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Here and There j on the Turf j Vanderbilt to Try West Again .1 Discovery May Seek Rich Prize j Milky Way Holds Good Lead j j Laurel Closing Winning Meet- j ing I Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who has been deprived of his position as the leading owner of the season by the Milky Way Farm Stable of Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, has been attempting to make up his mind for several months as to where he would send a division of his horses this winter. Apparently the young Maryland sportsman has reached a decision and his cerise and white banner again will be flaunted at Santa Anita Park. For a time Vanderbilt was in the notion of sending his winter horses to Florida and he may still be represented at Hialeah and Tropical Parks but he himself seems headed for the West Coast and that means he can be expected to make another bid for the Santa Anita Handicap, for which he tried so hard last winter with Discovery. The big chestnut trained brilliantly at the Arcadia course during the first half of the meeting, but as the time for the big race drew near he seemingly went off, as his performance in the rich special was very disappointing. The writer entertains the suspicion that Discovery again will make the trip across the mountains, even though he came out of the Havre de Grace Handicap lame. Trainer J. H. Stotler removed him to Sagamore Farm, where the son of Display and Ariadne has been taking matters easy as his connections attempted to find out just what was the matter with him and to treat it. At any rate, they believed the trouble, which showed up in the, Havre de Grace Handicap, had been with Discovery throughout the summer. If Discovery does go to California again, it will not be surprising if Stotler trains him differently, bringing him up to the race gradually rather than sending him along smartly in the early days of the meeting. Discovery had done so well during the summer on plenty of work that this was thought to be what he wanted. Reaping Rewards victory in the New England Futurity with its reward of 6,850 sent the Milky Way Farm Stable well to the front in the list of leading owners after Talma Dee, through her Selima Stakes triumph, had put the Chicago-owned establishment dangerously close to Vanderbilt The latter was very happy last year when it was assured that he would be the leading owner, and undoubtedly Mrs. Mars now feels the same. With earnings of 93,860, her stable is about 5,000 ahead of the Vanderbilt total and this lead probably will be protected to the end of the year because the two-year-olds are much stronger Milky Way than those of the Maryland sportsman with two such events as the Pimlico Futurity and Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes yet to come up. Hardly any of the other high ranking owners are in; a position where they can Continued. ,971 Jtyr.ty-fctKVflStJ. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. overtake Milky Way as the third in the list, Belair Stud, is more than 0,000 below Van-derbilt Most remarkable is the total of 18,557 to the credit of Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs, whose colors were carried to another of numerous triples Thursday at Empire City while sending the number of winners trained by her husband, Hirsch Jacobs, up to 154. The Jacobs horses have won 128 races for earnings of more than 20,000. Only a few scattered stakes victories are included in this total and none of them of any great value, Action being the principal contributor, with his scores in the Aqueduct, Edgemere and Manhattan handicaps. Another owner whose high total is the result mostly of successes in overnight events is Mrs. Emil Denemark, while Belair Stud must be thankful to Granville, A. A. Baroni to Top Row, H. P. Head-ley to Whopper, Hollyrood and Apogee, Calumet Farm to Privileged and Sun Teddy, Maemere Farm to Maedic and Maecloud, and J. H. Louchheim to Pompoon. Laurel Park closes its annual meeting of twenty-five days, with the ledger displaying a neat profit. With the weather behaving itself a good part of the season, racing secretary John P. Turner has had a sufficient number of better horses to arrange decent programs and this has been reflected by a general increase in patronage and wagering, with the result that the meeting has been the best in quite a few years for the Maryland State Fair, Inc. A fine program has been arranged for closing day, with the 0,000 added Washington Handicap as the principal offering, but the ,500 Spalding Lowe Jenkins Handicap will be running it a strong race for interest because of the presence of so many capable two-year-olds in the field. Maryland racing moves to Pimlico Monday for the annual autumn meeting there, the feature of which is the Pimlico Futurity, although the Riggs and Walden handicaps are other events of far-reaching importance.
