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JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Jersey Act May Be Rescinded BurgelArabs Debut Pleasing Bounding Home Engaged in Del Beulah Pays 8 on 35 Choice ChoiceLEXINGTON LEXINGTON Ky June 7 Turf iana The new Kentucky State Rac ¬ ing Commission will play a prominent role in the NARC conclave at Chicago next montn its enterpris ¬ ing chairman Les Combs has consulted turf solons of other states on administra ¬ tive matters The Thoroughbred Club of America is making a quiet but purposeful effort to remove the English Stud books barsinister against this countrys descend ¬ ants of Lexington Britishbred descend ¬ ants of the Blind Hero of Woodburn through Orby now are accepted First the American Stud Book must be revised to avoid an incongruity by itself admitting certain halfbreds The Kentucky Turf Writers Association plans an annual Derby Dinner somewhat similar to New York Turf Scribes festive Saratoga affair which will be resumed after the war Maryland Virginia and Blue Grass year ¬ lings are getting a generally better start in life than the 1943 crop enjoyed as a result of the relieved drought That scientific treatise You and Heredity which should be read by every bloodstock breeder makes the point that the sires influence is more pronounced in female progeny the dams in the male offspring Col C V Whitneys Boojiana is the one to beat in Thursdays revival of Delaware Parks 7500 Delaware Oaks at a mile and a furlongs Shut Out is unwinding The name of Ohios new 50000 pacing classic the Little Brown Jug sounds like a satire on Canadas Cup and Saucer All that now remains is for some one to name a stake The Goboon Sportsmans spring meet benefitted Illinois taxpayers to the tune of 23714610 we are advised by the Racing Board Ben Lmdheimer is chairman of the Arrangement Committee planning NARC activity Flood Town is in the Arlington Futurity His owner named only the obscure OxBlood for the Washington Park version versionBurg Burg el Arabs showy performance in his Belmont debut occasioned re ¬ joicing among Ivor Balding and his staff at the C V Whitney farm on the Paris Pike where The Burglar and Boojiana received their spring training Along with the stretch running Jeep he is in the various futurities east and west Balding thinks The unusual thing about BurgrelArab is that for all his size speed is his forte Few such biff colts have such straight hind legs legsWarren Warren Wright probably agrees with Col E R Bradley that the old saw everything happens in cycles of three contains more truth than superstition There is 100000 worth of evidence in the fact his devils red was second in a sequence of three stakes within a weeks time Sun Again placing in the Suburban MarKell in the Top Flight and Pensive the Belmont Pensive was beaten by a logical strategy at his own game Bill Zieglers homegrown Virginian Bounding Home came from behind him rather disconcertingly Pensives brightest remaining opportunities of the summer are in Chicagos Classic and American Derby The Dwyer Yankee Handicap and 50000 Empire City Stakes require him to make ponderable weight concessions Bounding Home is in neither the Classic or American Derby The son of Espino is however in Delawares 7500 Diamond State Stakes of nine furlongs on June 29 The Belmont was disappointing not only because Pensive was defeated at 12 but for the reason Platter came back lame The suspicion grows that the threeyearold fillies are superior to the colts a thing that stimulates interest in next months Classic Miss Keeneland Twilight Tear Durazna and Harriet Sue are nominees for that one oneA A trackrecord crowd of 12000 as ¬ sembled at Beulah Park on Memorial Day and witnessed the spectacle of an association paying 8 on a 35 shot A confused oddsboard operator transposed the prices on Wise Mar ¬ garet and Sis Wagner so that the former was 35 and the latter 31 Sis Wagner won and her actual price 320 was posted The crowd objected so vociferously that Robert Dienst the clubs prexy announced an 8 mutuel assuming a loss of 480 oh each 2 ticket This gesture cost the management 36000 State in spectors had ruled the track couldi pay off 320 if it wished
