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JM ./ JUDGES STAND I By Charles Hatton ■ Tremont May Draw Jet Pilot, Eternal War Racing Offers Yearling Buyers Advantage Clinical Note on 3-Year-Old Name Horses Honeymoon Richest California-Bred Filly New Yorkers may see another rather spirited skirmish among the two-year-olds on Wednesday, when the Aqueduct club renews its 0,000 added Tremont. There is an interesting possibility that this stake will bring together Jet Pilot, winner of the National Stallion, and Eternal War, who won the Juvenile; not to mention Cosmic Bomb, Solater, Grand Admiral and other more or less promising colts. We should have a clearer idea of who is the best male two-year-old in the East if both Jet Pilot and Eternal War accept. They seem the smartest uncovered to this point. There are a great many bucked shins around Long Island stables, but the dreaded cough has not spread as it usually does. Here at Chicago are several clever colts and fillies in the extensive string of Warren Wright that have yet to appear. They were ailing during the winter and spring. Ben Jones is experimenting on the yearlings with a vaccine to forestall a recurrence of it next season. The Joneses think the colt Pad Lock and the filly Jane Gail, both by Blenheim II., are youngsters who may have a future. They are in Arlington and Washington stakes. These two-year-old prizes are not often cheaply won. As the field for the National Stallion went to the post it was noted that three of them cost 0,000 or more. We suppose everyone knows by now that Mrs. Graham paid 1,000 for Jet Pilot, who is by way of proving quite a bargain at that. A somewhat different case is that of Preoccupy here in the Middle West. John Marsch bred him in partnership with T. C. Piatt, who maintained a band of mares until last winter. On the whole we think the owner-breeder takes the longer chance, and Mrs. Graham would doubtless agree, as both a breeder and a buyer. Those who try 10 breed and develop a better horse take a far more circuitous route to racing success than those who buy the market yearlings. The buyers have the pick of six or eight studs against the breeders one. It has always seemed to us strange that "the Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed" has a Sales Stakes for colts and fillies bought at the auctions, but no such race to encourage the breed improvers. Mighty Story is one of the most capable three-year-olds now in training, and we daresay you will hear from the Peabody Memorial winner again, possibly around Classic time. It is a curious fact that Mighty Story, Assault and Lord Boswell all have feet that are a little peculiar. There is that forefoot of the "Triple Crown" winner which was all but cut off as a yearling and is still malformed. Lord Boswells feet are small — almost contracted looking — and he had a quarter crack that threw orfe temporarily out of balance. Mighty Storys feet are undersized and tend to be shelly. As a two-year-old he wore a size three shoe on all four. Now three of them take a size four, the other persists in being size three. His feet are literally not mates. Of course, these are no such handicap as are his ringbones. On this clinical note we are reminded that Dale Shaffer has a mare, Evening Shadow, with one leg actually shorter than the others. She turned in a particularly game race to be second to Merry Lassie in a renewal of the Spinaway. We might add that horses without any physical defects are almost non-existent. Louis B. Mayer takes pardonable pride in Honeymoon, whom he bred and raised on his 600 acres at Perris, Calif., and who is the first filly produced in the state to earn 00,000. The strapping daughter of Beau Pere increased her bahk account to 00,920 when she captured the recent Hollywood Oaks Handicap. "I do not think her another Busher, quite," says trainer Graceton Philpot, "but I do think she may be the best three-year old filly." The comparison is inevitable, since they are under the same roof. Almost any mare would suffer by comparison with Busher. In the Hollywood Oaks the Mayer filly won with jockey Jack Westrope taking so much hold he almost passed her. Philpot revealed that it is planned to ship Honeymoon to Chicago at the end of the Hollywood Park meeting, which means she will miss Arlington stakes but will add interest to those at Washington Park. By the way, Hollywood Park has achieved the ultimate in something or other in making a handicap of an Oaks, as these affairs are supposed to be about as classical as races come. But Honeymoon virtually "walked over" under handicap conditions. Turf iana : Two former servicemen condition Historian and the other Woolford horses. They are Eddie Anspach, who was an understudy of Frank Kearns, and his foreman, George Merchant, who once trained Monida. Merchant was in the submarine service. . . . Bonnie Beryl may not be so speedy as is her stablemate Hypnotic, but she has been more reliable, and deserved to win the Delaware Oaks. . . . Armed and Assault are candidates for the Massachusetts Handicap, of 0,000 value, on July 4. . . . Lou Smith is experimenting with a movie patrol camera to project negatives on the screen, thus savin gthe time required to develop the film. . . . Airborne is another gray Epsom Derby winner. . . . The names of nearly all Frank Frankels two-year-olds have the initial "F.". . . The track was fast on only four of the first 18 days at Lincoln Fields meeting, which annually is a kind of mudders paradise.
