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.............. ...... Here and There on the Turf Pimlico Oaks to Be Revived Matey Preps for Chesapeake Flying Cross Disappoints Seabiscuit Is Western Cham- J pion j a. - In addition to its stakes program announced some time ago, the Maryland Jockey Club has decided to revive the Pimlico Oaks, which has not been run for several years. The event will have ,500 added and will be offered on Monday, May 10, the opening of "Preakness Week," over the mile and a furlong distance. Decision of the Pimlico management to offer this contest for three-year-old fillies is in line with the trend everywhere for more races solely for members of the feminine division, thus increasing their value .as racers and prospective brood mares. Trie date selected for the Pimlico Oaks is only five days before the Kentucky Oaks, but it is doubtful If any filly will try for both races. Next year perhaps the schedule will be so arranged that at least a week elapses between the two stakes, because it is not the Maryland Jockey Clubs policy to try to take the running away from any other track. With the Pimlico Oaks, the Baltimore course has a well-rounded program for its fifteen-day spring meeting, the principal feature of which is the Preakness, with 0,-000 added, for three-year-olds. In preceding the Preakness by five days, the Oaks very possibly could provide a filly contestant in the richer stake, although only three are entered Mars Shield. Dawn Play and Jewell Dorsett, Mars Shield, which is not eligible to the Kentucky Derby, won the Texas Derby last Saturday. For distance runners among the older horses, Pimlico will have the Dixie Handicap, with 0,000 added, and for sprinters the Baltimore Spring Handicap, with a purse of ,000. Two-year-old racing is not emphasized at the meeting, so the Nursery will be endowed with only ,500. These stakes and a purse minimum of ,000 should bring to Pimlico this spring a better class of horses than was on hand a year ago. Principal event this coming Saturday at all tracks is the Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace, with 0,000 added. Prominent candidates for the Kentucky Derby are expected to go postward in the mile and one-sixteenth race, but the winner may prove to be Matey, which was not nominated for the Churchill Downs classic. The son of Man o War and Tavy, from the stable of Walter M. Jeffords, has been working very well at the Harford course since moving north from Columbia, a recent trial in preparation for the Chesapeake being a mile and one furlong in 1:57, breezing. Plans for Matey call for him to try for the Chesapeake if the field is not too bulky, which it probably will not be. after which he will be pointed for the Preakness, in which he may take on the Kentucky Derby winner. War Admiral and Over the Top, other sons of Man o War, I may provide Matey with the principal opposition in the Chesapeake, as both have won at Havre de Grace in impressive fashion. Glen Riddle Farm hopes to acquire the Derby with War Admiral, while it is reserving Over the Top for the Preakness. Cornelius Vandcrbilt Whitney probably hasnt much incentive to transfer Flying Cross from his farm to Jamaica for the Wood Memorial Stakes since the colts dismal performance in his race at Keeneland,: Monday. The son of Pennant and Blessings had been working right along with Black Look, a winner on Saturday, but he failed to make a threat at any stage of the six furlongs dash and finished in last place, Continued on twenty-third page.. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. Quite probably, unless something happened to him, Flying Cross will be tried again at Keeneland. Unless there is a change in plans, Black Look will be groomed for the Blue Grass Stakes, after which his next engagement will be in the Derby, so Whitney may not be represented in the Wood Memorial unless by Ptolemy, which is in training at Belmont Park. He was a fast-closing third to Fairy Hill and Military in the Santa Anita Derby. Seabiscuit, four-year-old son of Hard Tack and Swing On, by Whisk Broom II., which has proven one of the most durable horses in American racing in recent years, may have been only a secondary performer on the Atlantic Coast but on the Pacific Coast he is quite the champion. The latest exploit of the colt which Mrs. Charles S. Howard acquired from the Wheatley Stable late last summer was to capture the 0,000 added Marchbank Handicap under top weight of 124 pounds, running the nine furlongs In 1:48, very good time, even if Tanforan does hold the worlds mark of 1:47, made by Indian Broom in taking the same race a year ago. Seabiscuit was making his first start since his runaway triumph in the San Juan Capistrano Handicap, a week after losing the Santa Anita Handicap to Rose-mont by a nose. His record for California competition since arriving there last fall now stands at five stake victories in seven starts. Incidentally, Tanforan closed the most successful meeting in Its modern history Saturday.
