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Here and There on the Turf Dawn Play May Be Ready for Colts ColtsWon Won Oaks in Convincing Fashion FashionBusy Busy Calendar Confronts Her HerOpen Open King Should Aid Fair Grounds After her decisive victory in the Coaching Club American Oaks in which she ran the mile and three furlongs in 218 under the top impost of 121 pounds Dawn Play must be considered the outstanding candidate for threeyearold filly honors regardless of what the West has to offer The large well formed daughter of Clock Tower and Gun Play by Man o War not only gave her five rivals a severe trouncing but she per ¬ formed generally in a manner to suggest that she is ready to take on the colts but whether that will be done is something for Robert J Kleeberg owner of the King Ranch miss and trainer Max Hirsch to decide She will have numerous opportunities in the near future to continue racing against her own sex as such events as the Latonia Oaks Gazelle and Arlington Matron Stakes with 5000 added and the New Castle Handicap with 10000 added are among the filly races to be staged during the next two months Tracks are catering to this division this sea ¬ son more than they have for quite a few years yearsDawn Dawn Play also has been nominated for forEaces like the Latonia and American Der Eaces ys Dwyer Stakes and Arlington Classic which also are on the calendar for June and July While she would be called upon to engage the coifs with the competition more severe the King Ranch filly would be f hooting for bigger prizes in these events Continued OH thirtyfourth page J HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF TURFContinued Continued from second page Kleeberg and Hirsch have a problem out of which may come a solution within a few days and they may gain some help from the chronological order of her engagements which are as follows June 12 Latonia Derby June 19 American Derby June 26 Gazelle Stakes July 3 Arlington Matron July 10 Latonia Oaks and July 24 New Castle Stakes and Arlington Classic ClassicIf If she attempts an ambitious schedule Dawn Play will be compelled to do consid ¬ erable traveling but she is at once equipped with a robustness appealing to the most fastidious of horsemen horsemenBecause Because of a shift of fourteen pounds against her over their meeting in the Acorn Stakes in which Dawn Play defeated Draw ¬ bridge by a quarter of a length after the latter had met with interference the King Ranch filly was a lightlyplayed second choice to the Wheatley Stable colorbearer Only those who had confidence in Dawn Play being the better stayer profited by her triumph but when she got through with Drawbridge and her four other opponents there was no question as to her superiority to go the route Under a snug hold from Lester Balaski the daughter of Clock Tower moved along in third place during the first four furlongs Drawbridge went to the i front under what was almost a choking pull midway of the backstretch as Royal Rai ¬ ment was unable to keep up and Dawn Play was close behind her still under steady wraps Dawn Play went to Drawbridge gradually around the turn to be well lapped with the latter as they reached the stretch The Wheatley miss then was given her head but Dawn Play went right on by her to win in easy fashion fashionDawn Dawn Plays time of 218 for the mile and three furlongs was the fastest for the event in its last seven runnings and during that period the race has been won by such as Top Flight and Black Helen Under pres ¬ sure the King Ranch filly could have bet ¬ tered the time appreciably The best mark for the race since its present distance was adopted in 1919 was by Flambette in 1921 with 217 and she carried 11212 pounds so with everything considered her perform ¬ ance was one of the most pleasing ever dem ¬ onstrated in the history of the Coaching Club American Oaks It at least proved Dawn Play to be a natural stayer as was suggested in her Acorn victory in which she came from behind and in her best efforts as a twoyearold when she closed ground to take second honors in the Matron and Sel ima Stakes Dawn Play also made up ground in smart fashion in the closing stages of the Futurity last fall t tThe The information that open bookmaking will be the mode of wagering at Fair Grounds in New Orleans next winter is not a mere rumor but is based on the desire of Seymour Weiss Mayor Robert S Maestri and other prominent citizens of the Louisi ¬ ana metropolis to return racing there to the high plane it enjoyed some years ago Maes ¬ tri already is a stockholder and the writer has it on good authority that Weiss and others are preparing to take over a substan ¬ tial interest in the property which Joseph Cattarinich and associates obtained from E R Bradley several years ago We have sounded out leading bookmakers on the New York tracks about open bookmaking at Fair Grounds and have found quite a few of them willing to put up their slates if this is the case Undoubtedly this form of wager ¬ ing will attract to New Orleans many racing fans who otherwise spend their winters in Florida or California Except for horsemen New Orleans racing hasnt drawn many vis ¬ itors these past few years
