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Here and There on the Turf Crosby Backs Seabiscuit Belmont Sale Rumor Spiked Jolly Tar May Oppose Dauber Briarlet Shows Fine Promise 1 1 HEARD AND OBSERVED. Largest wager so far reported on the Seabiscuit-War Ad- miral special is for ,000 at even money. B. Crosby is said to have one end of it— the Sea-biscuit end, of course. His taker in the transaction can hedge nicely if he desires ... If youre skeptical about the size of the crowd to assemble for the race, try and get a reserved seat . . . Most emphatic was the denial to the report that Joseph E. Widener had sold his interest in Belmont Park . . . Return of the eton blue and brown silks adopted by William C. Whitney and used by his son, Harry Payne Whitney, and grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, is likely before the end of 1940 . . . What a good season Sonny Whitney would be having with Dauber, The Chief, Handcuff, Cravat, Piccolo and Tatterdemalion still in his ownership ... It may prove too distasteful to Whitney to sell the son of Man o War and Top Flight at the 1939 yearling sales. Herbert Bayard Swopes suggestion of a name for the Top Flight colt is Fighting Top . . . Its most appropriate . . . The fighting top is that position on a war vessel from where orders in battle originate . . . Reflections nominates the name Chief of Staff. Preston Burch may be expected to point Jolly Tar for the Belmont Stakes . . . Even if the son of Man o War and Tavy, by St. Germans, doesnt prove good enough to defeat Dauber, second money of ,000, including the bleeders award is well worth a bid. Especially as the Belmont field unfortunately promises to be small and weak . . . Jolly Tar is a brother to Matey . . . His graduation effort Friday was not outstanding but impressive enough to cause Walter M. Jeffords trainer to try the colt further. War Peril and Cauteleaux were other Belmont eligibles in the field finishing behind Jolly Tar . . . None need worry about them. Latest of the better two-year-olds prospects to show under silks is Briarlet . . . The son of Sun Briar and Superlette displayed a very smart effort in running four and one-half furlongs straightaway at Belmont Park in :52 at the first asking . . . This is the best time shown at this distance at the Nassau course since 1936 . . . Briarlet topped the Willis Sharpe Kilmer yearling sale last August at ,000 . . . He appears well worth the price . . . Briarlet is not eligible to the National Stallion Stakes . . . Neither is Roll and Toss nor Thingumabob . . . They appear best of the youngsters so far shown up on the Metropolitan circuit . . . Few other promising juveniles are likely to be uncov- Continued on thirty-fifth page J I j i j I j j I I 1 ! | HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. ered until long after the coughing epidemic has abated ... It is beginning to run its course . . . Many trainers having likely two-year-olds may be expected to wait with them until Saratoga. Sweet Patrice was not named for Mrs. Damon Runyon . . . but for the daughter of Mrs. Ethel Jacobs . . . The girl, however, honors the wife of the famous writer . . . Clyde Troutt has every hope of getting Count Gallahad to the races within the next few weeks . . . The son of Sir Gallahad III. and the Belmont Futurity winner, Anita Peabody, now a four-year-old, displayed exceptional speed as a two-year-old before suffering the injury which has prevented him from entering competition . . . Mrs. John Hertz colt is one of the best looking members of the large thoroughbred colony at Belmont Park . . . Another member of the Hertz stable training well is Count Arthur . . . The two-time Saratoga Cup winner may make his 1938 debut much sooner than was originally planned . . . The son of Reigh Count and Abbatoro is now six years of age . . . John Sanford has a promising young jumper in Supply House . . . He bought the son of Display and Ennui for a fancy sum from Percy M. Pike in the summer of 1936, the col* having won the Faneuil Hall Stakes at Suffolk Downs . . . Supply Houses triumph at the first asking over the jumps was unexpected and perhaps lucky . . . The four-year-old should improve, however . . . He has no immediate stake engagements . . . Popularity of the totalizator at Aurora made it easier for officials of Hawthorne and Sportsmans Park to select the apparatus for those tracks . . . Interest in the twice-weekly steeplechases to be offered at Aga-wam is so great that their success seems assured . . . The cross-country sport has many followers in the Connecticut Valley and New England in general.
