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JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Jones on Pensive Twilight Tear A Missourian Without Curiosity Plan N Y VMeet at Belmont More Opportunities for Chasers ChasersNEW NEW YORK N Y June 2 A prime topic wherever railbirds gather concerns the relative merits of Pensive and Twilight Tear Big Chief Ben Jones of the Calumet tribe is questioned on this point at least a dozen times each day at Bel ¬ mont Park His great reluctance to commit himself only tends to pique interviewers in ¬ terest the more Now the matter has as ¬ sumed the character of a kind of game in which Jones friends try to badger or banter him into letting slip an opinion and the Missourian parries by changing the subjector equivocating For instance Granny Rice and your correspondent were chatting with him be ¬ tween races the other afternoon During an interval while Jones studied his pro ¬ gram Rice nudged us and whispered I am going to try to get a rise out of him He then raised his voice and remarked Ben I just heard a man say he would be willing to tap out on the proposition that Twilight Tear can beat Pensive five lengths whereas Jones smiled a d said Hummmmm Dropping the sham we asked if there were any possibility of Pen ¬ sive and Twilight Tear racing against each other this season I suppose so later on he supplied But of course they would be running as an entry thus would be rac ¬ ing rather more with than against one another anotherI I am not the least bit curious about who is the better runner the Calumet mentor said So long as Twilight Tear keeps on beating the fillies and Pensive wins the colt races I am more than satisfied Why I never thought of working the two together to find out how they compare It wouldnt do either of them the slightest good Mean ¬ while racegoers continue to specu ¬ late interestedly on the result of a match between the two It is by no means easy to make a good filly beat just a fair colt but the writer would like to give the riding orders for Twilight Tear if ever this hypotheti ¬ cal race were staged stagedCalumet Calumet Farm has amassed 288135 thus far this year but almost did not have rep ¬ resentation in either the 75000 Kentucky Derby 6r 10000 Coaching Club Oaks You may recall that Pensive picked up a nail in his final blowout for the Derby and Jones was no surer of starting him than he was that no infection would develop In her last work for the Oaks Twilight Tear rapped one of her most important legs and it filled so that when the trainer left the barn last Friday night he had not the vaguest notion she could fill the engage ¬ ment But it was tubbed and responded miraculously to treatment Some thought her sore in the Oaks but Jones says She never flexes her forelegs much and always appears to go stiff legged Twilight Tears developer believes she may conclude her racing career as the most valuable brood ¬ mare prospect in the country By Bull Lea from a Blue Larkspur mare she is bred acceptably it seems to us Tom OReilly described her temperament per ¬ fectly when he referred to her as Sleepy Time Gal GalMr Mr and Mrs Warren Wright have arrived from their Calumet estab ¬ lishment to witness Pensives Bel ¬ mont Stakes effort I think Pensive will give a good account of himself Jones estimated He is given to un ¬ derstatement Platter is a good colt and I believe lie is the one to beat he added Pensive has trained satis ¬ factorily for this final 50000 gem in the American Triple Crown His ankle wound of the Freakness has healed Jones respects Platter and fancies he may improve off the Bal ¬ timore stake but ventures to think Pensive has a right to improve some too It should be an interesting con ¬ test The Calumet braves will con ¬ tinue campaigning on Long Island until just previous to the Arlington Washington opener by the way wayChicago Chicago tracks will collaborate on a War Relief and Charity week of sport during the pretentious ArlingtonWashington sessloft this summer and New Yorks five clubjj will renew their Victory meet at the enfl of the season Some months from now if will be headline news probably that tfcfe Vmeet will be staged at Belmont Park in ¬ stead of at Jamaica JamaicaDebits Debits and credits Aqueduct 4 first condition book has made its ap pearance and it contains a liberaj sprinkling of 2500 and 3000 over nighters as well as opportunities for the hurdlers and chase talent
