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t t Here and There on the Turf Narragansett Picks Good Staff Is Bidding for Public Support Chase Expert to Aid Pimlico Milky Way Team Rates Highly - - i Narragansett Park need go no further under its reorganization than the appointment of Sam Nuckols, Robert Shelley and George "Buddy" Wingfield as racing officials, to insure for the public a capable administration of racing even, though the men that were succeeded all possessed excellent reputations. The Rhode Island course is under a new management now, and working with a state government desiring certain changes, it is returning some old faces and gaining some new ones. Nuckols and Wing-field have been at Narragansett before, also Mort Mahony, the director of pari-mutuels. They and the new secretary, Shelley, will be filling positions of capable men, but a change has been ordained and a change has been made. James A. Dooley, acting president, and his associates have selected good men for Narragansetts staff of officials and under them the sport should be well conducted. So far, in its reorganization, Narragansett has done everything right to gain the respect and confidence of the public. Its staff of officials certainly will be as good as the best In the country. It should have the desired effect of attracting good stables to the Rhode Island course for its two meetings in late summer and autumn. Already the Narragansett program of stakes has been announced and the public reaction to it has been most favorable. The new management at the Pawtucket course may be inexperienced in racing matters, but it is smart enough to hire the best officials available, which is assurance enough that confidence can be placed in the racing to be staged there. That the public will realize that every effort is being made to stage the best racing possible at Narragansett is a foregone conclusion, because results always speak for themselves. Pimlico will have no steeplechasing this spring for the first time in many years, but the Maryland Jockey Club promises to con- Continued on twentyithirl paf.J 4 , k I HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. tinue as one association giving the crosscountry sport its just due. The Pimlico plant is being renovated and one of the items of improvement is the removal of the hill from the center field, so that the races may be more readily witnessed by the public. In the grading of the infield, the steeplechase course temporarily has been broken up, so no events through the field can be offered during the forthcoming meeting. However, the autumn session will include many events for the jumpers because, by that time, the course should be in acceptable order. That the best in steeplechasing is the aim of the new, energetic management is indicated by the promise of William du Pont to supervise the reconstruction of the jumping course. Steeplechasing is a hobby with the Delaware sportsman, and his experience with the sport and counsel in the building of the courses at Saratoga, Delaware Park and elsewhere, should prove most valuable in Pimlicos program of improvements. Final and most important feature of the Keeneland meeting is the Blue Grass Stakes, an important qualifying event for the Kentucky Derby when offered at the old Kentucky Association course. The Blue Grass Stakes has been made into a future closing event, and such a condition has had a strong effect in limiting the number of nominations to thirteen, but the mile and a furlong race should prove very interesting just the same, if all those which have been nominated are able to get to the post. They in-clue Menow, last years juvenile champion, as well as such promising colts as Bull Lea, The Chief, Redbreast and others. Probably only half of the original nominees will get to the post, but they may make, the race well worth seeing while providing one of the most important candidates for the Churchill Downs classic. The Keeneland Association should not become discouraged over the small entry list to the Blue Grass Stakes because, after all, the establishment is building for the future and cant gain the desired results all at once. Milky Way Farm, the racing nom de course of Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, seems to possess a strangle hold on Saturdays running of the ,000 added Arkansas Derby, final-day feature, but it is doubtful if its best candidate will perform smartly enough to earn high ranking in the Kentucky Derby. The best three-year-old prospectus may not be even a member of the Milky Ways hand for the Arkansas Derby, but with Tiger and Mountain Ridge, the stable possesses a pair of colts which have speed enough perhaps to take the track away from their opponents to lead all the way over the mile and one furlong course. Tiger failed to show his best form in the Santa Anita Derby, due to ; insufficient training, which was attributed to the frequent off condition of the track, but he has had plenty of time lately to prepare for the Arkansas Derby. Mountain Ridge didnt race during the winter, but he likewise has trained steadily enough to be able to give his best in Saturdays race.
