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Hera and There on the Turf Seabiscuit Climaxes Brilliant Rise. Turned Tables on Santa Anita Victor. Mrs. Mars Investment Sound. Delaware Park Had Brilliant Opening. --- -Seabiscuit, sold to Mrs. Charles Howard, wife of Californias leading automobile man, for something like ,500, came back to his former home grounds at Aqueduct to capture one of the most thrilling Brooklyn Handicaps ever run. A vastly improved horse since he went into new hands early last fall, the four-year-old son of Hard Tack and Swing On, by Wisk Broom II., won the forty-ninth Brooklyn by only a few inches over Aneroid, a colt of similar age which has improved just as sensationally. Both horses carried 122 pounds and easily defeated the seven others in the mile and a furlong contest including Rosemont, which defeated Seabiscuit by a head in the last Santa Anita Handicap when giving him twice as much weight as he did in the Brooklyn. Bosemont has not come back to the sharpness of his Santa Anita form. The Brooklyn, with its first money of 8,025, not only was the richest triumph ever attained by Seabiscuit but also the most important because of the events great tradition. It placed him third on the list of the seasons money winners with an even 4,000. Seabiscuits second to Rosemont in the Santa Anita was his best previous performance of the year, but his four previous victories included the San Juan Cap-istrano, Marchbank and Bay Meadows Handicaps, each 0,000 added affairs. His nine triumphs as a three-year-old took in a half dozen stakes, only two of which were scored at a single track. Seabiscuit has worn well, having been bought as a winter-developed two-year-old and kept busy by James Fitzsimmons, until sold to Mrs. Howard. Under the handling of Thomas Smith, his campaigning has been done only in stakes with the fine success that now is so apparent. Records of the Milky Way Farm horses continue to prove that Mrs. Ethel V. Mars purchased wisely and well at Saratoga, even though the present group of two-year-olds in her establishment cost her 32,600. Tiger, the brown son of Bulldog and Starless Moment, by North Star IH., which went to the Chicago sportswoman on a final bid of ,500, very likely could not be purchased today for half as much as the entire sum she gave for the sixteen yearlings she got last August. The other fifteen include Sky Larking, winner of the Bashford Manor Stakes, and Well Rewarded, triumphant in the Princess Fat Stakes. Sky Larking is considered just as good a prospect as Tiger, not to mention Mountain Ridge, C-Note and several other promising colts yet to make their debuts. The Milky Way hand for the Arlington Fu- turity, Hopeful, Belmont Futurity and other rich stakes for juveniles yet to be decided 1m colossal, to borrow a Hollywood phrase. - Apparently cured of his run-out habit, Continued on thirty-ninth page. 7 I i I 3 1 r 2 3 1 r i. i- r d t 1 i i I I HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued, from: second, paej very noticeable in his first two starts and resulting- in. his only defeat in the latter, Tiger dominated the Washington Park Fu-l turity contest every inch of the six furlongs. His trouble was diagnosed as a bad. tooth, which was extracted. Stepping" the opening quarter in :22",. the second: around the turn in. :23, the son of Bull Dog- had his opposition so weary for the stretch run that he was never menaced, as he covered, the final two furlongs in :25. Although, not the fastest six furlongs every turned in by two-year-olds, it stands a record before July as far as the writer can learn. Washington Parks record for the distance is only three-fifths of a second faster. Tiger beat a good field, because Menow and T-Jourbon King, comprising the Hal Price Headley entry, are held in. very highest esteem the latter, which finished close up to The Chief in his, first, encountering some trouble but had enough to stand off the four lengths, separating him from the Milky Way flash. A. brilliant opening was; enjoyed at Delaware Park where a. crowd of approximately 18,000- persons thoroughly taxed the grandstand and clubhouse facilities, although, at least several thousand more could be handled on the terraces. Such, a gathering oa opening of the twenty-five day meeting, which is certain to prove a Huge success, was probably great enough, to encourage the Delaware Park builders ta expand almost immediately. A. fine race was staged In the featured Kent Handicap, what with Strabo and Plying. Scot the twa high weights, coming to the line-so closely aligned that the photograph was necessary for the decision. Both colts lost considerable ground in. the race, but Flying- Scot was forced wide and he had to cover more distance than any of the others. With other principal members of the three-year-old division on the inactive list, both must be considered outstanding candidates for the remaining big races for horses of their ,age. The longer events probably will be to Strabos fancy.
