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t Her and There on the Turf . Bosemont to Accept Brooklyn Weight. Aneroid Jumped Up Nine Pounds, Seabiscuit Is Likely Starter. Relief Society Pleases Horsemen. .-----.----..------.--4 Adding further interest to the Brooklyn is the strong probability that Seabiscuit will be a starter. The durable son of Hard Tack, which developed into quite a handicap star after Mrs. Charles S. Howard purchased him from the Wheatley Stable for ,500, is back on his former home grounds, where the other morning he went a flashy five furlongs suggesting that he is in good condition. He has been placed third in the Brooklyn weights with 122 pounds, two less than was assigned Roman Soldier, which has been retired to the stud. Seabiscuits weight is eight pounds more than he had on his back when he ran Bosemont to a head in the Santa Anita Handicap, in which the latter carried 124 pounds. However, in that race. Bosemont came from well back to overtake the Howard colt which had been on top of the pace from the start so the Brooklyn distance of a mile and a furlong may be more to his fancy. Accept possibly for one or two starters from among the three-year-olds, the other Brooklyn starters will come from among the lower weights as Top Bow hardly will be in top form and Snark has been put away until Saratoga. The disappointing Memory Book likely will accept under 114 and High Fleet, George D. Wideners steady-going four-year-old filly, is a probable starter with 110 pounds up. She should go well, too. White Cockade seems, about the surest one oftne other older Brooklyn canr didates likely to go postward. Top man among the three-year-old eligibles in Campbells weights is Sceneshifter, with 106 pounds or eight tinder scale, but if he should win the Dwyer today, as is expected, he would be compelled to take up a penalty of three pounds. Dawn Play, under 102 pounds, also is a possibility, depending on how she fares in her engagement in the American Derby today. Rosemonts performance in the Suburban Handicap may have been disappointing, but it has not prevented John B. Campbell from again placing him on top in the imposts for the Brooklyn Handicap, which, with 0,00Q added, will be a notable feature of next Saturdays racing. In the Suburban, the five-year-old son of The Porter and Garden Rose was called upon to shoulder 128 pounds, a pound above the scale, and he failed to make a challenge, but his effort was charged off because, he was making his first start in several months, and he ever has been a horse requiring a race to reach his best form. For the, Brooklyn, which at a mile and; onereighth is a furlong shor.ter than the fcoiitihyed on thirty-seyenth "page. j L i , t t t HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. Suburban, Campbell allotted Rosemont scale weight of 127 pounds, and the Santa Anita Handicap and Narragansett Special winner is expected to accept. Although he came out of the Suburban slightly lame, the star of William Du Fonts stable has trained steadily since. Campbell has shifted the Brooklyn weights of some of the Suburban starters considerably, the most affected being Aneroid as was to be expected. Under 110 pounds this four-year-old son of The Porter and Outburst took the lead at flagfall in the Suburban and. was never out of a pull as he led all the way and completed the mile and a quarter in 2:01, which only has been exceeded once in this country. Consequently, Campbell has found it incumbent to elevate the Brooklyn poundage of John A. Manfusos colt to 119 pounds. Under Dion Kerrs management, Aneroid has trained right along since the Suburban, and he, too, is expected to be among those present in the running of Aqueducts most important stake. Campbell had, suspicions of Aneroids potentialities off his race in the Dixie Handicap, but The Porter colt jumped up in the Suburban better than anyone expected. Owners and trainers at Detroit are well pleased with the operation of the Horsemens Relief Society In Michigan, which obtains its funds from the several days of charity racing held at the Motor City course and from license fees received by the racing commission. Whenever any stable employe suffers injury or contracts illness while following his work at the Detroit track, his case is taken in charge by he Horsemens Relief Society when reported to it by any horseman. In case of emergency requiring hospitalization, when there is not time for the society to make an investigation, only the Detroit track superintendent has to be notified, as he has the authority to make the necessary hospital arrangements. Lead- ers in the Horsemens Relief Society are Mrs. Fred T. Murphy, Charles T. Fisher, Louis J. Lepper, Edward J. Fry and Clarence E. Lehr and they are commended in their efforts to improve a condition which long has been unsatisfactory at other racing centers,
