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JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Suffolk Moves to Bar Clique of Rioters Armed May Again Meet Busher at Chicago Lou Smith Fire-Proofs All Stalls at Rock. Handlen on Policy of Owner-Breeders NEW YORK, N. Y., June 1. Turfiana: Suffolk will give the heave-ho to that clique of rowdies who incite disturbances in the crowd, having noted that the same individuals are always the leaders. . . . Eternal War is a candidate for the Miles Standish, which his sire, Eternal Bull, won in 41. ... A reader who signs himself "E. F." suggests "Night Out* as a name for that Eight Thirty — Evening filly of Mrs. George Widener. From Philadelphia, Pa., come "Evening Star" and "No Moaning," excerpted from Grays Elegy. . . . The Lawrence, Mass.. chapter of the A. F. of L. made a move at Rockingham the other day, but encountered the New Hampshire law which requires that 85 per cent of track employes must be residents of the state. ... It took a quarter hour to show the stew ards a film of a Suffolk race last week. The movie patrol is not yet perfected, of course. . . . Polynesian does not run so well around turns, for when the boy takes hold of him to steady him into them he inclines to lose interest. . . . Challadette, whom Ed Christmas thinks "intrinsically" the best of the three -year-old fillies, is on the shelf. . . . The tunnel benefits from Suffolks location. Framingham is the best Boston track site. . . . Aque-duct-at-Belmonts races for two-year-olds will be run down the chute. New Yorkers still are talking: of Armeds showy performances in the Suburban. He must have convinced all skeptics that he is the most horse in the handicap class on this coast when he chased Gallorette out of the holiday race, then put Stymie and First Fiddle on a treadmill. He heads for Chicago and such rich summer events as the Whirlaway. Stars and Stripes, Arlington and Washington Handicaps. The thing about Armed is that he can run any and all parts of a mile and a quarter. The only runner of the past two seasons who has beaten him at his own game is the spectacular filly Busher. There is a rather exciting chance that they will meet again at Chicago. Hollywood railbirds tell us that Busher is slimming down to racing weight as a result of her long gallops there. Her technique is even more aggressive than is Armeds. She comes out of the gate head and head with the pace, and "fogs them over" by turning on a little more speed at every pole. Neither the 1945 "Horse of the Year" nor the Calumet gelding is any larger than 15.3 or will weigh any more than 1,000 in condition. But they have big hearts. Many people think sheer bulk somehow helps a horse, but Mayor Jimmy Jones says, "I dont care much for those overgrown horses. They do not usually train on as well as a medium-sized one." Armeds running gear is very clean; both he and Busher can be rated. This is not always the best strategy, however. Jones seemed to think, for example, that Buzfuz would go along with Concordian the first part of the McLennan, and Armed was permitted to drop pretty far out of it. But Buzfuz ankles ran hot before he had chased Concordian a half mile, and Armed could not make up the ground. George Odom chuckles that pretty much the same thing befell Busher in the Beverly last summer. He thought Durazna would set the pace as usual, and gave waiting orders on Busher. But Durazna was taken far back during the first part of it, which left Busher rather too far out of things. Lou Smith is like Price Headley, Colonel Winn and some others, including your correspondent, in that he prefers his racing as gadgetless as possible. Chatting with him in Boston the other night, the talk turned to "protection of the public," and Smith gave it as his opinion that so far as personnel is concerned, "three good men in the stewards stand are all that racing anywhere ever really needs." It was Smith who suggested, several years ago, that tracks on each circuit agree on one set of stewards, in order to develop more capable ones and make it a worthwhile career. Of course, everyone can think of reasons some clubs do not care for the idea, but these Smith dismisses with a snort as a lot of nonsense. "I have put the money I might have spent on thinks like an Observer System into fireproofing every stall and tack-room at Rockingham Park," he said. This should interest the horsemen, not to mention the insurance people, especially as it is a country track. Dick Handlen was not too disappointed over Surosas race in finishing a stout second to Sicily in the Top Flight Handicap. Ultimately this mare will join the small but very select band which William duPont has at his stud. "Developing ones fillies and keeping the good ones for the stud is the backbone of a successful breeding and racing establishment," Handlen says. He thinks Fairy Chant was the best of her sex that he has trained, and observed that her first foal, an undersized son of Gino, has come to the races in California and is a winner. "Mr. duPont is of the opinion that occasionally a mare who has been a mediocre runner and producer will foal one good horse," Handlen continued, "but that the really worthwhile mares are those of some class who pass on their speed to their foals consistently." Occasionally an under-bred horse or mare will produce a stakes winner, but they do not usually breed on from one generation to the next. That is the great virtue of those producing families.
