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Here and There on the Turf Good Florida Season Expected j Better Material on Hand j Cavalcade Youngsters Promise j j Santa Anita Dark Horses Cited j .-----------------------.---- Another Florida season opens today. . . . Even with national conditions not as genuinely pleasant as they should be, the meetings at Tropical and Hialeah Parks may be the best in their history. . . . Hialeah may not earn as much as it did during Floridas boom period, but the racing will be so far I better, and that counts much. . . . Missing from his familiar quarters in the Tropical clubhouse will be William Vincent Dwyer. . . . His interests in the popular course near Coral Gables, which he so successfully pioneered, have been assumed by John Pat-ton and associates. . . . This is the group which has done so well with Sportsmans I Park, even though the half-mile course hasj had the worst of the Chicago racing dates. . . . The Patton-Frank Ericcson combination J cant be expected to go in for frills at Trop- ical Park, but to strive for a meeting suiting ! the public and horsemen as a whole. ... As usual, the able Frank Schuyler will be atj the helm ... I More and beter horses for Florida racing! than ever are available. . . . They will be sent I out for their engagements by a good percentage of the countrys most capable train-1 ers and will be ridden in most cases byj jockeys who know more than just how to sit I on a horse. . . . Managements of the two Miami tracks are perturbed somewhat by the promised opening of the track being constructed near Hollywood, Fla., and recently named Gulfstream Park. . . . Work is not progressing rapidly enough for the new course to be in complete readiness for its announced opening late next month. . . . Wagers are being made that no horses will race at Gulfstream during the winter . . . this despite the fact that a full staff of officials has been engaged. . . . Rumors have gone the rounds that night racing will be attempted. . . . The dog tracks certainly can be expected to raise a chorus of protest .if such comes to pass. . . . News from Brookmeade Farm in Virginia states Handcuff has been fired. . . . The daughter of Whichone and Tenez, which bid with Jacola for three-year-old filly honors during the past season, is doing well . . . Trainer Hugh Fontaine also is well pleased with the promise shown by the coming two-year-old son of Ksar and Duration. . . . At 2,000 this youngster topped the 1938 yearling sales at Saratoga. . . . Praise is given the seven colts and four fillies by Cavalcade. . . . They are members of the 1934 three-year-old champions first crop of foals. . . . The son of Lancegaye and Hastily made his first two seasons at Mrs. Dodge Sloanes estate near Upperville. . . . He has been transferred to Henry Knights Alma-hurst Stud near Lexington in order to be available to the wealth of fine brood mares in the Blue Grass. . . . His stablemate Psychic Bid also is at Almahurst, and High Quest will stand at Brookmeade Farm after having been in Kentucky. Harrie B. Scott encountered no trouble in putting War Admirals stud engagements back one year. The few breeders fortunate in booking seasons to him next spring all were willing to co-operate with the Faraway Farm manager. . . . War Admiral will be shipped to Miami shortly. . . . Mose Lowen-stein may break his winter vacation in Lexington with a trip to Hot Springs. . . . He is Interested in some promising young stock. . . . Many observers are of the opinion Blenheim is out-breeding himself. . . . His foals impress all who see them. . . . Louis B.Mayer was the leading purchaser of yearlings at Saratoga in August, and he bought many likely horses in training at decent prices. . . . But he is finding owners of topnotchers hard to deal with. . . . The income tax practically puts a barrier to such sales as the seller would have to give too much .of the price to the government. . . . Mayers 25,000 offer for El Chico is laudable just the same. This department suggests Marica, Jacola, Esposa, Main Man and Heelfly as among the most dangerous of the Santa Anita Handi-I cap eligibles. . . . Marica, at 121 pounds, is rated a pound above Jacola on the scale. . . . Esposa is notched three pounds below Tom Taggarts very capable mare when sound. . . . Main Man and Heelfly seemed to have been treated very leniently at 117 pounds each. . . . The number one member of the Mayer stable always has done well over a track he liked. . . . And the Santa Anita course appears one he should fancy. . . . Heelfly ran Seabiscuit to a dead heat in the Laurel Stakes in 1937. . . . He only needs to return to that form to prove most troublesome . . . Bourbon King at 116 and Count Arthur at 114 pounds are other moderately weighted eligibles in the dangerous group. . . . Handi-capper Webb Everett has taken no chances with the three-year-old candidates. ... At 106 pounds Porters Mite and Xalapa Clown are at the scale. . . . Time Alone is a pound under and Yale o Nine three under.
