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t . Here and There on the Turf Brooklyn Tops Fine Stakes Array. Good Colts Attracted by Futurity. Delaware Park Opening Notable. Arlington Bids for Finest Sport. What with Delaware Parks opening and the running of the 10,000 Kent Handicap, the first staging of the Washington Park Futurity, valued at around 0,000, Aqueducts triple stakes program, headed by the 0,000 added Brooklyn Handicap, and Detroits 0,000 Frontier Handicap, this is a very important day on the racing calendar. Not enough can be written about the doings at each of these courses, while the tracks elsewhere are doing what they can about luring the best horses into competition. From a racing standpoint, Aqueducts program takes principal honors because the best field of the day will go to the post in the Brooklyn, including those two fine sons of The Porter, Rosemont and Aneroid. In support will be the Gazelle Stakes for three-year-old fillies and the Great American Stakes for juveniles. Aqueduct will finish its stakes program with these events although the meeting is not due to end until next Wednesday. Some of the finest two-year-olds so far developed this season are due to clash in the Washington Park Futurity, which will feature the closing program of the Home-wood track, the principal candidates being the Milky Way Farms team of Tiger and Mountain Ridge and Hal Price Headleys Bourbon King. Cleveland Putnam seems to be taking a long chance with Robber Bold, shipped to the Chicago course from New York, but the Gallant Fox colt is said to be improving and will find the six furlongs distance more to his fancy. Other likely starters in the Futurity havent impressed quite as much as Tiger, Mountain Ridge and Bourbon King, but they all are highly regarded by their connections or they would not be in the overnight field. The starting fee of the race is ,000, which is sufficient to keep out those eligibles which lack the confidence of their trainers. The loud noise of the Frontier Handicap, the outstanding attraction of the current Detroit meeting, is Whopper, fresh from a victory over the mile and one-sixteenth distance under an impost of 130 pounds. His weight in the Frontier is the same but the distance is a mile and a furlong, which is just about his limit in topnotch company. The Headley giant had to negotiate mud in his race last Saturday and he is not particularly regarded as a mudder, so should the track be fast today his partisans may be satisfied that he will go well enough. Delaware Parks headliner, the Kent, promises to bring about a meeting between.. Strabo,. wirtr Continued on forty-first page. jf HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF .Continued from second page. ner of the Dwyer, and Flying Scot, which earlier in the season won the Withers and was third in the Latonia Derby in his last start. He was not named for the Dwyer. They may have their work cut out for them in the Kent as it is a handicap and they will be called upon to give considerable weight to their opponents. Racing in the Chicago sector transfers to Arlington Park after the running of todays program at Washington Park and the north side track operated -by John Hertz, Charles McCulloch, Otto Lehmann, Warren Wright and their associates can be expected to show an increase in patronage over that noted at the Homewood course, but the meeting will have to do better than that of last season if it is to be financially successful. In the hope of attracting the very best horses to Arlington, its directors decided on raising the minimum purse value to ,100, the highest in the country for quite a few years, while doubling the amount added to the Arlington Handicap and reviving the Arlington Matron Stakes for fillies and mares. This program is luring to the north side course practically every one of the important stables in the midwest and they will come from Washington Park, Detroit and Latonia. Arlingtons stakes are liberally filled with nominations from outstanding eastern-owned stables and they can be counted upon to draw starters from across the Alleghenies. Not so many years ago these prominent establishments were happy to obtain stabling accommodations at the big Chicago course, but the vast improvement in conduct of the sport in New York and . the expansion in New England and Delaware are causing Arlington to depend more and more on good western horses for its best racing. Fortunately, quite a few powerful stables have been developed in the midwest in the meantime and Arlington Park once again is in the position of. being able to provide a brand of racing that cannot be excelled by any of its contemporaries. Chicagoaris should realize that if the Arlington meeting fails to prove successful, they may have to wait a long time before another such ambitious program is offered.
