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JUDGES STAND By Charles Haiton Empire, Suffolk Feature Juvenile Stakes I Will, Herbie G. Have Local Following Arlingtons Pollyanna Draws Orphan Filly Mexican "Triple Crown" Winner at Chi. Oyal Empire City and Suffolk Downs will offer a brace of 0,000 two-year-old stakes during the remaining days of the week. The Wakefield is the Wednesday feature in New York.. It will be followed Saturday at Boston by the Miles Standish. And the way things are going, it would not be surprising if somebody runs in both races. It seems to us that this era of rich stakes, 10 per cent and awards for trainers, and fast transportation, is pretty rugged on the horses, particularly the immature ones. The late Jimmy Rowe, who quit the Dwyers because they insisted he run Miss Woodford for everything in sight, might have trouble finding employment if he were around today. We have always thought that the thoroughbred was in vented for sporting rather than business purposes. But then perhaps, we are just naive. To get on with the Wakefield and the Miles Standish, it is likely that Jay Paleys 0,500 Roman colt I Will, who recently captured the Great American, will be the favorite for the Empire race. It is a question of beating Useless over again, judging from the form of the eligibles. New England sport does not seem to have developed any Air Rate so far this season. Allen Simmons had hoped to run Eternal War in the Miles Standard, but he seems to have gone off form and is being freshened up. A local favorite at the Boston park is "Billiken" Wolfes Herbie G. Wolfe prepped Appealing to set a Suffolk mark, which still stands, and Rhodes K. to win a Hawthorne Futurity. Then there is S. D. Sidells colt Silee, an invader from Chicago for both the Miles Standish and the 5,000 Mayflower Stakes. He won at the Massachusetts track last week. Silee is by the unsung sire Sir Jim James, a horse the Sidells bought at Detroit a few years ago and retired to stud at a farm they leased outside Louisville when he was through racing. Weston Adams usually has a runner in Suffolks two-year-old stakes and it is probable that Oidensai will start in the Miles Standard, even though he could not beat Riskolater. This youngster lacks any Suffolk engagements. Chicagoans will see Arlington Parks first in its series of two-year-old filly stakes when the new, 5,000 Pollyanna is run on Saturday. The notion occurs, from what we have seen of the eligibles so far, that First Flight would make it rather lively for the crowd and rather tiresome for the other fillies but she happens not to be a candidate. The race may develop a rival for her in the Lassie or Princess Pat, later in the summer season here on the prairie. Gracie Vee ran well in a prelim for the Pollyanna and is an interesting filly. She is a dusky half-sister Jo Star Pilot for whom Emil Schwarzhaupt paid Dale Shaffer 3,000 at Keeneland a year ago. Her dam, Floradora, orphaned her a few days after she was foaled. While a black Percheron foster mother was nursing her, Gracie Vee had the hairy heels and general coarseness of a plow horse, but she has outgrown it. Do not ask us to explain this phenomenon. It is not unusual for the adopted foals of draft mares to assume some of the appearance of their foster mothers, until they are weaned. Eastern stakes for two-year-old fillies will nearly all have a runner or two from C. V. "Sonny" Whitneys barn. It seems to be long on material in this class. Last week trainer Syl Veitch saddled Bright Song to be third in Monmouths Colleen, Fire Bomb to be a close second in her Aqueduct debut, and Mother to annex Suffolks 0,000 Betsy Ross. The New York sportsman seems to breed several of stakes class each year, and had out Enfilade, Mush Mush and Boojie last season. Before that it was Boojiana and Recce. The case of First Flight is quite different, we are assured by Georgie F. T. Ryall. He says that her kind are rationed out at the rate of one to a stable every couple of decades. To be perfectly calm about it, we are not sure there is a better two-year-old around, of either sex. The development of high class fillies for the stud is about the only advantage there is in the breeding and racing of horses, as the Whitneys are well aware of by this time. As most of "Sonnys" are by Mah-moud, and as the forte of the Mahmouds is extreme speed, we were not surprised when trainer Veitch told us "I am trying to teach them to come from behind." Some of them do it pretty well. Midwestern sport has taken on a bit of International tone. Canadas clever Kingarvie, winner of the Kings Plate, is at Detroit. Mexicos Derby winner, the filly Plucky Flag, has planed to Arlington from the Hipodromo. Accompanying her was Tupinamba, the Jean Valjean colt a Mexican syndicate bought for 5,000 at Keeneland last summer. As the story goes the Cuadra Mexico agents could not obtain a plane reservation to Kentucky until the last day of the sales, but were determined to have one of the few remaining colts to be sold, and came away with Tupinamba. He has not started, but is reputed to have shown some promise, and is in both the Arlington and Washington Futurities. In winning the Mexican Derby, Plucky Flag became the first to capture Mexicos "Triple Crown " as she had previously accounted for the Stakes Jockey Club Mexicano and the Gran Premio Nacional. She is by Bel Aethel and was bred by Walter Salmon, who sold her to the firm of Buckley and Cleveland for ,700 at auction. The partners later sold her privately to the Cuadra Mexico, which is composed of Pedro and Rafael Dosal, Emilio Tuero and Tom Altamira. It is planned to run Plucky Flag in some of the filly and mare stakes during the Chicago season. i i
