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Here and There on the Turf Delaware Stakes May Be Eaised. Sir Damion Out of Commission. Reaping Reward Awaits Santa Anita. Tiger Has Tooth Extracted. --.....a Do not be surprised to see the Kent, Sus- -sex and Newcastle Handicaps raised to 5,000 each next season. . . Theyre 0,000 specials this season, but if Delaware Park has a good meeting, which is almost certain, look for a jump in the value of these stakes. . . . The Newcastle, with such a value will " i answer the prayers of breeders and horse-L men. ... It is strictly for fillies and mares, H three-year-olds and upward. . . . Only juven-H He fillies can win anything like that amount Hat one time unless good enough to knock H off one of the Derbys . . . No jump will be Kmade in the stakes for two-year-olds which . Bare ,000 affairs now. . . . William Dupont Jr. believes in two-year-old conservation and he sticks to his theories until theyre proven otherwise. . . . Delaware Park is being op- -erated on the policy of a low mutuel take and cash gate. . . . Admission to the grandstand is .65, no more, no less, and a letter from the governor will not shake a badge " loose from Eddie Burke, general manager. . . . He always had. to pay when a member of the Mets. George Odbm is one of the best losers we know. . . . With Sir Damion and Charing Cross breaking down, the former top rider has got a right to shed tears, but hes ever . a philosophical soul. . . . Odom believes Sir Damion would have finished second in the Kentucky Derby but for being cut down going into the first turn . . . The Sir Galla- had colt, which ran a bang-up race in the Belmont Futurity last fall, had been training smartly at Belmont Park until recently when he wrenched his ankle and tendon so severely Ahat hes through for the season. . . . The Carolina horseman was confident the Marshall Field colt would have gone on where War Admiral left off. . . . Now hes concentrating in his two-year-olds with the . idea of winning a Futurity, or Hopeful, something -hes done before. ... .Never sell Odom short regardless of the misfortunes hes encountered. . . . His patrons realize -that better than any one. Fully recovered from, the blow received when Reaping Reward was injured in his victorious effort in the Latonia Derby Bob McGarvey is looking forward to winning the Santa Anita Handicap with the star of Mrs. Ethel V. Mars stable. . . . The cast has just Tjeerr removed from the weakened leg " of- the -Sickle colt and he will be turned over to time and nature until late in the autumn. . . . . McGarvey attributes the reason for the . bearing out of Tiger to a bothersome tooth, which has been extracted. . . . What a honey of a runner he would be if the Belmont chute was. to .his fancy. . . . But with Sky -Larking, Mountain Ridge and C-Note in his charge also, the western trainer knows" he has a .good, two-year-old. and just the same. . . , Not in some years has any trainer -had. such an irriposing array of juvenile fContiritted on thirty-sixth page. - - , J j l c r 1 f f s f C 1 1 i is 1 3 t F V a c t C a a n Y of It jj r q of e f n P . fj a as HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF .Continued from second page. prospects. . . . Which proves that the fair lady from Milky Way purchased wisely and well, despite her liberality. As he signs himself, "one of the regulars" expressed his appreciation for the improvements made at Aqueduct, but he asks for a new minor changes on behalf of himself and fellow regulars. . . . He calls attention to the fact that the lights in the main betting shed are too high for the cutomers to read the figures on the bookmakers slates, while the cashiers have no illumination at all. . . . Theyve never made a mistake in my favor, however. . . . The point of our correspondent well taken, however. . . . George Conway has found it necessary to put up ropes around War Admirals stall to give the three-year-old champion a chance to rest properly. . . .The title holder has had an unusually large number of visitors since arriving at Delaware Park. . . . Hes recovering steadily and most any day now the Glen Riddle trainer can be expected to have him out on the track for a gallop. Buddy Hirsch has turned his Widener Challenge Cup winner, Columbiana, out for month or so at a farm near Boston. . . . The good daughter of Petee-Wrack has nothing wrong with her that a short rest wont cure. . . . She should make trouble in the fall when fillies and mares are at their best. . . . Ten yearling sons and daughters High Quest are roaming the very green pastures of Brookmeade Farm these days. These are members of the first crop of the Sir Gallahad horse which beat his stable-mate, Cavalcade, in the renewals of the Eastern Shore and Preakness. . . . High Quests dozen sucklings at the Virginia farm the popular sportswoman outlook their elders, which makes trainer Hugh Fontaine feel very happy. ... He reports that thirty mares were bred to Cavalcade and a high percentage of them are believed in foal. . . Harry C. Hatch, the prominent Canadian sportsman, is a firm believer in the potentialities of the 1934 three-year-old champion a progenitor of winners.
