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Here and There on the Turf New Race Should Please Sportsmen Arlington Protecting Itself Tiger Becomes Doubtful Derby-ite Redbreast Needs Longer Route --- Advocates of weight-for-age races for decent prizes should hail with delight the announcement of the Arlington Park Jockey Club that it will stage the Arlington Cup, with a purse of 5,000, providing the prospective field is suitable to the management ten days before the race. In offering such a large purse several times greater than that available for any other weight-for-age contest John Hertz, Charles A. McCulloch, Otto Lehmann, Warren Wright and associates in the Chicago track, wish it to be won by a horse worthy of earning such an amount. Therefore, if it is apparent that the field will be without a real topnotcher or two, the management will cancel it. By ten days before the scheduled running and with the Classic already decided, the management should be fully aware whether the field will include the sort of horses such a race should have. Arlington Park has had a trying time for years in presenting sport comparable with the best in the country and cant be blamed for protecting itself in this fashion. The horses Arlington would like to have for its cup are Seabiscuit and War Admiral, the outstanding three-year-olds, and whatever older horses which have shown distinctive ability in the meantime. With races like the Arlington Cup and higher purses available in the Saratoga Cup, Jockey Club Gold Cup, Whitney and Wilson Stakes, owners of high-class horses wouldnt have to worry about their performers carrying too much weight, as some of them do now, and all the handicaps would not have to carry tremendous purses, because they would be left to the thoroughbreds not good enough to carry level imposts with those of championship caliber. Arlingtons experiment will be viewed with much interest, and if the race is carded, it should add much to the sport in this country. With the proper field, Arlington will not have to worry so much about entailing a loss in the presentation of the event. Once again the fragility of the thoroughbred is demonstrated by the injury to Tiger, which makes him a doubtful starter in the Kentucky Derby. Milky Way Farms fast son of Bull Dog was considered one of the outstanding candidates for the Churchill Downs classic, especially after his victory in the Arkansas Derby and despite the fact that there was doubt in the minds of many observers of his ability to stay the route. Trainer Robert McGarvey at least had the hope that Tiger was of Derby timber and was training him for the race, but if he has to let up with him he must wait until later in the season to determine whether the second leading juvenile at the end of last year can hold his own at a mile and one-quarter. Should Tiger be withdrawn, McGarvey will have to concentrate on Mountain Ridge, which came through in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes last fall when his better known stablemate was injured. Redbreast, the Greentree Stables principal Derby hopeful, didnt look so good in his seasons debut at Jamaica Wednesday, closing very slowly after breaking in tardy fashion in a race which was run in comparably slow time. The son of Chicle and Robins Egg may show to better advantage, however, now that he has a race in him and will be asked to run over a longer distance. He ever has been a sluggish beginner and con- sequently at a disadvantage in short races, having his best chance over the long .stretch at Aqueduct last fall when he won the Babylon Handicap and was third in the Junior Champion in which Fighting Fox barely beat him out for the place. He is a candidate for the Wood Memorial and his effort in that race will determine his Derby status. If Redbreast fails to qualify, Eddie Arcaro will be available to ride some other colt in the Churchill Downs classic. Thomas J. Healey is having some fun -for himself now that he owns a small stable, which is being trained by his son, Jack. With the dispersal of the C. V. Whitney stable last fall the elder Healey was jobless, but that hasnt perturbed him, because he, in purchasing Tatterdemalion and Black Look at that auction acquired two horses which are doing very well for him. Tatterdemalion won the 0,000 Tropical Handicap before leaving Florida, and Black Look has come back to competition in pleasing fashion. Whereas he was unable to maintain his speed last season, the four-year-old son of Whichone Beaming, by Whisk Broom II., came from behind to account for his race Wednesday, defeating a good field of sprinters. Perhaps his wind ailment has been cured sufficiently to permit Black Look to get over a distance of ground, which, if true, should make him a capable handicap candidate. He is eligible to the Jamaica Handicap, to be run at six furlongs on April 30, but was not named for the longer Excelsior Handicap, closing day feature at the Metropolitan Jockey Club course.
