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REFLECTIONS By CHALLENGER Eight Thirty Should Win Suburban Wideners Star Carries His Weight Cheap and Costly Yearlings Win Supreme Courts Ruling a Surprise Eight Thirty picked up his package of 132 pounds in Saturdays fortyeighth running of the Metropolitan Handicap and at the finish line had picked up 10250 by his twolength victory over the featherweighted Bold and Bad In this Fridays renewal of the Suburban Handicap Jack Campbell assigned him 129 pounds and he will pick up a threepound penalty for his victory in the Metropolitan Mioland his chief rival has been assigned 127 and the alwaysdangerous Hash from the Greentree Stable is in with 121 In all robability eight or nine will start and we look for the Widener champion to duplicate his victories in the Toboggan and the Metropolitan Though cursed with weak underpining Eight Thirty should rule the roost in the East as long as he stays in training and we say this while at the same time acknowledging Mioland is a worthy foe and might upset the applecart in next Fridays race The more we see of Eight Thirty the more we are inclined to believe that he is one of the best handicap performers in many years In appeaiance he is as close to perfection as horses come and has just about everything necessaiy to qualify him when retired to the farm for stud duty dutyThough Though the Pimlico Special is a long way off events directly ahead will have a bearing on that mythical title The Horse of the Year Mioland is due to meet Eight Thirty and then go west to measure strides with Challedon which has held the title for the past two seasons Should Whirlaway win the Belmont Stakes he will be a difficult horse to keep out of the reckoning regard ¬ less of what may follow For Triple Crown winners score heavily in the points which add up for the all divisions championship Though twoyearolds are not reckoned in the Horse of the Year classification that division is now starting to take some semblance of form In the Juvenile Stakes at Belmont on Saturday Sun Again and Some Chance from the Calumet Farm ran onetwo to defeat such highlyregarded youngsters as Amphitheatre and Albatross the latter suffering his first defeat after four straight victories At Lincoln Fields Mans Man for which Cleaveland Putnam paid 6500 defeated a large field and word from the Middle West describes him a promising colt It is still too early however to form any conclusions as to the juveniles for many of the best are still to emerge from the barns With Whirlaway in the barn other threeyearolds had their chance for a spot in the sun on Saturday At Belmont the 20000 Blenheim II colt Lord Kitchener won the first race of his career and at Suffolk the Air Brigade colt which sold for 250 as a yearling captured the Governors Handicap to add 4970 to the approximate 15500 he had already garnered as a two and threeyearold Doc Crawford trainer for the late Willis Sharpe Kilmer also sent a juvenile winner to the post in Ned Lover which he secured from the Kilmer dispersal last October Though Whirlaway sits high on his threeyearold throne Robert Morris threw the remainder of the ranks in confusion when he defeated Bright Gallant King Cole Greville Market Wise and Monday Lunch in the Peter Pan Handicap on Friday The further the threeyearold division goes the less likelihood there seems of any serious oppostiion to Whirlaway in the Belmont Stakes on June 7 With the exception of Sky Raider there are few on the Belmont Stakes eligible list which have yet to show their capabilities C V Whitney paraded Sky Raider a son of Man o War out of Top Flight in the Belmont paddock a week ago Nothing has been heard however as to when he will start and it is doubtful if he will be seen in the closingday event at Belmont Racing proved a popular sport at all points on the weekend even though a high wind at Belmont and a heavy rainfall just before the race made the Suffolk Downs strip a sea of mud The Belmont throng of 29760 wagered 1487071 a figure which though below that of last week far exceeded the 1074113 wagered on the same day last season Speculation is still rife as to next Fridays totals at Belmont Park and at other racing points throughout the country It seems a foregone conclusion providing the weather is agree ¬ able that the Suburban throng will top the previous figures of 1588009 created on the day of the Withers running This department has maintained that it is possible that a 2000000day will be realized and if Eight Thirty and Mioland both go to the post we still believe this figufe is possible Next Saturday should also be a day of high figures in both attendance and mutuel handle and this should prove to be the case at all major courses throughout the country In New York they will stage the Roseben and Coaching Club American Oaks while at Suffolk Downs Delaware Lincoln Fields Detroit and Hollywood important events will be crowd magnets The totals of these two days will probably smash all previous records for FridaySaturday throngs throngsOver Over the weekend we heard of the new plan of compensation for grooms at Detroit that the photopatrol now in use at Hollywood would likely prove successful that the minimum purse from 1200 to 1500 would be retroactive in so far as Jamaica was concerned and that the Supreme Court in Brooklyn had handed down a decision in favor of a bettor who sought to recover on a destroyed mutuel ticket The decision as handed down by the court came mostly as a surprise due to the fact that Alfred J Giordano had bought two tendollar tickets and having wagered to win on a horse that ran third destroyed them Later he discovered that the first two horses had been set back thus making the one he backed the winner The report is confusing in that in one part it says he destroyed the tickets and in another part refers to them as torn tickets If he destroyed the tickets we fail to understand how any court could rule he had proved satisfactorily his claim of having purchased the tickets The important point however is that regardless of any previous rulings the Supreme Court has now set a precedent and that anyone with a torn of mutilated ticket will be able to collect if their particular ticket was cashable in its original form
