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JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton The Fans Like the Seasons Frosh Calumet Looks to the Futurities Inception of Chi Racing Obscure Experts Disagree on Inaugural InauguralIn In all probability a Gallop Poll would disclose that Mr Average Racegoer thinks the 1944 threeyearolds no better than they should be la ¬ ments that the vicissi ¬ tudes of competition have reduced the handicap division to a lot of Four Fs but fancies the two year olds are a superior crop Those with whom we have discussed the seasons entertain ¬ ers almost invariably have given out with some such eruption of candor at any rate Coming events may retrieve his esteem for some of the markeddown threeyearolds and handicappers But Mr Average Race ¬ goers current enthusiasms are Flood Town Jeep BurgelArab Maransart and their classmates Those we have mentioned are generally believed to have a future Mr A R manifests a curiosity also in William Helis 66000 Pericles a colt who seems by way of becoming a textbook case how ¬ ever And the fact Ben Jones has not started any of Calumets bluebookish colts and fillies tends to heighten their interest in these future bearers of the famed Devils Red The Helis and Wright horses are coming to Washington Park Whether the luckless Pericles will actually debut here is on the knees of the gods but it seems certain some of Calumets papooses will braid a figurative feather in their scalp locks and go on the warpath It may prove pertinent to note Wright has the identical halfdozen colts eligible for both the Washington Park and Arlington Fu ¬ turities These are Battlefire Chesty CoastaBit Full Stride Hail Victory and Pot o Luck Perhaps the 1945 Derby win ¬ ner will emerge from that group groupMr Mr Wright likes to develop Derby horses trainer Jones said in ex ¬ hibiting his twoyearolds recently And in order to do that one must give them a chance to grow and stay sound during their first season at the races Full Stride is owner breeder Wrights preference of his newcomers The distinguishing fact he is a halfbrother to Pensive will make this strapping chestnut the cynosure of all eyes when finally he debuts He paddles a bit with one leg but may like Pompey get there just the same sameOne One can never be sure about horses It often falls out paradoxically that those colts with the soundest runninggear en ¬ counter some mishap which shelves them prematurely whereas stablemates with a predisposition to unsoundness will experi ¬ ence better luck and train on Flood Town Big Deal and Maransart will never be ar ¬ rested for obstructing traffic but we have the impression BurgelArab is the swiftest juvenile uncovered thus far in 44 It is exceedingly rare however that precocity and Derby caliber are embodied in one horsehide If heaven forfend your cor ¬ respondent were given carte blanche and had to acquire a Derby prospect right now we should devote a great deal of considera ¬ tion to Jeep He is not so rapid from the gate as Flood Town his nemesis of the Belmont spring stakes but he is a growthy sort with a lot of moxie moxieThoroughbred Thoroughbred racing in Chicago celebrates its centennial this season regardless of some disagreement by turf historians on the exact year of the games introduction here John Herveys research indicates that first meet was of three days duration in October 1844 and that the course was somewhere in the vicinity of the South Side The late W S Vosburghs works include a chapter on the origin of Chicago racing in which he says In 1864 racing was begun at Chi ¬ cago by a meeting of four days in September at the Driving Park Springfield also gave a meeting of six days in November Then followed an interval of four years during which there was little racing in Illi ¬ nois This much is certain The beginning of Chicago racing was So unpretentious and obscure that its present popularity seems to warrant at least a moderate fandango in the streetsWriting streets Writing a lettertotheeditor of a blood ¬ stock breeders periodical on the tempesttfc ous subject of claiming races a California for whom we give three rousing cheers said If claiming prices are raised so that there is some sensible relation betweeii purses and the value of the contestants the problem will solve itself
