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BETWEEN RACES By OSCAR OTIS BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 20. Horses and People: Phalanx, a beaten favorite in both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, will endeavor to make amends in the mile and a furlong Peter Pan Handicap on Saturday. Phalanx is strictly trainer Syl Veitch. Faultless may start, too, as many regard his effort in the Withers as no harder on the horse than a good workout. Walter P. Chryslers Brabancon, a good second to Faultless in the Withers, also may be regarded as a starter in the Peter Pan. Brabancon hasnt won a race this year, but even so, has earned some 0,000 in purse money with his bang-up seconds in not only the Withers, but also the Flamingo. The Peter Pan, incidentally, affords the first revision in weight ratings on many of our top three-year-olds since the posting of the pounds for the Experimental. . . . First Flights initial major objective, although she will probably appear in silks before that, is the 5,000 Gazelle on June 19 at Aqueduct. . . . Mount Marcy, the two-year-old full brother to Monsoon, may be Maud Mullers last foal. AAA An equine unique is the pint-sized "Felix" sired by a jack from a Shetland mare, and which keeps Marble Arch company over in the stable of Andy Schuttinger. Marble Arch is something of a problem horse. He needed a companion, but couldnt get along with either goats, cats or dogs. Felix solved the situation and the two are inseparable companions. Whenever Marble Arch goes into one of his exhibitions of nerves, Felix will even kick him to snap him out of it. In addition, this unusual beast more than "earns his keep by dragging a harrow daily around the walking ring after the mornings work is over. AAA Cherryba, the five-year-old Argentine mare trained by Phalanx Definite Starter in Peter Pan Recording Machine Aid to Belmont Stewards Jockey Club Accords Ortello Recognition Hampden Promising in First Season at Stud Horatio Luro for Lana Turner, of the Hollywood films, was renamed for American racing. Cherry is for Lana Turners young daughter, and the suffix, Ba, stands for Buenos Aires. Luro, incidentally, is naming Miss Grillo and Rico Monte for a few Hollywood Park distance stakes, and may fly Cherryba out as company so that Miss Turner can see her colors in action. . . . The other day we mentioned Lou Stoddard and his keen interest in the advancement of the steeplechase sport. We neglected to mention that the Stoddard interest in the hedge-topping sport stems back to the time he was a grade school student in Aiken, S. C. Seems like everybody down that way takes to the jumps as soon as they are able to walk. . . . Marshall Cassidy, steward for The Jockey Club, has an ingenious recording machine in the office of the stewards. The direct testimony of all riders involved is taken down on discs, and if they ever are of a mind later to chortle, "I didnt say any such thing," the records are played back. AAA Jean Riviere is one of the most prized of the senior chefs on the Harry Stevens staff. Riviere, born in France, took up cooking as a career at an early age in Bordeaux and, before joining the Stevens staff in 1924, held posts at such locales as the Fort Pitt, Pittsburgh, Pa., The Breakers at Palm Beach and the Royal Poin-ciana, Palm Beach. Rivieres biggest single day during his long service with Stevens was the other Saturday at Churchill Downs when Jet Pilot won a race called the Derby. . . . Pinkie Brown, the exercise boy and assistant foreman for Calumet Farm, has galloped about as many good horses as the next fellow and maybe more, Lawrin, Whirlaway and Faultless, just to mention a few among many. . . . Reigh Jane, in the stable of trainer T. D. "Pinky" Grimes, has such a short neck that she has to kneel slightly to munch grass. . . . Belmont Park has plans drafted for a recreational center for grooms and exercise boys that dwarf all others in existence or contemplated. Work will start the minute the CPA restrictions are either eased or lifted. ... At the last meeting of The Jockey Club, recognition was accorded the late Italian sire importation, Ortello, which died untimely recently in California. AAA Shelby Clark, one of our leading reinsmen, is an expert agriculturist. He has put his savings into an Illinois farm, and is continuing to save in order to expand his holdings. He raises wheat and corn, and is a firm believer in crop rotation, etc., and he supervises the operation of the place by phone. . . . Clark is one of the few riders rated as a full-fledged movie star. He appeared in Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, and filmed so well he was offered a steady job in Hollywood, but he firmly refused, deciding to stick to his main vocation, race riding. Clark, who is a member of the "I rode Whirlaway Club," currently is first string pilot for William Helis. . . . Myron Davis, paddock and patrol judge, rode races at Deer Lodge, Mont., in 1914 Trainer Dick Handlen, of Foxcatcher Farm, has received promising reports on Hampden, making his first season at stud in Virginia. Hampden is the champion hard-luck horse of recent years. He didnt get to the races at two, following a long series of mishaps, and when he finally did, uncovered sensational speed. He muffed a big chance in the Kentucky Derby when his rider misjudged the finish line, but probably wouldnt have won, then ran second in the Preakness. Weak knees halted his racing almost as soon as it had really got under way, but perhaps his luck in the stud will more than make amends for the many mishaps which beset him as campaigner.
