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Here and There on the Turf Belmont Not Definite Arlington May Yet Get Race j Kearns Learns Backwoods Life j Menows Leg Shows Improvement HEARD AND OBSERVED: It develops that definite announcement of the match race between War Admiral and Seabiscuit at Belmont Park in the fall was premature . . . Arlington Park still has a chance to get the big prize . . . The venture is reported to have struck a snag at Belmont Park, the New York track . . . Owner Samuel D. Riddle accepted conditions for War Admiral to race at Belmont Park . . - Owner Charles S. Howard agreed to pit Seabiscuit against the son of Man o War there . . . Joseph E. Widener, president of the Westchester Racing Association, with the benign assistance of the New York State Racing Commission, would promote the match . . . With everything apparently all set, an obstacle was encountered . . . The Belmont Park board of directors has yet to approve the venture and now it appears the members of that board are not unanimously in favor of it . . . Enough of them may out-vote Widener and kill the match for New York . . . Some of the directors are reported to be opposed to match races for extravagant purses. There was no trouble inducing the two owners to agree to terms . . . Purse, weight and distance are satisfactory to both ... It is natural that Riddle should prefer Belmont Park to Arlington Park as the scene of the match . . . Racing in New York in the fall is not as severe on a horse as racing at Arlington Park in the heat of July . . . Belmont Park is War Admirals headquarters and will be for most of the summer . . . The mighty little son of Man o War will not leave there, except perhaps for excursions to Saratoga Springs, Suffolk Downs and Delaware Park, all short "ships" . . . Seabiscuit will remain in the Far West until after the 0,000 Hollywood Gold Cup at In-glewood on July 16 . . . Then he wiil have to cross the Rocky Mountains anyway . . . Meanwhile, the match race, so far as Belmont Park is concerned, appears to be on the laps of the gods, or, rather, the laps of the Belmont Park directors. Cumberland Park at Nashville was the winter training headquarters for several stables . . . Smith Baker will ship fifteen horses from there for River Downs . . . George White will transfer twenty-one head in George Clarks Rosedale Stable to Suffolk, and Campbell Hobson a trio of two-I year-olds ... Frank Kearns is now being called the Brooklyn Hill-Billy ... Calumets 260-pound trainer thoroughly enjoyed his experiences in several visits into the wilds of the Blue Grass State . . . Eddie Arcaro will report to William Brennan after a brief visit to his Dayton, Ky., home . . . Brennan has the main division of the Greentree Stable in New York, as John Gaver has the western band divided between Keeneland and Churchill Downs . . . Porter Roberts already has reported to the latter at Lexington. Menows injured leg has cleared up much better than owner Hal Price Headley expected when he shipped the Belmont Futurity winner to Miami during the winter . . . The son of Pharamond II. and Alcibiades is about ready for the races and his appearance in competition may be expected early during the Keeneland meeting . . . Have you noticed the handicaps at Bowie and Keeneland beginning at scale weight for the top horse? . . . Also the higher weights carried in overnight races at the Southern Maryland course? . . . This is in keeping with the new weight rule adopted by the National Association of State Racing Commissioners . . . Numerous horses were run below their true value during the first meetings at Keeneland until one claim took place last fall . . . For the spring term at Lexington several owners with a reputation for frequent use of the halter have been granted stalls there . . . The condition prevailing in the past hardly will prevail this spring . . . Battleship unexpectedly achieved the ambition of his owner in winning the Grand National at Liverpool ... So Mrs. Marian Scott will retire the veteran son of Man o War to the stud . . . He probably will stand at her Montpelier Stud in Virginia . . . Pimlicos intention to honor Battleship is meritorious . . . The Maryland Jockey Club for some years has had a steeplechase commemorating Billy Barton . . . This American-bred gelding had the Grand National of 1928 at his mercy until losing his rider at the last fence . . . His jockey remounted and Billy took second honors when none of the others finished.
