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JUDGES STAND I By Charles Hatton Hyde Park May Prove Educational N. J. Tracks Increase Need of Riders Brooklyn Looms Stern Test of Stymie Honeymoon Again Beats Calif. Rivals Racegoers In each section have their "bragging horses," even among the two-year-olds, and those in Chicago, New England and Delaware will see some local favorites in action this week-end. Arlington Park will renew its 0,000 Hyde Park Stakes that afternoon, Suffolk Downs the 0,000 Betsy Ross, for fillies, and Delaware Park the ,500 Christiana Stakes. A colt one hears often complimented out here in the corn belt just now is Fred Hoopers surprising Education. The brothers Parke sent out Education and Preoccupy in a special event last Saturday. When the dust had settled, Education had beaten the Futurity Specialists brother a convincing three lengths, in near record time. Education, a ,600 son of Ariel, is in the Hyde Park. Education is an Hialeah development and indeed beat Eternal War in a stake there. "I should have liked to run him in the Bashford Manor at Louisville, but he wasnt quite up to it," Ivan Parke reflects. "Bred as he is on his dams side, I think he may stay better than many Ariels." It is incidentally going to annoy the pedigree experts no end when they discover he descends from Artful, whom they have long libelled as a rank failure in production. New Jersey will of course profit by New Yorks mistake in boosting the "take." This is expected to be noticeable at Monmouth Park, which is close enough to Long Island to be a competitor, and it may be even more noticeable when Atlantic City conflicts with Saratoga unless the councils advice to wave the tax is heeded. The Jersey resort itself has a "housing situation" but unlike Saratoga it does not propose to bite the track patron an extra 5 per cent with each visit to the "tote." That is a consideration in the North, although it does not seem to matter in Florida. There has been some talk of building a dormitory for trainers and others at Atlantic City when that is possible. The horsemens only concern at Monmouth is the safety of the racing strip, which is a bit new, and at Atlantic City it is a question of whether the fireproof stables are also .practical for the horses. Among other things, the entrance of the modern Monmouth and the resort track into the Eastern field creates opportunities for more horses, and stresses the need for developing more riders. New Yorkers will see a renewal of Aqueducts historic, 0,000 Brooklyn Handicap on Saturday. Pavot, who won last week-ends 5,000 Sussex at Delaware Park, is not a candidate. But Gallorette and Stymie, who were second and third in that mile and a quarter, are expected to reappear in the Long Island race of the same distance. It is perhaps worth noting that Jack Campbell released his weights for the Brooklyn before the decision of the Sussex, and he seems to have anticipated that Gallorette would finish before Stymie, for she must pick up five pounds whereas the Texan picks up two. Hirsch Jacobs won the 1945 Brooklyn with Stymie, who will doubtless have strong support to repeat, even though he must pack a steadier of 128 pounds. The richest gray horse. First Fiddle, is in the Queens County Jockey Club race with 122, but is not expected to start, A short time back at Belmont, Jack Odom told us that Con-cordian might be up to filling his Brooklyn engagement, and if he accepts under 116 it would seem assured there will be Menty of pace. Californians fancy they have a filly that can interest the Easts sturdy Assault, although they realize those who have been watching the "Triple Crown" winner may scoff at the suggestion. This is of course L. B. Mayers big Honeymoon, who won the 5,000 Golden State Breeders Handicap the other day at Hollywood Park. She broke into the air, was in a jam on the clubhouse turn, nevertheless won handily at a mile and a sixteenth in 1:43. "I hit her a couple of times on the backstretch," Jack Westrope said, "And she responded so fast I had to take i. hold of her again." It is interesting that Honeymoon and Assault are both in the Classic and American Derby, here. Nobody is going to make us believe Honeymoon is quite "another Busher," however, for her kind come once in a lifetime. There is incidentally a chapter on her extraordinary 1945 campaign in the new edition of American race horses. We hear from Olin Gentry that her suckling brother is one of the first horses visitors to Idle Hour ask to see. He is an uncommonly straight legged youngster for one of his age. Canadian sport showed three pretty nice colts last summer in Kingarvie, Windfields and Wee Admiral. The first won a Kings Plate not long back and Windfields was runner-up to Assault in the Dwyer at Aqueduct last Saturday. In the Dominion, they have a rooting interest in a couple of Canadian-bred youngsters now here at Arlington Park. These are W. F. Morrisseys Casa Camara and Hi Bunty. The former is a half-sister to Bunty Lawless and the latter is by that 1938 Kings Plate winner. Perhaps the smartest of the two-year-olds thus far in the Canadian season is a youngster called Leonforte, in the Braeside Stable. He is by Brooms, a former Hopeful winner for Mrs. Dodge Sloane and a mudder of parts. Of course the most popular sire at present serving there is Boswell, who is under a three-year lease from the Belair Stud of William Woodward. Gil Darlington, who was here in Chicago a few hours the other afternoon, awaiting a plane connection, has Boswell standing at his farm. Only last week at Lexington, we were discussing the sires in various sections with Ivor Balding, and he mused "It seems that they become successful here as soon as they go to Canada." At any rate, Round View and Lord Boswell began to show stakes form soon after the transaction by which Boswell went there.
