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oMt 4j£S JUDGES STAND I By Charles Hation — — ■ —-— — — — — Armed Forces May Take Suburban Today Suffolk Bids for Better Grade Horses Keynote Qualifies for Astoria Stakes Delaware Park Now More Accessible NEW YORK, N. Y., May 29. East and West, the racing this Memorial Day will be something pretty special. We suppose that Armeds effort in the 0,000 Suburban here at Belmont will attract the most attention and probably the largest crowd. Brilliant as the field certainly is, Armed looms a staunch favorite. "He has come up to the race in good condition," says trainer Jimmy Jones. "I should have liked to run him in a short race ahead of the Suburban, but he worked in 1:12 at Havre before he came here." Owner-breeder Warren Wright will be on from Kentucky to see the Suburban, by the way, and the handicap leader is to move to Arlington Park early next week, joining the others of the large Calumet string which Ben Jones has there. It is doubtful whether anyDoay win care io aeny mat Armea is me lasiest iiorse in uie Suburban field. The richest is the gray First Fiddle, who will Join the select circle of 00,000 winners if he is successful. Incidentally, it is hard to believe that he and Stymie were ever anything so crass as selling platers, but the former was claimed for ,500 and the latter for ,500. Eddie Mulrenan, the owner of First Fiddle, is the son-in-law of the late "Father Bill" Daly, for whom he used to gallop horses. Suffolk Downs 36 days began in a way to encourage the new owners of the huge East Boston course and they are bidding for a higher grade of horses with a sharp increase over 45 purse distribution. The book for the first 15 days at this meeting represents an outlay of 17,000 as against 35,000 for the same period last summer, and the purse minimum has been boosted from ,600 to ,500. William Helis, who is a leading stockholder, has a division of 15 head on the grounds, and topped even Maine Chance in the number of stake nominations. There was a rather humorous incident in connection with the opening, by the way. Massachusetts is the first state, other than Maryland to adopt the mobile saliva test method. The trailer stalled at New London en route to Suffolk, a matter of hours before the first post time and there was a furry of excited telephoning among the officials of three states. The upshot of it was that the mice completed the journey accompanied by the sirens of police escorts of Conneticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. It would have been embarrassing were they late. Two-year-old filly stakes are going to provide some spirited sport this summer, according to all present indications. First Flight tied an 18-year-old chute record in the Fashion, and Keynote was only a split second behind her in a later race. Mrs. Phipps filly, a well-bred daughter of Mahmoud and Notebook, confirmed her showy form in her debut when she again beat a smart field in the Patricia. Many promising fillies do not run as well as they work. Keynote is better than she seemed and her connections were agreeably surprised. Of course, everybody remembers now that her dam won the Selima. Her first stakes chance hereabout comes in Aqueducts 0,000 Astoria on June 8. The smartest two-year-old filly uncovered in the Middle-West is A. B. Hancock, Jr.s, "gift horse" Blue Grass by Blue Larkspur, and Willie Crump may saddle her in some eastern stakes. In the Far West, the L. B. Mayer filly Distaff has many admirers. She ran in record time at Santa Anita, pricking her ears in the process. Then there are many like Calumets Jane Gail and Brownell Combs Spring Beauty yet to be heard from, ending a sentence to suit ourselves. It is probable that the Arlington Lassie and Princess Pat will again this summer bring together many of the best from both coasts. Delaware Park has carded a two-year-old filly stake as its Memorial Day feature. This is the ,500 Polly Drummond, of five furlongs. Interesting development of the spring season in that area are Mrs. Ella Brysons Bullow and Paradise Farms Big Demand, fillies by the obscure Bull Moose, a son of Bull Dog. Back at Miami in the winter, Ray Bryson observed: "I dont know if Bull Mooses get will show any class, but they can run." Bryan Field, the efficient young general manager at Delaware Park, tells us that the club has plans for more extensive improvements, when it is possible. He is pleased with the response to the stakes, as there are more than 1,000 nominations for the 13 events, which is well above past seasons. All the stalls were assigned two months ago, and only Belmont and one or two other tracks have more of them. It will be surprising if this is not a highly successfuU meet, and it is likely that a contributing factor will be the electrification of the main railroad line from Philadelphia, which skirts the track. Indeed, the travelling tim« from Philly is now shorter than to Garden State Park. Turfiana: It turns out that Doug Davis sold Eternal War to A. T. Simmons for ,000 as a suckling. What is more remarkable, his dam Red Haze was a gift mare. Sam Riddle was the donor. . . . Now that Bahram was sold, at a loss to South America, his son Raol has won three of five starts including the Eastern Shore. . . . The van strike, which confines Aqueduct to Belmont temporarily at least, would mean a loss of about ,000 a day to the City in revenue from mutuel tax. . . . Mrs. Jeffords Peter Pan winner, Mahout, is a candidate for the 5,000 Kent at Delaware Park a week from Saturday. . . . High Shine is still at Calumet Farm, mending from his wind operation, but is to be taken up soon. . . . Charles E. Nelson, who has eighth foals by the Equipoise horse Alaking at his Maryland place, may be interested that Bob Kleberg thinks this young sire may have a future.
