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JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton HattonAptly Aptly Named Durazna Is a Peach Challenges Twilight Tears Status Combs to Explore Timely Topic Chi Racegoers and Emily Post PostAnd And the female of the species is more deadly than the male So goes an euphoni ¬ ous old saw that seems apropos when the conversation turns to the threeyearold fil ¬ lies After Twilight Tears tour de force of the Pimlico Oaks the Coaching Club Ameri ¬ can Oaks and the Acorn Stakes a good many turfmen were convinced she is superior not only to the rest of the fil ¬ lies but to the colts as well Now Durazna has reappeared on the scene and they are less sanguine For Durazna pronounced Du rathna is a peach as any Spaniard can tell you There is an engaging prospect that these young Amazons may meet in next Wednesdays 10000 Princess Doreen Stakes at six furlongs or in another of Arlingtons features for the sex such as the Matron and Cleopatra Probably it would be an error of omission to write about Twi ¬ light Tear and Durazna and neglect mak ¬ ing some reference to a striking similarity in their pedigrees Both are byv Warren Wrights splendid young Bull Dog stallion Bull Lea and from mares by Blue Larkspur The rather significant coincidence abruptly ends there however Duraznas dam is Myrtlewood a celebrated runner in her own right whereas the tractable Twilight Tears dam was strangely so cantankerous that she could not be trained Indeed she was sold by Calumet before her daughter exhibited such talent Speed is the forte of both Twilight Tear and Durazna Their performances are characterized by an ex hilerating verve and bounce and Suzie proved in the Coaching Club she can stay stayBrownell Brownell Combs has developed a number of high class fillies never sweats them for the brass and cherishes them as potential produc ¬ ers Offhand we recall Sweetheart and Manta as forerunners to Myrtle wood and her lovely daughters Miss Dogwood and Durazna The latter trio are from the internationally famous family of Frizette a running and producing tribe Another recent filly champion that stems from it is Belairs Vagrancy by Bull Dogs brother Sir Gallahad III IIIBecause Because he was secretary of the West Virginia State Racing Commission and now is chairman of Kentuckys turf governing body Les Combs would seem singularly qualified to discourse on the subject of interstate recognition of rulings at the NARC convention Not we hasten to add because these commissions have been de ¬ plorably remiss in the matter But rather because Combs has served on two commis ¬ sions that is in itself experiencing we should guess It would be perhaps fatuous to moralize that states should cooperate in eliminating undesirables so you shall be spared that Racing men will be interested in Combs address And even more in ¬ tensely interested we think in what the commissioners do in connection with this important matter after they have ad ¬ journed and returned to their separate bailiwicks When we recall the abortive result of a movement to establish a weight minimum on a national basis for instance we are seized with a sense of futility But such sweeping reforms can be achieved if the commissioners determine to stand together And if our friend Combs will pardon a seeming impertinence we hope that he will touch on the failure to make rulings which seems to us to represent a greater menace than the comparatively iso ¬ lated instances of commissions failure to recognize one anothers rulings He might even give a fillip to his remarks by quoting from the Merritt dossier dossierOutoftown Outoftown visitors to Washing ¬ ton Park are always taken by incur ¬ able surprise when they observe club ¬ house patrons reserve a chair on the lawn merely by leaving a coat on the seat or tying a handkerchief to the arm Even more extraordinary is the spectacle of late arrivals po ¬ litely respecting thir law of first come first served instead of bland ¬ ly pocketing the hanky and reclining in the chair as so many public gath ¬ erings would we are sure It re ¬ stores ones faith in society societyDebits Debits and Credits An exasperated Pinky Grimes one of the California dele ¬ gation at Homewood reports that his per ¬ verse charge With Regards now goes soundly but has yet to display the speed he did while unsound The NARC might devote some thought to lobbying for a law which would put wayward turfmen who take recourse to the courts in position of suing the States rather than the commis ¬ sioners as individuals Webb Everett reckons Sun Again a sevenpound better miler than is Occupation in the Equipoise
