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Here and There on the Turf Juvenile Crop Very Promising Newcomers Flash Ability Sceneshifter Aims for Belmont Small Field Should Suit Him Can it be that America is to have the wst crop of twoyearolds in quite a few seasons Present indications are to that effect Several more very promising young ¬ sters were brought to light at Belmont Park on Monday in The Chief Bourbon King Pumpkin and Perpetuate and more may be heard from them when they are called upon to engage Inhale Wood Song Dauber Tiger Sky Larking Huskie Boy Araho Lass and other juveniles which already have shown they have class The Chief which finished second to Dauber in his first outing after he had literally buckjumped all the way displayed a smoother performance in his graduation effort as he ran the four and onehalf furlongs in 52 to miss the Wide ner course record by a second and one fifth The C V Whitney colt had to do some fancy running as Bourbon King a first starter from the Hal Price Headley stable gave him a stiff contest all the way wayThe The Chief and Bourbon King will not meet again soon as the latter youngster has moved to Detroit and will remain in the midwestern sector for several months with his principal objectives there probably being in the Washington Park and Arlington Fu ¬ turities two events that will be well worth winning The Chief is eligible to the Na ¬ tional Stallion Stakes which will be renewed at Belmont Park on June 5 and that may be expected to be his next objective In this valuable dash of five furlongs the son of Pennant and Transit will be facing stern opposition even though Pumpkin and In ¬ hale the two speedsters of John Hay Whit ¬ ney are not eligible Pumpkin won his race right after The Chiefs victory in onefifth slowertime while showing greenings tfle ig by Tetratema Halloween U and was bred in England by his owner Sceneshifter looms as an opponent of War Admiral in the Belmont Stakes judging by his return to winning form in a dash of seven furlongs Monday The son of Sickle and Stagecraft which Maxwell Howard Dayton sportsman purchased from Joseph E Widener during the winter at Hialeah was making his first start since he per ¬ formed in the Kentucky Derby in which he finished fifth thirteen lengths back of War Admiral Trainer Earl Sande had gone somewhat lightly with the colts training but without taking too much from Scene shifters condition to prevent him from get ¬ ting ready for the Belmont He lacked early speed in his race but advanced steadily in the final quarter to win going away by three lengths after which he went out an addi ¬ tional furlong Sande now has sufficient time to ready him for Belmonts mile and a half halfThe The Sickle colt apparently wants plenty of room for his best effort and he should have all of that in the Belmont because the field hardly will number a half dozen While Sande made no excuses for Sceneshifters Kentucky Derby showing the colt had to do his running in streaks He was pocketed on the inside for a good portion of the Fla ¬ mingo Stakes but the wejek following the Howard colt ran the mile and one furlong over the Hialeah course in 148 winning by ten lengths and under an armful of hold Otherwise he could have equaled or broken Brevitys track record of 148 or even to have endangered the worlds mark of 147 held by Indian Broom The mat ¬ ter of poundage on Sceneshifters back may make the difference with him as he had up only 110 pounds in that speedy race and 115 in his recent victory whereas his Ken tucDerbimpost was 126 pounds the same as he shall have on his back in the Belmont Suffolk Downs and Washington Park went into action Monday in a fashion that was quite satisfactory to the managements of both tracks At the East Boston course some 20000 persons took the emptiness out of the huge plant and their wagering was such as to cause Charles F Adams and his associates to believe that the percentage of increase noted at Narragansett Park also would hold forth at their course Chilly weather greeted the Washington Park open ¬ ing but the patronage was pleasing to Wal ¬ ter L Gregory and Ben Lindheimer Chi ¬ cago tracks more than any others in the country get away to slower starts but under ordinary conditions their business always shows a steady increase The Homewood course has a large complement of good horses and with decent weather should offer some of the finest sport Been in the country this season lj
