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JUDGES STAND By Charles Harton West Develops Good Horses Too Devil Divers Future in Doubt The Suburban and Racing Luck Holiday Racegoers as Patriots PatriotsNEW NEW YORK N Y June 1 It is a curious fact that many connois ¬ seurs of the thoroughbred in New York are prone to take an upstage attitude toward horses racing elsewhere in the country We can ¬ not guess the reason but even the late Wal ¬ ter Spencer Vosburgh who was perhaps the foremost handicapper of our time took a jaundiced view of the form west of the Hud ¬ son Possibly New York horses were superior to those in the interior back around the turn of the century when Sysonby Colin Artful and other famous equines were creating such challenging rec ¬ ords In any case there now exists no apparent difference in the general quality of eastern and western performers A good many provincial Gothamites seem to be making this discovery the hard way in the mutuels In late years two such titans as Alsab and Whirlaway have crossed the Alleghenies and flouted easterners preju ¬ dice There also is the case of Myrtlewood In all probability she is the most capable race mare of recent years And yet she never appeared in the East As if to rub it in John Marschs Occupation and Occupy shipped from Chicago and won the world famed Belmont Futurity of 1942 and 1943 But one need not search the records any farther back than the past week at Bel ¬ mont Park to find plenty of evidence that the notion New York has all the best horses is a fallacy for Twilight Tear dev ¬ astated the local threeyearold filly talent in the Oaks and at the close of the Subur ¬ ban the westerners Aletern Sun Again and Alquest were onetwothree onetwothreeDevil Devil Divers deflection from the Suburban was a source of keen dis ¬ appointment to his many admirers Not the least of these is trainer John Gaver who observed wryly He cer ¬ tainly picked an inopportune time to go lame Devil Diver bruised his right foreheel A pus sac formed which was lanced That afforded Mrs Whitneys good homebred some relief and will enable his connections to determine the extent of the dam ¬ age It was a similar injury in the same leg that shelved him last year Gaver recalls Perhaps it may be ascribed to his action The American Trainers Association of which Gaver is the president plans a di ¬ rectors meeting within the next fortnight It will be represented at the NARC confer ¬ ence in Chicago which begins July 3 and continues through July 6 We are not prepared to say what the ATA will advo ¬ cate exactly but you may be sure it is something calculated to further high class racing The annual meeting of the organ ¬ ization will take place in Maryland next fall fallSun Sun Again will have ample oppor ¬ tunity to avenge his defeat by Ale tern in the Suburban during the summer season at ArlingtonWash ¬ ington Most disgruntled backers of Calumets gauginred stallion charge his Suburban reversal to Conn Mc Crearys overconfidence At any rate Accountant Ernst was winning easily the most opulent stake that has fallen to his lot and the fact he bred both the hitherto unsung Aletern and the hardhitting Alquest must be an inspiration Most of those who backed the Ernst entry did so in the expectation Alquest would win There is a bright say ¬ ing the luck of racing comes out even in the end The Suburban recompenses for the mishap to Alorter Bloodstock breeding pundits liave noted a rather strange coinci ¬ dence in the pedigrees of Aletern and Alquest The former is by Eternal the latter from an Eternal mare His name so rarely appears in the pedigress of stakes winners nowadaysAll nowadays All the returns from the Memorial programs have not been counted but it estimated that Belmont Lincoln Fie and Bay Meadows raised an aggregate of about 300000 for War Relief and charity This is a development of the spectacle of Man versus Machine which deserve much more publicity than it is likely t6 receive Not much is made of racing as 4 stimulus to the sale of War Bonds either And Belmont alone Js contributing some four tons daily to ttie paper drive While the total attendance at the 14 tracks oper ¬ ating Memorial Day is placed at 264467 it far exceeded even that actually for service men are not counted
