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WILLIAM WOODWARD WOODWARDHeads Heads Piping Rock Advisory AdvisoryRace Race Committee REFLECTIONS By CHALLENGER Fine Racing Throughout Country Roseben Oaks at Belmont Park Aqueduct Follows Belmont Park United Hunts Meeting June 14 Ordinarily racing which is staged following a holiday must play to a small audience Being a Saturday however todays many racing fronts will draw large throngs and especially so in New York even though Bay View will be absent from the Roseben Handicap and a small field will face the staVter in the Coaching Club American Oaks Time andagain we hear the query who was Roseben And for those who are vague on the point might we say he was the gelded son of Ben Strome and undoubtedly one of the greatest sprinting weightcarriers this country has ever known Foaled in 1901 he became such a massive horse he was called the Big Train The outstanding episode in his career occurred on Oct 16 1906 when his owner Daw Johnson made manv wafers that he would break the American seven furlong record made by Bella B at Mon mouth Park in 1890 Bella Bs time was 123 12 and when Roseben opposed by only one horse ran it in 122 he created a record that stood until Clang equalled it at Arlington Park on July 19 1935 As a weight carrier Roseben had no equal and carried 145 pounds or more on more occa ¬ sions than any horse since the days of Lexington When retired he had started in 111 races to win fiftytwo and 74910 Belmont Park goes into its last week on Monday with the management assured of a highly successful season Next Saturdays events will be the National Stallion Stakes for twoyear olds at five furlongs and the Belmont Stakes for threeyearolds at one mile and a half Whirlaway will start in the Belmont and from all indications should be returned the winner and thus the fifth horse in history to win the Triple Crown Aqueduct will open on Monday June 9 and carry on through July 2 when the horses will leave Long Island and the Empire City track in Yonkers will open and continue until the Saratoga meeting gets under way on July 28 At Aqueduct they will stage nine important stake events the Queens County Handicap Shevlin Car ¬ ter Handicap Astoria Dwyer Tremont Gazelle Brooklyn Handicap and Great American The Dwyer for threeyear olds has 10000 added and at one and onequarter miles will be run on June 21 The 25000 added Brooklyn Handi ¬ cap at one and onequarter miles for threeyearolds and older will be staged on Saturday June 28 In view of what has taken place at Jamaica and Belmont Park Aqueduct will un ¬ doubtedly stage the most successful meeting it has had since mutuels camo into vogue in the Empire State With June now upon us it is interest ¬ ing to look both backwards and forwards Two months ago today Whirlaway was a twicedefeated horse and but a lukewarm choice to win the Derby Today he stands as a DorbyPreakness winner and the most highly regarded threeyearold in the land The threeyearold division was slow to shape itself but the Calumet racer shaped it with a vengeance once he got under way In the division for older horses Eight Thirty came out to win the Toboggan and the Metropolitan and just as his large army of followers were rooting for him to go on and win the Suburban and Brooklyn he was sent back to the farm with a filled pastern During June some important handicap events will be staged but it will probably not be until July 19 that Challedon and Mioland meet in the Hollywood Gold Cup to decide the issue between them A day or two back out on the Coast W L Brann stated he did not think his champion had anything to fear from Whirl away Frorii suqh statements as that have come the most historic match races in history and though Ben Jones has openly said he is not anxious to have Whirlaway meet older horses we would not be at all surprised if before 1941 goes over the hill these two great racers meet in a match at weightforage New York is but one of the centers where important racing will be staged throughout June In New England Suffolk Downs will continue until July 19 and Rockingham Park will usher in the sport on July 21 and continue through August 9 Delaware Park just outside of Wilmington will run until July 5 while out in Chicago beautiful Lincoln Fields will continue until June 21 and on June 23 the important Arlington Park meeting will start and carry through to July 31 In Los Angeles Hollywood Park will not only operate throughout June but will continue until July 26 with the most important events to be staged in the latter month It would not be surprising even though records have been established in the month of May that some of the meetings in June and July will far surpass the figures attained From New Yorl to California racing appears to have taken a greater grip with the public and from all indications will continue to do so with each succeeding month Though in New York Saratoga Springs showed the lowest mutuel handle on the New York circuit this years meeting is expected to far surpass that of 1940 for the Saratoga management has carded the usual events which make for the finest racing to be seen in this country countryAfter After a lapse of twentyfour years racing will be revived at the historic Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley Long Island when the United Hunts Racing Association holds its annual summer meeting there on Saturday June 14 There will be seven races in all The Silks about two miles over brush The Syosset about one mile and a half over hurdles the William B Streett about two miles and a half over brush the Bowman about one and threequarter miles over hurdles the O about one mile and a quarter on the flat the Piping Rock Cup about two miles over brush and the Cocktail Party Sweepstakes about six furlongs on the flat The latter race is for threeyearolds and older horses all entries to be owned or leased by members of the Piping Rock Club or members of the United Hunts Racing Association with the United Hunts the Piping Rock Club has appointed Cooperating an advisory race com ¬ mittee headed by William Woodward chairman of The Jockey Club and including Howard W Maxwell Joseph E Davis G H Pete Bostwick and Louis E Stoddard Jr
