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t Here and There on the Turf Bourbon King Wins Impressively. May Be Choice for Futurity. Whopper Seeks Frontier Handicap. . Rockingham Popularity Continues. Regardless of which of the several flashy members of the Milky Way Farms two-year-old brigade Robert McGarvey intends to start in the first running of the Washington Park Futurity, headlining the closing program at the Homewood course on Saturday, the post of favoritism may go to Bourbon King. This good-sized, well-made son of Whichone and Ancient Queen, which gave a Belmont Park crowd some inkling of his ability when he ran a close second to The Chief a couple of weeks back, stepped away from seven other youngsters in his first outing at Washington Park on Tuesday, covering the five and one-half furlongs over a slow track in the very creditable time of 1:07. Although being eased up through the final sixteenth, the half-brother to Pelerine, finished five lengths in front of Hermana, which held Well Rewarded to a head in the Princess Pat Stakes in her last start while cleverly defeating Inhale. The latter came back to triumph in the Astoria Stakes over the best juvenile fillies so far shown on the metropolitan circuit this season. Bourbon Kings effort against The Chief marked his first appearance in competition. The second was in the National Stallion Stakes, also captured by C. V. Whitneys young star, but Hal Price Headleys color-bearer was caught in a. jam at the start and Harry Richards almost toppled off. Consequently, he failed to gain much prominence in the running of that important contest, but if he should account for the Washington Park feature his owner-breeder will have no regrets as Saturdays event will have 5,000 in added money, which with ten starters will make the net value to the winner the significant sum of 0,285. McGarvey is expected to start Tiger and Mountain Ridge, both recent winners at Washington Park in impressive style, while Bourbon King probably will have Menow as a running mate. Another important entry will be that of Calumet Farm, which has Teddy Weed, Bull Lea and Pharacase from which to choose. Other possibilities are Detroit Bull, Garry, Gipsy Minstrel, Diavolo Boy, Joe Schenck arid Perpetuate, winner of the Juvenile arid Tremont Stakes in New York. The Headley silks have been very much in the limelight during the past few days, what with Whopper scoring an impressive triumph in the Wolverine Handicap at Detroit under the steadying impost of 130 pounds. He consequently will be the leading candidate for the Frontier Handicap, 0,000 added feature of Detroits program this week-end. After "Continued1 on thirty-ninth page. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. that engagement the five-year-old son of Pharamond IL and Romance, by Luke Mc-Luke, will move to Arlington Park where his engagements are the Stars and Stripes and Arlington Handicaps. Confronting him in these important affairs will he Count Morse, whose last four starts have brought him victories in the Ben Ali, Clark, the Blue and Gray and Great Western Handicaps, unless the Calumet star decides to go after the Frontier. Their meeting in the Stars and Stripes over the mile and a furlong distance will make that race one of the outstanding attractions in the country on Independence Day. Then will come the clash with the leading easterners for the handicap championship of the summer. Rain did its best to mar the opening of Rockingham Park Monday but the course which pioneered the return of racing to New England was well filled with patrons, thus attesting to the continued popularity of the track looked after by Lou Smith. Rockingham will operate for eighteen days at the present meeting and then in the fall will occupy the time between the summer and autumn terms at Narragansett Park. Independence Day has the feature position on the Rockingham program and given good weather the Salem plant should be called upon to handle a crowd bigger than ever before. It hasnt the facilities of Suffolk Downs or Narragansett but Rockingham can take care of a fine turn-out just the same. Outstanding event on the program is the Rockingham Park Handicap, which will be staged on July 10 when the meeting ends. This affair with 0,000 in added money should attract the best older horses in New England and perhaps several from New York. Aqueduct will clean up its stakes Saturday with another triple offering although the meeting will not end until next Wednesday. Of outstanding importance naturally is the Brooklyn Handicap, .which has 0,000 in added money for the first time, but each in its own right the Gazelle and Great American Stakes deserves a featured position. The Gazelle is for three-year-old fillies, while the Great American marks the first time this season in New York that two-year-olds will be asked to race six furlongs. Their campaigning at the Aqueduct meeting has been restricted to contests over the five furlongs course and these have proven much more satisfactory than in the past because the track was straightened out to the extent of twenty-five feet. Last Saturday was best in Aqueducts, history from a financial standpoint, but if any more room is available this week-end it will be needed because the Brooklyn, shapes up as one of the most sparkling races of the entire season.
