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»- --t Here and There ! on the Turf Will Delay Metropolitan Weights J May Increase Wood Route - I Esposa Retired to Stud Downs Meet Best in Years j Weights for next years running of the Metropolitan Handicap will not be announced until a comparatively short time before the running. . . . Handicapper John B. Campbell has convinced Joseph E. Widener of the fallacy of making the weights April 1. . . . The New York racing official cites the absence of Sir Damion and Thanksgiving because of having to take up severe penalties. . . . Years ago early announcement of the weights for Belmont Parks keen mile test was quite in order, as it was one of the first events of the season. . . . Now horses arent pointed for the race as formerly. . . . They come up to it after having campaigned during the winter in such other handicaps as the Dixie, Excelsior and Philadelphia. . . . Under the later weight arrangement the Metropolitan should attract a greater number of nominations and give Campbell a better chance to make a good race of it. That the distance of the Wood Memorial Stakes may be increased to a mile and one-sixteenth is a strong probability. . . . Jamaicas valuable spring test for three-year-olds has been at a mile and seventy yards since its inception in 1925. . . . The increased distance should eliminate to some extent the sort of crowding that marred this years running, in which El Chico suffered greatly. ... At the same time the longer route should make the race more interesting. . . . Phil Router is quite happy over the news that Virginella has foaled a filly by Roman Soldier. . . . The lass is a three-fourths sister to Charlotte Girl. , . . She is a member of Roman Soldiers first crop of foals. . . . Joe Stevens is at North Randall supervising the installation of the catering facilities. ... It gives him the chance to visit his old home at Niles, Ohio. . . . Frank Stevens is planning a North Randall trip after the meeting gets under way. Esposa has been retired from racing. . . . Failing to come back as trainer Matt Brady hoped after a shoulder injury at Santa Anita Park, William Zieglers good mare was shipped to the farm in Virginia. . . . And has been mated with Gino, one of Willis Sharpe Kilmers galaxy of stallions. ... He is an outstanding exponent of the speedy Roi Herodc line and the cross with the distance-loving daughter of Espino — Quick Batter, by Runantell, should be a good one. . . . Esposa, now seven years of age, went to the post ninety-two times. . . . She carried the Ziegler silks to nineteen victories, was second twenty-two times and third on thirteen other occasions. . . . Her earnings total 31,255, making her the third-richest filly or mare in American racing history. . . . Esposas greatest triumph, perhaps, was in the Bowie Handicap, at Pimlico, in which she nosed out Seabiscuit. Don Cameron will invade Arlington Park with a division of his stable this summer. Continued on twenty-seventh, page. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. . . . The silks he will take along with him will be those of Mrs. Vera S. Bragg, Mrs. John Hertz and J. Shirley Riley. . . . Numer-out other eastern stables will be represented at the Chicago course during its July meeting. . . . Hirsch Jacobs attempted to move Sandy Bill up to the ,000 plater class the other day. . . . But the old fellow couldnt run with sprinters belonging in that group and the finish found him in l?.st place. . . . It also was asking quite a bit for a three-year-old fnly like Aerial Bomb to hold her speed against such toughened veterans as Bill Farnsworth, Legenda and At Play. . . . When the latter got ready to run past her in the stretch, they did so. . . . C. J. Fitz-Gerald is serving as an honorary steward for the Kings Plate, running at Woodbine Park today. ... He is a Canadian by birth and is being honored in that the race will be viewed by the British monarch. Kenneth N. Gilpin is consigning his breeding stock, as well as his yearlings, to the Saratoga Sales in August. ... He has maintained the Kentmere Farm in Virginia for years. . . . Granville is standing at Kentmere under lease from William Woodward. The Churchill Downs meeting that ended Saturday was the most successful in many years. . . . Matt Winn and associates naturally are highly pleased. . . . They hope the same improvement may be forthcoming at Lincoln Fields, which opens Thursday. ... An overabundance of racing material is promised for the Crete course, . . . Trainer William Hurley was more surprised than Colonel Bradley over the victory of Bashful Duck at the first asking, although just as elated. . . . El Chico is training again and is being pointed for the Withers. . . . The foot infection, caused by a stone bruise, has cleared up. . . . Trainer Brady believes the enforced rest taken by the colt will do him good.
