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STAGEHAND SHOWED THE WAY Numerous Juveniles. May Be Nominated for 00,000 Handicap. Owners andTrainers Figure Untried Youngsters May Develop as Fast as Maxwell Howard Star. ARCADIA, Calif., Nov. 17. Stagehands sensational success in winning the last Santa Anita Handicap after he had conquered the three-year-olds in the Santa Anita Derby ten days before, will undoubtedly result in an increased number of current two-year-olds being named for both the worlds k richest stakes when the nominations close on the first of next month. Owners and trainers will naturally figure that perhaps their untried juveniles over a distance of ground will develop fast, as did Stagehand, and they will want to be eligible. There is still sufficient time between the events February 22 for the 0,000 added Derby, over one and one-eighth miles, and March 4 for the 00,000 added Santa Anita Handicap, over one and one-quarter miles to get ready to start, and the trainers all eye that extra 0,000 that the Los Angeles Turf Club will contribute to the one who can saddle the winner of the big race. It will be remembered that Col. Maxwell Howards Stagehand hadnt won a race when he was put in this time last year. But he broke loose and won five great races during the meeting. He was unlucky with his disastrous sick spell, which kept him out of the Kentucky Derby and set him back, but he came back strongly to win a race at Empire City in July and closed his season in a blaze of glory by taking into camp the crack field in the 5,000 Narragansett Special on September 3 over one and three-sixteenths miles. All the evidence tends to show that Stagehand, although a strapping strong colt, was not hurt any by his strenuous campaign. He was the top money-winner 80,450 and Earl Sande will give him a well-earned rest this- winter at Columbia, S. C. Tommy Taylor put He Did in both events the year he won the Derby, and He did has been in the. running since then, as witnessed by his triumph in the opening Christmas Stakes here last season. The outstanding two-year-olds now at Santa Anita may follow Stagehands example.
