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JUDGES STAND STANDBy By Charles Hatton Durazna Makes 1944 Debut Soon Secret of Col C Vs Success Old Rock Gives Platers Their Due Present Indicative of Thumbs Up UpDebits Debits and Credits Les Combs clever Durazna who is expected to be one of the most scintillant stars in the threeyearold filly constellation will Make her longdelayed 44 debut this week if the conditions of the Lincoln at Haw ¬ thorne races present an opportunity for it John Marschs Occupy winner of the Belmont and Washington Park versions of the Fu ¬ turity and leading two yearold money winner of 43 also is looking for a race The race course proper at Hawthorne is a strip of loam travelled by much turf history in the making It was opened in 1891 and is easily the oldest rac ¬ ing surface in the Chicago area Nick Burger has received a liberal offer for Traffic Court The bid came from a Blue Grass breeding farm which regards her as a worthwhile broodmare prospect despite her rather alienating past imperfect as a producer at Col C V Whitneys place Some papers accounts of the Mutiny on The Suffolk were gross exaggerations v The Washington Park Futurity which boasts an estimated gross value of 70000 is the objective of Henry Tikulskis Joliet victor a sizeable son of Stagehand encum ¬ bered with the improbable name of lean getit Tikulski is a Joliet contractor California breeders are pondering an or ¬ ganized effort to buy undesirable brood ¬ mares and sell them down the river sans registration papers Detroit Fair Grounds meet is a kind of exhibition of Johnny Adams saddle virtuosity with ac ¬ companying horse races so far does he excel rival riders there thereCol Col Sonny Whitney does not see much racing these days as he is pre ¬ occupied with the war but he did manage to run over to Pimlico from swish Chevy Chase for a brief visit in the spring and inspected Andy Schuttingers division one or two mornings at Belmont Park The suc cess of his twoyearolds has been the talk of the tracks all spring He began the season with 19 shared by Lydell Ruff in the West and Schut tinger in the East Jeep Burgel Arab Hindu Rush Future Hero Crawfish Monsoon Red Pixie Fly ¬ weight and Calm Seas have won Flyweight and Jeep are stakes win ¬ ners indeed and BurgelArab set awed railbirds to reminiscing about his fabulously fast sire Boojum Hindu Kush is bred to stay indefi ¬ nitely Farm manager Ivor Balding attributes much of this success to the fact All but two or three of our twoyearolds are sound whereas we had only two or three sound ones in former crops Need we add that makes a vast difference Several precocious Whitney kindergarteners have yet to appear These include Recce a blonde daughter of Mah moud and Ekkys sister Schwester who exhibited a good deal of verve dash schmaltz and floyfloy at the farm It may interest Bill Corum that the aptlynamed Flyweight is getting good again We could wish in the best interests of bloodstock breeding that all the racing impresari took Lou Smiths realistic view about stakes races I am under no delu ¬ sions about the caliber of horses we have in New England the whilom promoter said but Rockingham will continue its policy of offering horsemen all the purse money business warrants without any pre ¬ tensions to competing with New York If platers are the medium of outsize handles then horsemen are entitled to share com mensurately in the clubs success it seems to me We plan 5000 features on week ¬ ends but these will not be designated as stakes events As we have previously noted in quoting Charley McLennan Down East owners include all too few yearling buyers and breeders They prefer readymade horses irrespective of whether they have class This indifference Is an intrinsically decadent thing thingLouis Louis B Mayers familiar red and blue livery will be flown at Arling ¬ tonWashington again this summer Carl Roles confidence Thumbs Up will fill engagements in Ben Lind i heimers imposing roster of 50000 handicaps indicates the bluebookish son of Blenheim II Gas Bag has mended He developed a hot spot in the spring it was said Thumb Up has won 128245 and Harry Hart hopes fondly lie will captur other such distinguishing fixtures a the Havre de Grace and Washington handicaps before embarking on a stud career at the Mayer Farm A California We should think Thumbs Up will exert a good influence 01 West Coast bloodstock He hal proved a bargain for the resourcefu Mayer who acquired him for 3505 Over the Spa yearling counter
