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t . . , , Hera and There on the Turf Conway Is Taking Ho Chances. Three-Year -Olds Now Even ; lot. . ; ; Brooklyn to Have More Time. ! Off -Day Is Aid to latonia. j George Conway, and horseman of the old; school bow in the public eye s the developer and trainer of War Admiral, is quoted as saying that if the Glen "Riddle colt "gets to the races again this year I -will be pleasantly Bwprieed." Judging from the veteran horsemans remarks, the brilliant son of Han o! War and Brushup, by Sweep, has but very! little chase e of returning to training until perhaps too late in the season to be pointed , for n important event. The writer, for one, i does not take Conway too seriously in this i regard, although realizing that the Riddle ; conditioner is just about the most patient i and careful member of his profession. Con-, way simply is not looking ahead to any certain objective. The treatment and handling i of War Admiral with him will be a day-by-day proposition until such time as the in-; jured foot has healed sufficiently to permit a! return to hard training. When Conway reaches the conclusion the j three-year-old champion is ready for work, again he will be in a. position to map out a definite training program. Not until that time can any definite announcement be expected, and the trainer can only hazard a J guess, which he wont, when that will be. All Conway says is that hell be pleasantly surprised. Upon Erst examination, War Admirals "wound appeared only little more than skin deep, but further developments showed that the end of the muscle was severed. Until this has grown out Conway is following the proper procedure in withholding the Man o War colt from trainnig. Not only would work tend to aggravate the injury, but thatj foot would be favored, thus putting undue pressure on the tendon of the other leg. With War Admiral definitely out, Reaping Reward gone for the season and Pompoon biding his time for a month, the three-year-J old division has been hard hit, thus resulting i in the prospect of wideropen contests in the renewals of .the American Derby and Dwyer Stakes tomorrow. Consequently, the impor-j tant money for horses of this age is being spread abound more freely. The outstanding performers in these two events likely will be j brought together again in the Classic more! than a month away, along with Pompoon,! which Cyrus. Field. Clarke hopes to have! ready again by that time. That a filly may ! win the American Derby is a distinct probability, what with Dawn Play and Mars Shield in the field, while Sceneshifter appears the strongest of the Dwyer candidates. For some unexplainable reason, Flying Scot was not named for the Aqueduct feature, despite the fact that the mile and a furlong distance seems better suited to him than the. greater routes over which he has been racing of late. j Continued, on eighteenth page., t HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. Satisfied that Brooklyn has not come back to the form he displayed last fall, H. J. Thompson has let up on the son of Blue Larkspur and Knockaney Bridge. Consequently the colt will not be a Dwyer contestant tomorrow and he will mark time until the Saratoga meeting in August, when his principal objective will be the Travers. The E. R. Bradley three-year-old failed to stand up under the stern conditioning necessary for him to make ready for the Kentucky Derby and he was given a more patient preparation for the Belmont Stakes, in which he managed to land fourth honors. He came back in the Shevlin Stakes, but failed to display any lick and his connections thought it advisable to give him further time. Brooklyn may be described as an "autumn" horse, as he was last year, when he did not come into his own until October, running his best race in the Pimlico Futurity and Wal-den Handicap, the latter of which he won. Latonia went into a five-day week schedule on Tuesday with a slight but noticeable increase in patronage, thus leading Matt Winn and his associates to believe the meeting has a fair chance to break even. The session will not be concluded until Saturday, July 10, and three more off days will be observed, the next two Mondays and the Tuesday following the celebration of Independence Day. The almost certain losses of these off days will be side-stepped, thus giving the Milldale course the opportunity of making up for the." previous use of red ink during the remaining time. Colonel Winn is hopeful for excellent weather for the final two Saturdays and Independence Day, as they should go a long way in balancing the Latonia budget. Latonia could use a vacation of several years, but will not take one as long as Coney Island intends to operate.
