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Here and There on the Turf Richer Preakness Suggested May Be Made Future Event Carvola Impresses in Victory VictoryNarragansett Narragansett Park Ending Bril ¬ liant Meeting Alfred Vanderbilt who has become very active in the interests of the Maryland Jockey Club since obtaining a goodly share of its stock is hopeful of making the Preakness just as prominent and popular as the Kentucky Derby At the coming meet ¬ ing of directors of that organization the young sportsman probably will propose that the Preakness be made a future event with closings similar to that of the Belmont Stakes and he believes the new conditions would increase the total value of the event until it approached a gross amount of 100 000 The Belmont has closings for both weanlings and yearlings but Vanderbilt be ¬ lieves a race like the Preakness also should have a supplementary closing around March 15 for threeyearolds with a very stiff pay ¬ ment such as X2000 This would permit the nomination of horses which had developed and whose breeders did not have the fore ¬ sight to name them as youngsters youngstersWith With the Maryland Jockey Club main ¬ taining the added money of the Preakness at 50000 the event undoubtedly would reach a vastly greater value The starting fee alone may be expected to be increased at least from the 500 in vogue this year up to 1000 Under its future conditions the Belmont with only 25000 in added money reached a net value to the winner of 66040 whereas the greatest sum ever won in the Kentucky Derby was 55375 and in the Preakness an even 60000 The Bel ¬ mont Futurity which for many years was the richest race in the world with only 25000 added by the Westchester Racing Association reached a peak of 105730 for Whichone when that colt won in 1929 Van ¬ derbilt sees such possibilities for the Preak ¬ ness and it is quite possible that he will set the necessary machinery in motion within another month Homer Baker trainer for E K Bryson presented Carvola at the top of her form in the Firenze Handicap at Belmont Park Thursday The fouryearold daughter of Carlaris and Volga by Paragon II came from last place in the final three furlongs to triumph by a half length over Mary Keen as Fair Stein was third Her victory was much more impressive however be ¬ cause of the fact that Harry Richards had to ease her back going into the turn out of the back stretch and then swing her to the outside Once placed where she had plenty of room larvola advanced very fast to reach a contending position entering the final furlong hereafter Richards rode her with confidence Carvola lacks engagements in New York events like the Suburban and Aqueduct Handicaps but is intended for a Chicago campaign where such races as the Stars and Stripes and Arlington Handicaps await her herFair Fair Stein which has shown herself to fee just about the best of Axensteins get may be expected to improve sharply over her effort in the Firenze She was back Continued on thirtyfirst itdgcJ HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page with Carvola in the early stages of the mile race and making her move sooner she was close to the pace upon reaching the stretch Then she flattened out as though short as she had not been out since last fall whereas Carvola had one race at Pimlico to sharpen her as well as a keen workout when she served as a workmate for Mosawtre when that colt was preparing for the Preakness Both of these fillies ran in topnotch company as threeyear olds Carvola finishing second to Hollyrood in the Chicago Derby and Fair Stein won l the Test Stakes while placing to High Fleet in the Mary Dyer Handicap at Nar ragansett Park Another meeting between them at Belmont Park may be expected to produce an excellent contest Narragansetts spring meeting draws to a close Saturday on the wave of its great ¬ est success since the park threw open its gates in 1934 1934Though Though bothered a little with the bluster ¬ ous New England spring weather patrons have been thronging the park in greater numbers than ever before and according to the evidence already in are better equipped with the worldly goods than they have been since the depression depressionEntering Entering into the spirit of the thing fa ¬ vorites have been charging down in front with almost monotouous regularity and at this point the averag of winning favorites approximate 45 with only about 20 per cent of the first choices running out of the money
