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Here and There on the Turf Johnstown Shows His Mettle Rates Just Under Best of Age Roguish Girl Is Bargain Claim Count Morse Back in Form - Johnstown isnt quite the best two-year-old in the country as was demonstrated in his ability to keep up with El Chico the two times he met that colt or to hang on in the late stages of the Belmont Futurity, but that he is one of the top-notchers in the juvenile class was indicated by his performance in the Richard Johnson Stakes in which he ran the fastest six furlongs of the Laurel meeting to date in taking the measure of a moderate sized but good band of youngsters. That dash of six furlongs gave the son of Jamestown and La France, by Sir Gallahad III., his first stakes triumph after he had placed third in the Hopeful and Junior Championship, finished fourth in the Flash and Futurity and won a quartet of overnight affairs. The effort, however, was not impressive enough to suggest that he should be reckoned with r.ome of the two-year-olds which have beaten him even though he won over two colts which had given Porters Mite hard tussles. Finishing second to Johnstown was Impound, which was fifth behind Johnstown in the Futurity and was a creditable third to the Futurity winner when that colt established a worlds record for six and one-half furlongs in taking the Champagne Stakes. Impound appears to be a colt that will develop into a better three-year-old than Johnstown as doubt has arisen as to the latter colts staying powers. Time Alone, which garnered third honors in the Johnson, has been nosed out by Porters Mite in his first start, which took place back in May in the Tanforan Juvenile Stakes, and in his only subsequent start, the recent Eastern Shore Handicap, the Time Maker Gladys McClain colt was never headed under the modest impost of 109 pounds. Both of these colts had to take Johnstowns dust in the Johnson although Impound might have had his number at a longer distance. Continued on thirty-fifth page. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. Anthony Pelleteri is an excellent loser or his appetite would be suffering greatly just now because of Roguish Girls victory in the 0,000 Continental Handicap at Jamaica Saturday. Because of apparent lameness, the five-year-old daughter of Roguish Eye and Accelerate, by Uncle, was entered to be claimed for ,500 in a mile race at Saratoga, but Pelleteri was shooting for the purse and taking a chance she would not be taken. But Roguish Girl weakened in the final sixteenth to be beaten a neck by Proph and Jules Wessler was waiting at the unsaddling place with a halter to take her to his barn as the property of Bernard Deutch. With her new connections, she came back a week later to run a mile in 1:36 to take a Class C handicap and in her lone start at Aqueduct Roguish Girl accounted for the Woodmere Claiming Stakes in which her valuation was ,500. In three starts at the recent Belmont Park meeting, Roguish Girl was unable to win although each of her efforts was creditable enough. In the last one, the daughter of the Flittergold stallion which lost a Belmont Futurity decision by an eyelash-to High Strung, was fourth in the Ladies Handicap in which her impost was 116 pounds. John B. Campbell let her in the Continental with only 106 pounds on her back and, as this was the lightest package she had all season, Roguish Girl couldnt see anything else to lead most of the way in the Continental, particularly towards the end when she staved off Bull Leas challenge under young Warren Yarberrys fine handling. Deutch and Wessler unquestionably made a fortunate claim when they took a chance on the mare and Pelleteri erred in risking her in such a race though she was going sore, but thats horse racing and the New Orleans horseman knows how to laugh it off. Another quirk of the sport was revealed in the Class D handicap, following the Continental, a test of a mile and seventy yards which went to Count Morse under 123 pounds in the time of 1:42, just a second slower than the track record. Count Morse was en eligible to the Continental, in which his weight was considerably lower, but trainer Frank .Kearns decided to concentrate his chances on Bull Lea. The three-year-old wasnt quite able to fill the bill although Roguish Girl required 1:45 for the mile and one-sixteenth, this being two and three-fifths seconds off the track record for that distance. On paper, however, Kearns appeared to be taking his best shot at the Continental with Bull Lea, one of the better i three-year-olds, as Count Morse hadnt returned to the form expected of him. In his last race, a Class C sprint, the Reigh Count Nellie Morse five-year-old has proven a weakening third and Kearns naturally couldnt vision him making trouble for such as Esposa, Cant Wait and. Idle Miss. Deutch -and Wessler took the chance, though. ,
