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----"-"------------------- Here and There i on the Turf I Honey Cloud Going West j Is 00,000 Handicap Nominee j I Abels Improved Horse Versatile j j Bowie Talent Is Bewildered j A..--..-..-- . 4 Albert J. Abel, better known as "Whitey" to his intimates and those who remember him as a better-than-fair jockey a decade or so ago, has just forwarded the nomination "of Honey Cloud for the Santa Anita Handicap to the California track and when the current Bowie campaign is completed he and his horse will head that way. Abel, it seems, has very serious designs on the 00,000 purse Charles H. Strub and his associates are offering for their number-one event, and in Honey Cloud he believes he has a worth-while candidate for the worlds richest horse race. The former rider, naturally, is confident his four-yeax-old gelding by High Cloud Honey Pot, by Sir Martin, will be fairly treated by Webb Everett in the weight he will be allotted in the mile and a quarter classic, because of his belief the horse may prove to be even better than he has shown so far. Honey Cloud, which the Brooklyn horseman obtained through the claiming process last year, advanced among the platers during the past winter until he was able to win at a valuation of ,000 at Tropical -Park. Abel next tried his improving performer in an allowance event against such a crackerjack speedster as Sir Oracle, each carrying 118 pounds. Honey Cloud lost by only a nose, but something happened to him, as Abel took him out of training until this autumn, the horse being turned out during the summer at a Alaryland farm. Upon his return to competition, the Abel gelding Was tried for middle-distance running, placing third to White Sand and Your Buddy at Laurel in his first outing, although he came back in a six furlongs dash to take over such fast horses as Bcnjam, Clingen-daal and Fair Knightess. Realizing the potentialities of his former plater, Abel named him for several Pimlico stakes, including the Riggs Handicap, and pointed him especially for that mile and three sixteenths event. In between, the High Cloud gelding went unplaced in a race at a mile arid one-sixteenth after leading to the stretch, Sandy Boot proving the winner, but that effort may have been what he required in the way of seasoning. In the Riggs he went very prominently to midway of the second turn, dropped back, and then came again, to finish third to Aneroid and Mr. Canron. The track Was muddy for the Riggs, and Honey Cloud demonstrated that he could handle such going, a quality that should stand him in good stead at Santa Anita. Also to prove his versatility, Honey Cloud started in the six furlongs Ritchie Handicap six days later and won it over a large field of good sprinters. In the Ritchie the Abel pride had 110 pounds on his back, so no surprise was forthcoming when John B. Campbell hoisted his impost for the W. P. Buch Memorial Handi-. cap, inaugural feature at Bowie, to li5. That increase made no difference to him, however, as he vanquished practically the same field in clean-cut fashion, diawing away in the stretch to triumph by a length and one-half as Clingendaal, Rye Beach and Conquer did their best to finish in a dead heat for second place. Honey Clouds next engagement likely will be the Prince George Autumn Handicap, at a mile and one-sixteenth, Saturday, and afterward the 0,000 Bryan and OHara Memorial Handicap, over Continued on twenty-seventh pagej ! HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. the same route as the Riggs, on November 30. Abel then will put his up-and-coming campaigner on a car for California, already being possessed of getaway money. Bowies opening was entirely satisfactory to general manager Joseph B. Boyle and his associates, a good-sized crowd taking advantage of the clear weather and pleasing program. The change from Pimlico to the southern Maryland course found the talent in a quandary insofar as several of the races were concerned, but the Bowie patrons are a sophisticated lot and usually are able to obtain a good line on the horses before the meeting is too far advanced, even though ! the material is assembled from various parts of the country. They know that Bowie has a deep but safe track and that it is no place for faint-hearted horses; also that many steeds need a race over the course before attaining winning form, all of which makes Bowie racing different in many respects from that at most tracks but none the less attractive.
