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■IW s JUDGES STAND I By Charles Hatton Arlingtons First Stakes Lure Stars English Divided on Jersey Act Repeal Mahmoud Gaining New Prominence in 46 Aqueduct Offers Dwyer, Brooklyn Cap The summer turf season in the Middle West enters its most important phase with the opening of Arlington Park Monday. The feature on that afternoon is a 0,000 overnighter of a mile and a furlong. It is not a stake in the technical sense, but the difference will be scarcely noticeable to the spectators. "We shall run three stakes during the first week," Ben Lind-heimer observed today. The first of these is the Clang, at seven furlongs, on Wednesday. The others are the Hyde Park, at five and one -half furlongs, for two-year-olds, and the . Princess Doreen, for three-year-old fillies, at six furlongs, on Saturday." The Clang and Hyde Park have each been enriched with 0,000, the filly special with 5,000. Those prodigies Preoccupy and Jet Pilot are in the Hyde Park. The Princess Doreen would seem a suitable placing for Beaugay, whose connections have wanted to run her first in a sprint. She is a prime favorite of Chicagos racegoing public, who recall her form in last summers Lassie and Princess Pat. It will be interesting to note what the future holds for the 1945 two-year-old leader, and Mrs. Graham is eager to race her. Englands Dr. Robert Crowhurst, who is doing some work at the University of Kentuckys Department of Animal Pathology, spoke to members of the Thoroughbred Club of .imerica at Lexington recently. American breeders are naturally annoyed by the English breeders obstinacy about the Jersey Act, but Dr. Crowhurst said, in the course of his address: "There are people in England who would rather welcome its repeal. Not all are dead set against it. But our Jockey Club will decide the issue." It would indeed be a pity if we were to faU out over it, as Dr. Crowhurst has said. But whether the English do anything about the Jersey Act, the thing would fall of its own weight in the processes of time. More and more of their classic winners have the American "taint." It may not be so many horse generations until this is true of nearly 100 per cent of their classic winners, at which time we may hear less of propaganda that our horses are "bred up from range ponies." The collapse is being hastened by the fact that other countries the world over are accepting the American thoroughbred. If enough of them do, the Act will boomerang, isolating England. Mahmoud was acquired from the Aga Khan for about 0,000 to replace Equipoise and seems to be doing about as well as any stallion might in filling so large zxi order. The success of his progeny is a highlight of the 1946 turf season to date. Among other things, he has helped to remove the prejudice against the gray coat color, although there are visible +races of chestnut in his own coat and he sires a good many of that more conventional color. As the story goes, Colonel Whitney was once asked to define a great sire, and replied jokingly that "A great sire is one that gets a great horse, and a very great sire is one that gets a great horse for me!" But first of all he wanted a stallion who sires a high average of winners and stakes winners to head his stud, and he fancied the Americus Girl part of Mahmouds pedigree. Mahmoud succeeds admirably on the score of percentages, if he has not quite sired a great horse as yet. Grant Dorland has turned researcher and finds that there are 10 stakes winners from 32 living foals in Mahmouds first two crops here. Also that 12 of his 15 foals in his second crop won at two last year, half of them winning stakes, and that he has already had out eight two-year-old winners this season. New York track crowds will see some pretty keen sport during the remainder of Aqueduct-at-Aqueduct. Having won three 00,000 stakes at no weight disadvantages, Assault may try for 0,000 more in Saturdays Dwyer, giving away a few pounds. We suppose that everybody knows it was in this stake, in 1920, that Man o War spotted John P. Grier 18 pounds and had to run in epic fashion to win. Assaults race in the Belmont did not seem any less creditable after Natchez tied a Delaware Park record in the Kent and Cable won the Yankee. Both are Dwyer eligibles. The Dwyer will be followed next Wednesday by the 0,000 Great American, next Thursday by the 0,000 Gazelle and the final week-end by the 0,000 Brooklyn Handicap. Hirsch Jacobs tells us "Stymie is all right" and it is expected he will try to duplicate his success in the Brooklyn of last summer. Armed, his nemesis of the Dixie and Suburban, will be 1,000 miles away, here at Arlington. Reply Paid, First Fiddle, Dockstader, Brookfield, Gallorette and Megogo are Brooklynites within running distance. Turfiana: Californias annual yearling sale of homebreds, at Santa Anita on July 15-17, will find Beau Pere represented among some 130 lots consigned. . . . Panama has racing of a sort on Saturdays and Sundays. . . . The menu at Arlingtons restaurants will be something to stimulate the appetites of the hotel crowd, after a steady diet of those tired looking fish. . . . Longacres opens its 58-day season Saturday. . . . The New England favorite, Gabe Paul, won an indifferent ,000 in three campaigns before this year, but he has already earned nearly four times that this season. . . . Leadman, winner of this years Tijuana Derby, is by the obscure Supremus horse Bee Line and was raised by F. L. Burkholder, in his yard. . . . Joe Nash this week shipped Sylvester Veitch several more charges from Lexington. . . . Holly Tree was a ,000 yearling. . . . Sicily has a marked partiality for the Belmont surface. . . . Californias flourishing fair circuit starts at Pleasanton on July 2. . . . Hollywood Park will have a new layer of topsoil before its 1947 meeting.
