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JUDGES STAND I By Charles Hatton U. S. Has Kin of Epsom Derby, Oaks Winners N. Y.s First Flight Proves Runningest Filly Lincoln Club Arranges 2-Year-Old Special Detroit Track Revives Combination Races LEXINGTON, Ky., June 11. The running of Englands turf classics, such as the Epsom Derby and Oaks, has breeders here in the Blue Grass studying the winners pedigrees to see if they reflect any credit on their own bloodstock. The nearest thing to an American horse in the pedigree of the gray Airborne is Greentrees imported sire St. Germans. Airborne is by Precipitation out of the mare Bouquet, from whom he inherits his color, and Bouquet is by Buchon, a half-brother to St. Germans. Of course, St. Germans is the grandsire also of Assault. And Pete Wideners young stallion Roman is out of a Buchan mare. Steady Aim, who captured the Oaks, is by Felstead from the French mare Quick Arrow. Steady Aims • third dam is Broderie, by Tracery, whom August Belmont bred at his Nursery Stud out here on the Georgetown Pike. Both Airborne and Steady Aim are descended from Hurry On in male line. To be perfectly candid about it, neither the Derby nor the Oaks winner has a pedigree that is especially "fashionable" at the moment, although Airbornes Buchan cross is considered quite acceptable. This may be another filly year in England, by the way, as Steady Aims race analyzes better than does the colts. New Yorkers probably will see C. V. Whitneys superb First Flight In action next in Empires rich Demoiselle. The Aqueduct clubs Astoria was a "soft touch" for her. First Flights trainer, Sylvester Veitch, is not much given to superlatives, but he says, "A very few horses have had as much sheer zip as this filly." We would not know about that, but we cannot recall a more perfectly formed filly. In her one start against the colts, First Flight tried to do the impossible and win the Juvenile while breaking from No. 2 when the Widener chute is heavy. Another successful bearer of the famed Eton blue was Blue Falcon, whose training takes a bit of psychology. "He runs best when he is not quite ready," Veitch observes. "When he is thoroughly tight he is too excitable in the paddock and at the post." The Long Islander is an unusually versatile horseman, by the way. He was the Whitney Farm manager until this season, and attended to the breeding, foaling, weaning, breaking and development of his charges. Chicagoans may see a few of the better Midwestern two-year-olds in the ,000 Alsab on the week-end card Larry Bogenschutz is arranging for Lincoln-at-Hawthorne. The Joliet winner, Preoccupy, is pointing for this event. Another who is training well is Fred Hoopers clever Education, the Ariel colt who won a division of the Hialeah Juvenile at the expense of Eternal War. Then there is the recent winner Bird Whistle, who races for J. A. Goodwin. These are youngsters you may very plausibly hear from later, at the Arlington Park meeting, where there will be a number of two-year-old stakes, climaxed by the Lassie and Arlington Futurity. The chief problem at the vast North Side park just now is one of trying to put 1,800 horses into 1,700 stalls. Warren Wright is at Calumet Farm here, inspecting Whirlaway, Bull Lea and their progeny, and he will be in Chicago for the Arlington-Washington season, where we shall probably see a good deal of his "Devils Red." With the 1946 turf season near the half-way mark, his Armed would be the Horse of the Year were a vote taken now, and he seems to improve with each start. Wright was an interested observer as Armed cooled out after The Suburban and says "He ate heartily then sprawled out to take a nap. Nothing seems to upset him. His good sense is, I think, one of the things which make him a good horse." Armed is now at Arlington, marking time for engagements there. Wright will not auction any yearlings this season, by the way, but has sold about 10 privately. He is pleased over the new crop of Whirlaway foals, and especially the fillies from Nellie Flag and Penicuik II., the dam of Pensive. This young sires pedigree seems to fascinate foreign breeders and several have tried to buy him, but the answer is always the same "Not for sale." A few have booked mares to him, as the next best thing. Wright reports Sun Teddys first, or "out of season" foal, a filly from an Irish Oaks winner, steadily catching up to the other yearlings in size. It will be interesting to note how she fares in training, and also Dixianas illegitimate son of Whirlaway, who has been named First Whirl. Turfiana: Saturday stakes at Arlington and Washington will be broadcast over NBC as in pre-war days. . . . An inquiring reporter asked Ben Jones if Armed can run in wet footing. "Pretty good," the Missourian replied. . . . Maj. Louie Beard has returned from Gotham to Greentree to see the late foals. . . . Any baseball fans might be interested that Joe McCarthy has several offers to manage clubs in 47, and may be back in baseball at Detroit or Cincinnati next year. . . . First Flight is known as "Toots" along shed-row. . . . The Illinois proposal to increase the "tote" take is nowhere more deployed than among breeders in the Blue Grass. Indeed if it is applied Kentuckians will be ready to secede. . . . Apprentice Paul Miller can do 107 but is enabled to ride heavier, and stronger, in two-year-old races and stakes. . . . William Helis retains his interest in N. O. Fair Grounds but the outlook for racing there is pretty dismal at the moment. . . . Pepwell is Calumets best three-year-old. . . . Maine Chance has been trying unsuccessfully to obtain a proven sire, and bought Jet Pilot for his potentialities as such, according to Leslie Combs, NARC head. . . . Detroit has revived the "combination races" in which entrants may be entered to be claimed or not, as their owners choose. . . . Apprentice Terry Sullivan is quite Detroiters favorite jockey this summer.
