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Here and There on the Turf Chesapeake Draws Choice Field Winter Champions to Clash Will Determine Marylands Bid Illinois Adopts Unnecessary Rule - . With the running of the Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace this afternoon, the three-year-old situation should become clearer. The 0,000 added event of a mile and a sixteenth has attracted only nine overnight candidates, but the majority of these are among the prominent members of the three-year-old division, including the two stars of winter racing. East and West, Court Scandal was victorious in the Flamingo Stakes at Hialcah ark and Fairy Hill of the Santa Anita Derby, the former having had the benefit of a warm-up race earlier In the week, while the Foxcatcher Farms gelding has not run since his triumph In the 0,000 attraction at the Arcadia course. The class of these two horses alone Is adding much interest to the Chesapeake renewal, but if both are defeated it will not prove very much of a surprise, considering the remainder of the field. Likely to rule the favorite is the Glen Riddle Farms entry of War Admiral and Over the Top, two sons of Man o War which have won In. Impressive fashion during the Havre de Grace meeting. War Admiral particularly. The latter colt is being groomed Continued on twenty-fifth page. j r : 1 j i J HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. for the Kentucky Derby, and his Chesapeake performance is certain to place him more definitely in the standing of the leading aspirants. Over the Top was not named for the Derby,, his principal objective after todays stake being the Preakness. Still another son of Man o War of possible championship timber in the Chesapeake field is Matey, owned by Walter M. Jeffords. This colt, which was beaten In his first start of the year the other day, likewise was not named for the Derby, and will be pointed for the old Pimlico fixture after this afternoons engagement. The others in the Chesapeake field which are not so highly regarded are Quincy, Tedious, Sunphantom and Siam. A sensational performance by any of the Derby candidates In the Chesapeake field will be necessary to dislodge Pompoon from his post of favoritism, which he has enjoyed without interruption since the entries to the Churchill Downs race were first announced. The defeat of Brooklyn at Keeneland the other day only served to strengthen Pompoons position as the future book choice and a horse like War Admiral in the Chesapeake will have to smash the track record and otherwise distinguish himself to advance to the same brackets as the 1936 two-year-old champion. The race should serve to establish the outstanding three-year-old in Maryland, as It has done so often in the past and because of the quality of Its field, should attract a banner crowd to Havre de Grace. Among the new rules of the Illinois. Racing Commission is that which will prevent two jockeys having the same employer from riding against each other, regardless of whether their stable has a starter in the race. The writer believes the commissioners will soon see the uselessness of this regulation and repeal it. In the first place, such a rule implies that jockeys working for the same stable do not always try against each other when riding outside mounts. The rule is absolutely unnecessary if the Illinois commission has confidence in its steward, C. J. FitzGerald. Enforcement of the regulation will prove harmful- -to the sport and the tracks themselves should ask for its abolition, because there are net enough good jockeys around as it is now. For example, last year Calumet Farm had both Eddie Arcaro and Irving Anderson at Arlington Park and they were In demand for outside mounts when their stable was not. represented. If trainers, who know more about whats going on around the track than anyone else, had any suspicion a jockey would not do his best against his mate, they certainly wouldnt put him up.
