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JUDGES STAND CHARLES HATTON LEXINGTON KyMay 15 What is called the major season of the turf sport in the Chicago area begins Monday afternoon when the Lincoln Fields club opens Washing ¬ ton Park for a meet which extends through June 19 For several days now there has been a general exodus of horses racing men and turf followers from Kentucky and most of them have the Homewood course as their destination Washington Park is one of middle western racings proudest boasts It is spacious and comfortable and Chicagoans find its casual informal atmosphere very pleasant In late years Ben Lindheimer has added some modern touches such as elevators and glistening new restaurants and a few ingenious flourishes of his own like the identification of tote windows of differ ¬ ent denominations with various colors and screening in the backs of the boxes to facilitate the circulation of air on warm summer days Visiting easterners always seem a bit incredulous about one of the neighborly little courtesies which are observed by Washington patrons They customarily respect one anothers claims to un ¬ reserved seats when an early arrival ties his handker chief to the back of the chair The 10000 Crete Handi ¬ cap of six furlongs is the first days feature and it has drawn some of the fast set of midwestern sprinters Perhaps a worthy rival for Dixianas champion Spy Song will emerge from this contest Spy Song is enormously popular with Chicago turf goers and this is to be his final campaign we are told He is to begin stud duty at Dixiana in 49 and already a number of mares have heen booked to him Not long ago his dam Mata Hari foaled his full brother at the Lincoln Meet Opens in Popular Setting Dixiana Foals Include Spy Songs Brother Citations HalfSister at Thornton Stud Commodore Lea Promising Midwest Juvenile JuvenileDetroiters Detroiters stud here The newcomer is black as his ancestor Domino who was foaled at Dixiana Another interesting foal at the Fisher farm is a bay filly by Count Fleet out of Far Star who is the dam of the clever handicapper Star Reward Trainer Jack Hodgins has a rather well balanced string for racing at Chicago this season what with Spy Song Shy Guy Star Reward and a group of more or less promising twoyearolds 4 A A ABen Ben Jones is shipping a division of Calumet from Kentucky to Arlington Park and it is possible that he will van several to Homewood to appear during the Lincoln meet He certainly will inject two C Cs of Bull Lea into proceedings at Arlington meaning Cita ¬ tion and Coaltown of course By the way Carter Thorn ¬ ton has Citations halfsister Mermaid among the mares at his Paris farm She is a fouryearold by Blenheim II out of Hydroplane II that was purchased privately as a twoyearold by the Maryland sportswoman Mrs George Brown She had won for Calumet and we think that Sylvester Veitch recommended her to the Browns Mermaid was bred to Sun Again at three last year but failed to get in foal and yhas been returned to him this spring As you might guess Mrs Brown has had many offers for Mermaid but she has rejected them It is proposed to breed Mermaid to Bull Lea next season Perhaps steward Brown ought step out of the stand when Citation is running in the light of all this rooting in ¬ terest Everyone has remarked upon Citations splendid disposition and horse sense About the Calumet barn they have noted another attribute His action is quite true so that it isnt necessary to trim his feet or balance his shoes a certain way in order that he will run straight He is perfectly sound and unblemished and probably this is a contributing factor factorA A A A ASydney Sydney I Crew seems to have bred a very brisk two yearold in Commodore Lea who races in his own colors here in the Middlewest Commodore Lea is a son of Bull Lea and O Play by the sprinter Okapi Recently at Churchill Downs he turned up in an allowance race of five furlongs and won by six lengths in 59 on a good track His time was only threefifths off the track rec ¬ ord established by Yankee Notions 36 years ago We should hesitate to guess how fast Commodore Lea would have run under more favorable circumstances He is the first Bull Lea twoyearold to attract attention in 48 but we daresay he will not be the last lastA A A 4 4Turfiana Turfiana Arlington and Washington are maintain ¬ ing their purse and stakes distribution at their 48 peak but are decreasing the stakes by 95000 and scaling up the overnighters in the same sum If you care to know Citations lead pony who seems to be the more excitable of the two is a saddle bred called Parnell for the Jones hometown Jabot is rearing a chestnut Count Fleet colt whom the Whitney Farm staff con ¬ sider her best foal Spring stakes for twoyearolds are considered inconclusive by Havre and Pimlico And yet there are statistics on entire crops to show that the pc of twoyearold early birds still active and successful at five is greater than the pc of Johnny Come Latelies
