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aturday June 10 1944 JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Chicago Is Wartime Saratoga N E Mich Stake Policies Differ Marsch Looks to the Futurities Hancock Makes Sporty Proposition PropositionTurns Turns With a Tote The summer turf prospectus out here in the provinces is a fascinating montag of Futurities record at ¬ tendances the Classic and the NARC conven ¬ tion The combined Arlington Washington meetings aie the mecca of thoroughbred talent from both coasts much as the Spa season is between wars The California delegation is quite as large as 43 s though Hollywood Park hopes to resume in Au ¬ gust In a testimonial to the m c of a testimonial dinner Lou Smith describes Tom Underwood as a capital fellow one of the champions of the American Turf Charley Kenney fancies that Twi ¬ light Tear will beat the colts too Thin popular theory may be tested in the cruci ¬ ble of the Arlington Classic July 22 Suzy is ineligible for the American Derby The only handicap mares Jack Campbell compliments with a Grade A rating are MarKell and Stefanita The Belmont Stakes result heightened his esteem for Bounding Home He had Bill Zieglers colt in Class C Pensive in A Miss Bunt ¬ ing this year has foaled a jaunty little brother to Occupy and Occupation who is called Unoccupied rather unimaginatively This is the centennial of Chicago rac ¬ ing and Fred Purner reminds that the Hyde Park which is the first stake on the ArlingtonWashington agenda had its in ¬ augural as long ago as 1884 1884The The New England and Michigan policies on stakes races are a study in contrasts Whereas some Down East tracks present overnight events in the guise of stakes the Detroit Fair Grounds has no stakes but offers 10000 and 15000 purses General manager G W Lewis is be ¬ comingly reluctant to charge horse ¬ men nominating fees in these days of record crowds and play But he Is discovering one cant please every ¬ body Bloodstock breeders wish be charged horsemen a nominal fee so that the mares which produce the winners of these extravagant purses might be correctly described as the dams of stakes winners Surely they are more deserving than the dams of the winners of satirical 2500 stakes elsewhere elsewhereR R S Latta who is secretary of the Platte County Agricultural Society writes us that a 21day meeting will be con ¬ ducted at Columbus Neb beginning on July 1 We feel it is the outstanding meefc in this section of the country he con ¬ tinues modestly Sundays and Mondays will be dark but the gloom will be ameli ¬ orated by seven races daily from Tuesday to Friday with eight on Saturdays and The Fourth of July The richest race of the meeting is the 500 Pawnee Handicap on the holiday R A Leigh will serve as presiding steward One M H Vanberg is a member of the official family whose function has us puzzled We hope Latta will pardon our naivete in asking what in tunket a Superintendent of Speed does Our bewildered Operative 6 wonders If this dignitary regulates the speed of the contestants contestantsJohn John Marsch who specializes in winning Futurities may not have an Occupy a Jezrahel or an Occupa ¬ tion among his twoyearolds this year He nevertheless holds a for ¬ midable hand in the Washington Park and Arlington Futurities again this summer What with an array of eight eligibles for each fixture there is some possibility he will over ¬ whelm the fields by sheer numbers The Chicago contractors most fa ¬ miliar candidates are Errard and Larky Errard was runnerup to Icangetit a 2800 yearling in the Joliet It will be interesting to note how these spring developments fare opposing the colts Ben Jones is shipping from Long Island Not for ¬ getting Col C V Whitneys Burgel Arab and Jeep or Lt Edward Lask ers Flood Town TownArthur Arthur B Hancock who is one of our favorite people likes to keep an occai sional filly foal for her intrinsic worth a8 a broodmare at his worldfamed Claibornt stud This summer he has two yearliril fillies that he fancies as prospective pro ¬ ducers One is a daughter of Stimulus Risk thus is a sister to Little Risk and a halfsister to Sky Larking Danger Point and Pericles The other is a filly by S Gallahad HI Sun Gamonia by Sun Briar Reluctant to deviate from his pol icy of offering all his best yearlings ao auction the Kentucky Parisian has hT6 upon an unusualand sporting solution fif proposes that both fillies be led into thf sales ring The highest bidder may hav his preference of the two The remaining filly will ultimately join Claibornes brood mare band
