view raw text
. ,- SRH JUDGES STAND I By Charles Hatton Pollyanna Expected to Draw Big Field - Hollywood. Stakes Easy for Honeymoon Earnings Title Within Assaults Reach Arlington Park Form Still Unresolved All the usual signs point to a large field for the 5,000 added Pollyanna for two-year-old fillies here at Arlington Park on Saturday. It seems likely that William Helis will start the . ." ,- favorite favorite in in Miss Miss Kimo, Kimo, who who was was second second in in favorite favorite in in Miss Miss Kimo, Kimo, who who was was second second in in both the Fashion and Astoria, and won a section of the Polly Drummond. Bred and reared by Warner Jones at his place near Louisville, the rangy Hash filly was a distinct garbain for Helis at ,700. Emil Schwarz-haupt has planed in from Gotham to see the Saturday race and may have a couple of starters in Gracie Vee and Dancing Margot. He likes Dancing Margot pretty well. This is the 5,000 filly by Challenger n. By Appointment we were complimenting in this space space just just before before the the Idle Idle Hour Hour sale sale last last fall. fall. SRH space space just just before before the the Idle Idle Hour Hour sale sale last last fall. fall. "She was big as a broodmare in the spring, and we began to wonder if she could be trained," her owner tells us. "She had action like a cow. But then she suddenly seemed to get the hang of running in her works and she won in :57 and a fraction." Dale Shaffer is here from Coldstream for the Poilyanna and says, "We may have as many as three starters," adding something about "shooting at the stars and falling in the mud." But Doggin It and the others are not really so hopeless as all that, of course. Young Arthur Hancock will be on from Claiborne House for the race and he has a couple of nice prospects in Spingtide, who has won here, and the Debutante winner Blue Grass. Hollywood Parks list of three-year-old stakes has become a virtual series of exhibitions by Louis B. Mayers hefty Honeymoon, who last week-end picked up 128 pounds and raced off with the 5,000 Cinema Handicap. We shall not be at all surprised if the California scale of weights is revised so that fillies must give colts five pounds sex allowance. From here Honeymoon seems to have "a lock" on the 0,000 Hollywood Derby, of a mile and a quarter, on July 13. The question of whether the Beau Pere filly is exceptionally good or her opposition exceptionally weak must await her Chicago foray for an answer. She is quite the most successful runner Mayer has bred, by the way. He bought her dam, Panoramic, from Ed Thomas largely because she is from Whirlaways family. There is just a chance that trainer Philpot will bring Honeymoon here for the 0,000 Classic on July 27. New Yorks tough little Assault has yet to run a race in time that could be called very impressive, except possibly on the Grand Circuit, but he has nevertheless run in front in the "Triple Crown" and the Dwyer and has won 56,970. The Kleberg colt is indeed only 04,191 away from Whirlaways all-time record. It may be that he will ultimately run "slow" enough to become the worlds richest horse. The matter of earnings and class is complicated by economics. It is sometimes pretty hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins. On this subject of money winners it ought to be noted that Gallorette has made a gain on Busher. She now has won 80,060 fo the latters record of 34,035. It would not be much of a trick for a mare of Gallorettes ability and soundness to pile up 53,976 more. It is hoped by Bushers camp that she can come back and add materially to her own earnings. Chicagoans are not picking many winners, as the low percentage of successful choices clearly shows. It is ever thus at Arlington, Belmont, Hialeah, Saratoga and other tracks which draw horses from everywhere, until the form is resolved. The average for the first week here was 23 per cent, and the players still wince at mention of Jet Pilot, who apparently mislaid his form somewhere between Belmont and Arlington Heights. Of course he grabbed a quarter in the Hyde Park, but not deeply enough to harm him it would seem. War Admiral fell out of the gate in the Belmont Stakes of 1937, chopped off a full inch of quarter, and set a new record of 2:28. He did not run again until fall. But anybody who thinks Jet Pilot ran his race in the Hyde Park is letting himself in for more grief. We chanced upon Ben Jones shortly after the debacle and he declared that "Jet Pilot is a good colt." He did not even say "anyhow." One must be sophisticated about these things. The Missourian has several of Warren Wrights near a race, by the way. "I do not know if Pad Lock is a race horse," he says, "but he can pick up his weight and run with it in the mornings." Some of the Blenheim H.s are by nature stretch-runners. Pad Lock is one of the quick kind. Calumet has not started a two-year-old as yet this season, owing to their winter illness. It will be indeed unusual if it has none of stakes class. Turfiana: Johnny Adams will ride for Maine Chance at Chicago this summer. . . . Sprinters value has gone up too. Schwarzhaupt offered 0,000 for one in New York the other day, saying, "I am not looking for bargains so much as for winners." . . . Pep Well may not be quite a good horse some question if any three-year-old is but he keeps winning and hung out 11 "flat" in front of Rippey in the Roseben. ... Bit of a "weaver" this son of Boswell. . . . Texans want Bob Kleberg to ship Assault to Arlington Downs for an exhibition next fall. . . . Horses will appreciate the shade from those 500 trees Gene Mori has set out at Garden State, the customers, the comfort of those 5,000 more seats. . .. . Ben Lindheimer fancies a poll of opinion would show that a track is "adequate" when it can seat 75 per cent of its average Saturday attendance. . . . Arlington stable employees are no longer being stuffy about "conditions on the backstretch. . . . Charley Kenney may take time out from Coldstream long enough to see the Pollyanna. . . . Just to keep the records straight, there are 960 stalls at Atlantic City. ... It is only a matter of time until .New York State begins to resent the New York City tote grab. Gusty Takes Northumberland Plate LIVERPOOL, England, June 26. Reuters. Gusty, priced at 7 to 4 and handled by Harry Wragg, won the Northumberland Plate, over two miles and 78 yards today. Carrying a 10-pound penalty for his recent success at Manchester and winning easily, Gusty established himself as the Norths leading distance horse. Tregor was second and Golden Boy third in the field of five. The Northumberland test was substituted for the Pitmans Derby, which is usually held at Newcastle, a track still being requisitioned by the government.
