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JUDGES STAND fiy CHARLES HATTON CHURCHILL DOWNS LOUISVILLE Ky May 1 Challe Anne spent a good deal of her time last summer in futile pursuit of such as Bewitch and Bold Gallant but she emerged from the Kentucky Oaks as one of the seasons better threeyear old fillies This historic mile and a sixteenth was easily the most dis ¬ tinguishing success in her expanding career She now must be considered a worthwhile prospect for the many filly and mare races during the Chicago season Challe Anne races for her breeder Fred L Flanders and is the second of Challedons progeny to win an important Ken ¬ tucky stake The other is of course Charley Fishers waspwaisted Shy Guy who won last falls Breeders Fu ¬ turity Ira Drymon who stands Challedon at his Gallaher Farm near Lexington motored up to Louisville to root for Challe Ane The Oaks result was quite surprising to those who saw Lea Lark win the Oaks Trial with speed to spare Charlton Clays filly was knocked back at the clubhouse turn and had to make the overland route She tired after working her way to contention curving for home A Warren Wright added an interesting young mare to his stud a few days ago This is Sunny Flight who is by Sun Again and is a halfsister to Coaltown She has not raced and is not to be bred until 49 We have heard a great many versions of how Coaltown was named I named him for Les Combs the master of Calumet tells us Sometimes when he is in Chicago or Miami and loses a race he will say I think I shall go back to Challe Anne Surprisingly Good in Oaks Coaliowns HalfSister Goes to Stud Ark Chancellors Ruling Favors Turf My Request as Prospective Progenitor ProgenitorCoaltown Coaltown or if something pleases him he will say This is nice going for a country boy from Coaltown One day we were driving through the village and I told him that I would like to name a horse Coaltown for him So I went over the list of our colts and gave the name to a youngster I hoped would make it well known Combs naturally is well pleased with his namesake By the way the medicine with which his head was sprayed when he was ill last season was prescribed by a prominent Chicago physician who is a friend of the Wrights Coal town will not lack for engagements this year as he is in the Preakness Belmont Classic American Derby Yan ¬ kee Jersey Stakes Withers Swift Survivor and the Kent x A A A I IIt It is well worth noting that the turf in Arkansas has won a skirmish with Uncle Mac MacKrell a Little Rock preacher and candidate for governor MacKrell had charged that the state racing law is a violation of the constitution against lotteries This was threshed out in a hearing of some two hours and Chancellor Dodge of Pulaski County ruled that mutuel wagering is not a lottery In issuing his opinion Dodge said It seems to me that running a horse race is a game of skill Bets on races are not participation in a lottery This is another precedent in case the matter is brought up again ia Arkansas or some other state stateA A A A ABen Ben Whitakers colt My Request strikes this reporter as the sort who might have a future at stud when the Texas sportsman has finished racing him My Request always gives the old school try and unlike many free running twoyearolds he seems to have improved at three His sire Requested has a pedigree full of Domino and his dam comes of the immediate family of The Doge Chief Barker Carolyn A and Johns Joy It is not easy to make a sire and Requested had few mares of any sort in his first season though he was stood at the most reasonable terms His book now is full for 49 and El mendorf Stoner Creek and other leading studs are among his patrons We are reminded of the veteran Col Phil Chinns advice when in doubt breed to a Domino horse horseA A A A ATurfiana Turfiana Whirl Some cuffed herself some time back we learn from Warren Wright and is progressing satis ¬ factorily for later engagements R W Mcllvain made a happy choice in a mate for Mahmoud in Billings dam Native Gal by Sir Gallahad m He is without nerves and a natural stayer At Lexington a lady accidentally doused him with a bottle of CocaCola en route to the post and he never flicked an ear Prince Dimitri Djordjadze now owns Provocatives damk Syl Veitch did well to have the C V Whitney horses so lit at Jamaica after the bitter winter in Kentucky Jimmy Tupper of Tennessee will offer a Bull Lea filly at Keeneland Calumet will not offer a consignment consignmentthere there after all Several leading track operators feel feelthere there is need of a school for turf officials
