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reflections! , By Nelson Dunstan Shut Out Worthy Rival for Alsab Market Wise Ready for Suburban Belmont Stakes Decides Supremacy What Good Is a Horseless Parade? NEW YORK, N. Y., May 27. Shut Out, winner of the Kentucky Derby, gave a demonstration at Belmont on Tuesday which stops any talk or ideas that Alsab has only to run around the track before entering the winners circle on Belmont day. He will have to run around it, of course, but if Shut Out can run the mile and a half the way he runs a mile and a quarter, Alsab will have to step along at a clip somewhat akin to his Champagne MARKET WISE His flashy nine-furlong workout last Sunday indicates he is in top form for his Suburban Handicap engagement. Stakes victory last year. In winning the Ballot Handicap, Shut Out gave Challedon two pounds on the scale and a five-length beating. In running the one and one-eighth miles in 1:48, he was but two-fifths of a second off the track record that has stood since Hot Toddy established it in 1929. But more significant, he worked out the mile and a quarter in 2:02, and, mister, have you ever stopped to figure how many horses have run that classic distance in that time? True, he carried but 112 pounds and will have to tote 126 in the Belmont. But he amply demonstrated there was no fluke in his Derby victory, and right now he is the most logical opponent for Alsab over one and a half miles. It will be the Derby winner against the Preak-ness winner and may the best colt win! More important, it will be the meeting . of two colts that will draw a throng on the day that has been designated "Army and , Navy Day," meaning it will be War Relief day! George Washington Carroll has little patience with those who maintain the Suburban honors rest with Whirlaway or Attention. Louis Tufano has less. The Long: Island contractor has always been of the opinion that Market Wise could defeat the Calumet champion and that Decoration Day is the same as any other day. They admire both Whirlaway and Attention, ; you understand, but it is the mention of Market -Wise that brings a sparkle to their eyes and quickened interest to their Suburban talk. They really had something to talk about after their horse worked on Sunday in the early morning hours. He was clocked in :23i, :47, 1:11, 1:38 and com- pleted a mile and a furlong in 1:53. Like others before him, Market Wise 1 has never been -very impressive in his workouts, so in that outing he did himself proud. After a race in which he defeated Attention, he was by no means impressive in The Widener at Hialeah last winter. However, in the Grey Lag Handicap he finished second and in the Metropolitan he was third ; to Attention and Pictor, the latter closing like a bullet to be a short neck in front at the finish. But Sundays workout suggests he is again at his peak, and if that is so the Suburban winner will have him to beat. This years Dixie renewal at Pimlico was one of the most thrilling ever seen a the old Baltimore course. Whirlaway, Attention, Mioland and Challedon, with bu one and one-half lengths between the first and fourth horses. Add Market Wise t that quartet and you probably have a chapter of history in the making. The pas five Suburban renewals have been run under 2:03, the fastest being the 2:01 . registered by Snark In 1938. Both Aneroid and Eight Thirty won in 2:01, thi I latter carrying 127 pounds. Whirlaway, with 129 pounds, will be the high weigh on Saturday, while Market Wise and Attention will tote 124 each and Challedon 122 Another renewal under 2:03 looks to be certain and, unless there is a stunning upset the winner appears to be in that group. There are quite a few light weights wh have recently won and among them are Painted Veil at 112, Cant Wait and Corydoi at 109 and Beautiful II. at 102. Whoever the winner, it should result in one o the best races of the season and also have a direct bearing on the seasons cham j j pionship among the older horses. At the weights, it will be the sternest task Whirl away has faced this yeai. Grover Whalens decision that the great parade to be staged in New York on June 13 shall be horseless is not popular with those who contend a parade without horses would be like a circus without elephants. Mr. Whalen, as chairman of the mayors committee for mobilization of New York at War, has explained that Army officials wanted to emphasize mechanized warfare. But the officials of the American Rough Riders and other organizations are high in protest, pointing out that Germany is using 300,000 horses and also that the cavalry horse has played a prominent part in stopping the German hordes from running rough shod over Russian soil. Editorially, the New York Herald-Tribune says: "To dismiss the horse as outmoded and not worthy of taking a prominent place in a big Fifth Avenue parade is going a little too far. Until shown better arguments, we must remain, in this crisis, definitely, unalterably and vigorously pro-horse." What we fail to understand is that while Army officers continue to maintain the cavalry is still a useful unit in our armed forces, why these same Army officers wish to stress only mechanized equipment, with the horse ignored. From Washington to Pershing, the Army horse has played his part in military pa-fc rades. t 5 From San Francisco we have a set of t photographs and an interesting story of s the Tanforan track, where 7,500 Japs are s housed. Its a strange tale they tell and t one that some day will make a unique chapter in the annals of American race courses. The Japs are having a good time in the area that now has 169 new houses on the site. There is work for only 600 Japs and for the others life is what they r make it. There are athletic games for the " young people, along with sewing bees, so-- cial gatherings, dances, vaudeville shows, hikes around the track and the sailing of boats on the infield ponds. American flags and MacArthur buttons are prominent. Little trouble is experienced,- as those housed there have been instilled wilti the thought that it is for their own protection as well as this countrys. No visible resentment or oitterness is shown by the residents, in fact, most of them look upon it as a summer resort with a good time the one and only consideratiion. It is expected that Tanforan will be closed as a concentration camp some time this summer, as the Relocation Board is establishing permanent centers for all Japanese in the inland states.
