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Charles Hatton THE JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Juvenile Draws Eastern Babes New Rumors About California Turf NEW YORK N Y May 19 19The The smartest twoyearolds developed thus far in the young turf season along the Atlantic seaboard will appear Saturday at Belmont in the sixtyseventh edition of the Juvenile An epidemic of coughing and bucked shins has so retarded the progress of Long Islands crop of newcomers this spring that outsize fields in the chute scram ¬ bles are a rarity Saturdays baby parade will take some winning however Two George Bull s Complex Problem Maryland Season Still in Muddle interesting ehgibles are Mrs Ethel duPqnt Weirs leggy Galactic who is destined for chasing and won the Pim lico Nursery and George Wideners Lucky Draw who rather unexpectedly captured Jamaicas Youthful These geldings are best recommended of the effete Easts more precocious beginners Then there is the King Ranchs slickrunning Depth Charge who is excusably upstage about being a son of Bold Venture Quickly Not to mention Joseph Wideners Step Wisely a lightfooted Wise Counsellor filly It need not astonish anyone how ¬ ever if the winner is a firsttime starter as was Long champs Mrs Ames when she accounted for the Fashion Stakes with such impressive facility Mrs Ames is not a Juvenile candidate but she may reappear in the National Stallion At any rate the Juvenile appears quite as in ¬ scrutable as the Withers seems simple to the element Hendrik Wilem Van Loon refers to as that little stinker the average man Belmonts Juvenile is decided down the Widener chute where on a clear day one can see virtually all the last quarter mile Every few years someone suggests the customers vote at the turnstiles on whether to abandon or con ¬ tinue using this straightaway but none ever has been taken quite The Westchester Racing Association justifies it with tote department statistics These show generally larger handles on sprints decided down the chute chuteHollywood Hollywood Park has a chance so it is said by those who if they are merely guessing can achieve a knowing air that would do credit to any Thespian in the film capital We would like to think this improbable report is true The native sons have millions of dollars invested in the thoroughbred industry Nearly every cent of it is a liability now Probably a resumption of racing at Jack Mackenzies ultramodern course would mean assuming a risk of heavy losses with scant prospect of much profit to the association under the present rather stifling circumstances But it would help the little fellow in Golden State racing And he is the most important individual in the entire sphere of any commonwealths turf in the final analysis analysisCertain Certain associations prefer to await the wars termination to adopt the graduated purses plan Pimlico however intends to adopt this economically sound proposal these duration days beginning at the Maryland Jockey Clubs annual fall season seasonRather Rather a contentious point that has arisen in connection with this project Is that trainers of the bad horses who are in the majority want the purse mini mums retained urging associations to simply contribute more money to purses for mediumgrade entertainers This has not been seized upon at all enthu ¬ siastically by some of Americas turf impresari as you may well imagine Certain promoters seem as mercenary about it as are horsemen with sizable strings of platers preferring to encompass the program without any notable increase in their prize distribution by establishing a reduced minimum purse for the cheaper horses George Bull may quite possibly be losing that weight without troubling to adhere to any Spartan reducing diet If the Saratoga and Empire prexy feels a little harassed these tumultuous days we should not wonder wonderThis This observers guess as to the setting of Saratogas sporty August meeting conforms to nearly everybody elses freestyle prediction it will come to rest at Aque ¬ duct But do not imagine that a comparison of the bare tote statistics at Belmont and the Queens Countys summer meeting affords any incontrovertible evidence of eithers status as a logical choice For reasons that are many complex and profound the track with the lesser handle may be the choicer locale Belmont for instance may attract a greater daily average play than will Aqueduct though that now famous Belmont spur is rather shamefully idle and the duck is on a L I R R stop But Belmont also has the higher overhead It costs approximately 5000 weekly to operate the park exclusive of a 35000 weekly tote bill billA A factor that raises Belmont Parks overhead is that there are 1600 stalls on its 450 acres It stables twothirds of the Long Island horse population paying about 15000 taxes annually plus the upkeep of these stalls and the various Belmont racing strips The Westchester Racing Association may be said to assume a part of the tax arid maintainence burdens of Jamaica and Aqueduct in a sense because it stables and provides training facilities for the vast majority of Long Island thoroughbreds Neither Belmont nor Aqueduct seems likely to make any appreciable sum boarding Saratoga while that association could enjoy its most successful meeting in years at either course only for that 86 per cent state and federal tax Mexico Citys inaugural of the Mexican Derby last Sunday with nearly 40000 present for the gala occasion provided enthusiasts of the sport there with a glamor horse to admire in Gold Rust an hitherto obscure animal who never had started on a recognized American track The meeting at the Hipodromo is rising to its climax these days according to Galloping Joe Grossman its suntanned ambassador Next Sundays competition will be featured by the Handicap National of 20000 pesos at a mile and a sixteenth with the seasons piece tie resistance scheduled for the following Sunday This is the Handicap de las Americas of 100000 pesos added about 25000 for threeyearolds and upward over a mile and a quarter Gold Rust is among the 19 nominees nomineesPresident President Manuel Avila Camacho of Mexico is one of the stanch supporters of his countrys young thoroughbred industry having tempted Rand A Coward last winter with a substantial offer for Marriage Bruno Pagliai head of the Hipodromo and president Pablo Macedo of the Mexican Jockey Club are in ¬ terested in obtaining sires and mares as the nucleus of a bloodstock breeding business which they fondly hope will in time make Mexico independent of outside stock stockMarylands Marylands spring turf season began and ended with an extraordinarily successful Pimlico meeting What course it will pursue in the autumn is anyones guess at the moment with one set of tentative dates totaling 73 programs the other indicating a 30day run afc Baltimore Meanwhile Garden State Park Jerseys spic and span new course will be a boon to the Old Line States racing men this summer especially with Delawares meeting cancelled cancelledGarden Garden State must change certain physical features of its plant within five years according to law but is eyenhpwenhancing the decor of Its clubhouse wifh huge racing murals etc etc
