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Here and There on the Turf Perpetuate Showed Class in Debut DebutBad Bad Habit Causes Tigers De ¬ feat featThree Three Tracks Have Good Openings OpeningsMelodist Melodist Loses Caste as Bel mont Hope Perpetuates absence from among the eli gibles to the National Stallion Stakes may be heartening to those who have candidates for Saturdays valuable twoyearold affair at Belmont Park because the son of In ¬ finite and Citrus she a halfsister to Dis ¬ play came hhrough with a courageous per ¬ formance to win the Juvenile Stakes The Robert L Gerry youngster which had fin ¬ ished second to Pumpkin in his only other tart was on top of the pace all the way and then withstood a determined bid from Catavsis through the final furlong Wood Songs failure to hold his speed was the natural disappointment of the juvenile run tiing as the brother to Singing Wood had graduated in very impressive fashion at the first asking However he dropped back after the first quarter mile and was a soundly beaten youngster at the end He should not fee condemned on his one poor effort and unless something happened to him trainer William Brennan may be expected to give toe Greentree colt a chance in the National Stallion StallionConsiderable Considerable support was given Perpetu ¬ ate and he closed a second choice as the oddi against Wood Song lengthened George Qjdom trainer of the Infinite colt feared omly the Greentree colorbearer but the large James Healy was quite confident Perpetu lfjontinued on thirtyninth page HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page ate would be the horse to beat taking a line from the manner in which he raced against Pumpkin The latter Healy avers is one of the best twoyearolds hes ever had anything to do with yet Pumpkin could only beat Perpetuate by half a length Catalysis was giving the Gerry youngster five pounds and this might have been the margin of victory The daughter of Stimulus which already has the Hialeah Nursery and Fash Ion Stakes to her credit will be accorded some sort of support in the National Stal ¬ lion by virtue of her creditable performance in the Juvenile JuvenileWood Wood Sons defeat in the Juvenile prob ¬ ably was not as shocking as that of Tiger in the Prairie State Stakes at Washington Park The Bull Dog colt had been made a 8 to 5 choice by virtue of the impressive manner in which he won his first start at CJhurchill Downs In that effort the Milky Way Farm youngster went to the outside as he came into the stretch with a long lead and upon being tapped over the nose by Alfred Robertson he went to the inside yet winning with much to spare In the Prairie State Tiger was breezing in front of his company when he went into the turn but again he went to the outside fence losing so much ground that he was unable to threat ¬ en thereafter Trainer Robert McGarvey now is faced with the task of curing Tiger of his runout habit or finding out and cor ¬ recting the reason for it When this is done it is expected that Tiger will prove himself one of the better twoyearolds of the season Good openings were enjoyed by Latonia Detroit and Agawam which inaugurated their early summer meetings on Saturday Agawam played to the largest crowd at attesting testing once more to the fine popularity of the sport in New England but the patron ¬ age at the two midWestern tracks was such as to hearten the respective manage ¬ ments Heelfly most of whose previous ef ¬ forts this season have been attempts to win Derbys was victorious in the Inaugural Handicap at Latonia Unable to get up with withthe the early leaders after being away poorly from his position outside the stall gate the Texasbred colt advanced with a rush mov movIng Ing Into the stretch and drew out into an easy lead to flatter the judgment of the Latonia spectators who had made him the favorite Although he had excuses for not finishing closer up in the Broomstick Handicap at Belmont Park Saturday Melodist did not perform like a firstclass Belmont Stakes candidate Caught in close quarters several times around the turn the Wheatley Sta ¬ ble colt failed to respond when clear and was beaten ten lengths in the mile and one furlong event Perhaps he became discour ¬ aged when Johnny Longden was unable to drive him through on the inside of Siam Mosawtre and Little Sleeper as the field came around the curve and could have per ¬ formed in much more pleasing fashion with clear running Mosawtre which was get ¬ ting three pounds from Melodist while shouldering an impost of 123 pounds was giving much weight to Little Sleeper and Siam but he Tjested this pair with a strong effort through the stretch The brother to Sortie has settled down into a steady per ¬ former and he can be expected to be among War Admirals opponents in the Belinont
