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JUDGES STAND I — — — — — — — — By Charles Hatton — — — — — — — Lincoln Shows Classic, Futurity Hopes Native Sons Rate Honeymoon Best Filly Name Horses En Route to Arlington Park Gabe Paul Improving Suffolk Performer It seems to us that Lincoln-at-Hawthorne has been successful in its efforts to afford Chicagoans sport of a higher quality through its increases in purses and stakes. Of course, it is enabled to do this by the tax method and its proximity to the teeming Loop. The former Luxembourg dignitary John "Futurity" Marsch has the meetings "name" horses. They are Preoccupy, who squandered the Joliet field, and the stretch-running Mighty Story, who ran a plucky race to win the Peabody Memorial. The notion occurs that you may hear from both at Arlington Park and later at Washington. There is a tendency in the East to dismiss Preoccupy lightly, in the midst of the acclaim to Eternal War. But this brother to Occupy and Occupation seems to be "Fu turity" stuff himself. Their dam, Miss Bunting, orphaned her next foal, by the way. This is a Blenheim II. yearling filly, and Tommy Carr Piatt says she is the nicest youngsters of her sex foaled on his place. Around the Loop they still talk of Mighty Storys run in the Peabody, when he beat With Pleasure and Dark Jungle in a blanket finish. The Peabody formerly carried the suffix "handicap," but it was a condition race for this renewal. They gray son of Mahmoud could not fill his Kentucky Derby engagement. He is by no means a weak candidate for the Classic and American Derby. Eastern racegoers will see a renewal of the 2,500 Delaware Oaks tomorrow. This test of a mile and a furlong is one of the duPont tracks proudest boasts. The Belair filly Hypnotic is the most "distinguished of the Easts three -year-old fillies at the moment, having won the important C. C. A. Oaks at Belmont. Her half-sister Vagrancy won the Delaware Oaks a few years ago. "Hypnotic is a capable filly," John Fitzsimmons says, "but we can never be sure how she will run from the way she trains." Out on the West Coast they seriously think L. B. Mayers Honeymoon is the best three-year-old filly in the country. And there is some evidence that this is not merely another manifestation of the native son complex. After all, she breezed to Happy Issue and Canina in the Sequoia, seven furlongs in :45%, 1:10 5 and 1:23. That is stirring around a bit, on any track. Honeymoon is pointing for the Oaks and Derby at Hollywood. Then there is always Beaugay. She has yet to run, but she is not just an unpleasant rumor that somebody started to harass the trainers of other fillies. Maj. Louie Beard, noting our paragraph on First Flight, says that she comes by her extreme speed naturally. "Her dam, Fly Swatter, was one of the fastest fillies we had," he recalls. "Unfortunately, her ankles ran hot, and we retired her." Jack Healey trained Fly Swatter, who ran only three times — always unplaced. It may amuse you and annoy the experts that the dam of Flyweight and First Flight had much speed that does not show in her racing record. There are many such mares. Bushers dam, Baby League, is another who comes to mind. The family is a very strong factor in breeding; indeed, quite the strongest, we should say, and First Flights is that of John P. Grier, Dustemall, Red Rain and Miss Whisk. It will be well represented at Whitney Stud by Fly Swatter, Peace Dust, Smoke Pot, Flyweight and First Flight. Armed, Fighting Step, Sirde and Snow Boots are just a few of the horses expected here momentarily from Long Island to join the colony of "name" horses already assembled at the fashionable Arlington Park course. Doug Dod-son and Basil James are two of the riders coming, and they will be available to accept mounts during the latter part of the Lincoln-at-Hawthorne meet. There will be a good deal of commuting for both the leading riders and horses between Chicago and the East and West Coasts during the summer. On this subject it may be noted that the coal strike had tracks and horsemen upset about transportation a short time back. Competition among the associations for the higher grade of runners was never keener than it is at present. Because it draws the largest crowds and play and because many of the owners of prominent stables reside there, New York now has the advantage in the bidding for the best horses. But how long this will endure is a thing which depends on the ultimate effect of the mutuel tax there and the tax legislation elsewhere. One rather encouraging thing for the Middle West is that the majority of Keeneland yearlings are bought by those who race hereabout. Turfiana: The fireproof ing agent used on Rockingham stables is asbestos, and it was applied under the supervision of a former . Dominion fire chief. . . . Gracie Vee, who beat War Fan, was l raised on a Percheron mare. . . . Armed not only ran the last ; quarter of the Suburban faster than the first, he pulled up a mile and three-eighths in 2:1425, a fifth second off Man o Wars I record. . . . The ex-plater Gabe Paul impresses his trainer, L. Laurin, as "an improving horse who may wind up beating anything." ! The Tomasello Memorial winner also is in the Massachusetts . Handicap. ... As one who does not consider it any of his business when an owner exercises the prerogative of changing . trainers or riders, we think the fact that Dodson was offered I a later mount than War Fan is tacit evidence that Maine Chance does not reflect on his integrity. The strained relations over the , incident is regretted by friends of all parties concerned. . . , . Even at 5,000 Occupy is a bargain for Abe Hirschberg. He has ; been winning stakes and running in record time at Hollywood [ Park.
