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Here and There on the Turf j Narragansett Away Smartly i Best Event to Be Run Wednes- day ! Thankerton Barred in U. S. i English Rules Respected Here a- .4 New Englands final meeting of the season got under way Friday at Narragansett Park for a run of seventeen days, with a typical opening at Walter OHaras course, in that a good crowd was present and interest was high in the various events. Featuring the program was the Worcester Handicap, ,600 added dash of six furlongs, which brought out some of the better sprinters including Bill Farnsworth, recent victor over Miss Merriment in the New Rochelle Handicap at Empire City. The three-year-old gelded son of Crack Brigade in the stable of Mrs. Marian Cassidy made good in grand fashion to score his third consecutive victory, stepping the six furlongs in 1:11 under an impost of 117 pounds. The victory of Bill Farnsworth, named for the well-known New York sports expert and Broadway columnist, was doubly pleasing to Mrs. Cassidy because the sire of the three-year-old, Crack Brigade, was perhaps the best horse ever to perform under the colors of her late husband. Dr. Thomas M. Cassidy. Crack Brigade, it will be remembered, gave Gallant Fox quite a tussle in the Freakness. Off to an excellent start, the Narragansett Park meeting will reach its peak, from a racing standpoint, on Wednesday when the first running of the New England Futurity will be observed. Pompoon, champion two-year-old of the season and winner of the Belmont Futurity, rules a strong favorite in the mile and one-sixteenth event to which the Narragansett Racing Association is adding 5,000, with its winner getting almost twice as much, even though Jerome Louch-heims good colt may be without the services of Harry Richards, who incurred the displeasure of the Laurel stewards the other afternoon. From a business standpoint, the Narragansett session goes over the top on Armistice Day, because New Englanders know of no better way to exhibit their patriotism than to go a-racing. With racing gone from Long Island for the season, Narragansett has drawn many of the better New York horses and the meeting should be a brilliant success in every way. The Los Angeles Turf Club, operators of Santa Anita, properly has refused the nomination of Thankerton to the coming renewal of the 00,000 added Santa Anita Handicap. Dr Charles H. Strub and his associates would have been very happy to have had the English horse come to this country to perform in its feature event, because it would have added much glamour to the event, but hp is not eligible to race in America because is a half brother Thankerton of hfc breeatag. t Quashed, the great filly in England which nosed out Omaha in the Ascot Gold Cup and, while he is not quite as good as she Continued on thirty-fifth page. nj I . 5 r i HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. has shown herself to be, he nevertheless has demonstrated good quality under fire. Thankerton could have raced in this country had he been eligible to the English Stud Book. The Jockey Club respects the turf laws of other countries, but because the horses maternal grandsire is a member of the famous May Day line he is not eligible to that book. Just as much American blood is denied this privilege. England has a rule whereby so-called half-breeds are eligible to race if properly registered, hence the right of Omaha to run in that country, but the American Stud Book frowns upon that dispensation. Within a few weeks Thankerton will be forgotten when the Santa Anita Handicap is discussed, because that mile and one-quarter event the richest in the world will have so many good American horses trying for it Top Row, its winner this past winter, will be nominated and trained for it, also, probably. Time Supply and Rosemont, which finished second and third. In addition Mr , Bones, which came close to being the tor .notch three-year-old of the present season, is to be trained for the event. Whopper, which Lfigured prominently in the last running of the rich special, also is a possibility, as is Discovery, whose invasion of the California course last winter was a failure even thour-h his first start resulted in a stakes victorv Ned Reigh is another horse of note that wni go after the valuable prize, and his chants are to be respected, as he seems to have fnltf, recovered from the illness which In! Hun out on the eWot hPXimk$
