys Flying Cross, which finished second and third to Pompoon in the Belmont Futurity, were nominated for the Ardsley and, as may be expected, they top the list. Privileged, which carried 125 pounds in the Futurity, was assigned 126 pounds and Flying Cross, which took up the scale of 122, was allotted 121 pounds. Below Flying Cross, Campbell had to drop five pounds to find the next best Ardsley candidates, selecting seven youngsters to carry that impost including Moonton, Howard Maxwells promising colt John Sanford, who has been breeding horses at his farm near Amsterdam, N. Y., overlooking the Mohawk Valley, for so many years, has no intention of reducing his activity in this respect judging by his purchase of the stallion Supremus at the Lexington sales for ,100 Wednesday. Although the price paid for the fourteen-year-old son of Ultimus and Mandy Hamilton wasnt so very large, the bidding on him was very spirited with at least a half-dozen breeders being engaged, only half of whom intended that he remain in Kentucky. Hollie Hughes, the Sanford trainer, made a special trip from New York to bid on Supremus and when he cut into the bidding it was apparent to those familiar with the manner in which the New York sportsman does things of this character that he would prove the ultimate buyer. For many years Sanford relied on imported stallions to cross with his mares, many of which also were brought over from England, but more recently he has been fusing them with American blood and Supremus will serve this purpose.
