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f Hr and There on the Turf, ; War Admiral Sated Six Over Scale. Flying Scot May Be Kent Top Weight. Breeders Will Honor Kiddie. Rifted Clouds Returns to Win- xing Form. ------...-----..-- .i In the first handicap as a three-year-old to which he was made eligible. War Admiral was assigned 132 pounds or six pounds over the scale. This allotment was in the Kent Handicap, which will grace the feature position of the inaugural program at Delaware Park on Saturday, an event for which the mfghty son of Man o War and Brush Up was intended until he was severely injured at the start of the Belmont Stakes. John P. Turner is responsible for the Kent weights as he is the racing secretary and handicap-lerfor the newest of American race courses. His actual experience with War Admiral this season was at Havre de Grace and Fim-lico where he likewise serves in an official capacity. Turner was present for the running of the Preakness in which he saw the Glen Riddle Farm star defeat Flying Scot by eight lengths with each colt shouldering 126 pounds. John Hay Whitneys colorbearer is second on the Kent weights with 122 pounds, or ten under that which the Ad-Bairal would have been called upon to carry for the mile and one-sixteenth affair having: 0,000 in added money: A. western colt, the Valdina Farms Eagle Pass which was a- fast-finishing second to Reaping Reward in the Latonia Derby in which he was in receipt of three pounds from Flying Scot, -is next on the Kent weights with 121 pounds. He barely beat out Flying Scot for the place in the Kentucky special. Next with 120 pounds is Melodist, which has disappointed in all his starts since his Wood Memorial victory, and under him at 118 each, are the improved Strabo and Sir Damion, which is training steadily again since he was injured in the Kentucky Derby. Strabo, as you may recall, got up in the last stride or two to nose out Rudie in the Dwyer as Sceneshifter finished at their heels. Neither of the latter was named for the Kent. Of the top weights Flying- Scot and Strabo have the best chance to start, while other probabilities include Pasha 111, Riparian 110, Moonton 110, Night Bud 108, Jackie D. 107, Rex Flag 107 and Rosenna 106 pounds. Samuel D. Riddle has been chosen by the Thoroughbred Club to be its honored guest at the annual dinner to be held during the autumn meeting at Keeneland and he will gain the distinction enjoyed by William Woodward, Joseph E. Widener, E. R. Bradley, Johnson N. Camden, and the late Desha Breckinridge at previous banquets of this group of breeders and horsemen having headquarters In Lexington. The Philadelphia Continued on thirty-seventh page J , HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second, page. sportsman is in the public eye this season as the owner of War Admiral, but he has been a prominent figure in racing ever since 1919 when Man o War swept through the two-year-old division, coming back the following season to earn the sobriquet of "horse of the century." Riddle purchased Man o War as a yearling for ,000 and this sum has been his stud fee ever since he was retired, to Faraway Farm in 1921, although few outside seasons were permitted as the stallions book always has been limited. Much care was taken by Riddle in the selection of mates for Man o War and he deserves the distinction of breeding most of the outstanding horses sired by the great son of Man o War including American Flag, Crusader and now War Admiral. Many competent observers who were privileged to see Man o War and all of his best sons and daughters in competition declare this seasons, three-year-old champion to be tops among hem all. War Admiral combines two of Americas most famous lines, those of Fair Play and Ben Brush, as well as a cross of Swynford, which blood Riddle for some time has felt would prove most suitable to Man o War. Riddle therefore is being honored by the Thoroughbred Club for his contribution to American breeding. These annual dinners have taken a prominent place in the racing traditions of this country and leaders of the sport come from afar to attend. Rifted Clouds, which by her victory in the Washington Park Juvenile Stakes last year in which she defeated several good, colts including Bottle Cap, caused John B. Campbell to rate her the best of the fillies in the Experimental Handicap, scored her first victory of the season the other day at the Homewood course. Unplaced in two starts at Houston during the winter, the j daughter of Insco and Green Leaf in the Woolford Farm stable of Herbert M. Woolf was given further time by trainer Ben Jones or until her recent Washington Park effort. With a feather of 93 pounds, on her back. Rifted Clouds led all the way to run. the six furlongs in 1:11, exceptionally good timpy considering that the track had just reachS fast condition . after having been slow the previous day. Her triumph was cleverly attained over such capable older sprinters as Crossbow TX, Preeminent and Higher Cloud and it placed her in position, from which, Jones can point her for a race like the Arlington Matron. She was not nominated for the Classic, which is expected to draw Dawn Play, present queen of the three-year-old division.
