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Here and There on the Turf Top Row Nears Return to Battle Time Supply Heads Laurel Field Weight May Not Be Factor in Spalding Lowe Jenkins Handicap Jockey Race Develops Into Duel From Arlington Downs comes word that if training conditions are suitable between now and November 14 that A. A. Baroni believes he has an excellent chance to have Top Row ready to perform in the 5,000 added Waggoner Handicap, which is to be renewed on that date over the mile and one furlong distance. The son of Peanuts Too High won that race last autumn before he moved to Santa Anita to capture the Christmas Stakes and the Santa Anita Handiacp, after which he went wrong in the Marchbank Handicap at Tanforan. Fired for ankle trouble. Top Row has taken matters very easy since that time and, although he accompanied the Baroni stable wherever it went, he was not placed under the saddle again until the latter part of September. He must be at a point in his conditioning where he can be keyed up within a few weeks or his owner-trainer would not have come out with the statement that Top Row could be made ready for the Waggoner with the track remaining in good condition. Baroni naturally could not be expected to rush Top Row along at this time when the horse has such a fine opportunity to add heavily to his earnings again in California this winter if conditions were not suitable. With the time at hand for Top Row to be asked for sharp speed work Baroni wishes it to be done on a fast track so the danger of reinjuring the horse will be minimized. If the Nevada horseman is able to get his star performer in readiness for the Waggoner that race will be much more notable than it shapes up at the present time, although a decent field is more than likely. If Baroni is not able to have Top Row ready for campaigning in Texas, however, he has a pretty shifty horse to fall back on in Goldeneye, the son of Transmute he claimed at Saratoga for ,500 and which earned most of that amount I back in winning the Jerome Handicap at Belmont Park. Goldeneye is training regularly, the workout tabs show. Time Supply, Mrs. Frank A. Carreauds a. L rood five-year-old by Time Maker, promises L to be starting top weight in the Washington aWandicap 0,000 added feature of Laurels mSnBl oSm Saturday. He has been as-Hined 122 pounds for the mile and a quarter lETby handicapper John P. Turner only Top Row and Granville being aaaaaAaWier regard, Rosemont not being me Supply has been pointed tnent and promises to be n twentieth HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. ready for his best effort His principal opposition may come from Roman Soldier with 117 pounds, Finance with 115, Memory Book with 113 and Count Arthur with 111. Turner apparently has given much thought to the running of the Breeders Stakes in which Memory Book, in receipt of three pounds actual weight, gave Count Arthur a neat trimming, although the latter was easily the better of the two at scale weight in The Jockey Club Gold Cup. Turner probably felt that if Memory Book could have run so well in the Maryland Handicap three days after his race at Keene.and that Count Arthur should have done as well in the Breeders Stakes, four days after he had won the Continental Handicap at Jamaica. If there is any actual difference between the ability of Maedic, Bottle Cap and War Admiral, they will have to prove it without the aid of weight benefits in the Spalding Lowe Jenkins Handicap, a mile affair promising to attract all three Saturday. Turner has rated them about alike with Maedic at the top with 122 pounds, a pound more than assigned Bottle Cap and two more than War Admiral must shoulder. At the weights, Flying Cross may prove himself dangerous as he must carry only 116 pounds, even though he was a fast-moving third in the Belmont Futurity, with 122 pounds on his back. Privileged, second to Pompoon in the Futurity and recently victorious in the Ardsley Handicap at Empire City under 126 pounds, isnt eligible to the Spalding Lowe Jenkins Handicap, nor is the J. H. Louchheim star. Every other year or so the race for jockey leadership narrows down to a battle between two riders, usually apprentices, and this season is no execption. At the present, Basil James, who has been without his five pound allowance for more than a month, is enjoying a short lead over Frank Chojnacki and judging from the manner in which he is riding at Sportsmans Park, whose meeting comes to an end Saturday, he is destined to remain on top for the remainder of the year t SS 5?2 PPnent snaps back into his stride. That James has been able to keep ,?"B! t pace since losing his five pound allowance attests to his ability as well as the fine work he has been doing at Sportsman s, which is a half mile trade The Washington lad, however, has had previous experience with sharp turns and short stretches. He seems one young rider who might remain among the topnotchers and it Is to be hoped Chojnacki can do the same, as this country never has enough first class jockeys.
