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".M."." ■■".".■.; REFLECTIONS By NfLSON DUNSTAN NEW YORK, N. Y., May 16.— Although no formal announcement has been made, the L. B. Mayer yearlings will definitely not be sold at the Saratoga Sales. . . . A. O. Romano, who sold the Australian champion, Bern-borough, to Jery Mayer, was one of the biggest buyers of yearlings at the recent Easter sales in Australia. . . . After the Hollywood Derby on July 12, Hemet Squaw, who dead-heated for the win money in the Mariposa Stakes at Tanforan, will be shipped to Arlington Park for her stake engagements there. . . . Ben Jones has sent out three two-year-olds by Whirlaway and they were all winners of their first starts —Whirl Blast, Whirling Girl and Whirl Some. . . . C. W. Anderson, celebrated thoroughbred artist, has 20 of his paintings of horses on exhibition at the Feragil Galleries, 63 East 57th Street, New York. . . . The Blenheim Farm of J. S. Phipps will sell five colts and five fillies at Saratoga, and we hear that the Sir Gallahad III. — Polly Briar colt is an eyeful. . . . Stuart S. Janney, who will become Marylands new racing commissioner on July 1, is a four-time winner of the Maryland Hunt Cup. . . . William Helis Jobstown will be joined in Boston by End of Strife and they will start as an entry in the Yankee Handicap at Suffolk Downs a week from tomorrow. AAA Three-year-olds continue to dominate the racing at the major tracks. Besides the Withers at Belmont tomorrow, Suffolk Downs will stage the Constitution Handicap, and at Havre de Grace the Potomac Stakes will be the feature. The Constitution can be termed a "prep" race for the 5,000 Yankee Handicap which will be run at Suffolk Downs a week from tomorrow. In New York a week from Saturday, the Peter Pan will be run and that will be followed by the Belmont Stakes on May 31. While the three "Triple Crown" events are staged in the month of May, there will be quite a few stakes for three-year-olds in June, Aqueduct staging the 0,000 Shevlin and the 0,000 Dwyer. At Delaware, on June 14, the Kent Handicap will be run, and the stakes schedules Three-Year-Olds Still Hold Spotlight Top Fillies in Coaching Club on Tuesday Three Major Centers Open Within 10 Days Saratoga Has Attractive Stake Schedule for July and August also list important races for the three-year-olds. It takes a sturdy horse to stand the grind and, while many go to the sidelines, it is often surprising how many will carry on throughout a season. It is sometimes claimed that race horses are fragile, but when you figure the weight those slim legs carry and the pounding and jarring that goes with keen competition, the fragile part can well be disputed. AAA No filly or mare race run so far this season has excited the interest of racing fans as has the 0,000 Coaching Club American Oaks, which will be contested at Belmont Park on Tuesday. This event, at a mile and three furlongs, has been won by some of the best three-year-old fillies during the past 30 years. First Flight will match strides with But Why Not, Blue Grass and Cosmic Missile, among others. But Why Not was a convincing winner of the Acorn Stakes last Tuesday and, in that race, the daughter of Blue Larkspur demonstrated that she would not be handicapped at the longer distance of the Coaching Club. In the Kentucky Oaks, Blue Grass was a winner over Cosmic Missile, but whether Arthur B. Hancock, Jr.s Blue Grass, another daughter of Blue Larkspur, could repeat that victory is doubtful to many who viewed the race in Kentucky. Among the eligibles are Alrenie, Snow Goose, Harmonica, Mother and still others who, on paper, make this appear to be one of the most interesting Coaching Club renewals In recent years. AAA Three major racing centers will inaugurate their 1947 sport within the next 10 days. In southern California, the Hollywood Park meeting will open a week from tomorrow, and that will be followed here in the East by Atlantic City ushering in the New Jersey season on May 26, and Delaware Park opening on May 29. All three tracks will offer attractive stake programs and stalls are at a premium. There will be conflict, of course, between Atlantic City and Delaware Park, but down in that part of the country they have a wide area to draw from and it is expected that both will draw their share of patrons. Delaware Park, the only track in that state, will operate until July 5, but in New Jersey, Atlantic City will be followed by a meeting, from June 19 to July 30, at Monmouth Park, and then they will return to Atlantic City for its second meeting from July 31 to August 23. Garden State, the pioneer race track in New Jersey, will take over on August 25 and continue through October 11. The latter meeting will, of course, conflict with that at Laurel in Maryland, but racing is now operated on such a wide scale that it is impossible for the tracks in these different states not to conflict in dates with one another. AAA One of the sure signs that mid-summer is just a couple of months away is the release of the Saratoga Stakes schedule. Last years upstate meeting was a far greater success than was expected. It should be even greater this year, and this despite the 5 per cent tax levied by Saratoga County supervisors. There has been some talk that hotel rates will be sharply advanced this season and, should that prove true, it will have a tendency to curtail both the attendance and the play. The stakes schedule itself is a very fine one and, while there are no 0,000 or 00,000 races carded, there are 19 flat stakes for the 24 days that the meeting will run at the upstate Spa. The richest race of the season will be the 0,000 Saratoga Handicap, which will be run on August 21, with the Grand Union Hotel Stakes a secondary feature of the day. The time-honored Travers, the oldest stake event now staged annually in this country, has been increased in value from 5,000 to 5,000. Two-year-olds have been advancing rapidly so far this season, but that division will reach Its peak at Saratoga with the running of the Hopeful, which will be staged with the Saratoga Cup on August 30.
