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JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Arlingtons Mile in 1:34 Target Today Miller Exhibits Saddle Artistry in East Two-Year-Old Ratings Scrambled at Chicago Easts Gallorette in Mass. Cap, Butler Turfiana: Play the first five days at Arlington averaged 04,742 despite weather that would make November at "The Rock" seem like a day in the country. . . . And despite the average of winning choices, which was also in a low pressure area, one of .25. . . . The Grooms and Exercise Boys in this section will reorganize. . . . Strange they should complain at Arlington, where the kitchen makes some they have approved look, like troughs. . . . John Hervey is outgaming an attack of shingles. . . . That plane cargo of Mexican horses was knocked out by innocu-lation. But hey were comfortable flying. . . . NARC prexy Combs says "That 5 per cent extra take is bound to cheapen the sport in time, wherever it is imposed in the North". Shaffie breezed in :35, then was a conspicuous Christiana absentee. He is not in the Dover. . . . Young Arthur Hancock finds himself in error about how prematurely Beaugays half-sister was foaled. It was 14 days and not 30. . . . The Ascot Gold Cup, not to be confused, with that at Akron next month, was won by a kinsman of Jet Pilot through Frizette. . . . Coldstream will sell August 1 at Keeneland. Arlington Park will honor Equipoise today. A corking: field will compete for the 0,000 "Mile", in which his 1:34 still stands as a challenge, after five runnings. The stake record is Best Sellers 1:36 "flat" in 1942. From here we cant guess if Armed will accept that 132 pounds of ballast but of course he will be the unanimous choice of all the experts if he does. Ben Jones rarely knows himself if he will run a horse or not until race day, but he says that "Armed is all right, and I suppose well start him. The local railbirds have a higher opinion of Fighting Step after the Clang, and old Equifox was just beginning to show a lively interest in proceedings when he was third in his first out last week. The winner Twosy has not been worse than second since last summer at Washington Park. Looking at Armed the other morning, we thought it a pity he is a gelding, but reflected that people might never have heard of him otherwise. On this subject his trainer estimated that Pot o Luck would possibly have won 00,000 as a gelding, but he is one of the best and last of the XJhance Plays. Jockeys of fairly new prominence are Paul Miller in New York, Larnsy Hansman here and Terry Sullivan at Detroit. Hansman has come a long way, in a brief time. As the story goes, nobody would give him a chance to even gallop a horse when first he showed up, at New Orleans. The little Hoosier finally persuaded Stanley Lipiec to put him on some of his many platers and the next thing anybody knew he was riding winners at El Hipodromo. This has since become somewhat of a habit, o strong it was not broken by the loss of his bug. It will be only poetic justice, this bystander thinks, if Paul Miller rides a great many more stakes winners in New York. Those fashionable jocks who make tentative dates on two or three horses in a race were not giving Miller or Veitch much chance so they joined forces and you know the rest. If you care for details, this serious little chap is 20, hails from West Philadelphia, and can horseback when the stakes are high and he cannot claim his bug. Sullivan is the latest toast of the Detroit crowds and is an alumnus of the jockey school there. Horses run for him, apparently, as he has ridden some 20 winners at the meeting. If anybody cares to know, this corner was more surprised when Jet Pilot ran in the Hyde Park than when he was beaten. It was at first planned to reserve him for the Arlington Futurity. The successful Colonel OF is clearly a nice colt, however. He had won the Lafayette, placed in the Bashford Manor, and showed in the Joliet. One imagines his good form is a solace to Walter Jeffords, George Widener and others of the group that bought his hitherto undistinguished sire Teddys Comet for 5,000. Owner Claude Tanner of Colonel OF acquired him when he was a new foal at the side of his dam, the Irish Oaks winner Uvira II, whom he sold to Crispin Oglebay. The New Orleanian named the youngster for a friend, Col. OFarrell, of Shreveport. In the Hyde Park, the Tanner colt not only dispelled any notion Jet Pilot is invincible, but turned the tables on Tweets Boy and Education, who had beaten him in the Bashford Manor and Joliet. He is in both the local Futurities. The Easts stout Gallorette has 00,000 worth of engagements between now and July 13 in the Massachusetts and Butler, each with 0,000 added. Trainer Ed Christmas hopes she can make quite a career of beating the horses. She is the second of her sex to capture the Brooklyn, the first having been Reina, when the race was run at Gravesend. Last Saturday turf devotees here in Chicago saw another of the more "glamorous" fillies, Beaugay, make her first start as a 3 -year-old in the Princess Doreen. The 1945 two-year-old champion bowed to Christianas more seasoned Sea Snack, but she was far from disgraced, coming again after she seemed beaten a quarter-mile from home, and finishing with a fine show of courage. One wonders if Sea Snack will beat her soon again. The Lunger filly had previously won Pimlicos Rennert, and was second to Blue Yonder in the Chesapeake Trial. Next of the series of rich filly-and-mare events at the stylish North Side course is the Modesty, of a mile on July 10. The club has enriched it with 5,000.
