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I , Here and There g on the Turf Sande May Winter in South Carolina Wall Praises Xalapa Clown Neil McCarthy Advises Mayer Capacity Crowd Likely for the Match ; Earl Sande is thinking seriously about wintering the Maxwell Howard horses in South Carolina. Hes trying to choose between Columbia and Camden. . . . The Buxton brothers naturally would be very happy to have him at Columbia and probably would have the governor on hand to welcome him. . . . Wherever Sande goes, he will take with him the division of the John Hay Whitney t stable to be under his direction next season, , once his charges have been properly un-. wound, Sande will embark upon a much needed vacation. . . . Does Ed Snyder need someone to make up his mind for him . . . - A. G. C. Sage has decided to give up the breeding of horses. ... He has commissioned Major Louie A. Beard to dispose of the small band of mares, he and his late brother H. W. Sage had assembled at Els- . meade Farm near Lexington. . . . Henry Mc-Daniel is now in Lexington inspecting the yearlings to be campaigned in the Sage . stable silks next season. Nick Wall is high in his praise of Xalapa Clown. . . . Puts the unbeaten son of . Eternal and Loma Linda up there in the same category with El Chico. ... A very fancy sum has been offered for the colt. ... Keeneland has done away with its infield lake. . . . The western sun in the afternoon created so much glare that patrons had difficulty seeing the horses in the backstretch. . . . One of the most accomplished horsemen in the sport says the principal fault with the Hialeah track is the over-pulverization of the top soil. . . .. The loose earth breaks out too readily beneath a horses hoofs, he says, making the cushion insufficient. . . . This department erred in stating Proctor Knott was a California horse. . . . The first Futurity winner hailed from Belle Meade Stud, . near Nashville, which those noted Tennes- Contirved on thirty-fifth pagej HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. seans, Frank Shannon and John I. Day should have informed me sooner. Neil McCarthy is advising Louis B. Mayer in his racing and breeding activities. . . . The Los Angeles attorney long has been interested in racing. . . . Announcement of the new Mayer trainer is expected momentarily. . . . Whats this talk about Webb Everett being appointed racing secretary at Hollywood Park for next season? . . . Elmer Dale Shaffers colors .have been put away for the winter. The young Chicago sportsman again will campaign a modest stable in 1939 with Bert Mitchell at the helm. . , . Bert Baroni is transferring his good mare Ann ORuley to California to be bred to Top Row next spring. . . . The daughter of Man o War and Priscilla Ruley is in foal to Blue Larkspur. . . . Baroni decided to stand Top Row in California because of the great increase in breeding activity in that state. . . . The second Santa Anita Handicap winner has been placed at Ed Janss Canejo Ranch where Boxthorn and Special Agent are standing. Keeneland may get quite a race out of its revival of the Breeders Futurity. . . Among the noted juveniles eligible to it are Johnstown, Eight Thirty, Olney, Third Degree, Benefactor and Xalapa Clown. . . . Let Robert Cicero, the well known Eastern turf photographer, tell you about the unusual influence exerted on his camera by Gravity. . . . The demand for boxes and reserved seats for the Seabiscuit-War Admiral match race at Pim-Uco November 1 already exceeds the supply. . . . No increase in admission prices for the face is expected. . . . Pimlico tan just about accommodate 40,000 persons and a crowd of such proportions is predicted. . . . The overflow will be accommodated in the infield as usual. . . . Tis hoped the Baltimore department arranges better traffic regulations to and from this hilltopless course to care for such a crowd. . . . One route for taxicabs and closed to privately-owned cars would help tremendously. Charles J. McLennan moves on to Keeneland at the conclusion of the Rockingham Park meeting where he has been substituting for John P. Turner. . . . McLennan will have pretty much of a vacation during the time hes at Keeneland as Fred Burton and Sidney Brown will be doing the work. . . .. His next important assignment is Pimlico, after which comes a vacation and the Hia-lead Park meeting. . . . Isadore Bieber, plenipotentiary of Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs stable, has decided against sending a division to Santa Anita Park this winter. . . . The reason is obvious. . . . Hal Price Headley may have horses racing at both Hialeah and Santa Anita during the coming off-season. ... He announces a stud fee of ,000 !or Menow. ... A similar fee is asked for a service to William Woodwards Flares, but Boswell will stand for half as much. . . . They are two of the fifteen stallions advertised for A. B. Hancocks Claiborne and Ellerslie Studs next spring. . . . Foray is another slated for Ellerslie. . . . He is a four-year-old gray son of Tetratema Black j Ray, by Black Jester, owned by Marshall Field.
