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Here and There ThereI I on the Turf j i i iEsposa Esposa Will Head West Marica Besting Until 1939 OldTime Stars Larger Horses Arlington May Get Shelley Two winters ago Scabiscuit was beaten a head by Rosemont in the Santa Anita Handi ¬ cap and the Foxcatcher Farms horse has been retired to the stud Last winter Seabiscuit dropped a nose decision in the West Coasts 100000 race to Stagehand and Maxwell Howards colt is going to loaf until next spring So it would seem Seabis ¬ cuit might have an easier time of winning the Santa Anita before hes done with rac ¬ ing But will he Esposa may be in his way She will be one of the numerous other class horse to be prepared for the fifth running of the 100000 event Just about a year ago the daughter of Espino and Quick Batter nosed out Seabis ¬ cuit in the Bowie Handicap A Califor ¬ nia invasion is planned for William Zeiglers endurance mare and she will go West follow ¬ ing a brief vacation following her forthcom ¬ ing Pimlico campaign And shell be asked to keep on racing next season too tooMarica Marica is now taking matterseasy at the Kentucky farm of Howard Oots After ruling the division of fillies and mares throughout the summer the daughter of Epi nard and Canberra failed badly in the Nar ragansett Special and Havre do Grace Han ¬ dicap Her ankles bothered her too I much in those efforts so Thomas D Tag garts good mare was put away She likewise is intended for further campaigning next season Don Mcade reports soon to George Odom at Columbia South Carolina He will get himself in condition at that point and accompany the Odom stable to Florida where he will be permitted to re ¬ sume riding December 1 Ernie White has been engaged to supervise the pari mutuel department at Tanforan and will re ¬ port at the San Bruno course after complet ¬ ing his duties at Churchill Downs where he assists E A Weidekamp WeidekampCapt Capt Thomas Clay who with his late brother owned a large portion of what is now Calumet Farm has given this depart Continucd on ninth pagcj HERE AND THERE ON TIIE TURF Continued rom second page mcnt the information that on December 15 1883 Ten Brocck weighed 1215 pounds and measured 77 inches around the girth Longfellow tilted the scales at 1242 pounds and girthed 75 inches Quite a contrast between the great horses of that day and those of the present time War Admiral girths 70 inches and weighs 960 pounds and Scabiscuit 72 and 1040 pounds poundsAnthony Anthony Pelleteri has leased the Delaware Farm of the elder James Healy and has the Mllsdalc Stable yearlings under saddle there as well as some of the older members of the establishment Last year the New Or ¬ leans horseman utilized Bennings Fol ¬ lowing the current Maryland campaign he will make up the division to be sent to Santa Anita Park ParkMilky Milky Way will not indulge in a winter campaign for the first time Roy Wal dron will take the horses he has at Pimlico to the farm at Pulaski Tenn at the conclu ¬ sion of the Maryland campaign They will be springtrained there until time to take them to Kceneland or Churchill Downs A strong effort will be made to develop at least one good threeyearold from among Giles County Up the Creek No Competition Sports Writer and the other likely young ¬ sters in the stable One of the better twoyearolds of the current season which will be nominated for the Kentucky Derby is Eight Thirty George D Wideners good colt will have the Preakness as his first major engagement He is now turned out at Erdenheim Farm near Philadelphia Major PhiladelphiaMajor Louie A Beards appointment as di ¬ rector of racing at Arlington Park is with the idea of making the sport at that Chicago course even more comparable with the best in the country In the event that Charles J McLennan is unable to handle the job of racing secretary at Arlington because of his new lucrative position with Suffolk Downs in entire charge of the sport the po ¬ sition may be proffered Robert S Shelley Should he accept Shelley will have to give up his work on the midwestern Canada circuit but it will fit in better with his as ¬ signment at Narragansett Park Not only will no mile races be staged on the main course at Hialeah Park this winter but the chute from which such races started is being eliminated The promise exhibited by Peace Chances first yearlings very probably prompted C V Whitney to exercise the 6p tion he held on the son of Chance Shot and peace by Stefan the Great
