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By CHARLES HATTON LEXINGTON Ky May 17 ac ing on the turf is a colorful feature of the sport during the summer season in the Middle West and Washington and Arlington offer some rather gen ¬ erous purses for the grasshoppers These include the Grassland and Meadowland each with 20000 in JParm here recently tells us that in his opinion Mrs Sabaths liorse American Flyer is a natural for racing on the turf and trainer Dodson is going to train him for those in Chicago thi3 sumer American Flyer is unlikely ever to be included in the American Racing Manuals Records of Outstanding Horses which is a kind of equine Hall of Fame but he is nevertheless an interesting performer Unlike most of his species he did not really get good until he broke down and was turned out at Alsam Farm for six months During the winter at Miami he seemed to get the hang of staying middle distances and in competition with horses a cut above the plater class He won six straight Sabath recalls and we are convinced he is something more than a plater He is by JHairan out of Deception and we bought him from the Threlkelds Deception is a good producer and we have tried to trace her with some notion of buying her but apparently she was sold for export to France FranceA A A A AThe The Sabaths summer home is quite near Washing ¬ ton Park arid their string will be active at Lincolnat Washinston and during the Washington Clubs own meeting Of the stakes mare Say Blue first 100000 winner produced at Alsab Farm we learn that she is breezing again after a siege of virus pneumonia We almost lost her Sabath says but she is very game and pulled through It will take racing to show if she has suffered any after effects but we may hope not for virus pneumonia doesnt leave scar tissue on the lungs American Flyer Seeks Chicago Turf Events Say Blue Preps for FillyMare Races Gay Rhythm Prospect for Lincoln Fields Current News Looms Baraainfor Rices Say Blue won the Princess Pat at two and was runner up to But Why Not in the Arlington Matron last season later winning the Falls City and Hollywood Handicaps The twoyearold Alsabs Day is a prospect for Lincolns new 10000 Miss America Many feel she might have won the Debutante except that her rider lost his reins and she finished on the outside fence fenceA A A A V VMidlands Midlands turfgoers have seen j ome more or less promising twoyearolds and others will appear during Lincolnat Washington Park Of those we saw at Church ¬ ill Downs the Bashfprd Manor winner Ky Colonel and the Debutante winner Acoma ran as if they may have a future The same may be said of S I Crews Commodore Lea Torance Melroses Seely and A B Hancock Srs Gay Rhythm This lastmentioned filly came from far off the pace in the field of maidens winning quite com ¬ fortably by six lengths in her first venture Gay Rhythm saved the day for those who backed the Hancock entry because of reports her stablemate Nitromond a Bull Lea filly had worked three furlongs from the gate in 34 The Kentucky Commissioner usually retains several fillies from each Claiborne crop to race in his orange colors and later join his broodmares if their form war ¬ rants it Gay Rhythm is a slight filly with few engage ¬ ments Trainer Bill Crump will race her at Chicago dur ¬ ing the summer months Nitromond is in the Princess Pat and Lassie there and so we think is A B Hancock Jrs filly Scene by Blenheim II out of Scenery By the way the Hancock colors are among the oldest in con ¬ temporary racing and were introduced before the Civil War Theywere carried by Knight of Ellerslie in the 1884 Preakness also by Eurus and Elkwood who were second and third in the Preakness of 1886 which was the first ho se race ever witnessed by the master of Clai ¬ borne Hancock Jrs colors are adopted from the Claiborne orange and the black stripes of his alma mater Princeton A A A f fMrs Mrs Ada L Rice will race some of the twoyearolds she has shown at Jamaica during the Arlington and Washington season Trainer Tom Smith saddled Mystery Lady to capture Jamaicas Rosedale for the Chicago sportswoman and the Bull Dog colt Current News is a repeater on Long Island Mystery Lady already has proved a bargain yearling at 15000 and Current News appears to have been well bought at 20000 By the way his form must be rather gratifying to Dan Van Clief of the Nydrie Farm in Virginia for he purchased this colts dam Challomine from Henry Knight here last autumn autumnA A A A ATurf Turf ana If Colonel Winn will pardon a seeming im ¬ pertinence this observer would suggest running the Ken ¬ tucky Oaks at a mile and a furlong There has been a jam in the abrupt run tothe first turn each of the last two renewals Col v Phil T Chin learfts from Gov Earle Clements that he has appointed Ed Janss Jr of Camarillo Calif a Kentucky Colonel The Sabaths were on the train wrecked between Miami and Louisville fortunately sustaining only minor bruises Green trees Belle Histoire a threeyearold filly by Blue Larks ¬ pur La Troienne now is rusticating at the farm here we learn from Clarkson Beard Relic is going under saddle about the shed at Belmont Park S D Riddle is undecided concerning the number of Faraway yearlings to be offered at The Spa There are four War Admirals in the collection all of them colts Laudy Lawrence lost the Alsab foal out of Seduite
