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JUDGES STAND I By Charles Hatton Beaugay Makes 46 Debut at Arlington Illinois Voters Study Tote Referendum New Jersey Futurity Next for Pipette Turf Sport Mushrooming Now in Africa Turf devotees both in the East and West will see some of the summer seasons best sport this week-end. The old Brooklyn Handican will climax the Aaueduct meeting. It has drawn a New York favorite in the gladiatorial form of the stretch-running Stymie, who is making a brave attempt to repeat his 1945 conquest of this 0,000 event under a burden of 128 pounds. Out here on the Illinois prairie the Arlington club offers a double feature in the 5,000 Princess Doreen and the 0,000 Hyde Park. Each has an appeal to racegoers, as well as to horse-players. There is often a difference, you know. The Princess Doreen will spark a lot of interest, as it is to mark the seasons first start for the racy Beaugay, who was the 45 two-year-old champion by popular acclaim, and is enormously popular here. It must be conceded by the most ungenerous turf critics that Beaugay has a chance of coming importantly into the three-year-old picture. At the top of her form last summer she would have lost any of the males her age, with the possible exception of Spy Song. Out in California a very successful Hollywood Park meeting moves on entertainingly to this week-ends 5,000 Cinema Handicap, a Derby preview that may attract Honeymoon and Burra Sahib. Chicago track heads feel that the 4 per cent increase in "tote" tax is certain to be approved in the November referendum and apply to their racing next year. The voters know in a vague way that it would benefit the vets and , soak the sport. But it may seem to have less point if the federal government approves a bonus before then, which is a possibility. And it will occur to many Illinois voters that they and not the tracks will pay it m the final analysis. If they do not all go to the races, most of them smoke cigarets, which are expected to advance in price from 18 to 19 cents under the referendum. It would encourage the bootlegging of cigarets from Indiana and the bootlegging of betting, as at New York tracks. The estimated ,000,000 revenue to be gained from racing is high, and if the sport declines as a result of the excessive take, then residents must make up the deficit in some more "painful" tax method. Of course, nobody is opposed to anything which would help the veterans, but even some of the American Legion do not agree that this is quite the best way of going about it, for any tax that is successful must come from sources able to sustain it. Arlington Park?s shed-row is an interesting place these mornings. "I really think that most of the best horses in the country are here now," trainer Jimmy Jones ventured at the Calumet camp this a. m. Some of them are under the Wright roof, including Armed, who looks none the worse for his Eastern foray. "Our two-year-olds are gradually getting around to racing condition," Ben Jones said. "We have not hurried them, as we hope to have some three-year-olds next year." Unlike some of his contemporaries. Warren Wright does not try to run his racing stable in the same way he runs his business, and he has patient trainers in the Joneses. At the Maine Chance establishment, which is nearby the Calumet barn, we saw Lord Boswell, Beaugay, Jet Pilot and the rest. Joe Luddy tells us that the Eastern string got here in good fettle even though it made the jaunt in weather that was literally cyclonic. He says that the two-year-old prodigy, Jet Pilot, ". . . never gives us any trouble, although he has -a mind of his own, like many other Blenheim n.s." And he added that "one of the things which make me think he is a good colt is the way he keeps growing and spreading out while he is moving around and running." Luddy is Jim Smiths chief flf staff and is a young California horseman who worked for Euall Wyatt and later for Charley Howard when he had Seabiscuit and Kayak n. Monmouth Parks inaugural was most encouraging, a crowd of 18,724 watching the Jersey-bred Pipette win the Colleen Stakes for two-year-old fillies. Just to annoy those who claim the public will bet on anything, it may be noted that the first 00,000 handled to a single race at the new course was wagered on this stake. The initial Saturday feature is the 5,000 Molly Pitcher Handicap, for fillies and mares. It is permissible to guess the -trainers of most the 46 other eligibles hope that Eddie Christmas elects to run Gallorette for the 0,000 against Stymie in the Brooklyn. The Molly Pitcher will be followed next Wednesday by the New Jersey Futurity of 0,000 added and Pipette looms formidably as an odds-on choice off her splendid showing in the Colleen. There are two 5,000 features to be run during this meeting. The first of these is the Choice Stakes, of a mile and a quarter, for three-year-olds on July 13. Miscellany: Fighting Step proved that he brought along his speed, when he shipped here from New York, in beating the Clang field. The Hoosier is a Stars and Stripes aspirant. . . . Burning Daylight, a grandson of the same Teddy who stood for a time in Virginia, recently won the 5,000 Autumn Handicap at Johannesburg, in Africa. . . . The post-war vogue of racing there is reflected in the fact that yearlings this year averaged 641 pounds sterling at auction, whereas they averaged 321 pounds back in 1942. . . . Howard Wells is tuning-up the sire Equifox for his effort to retire the Equipoise Challenge Cup here next Wednesday. Equifox has won two renewals. He has a crop of foals around Keeneland. . . . Recce had not sulked before the Hannah Dustin. If she continues so crafty, she will be bred next spring. . . . Abram Hewitt paid a reported ,000, or its equivalent, for his promising Rustom Sirdar. . . . The Post and Paddock volume of play is nothing to curl ones hair. . . . Rain has interrupted the Maywood trots here. . . . Several large shipments from Los Angeles are expected at Washington Park upon the closing of Hollywood Parks meeting.
