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Here and There on the Turf Pompoon Gets High Suburban Rating Placed Four Pounds Below Admiral Caballero II. s Weight Lowered Magic Hour Fails to Impress War Admiral, which will not be a starter in the Suburban Handicap because of the race comes two days prior to his exclusive tryst with Seabiscuit, has been assigned top weight of 132 pounds for Belmont Parks outstanding spring contribution to older horses by John B. Campbell, handicapper for The Jockey Club. This assignment is the same as given by that official to the four-year-old son of Man o War and Brush Up, by Sweep, for the Metropolitan, a mile affair, and by Charles McLennan for the Dixie Handicap, which is at a mile and three-sixteenths. The Glen Riddle star, having done nothing except gain newspaper space and conversation since his Widener Challenge Cup victory early in March, Campbell apparently saw no reason for making any change in War Admirals impost from what he would have carried in the Metropolitan and Dixie. A revision of weights on some of the other Suburban eligibles has been made, however, over what they have been carrying in recent races. Pompoon, for example, had 118 pounds on his back in setting a new Pimlico record of 1:56% for the mile and three-sixteenths in winning the Dixie Handicap so impressively, and Campbell has jumped the Suburban allotment of the four-year-old son of Pompey and Oonagh, by Friar Rock, ten pounds. If he accepts, as it is expected he will do so, Pompoon will be the starting top weight in the Suburban, whose value is being doubled from 0,000 this year by the Westchester Racing Association. Pompoon was not named for the Metropolitan. In the Santa Anita Handicap, over the mile and a quarter route, he was beaten six lengths by Seabiseuit when getting ten pounds and the latter is to clash with War Admiral at level weights. Aneroid and Snark, two of Pompoons better known rivals in the Dixie, have been assigned 120 pounds each in the Suburban, this being the same as shouldered by the former in the Pimlico event and two less than that carried by the Wheatley stable speedster in the Dixie and four under his Metropolitan. Aneroid, galloping winner of the Suburban last spring under a light impost, displayed a respectable performance in the Dixie, and with the greater burden on Pompoon in the Suburban, the son of The Porter may prove a tough one in the Belmont fixture. Snark, however, hardly appears to be a mile and a quarter horse, unless he gets an even Continued on twenty-third page. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF i .j Continued from second page. greater concession from the top weights, but that is something that will have to be worked out as the son of Boojum proves or further disproves his tendency to go a distance. Even though Caballero II. finished well in the Metropolitan after being well back until reaching the stretch, he gets in the Suburban with seven pounds less than the 122 on his back in the Metropolitan. Whatever that portends in the mind of handicapper Campbell, the writer does not pretend to know. Neither Danger Point, winner of the Metropolitan after coming from well back of the pace, nor Busy K., runner-up to Pompoon in the Dixie, was nominated for the Suburban, so Jerome Louchheims colt will not have to worry about them as rivals. From Caballero II. at 115, the Suburban weights scale down to 90 pounds on Dissembler, with Fighting Fox being notched as best of the few three-year-old eligibles with an assignment of 104 pounds, eight under the scale. He will not be a starter, however, due to coughing as the principal reason. Magic Hour didnt shape up as a very formidable Withers candidate in his effort at Belmont Park Wednesday, in which he was given first honors when Efface was disqualified after beating Ogden Phipps colt by a head. The six furlongs event was run in 1:12%, and the son of Sortie and One Hour had all he could do to keep close to Efface in the run through the stretch. As Magic Hour had not been out in several weeks, the race probably will do him much good but hardly enough to make him a worthy opponent of Menow. He was very lucky to be granted his victory by the stewards, even though Efface may have bothered him in the final few strides when ducking out under the left-handed whipping of Maurice Peters, but the Phipps colt came over upon turning into the stretch, crossing over in front of Pagliacci and hung alongside of Efface all through the final furlong. Johnny Longden apparently presented his case to Marshall Cassidy and the other stewards more convincingly than did the taciturn Peters.
