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Charles Hatton THE JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Count Distinguishes L I Card KingsPlate Today Open Race Study Disqualification Rule Turf Course Racing in Vogue NEW YORK N Y May 21 21Count Count Fleet Americas No 1 sports figure will sail over the mile of the coveted Withers tomorrow afternoon and even that disillusioned old cynic Operative 6 78 fancies he will be making far too many knots to be becalmed by his intrepid few rivals The appearance of the fabulous runner who flies charming Mrs John Hertz gay yellow colors will focus the attention of turf enthusiasts everywhere on Belmont Park this weekend Just as his presence at Jamaica Churchill Downs and Pimlico gave those courses a memorable day in the sun Later on after the Belmont Stakes he will turn up at Washington Park where he is in the Classic and American Derby so that westerners who did not see the Kentucky Derby need not feel they suffered some permanent privation While the CFIW Club which now is a larger and more partisan fraternity than even the GOP hikes to Belmont tomorrow Canadians who are choosy about horses will attend The Kings Plate at Woodbine This gallop for the Guineas is the Dominions most famous annual turf spectable and 30000 are con ¬ fidently expected to be present to see Willie Morrisseys Arbor Vita attempting to justify a popular notion he is the smartest of rather a wellbalanced field Canadas glamorous Kings Plate is followed Sunday by one of the most significant and valuable turf features on the agenda of our other neighbor Mexico This is the Handicap Naciqnale at Mexico Citys elaborate new Hipodromo where Gold Rust a threeyearold brown gelding by Time Maker sire of Time Supply last Sunday captured the inaugural Mexican Derby DerbyThe The Handicap Nacionale probables are largely unfamiliar to turf folk in int t he States but that some prominent American patrons are interesting them ¬ selves in Mexican racing is illustrated by the fact that Mrs Al Sabaths Cross Tide and Charley Howards Yankee Dandy are Nacionale nominees nomineesGold Gold Rust lends himself to chronic scoffers as rather an easy target So many know so little about him other than that he did nothing at two and began unobtru ¬ sively as a plater at the scenic Hipodromo last winter But the Mexican Derby victor may be traced to American bloodstock breedings very own doorstep for better or worse His pedigree has distinctly Virginian overtones This observer would not care to advance the point there is any real analogy but we are reminded that Calumets unrecognizably improved filly Nellie L recent heroine of the Kentucky Oaks and Belmonts Acorn was herself a plater not to say an extremely soregoing one only last winter at New Orleans Fair Grounds Allen Simmons persistent and consistent Blue Swords will appear next at Aqueduct according to that affable little Celt Walter Kelley who so delights newsmen exchanging badinage with Don Cameron Of course this implies Blue Larkspurs son will not appear for the Belmont Stakes unless Kelley changes his plans as is his prerogative At the moment the Dwyer is Blue Swords next important objective objectiveI I like that horse Kelley says of his Akronowned charge He is doing everything I have asked of him over at Jamaica and there are a number of summer stakes in which he would not have to beat Count Fleet to win he continued hopefully These include the 10000 added Jersey Handicap of a mile and a furlong on August 21 at Garden State Park Kelley proposes to race Bright Willie and Eire also during the summer season in Jersey which begins July 7 and extends 50 days Mondays excluded through September 11 One of the American turfs debatable rules is that governing disqualifications In most racing strongholds a rule is either being enforced or adopted that permits stewards to place disqualified runners in another of the money positions positionsThis This department is convinced after discussing the matter with some of the New York solons that the disqualification rule by which the Ahorse that committed the foul is automatically placed last will continue on the books in this state stateHerbert Herbert Bayard Swope appointed a committee to study this rule about five years ago one of the Belmont officials said and it has not found sufficient reason for changing it The thought on this important and controversial subject hereabouts seems to be that the rule which places the guilty entrant last tends to discourage conni ¬ vance among unscrupulous riders It seems scarcely possible our recent reference to the expense of main ¬ taining Belmont Parks 1600 stalls will go unchallenged So we now take occasion to ad lib that horsemen indeed rent these stabling accommodations from the Westchester Association AssociationThe The sum however figures out to a mere 15 cents per day per stall stallMany Many owners have found a way of making these accommodations pay for themselves and then some leasing stables so that they may purchase and store hay and other feedstuffs in February or March before the annual price Detroits 73day summer turf season will be inaugurated tomorrow afternoon at the Fair Grounds with the Boots and Saddle Handicap a run of six furlongs to which the Association adds 5000 garnishing the opening program Racing secretary Charles F Henry will have 900000 to spread over the Detroit program with a mini ¬ mum of 1000 1000In In addition to its steeplechase course one of the Motor City tracks boasts is a turf strip over which some of the sport will be presented a la Hialeah Park ParkThe The Detroit meeting will not be without its name horses particularly in the three yearold division A well and favorably known aspirant for the stakes attractions is Mrs Ethel V Mars No Wrinkles who came creditably near defeating Ocean Wave on one exciting occasion at Louisville LouisvilleIn In past seasons the Michigan track has been the scene of some memorable performances by Cavalcade Seabiscuit Myrtlewood Whopper and Azucar The last nameds owner Fred Alger is among the leaders in a movement to foster highclass hedge racing at Detroit DetroitTurf Turf course racing is a novel and colorful phase of competition at Hialeah and Chicago Doubtless it will help relieve any humdrum monotony of racing on the main course also at Detroit Fred Parks of the NSHA doubts if ever it will be possible to develop grasstrack competition in this country to a point it challenges use of skinned tracks however due to the length of meetings in America AmericaFour Four of the ArlingtonWashington stakes this summer are scheduled to be decided on the turf we note these affairs totalling 25000 in added money
