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JUDGES STAND 1 By Charles Motion Joliet William Penn Test a Conclusion ThreeYea rOId Filly Division Is Unresolved Many New Studs Formed in Old Dominion Sporting Element Backs Tennessee Meet MeetLEXINGTON LEXINGTON Ky May 21 21Belmont Belmont Garden State Suffolk Downs Hollywood Park and Washington Park all will be in operation this weekend and with any luck in the weather the total attendance should be pretty impressive even though there is no Triple Crown event to be disputed Bel monts card will be notable for the historic Metropolitan mile Garden States for the William Penn for twoyearolds Suffolk offers the Plymouth Rock for Down East sprinters Hollywood Park the 50000 Golden State Handicap for the produce of California studs The feature at LmcolnatWashing ton is the Joliet for twoyearolds The development of each new crop of twoyear olds is one of the fascinations of spring rac ¬ ing and we cannot recall a season when quite so many were running m quite such fast time Commodore Lea and Irish Sun have been approximating records here in the Middle West pretty much as Blue Peter Noble Impulse and Flower Bed have in the Maryland and New Jersey area and as Engel Man and Super Effort have in New England The Johnny ComeLatelies will have to come running to beat them for some of them are bred strongly enough to have a future The managements of several clubs are inclined to dismiss early season stakes for twoyearolds as inconclusive and this lends much academic interest to those now active activeNew New Yorkers look forward to a rather sharp mile race among some of the better threeyearold fillies in next Tuesdays 15000 Acorn at Belmont Park The King Ranchs wellbred Scattered by Whirlaway out of Im peratrice distinguished herself as an Oaks winner at Pim lico and she will attempt to emulate her stablemate But Why Not Also on the grounds is Calumets brilliant filly Bewitch who won the Ashland in her only start thus far this year Itsabet Whirl Some and Miss Mommy are others who may enliven late spring and summer events for the threeyearold fillies and most of those we have mentioned are to entertain Chicagoans during Arlington and Washington meetings At the moment the form in this division is unresolved unlike that among the three yearold colts coltsScattered Scattered was bred by the late W H LaBoyteaux and to our latest accounts her dam Imperatice is owned by C T Chenery who is the president of the Virginia Horsemans Association Another Virginia breeder who is in the news just now is this organizations vicepresident Melville Judge Church who reared the Frances Stables twoyearold Engel Man at his North Cliff Farm This Suffolk recordbreaker is by Ladysman out of the Transmute mare Noticing and was a 9000 yearling at the Spa last summer The bloodstock breeding industry in the Old Dominion is growing and among the new breeders are HJ McKeon Ian Montgomery Townsend Martin Maj Herman Schultz C V Carter and George Clarke Virginia now has an abundance of sires These are always more easily obtained than are really highclass mares which are the foundation of the stud but Paul Mellon J S Phipps Walter Chrysler Chenery Church Howell Jackson Mrs Sloane the Van Cliefs and Prince Djordjadze have been very active in the filly and mare market Such as Planetoid Imperatrice Fairy Chant Marching Home Up The Hill Bonnet Ann and Highclere are eating Virginians oats so to speak speakMiddle Middle western turf enthusiasts have few opportunities to see any of the amateur sport such as easterners find so enjoyable Strangely or not the state of Tennessee which has no commercialized racing offers the only amateur sport of any moment Earlier in the month the Iroquois chase was renewed at Nashville and on October Z the Thoroughbred Club of Tennessee will innovate a oneday meeting of flat events at Warner Park scene of the Iroquois Several days ago Jack W Denis Jo Morgan and M B Frost of the Thoroughbred Club met with James G Stahlman chairman of the Nashville Park Board and inspected the mile turf course which now is being made ready for the meeting This venture has the cooperation and support of William Bishop and others of the Keene land club and it may mark the beginning of a renaissance of the Tennessee turf Several influential Jockey Club members have indicated their colors will be represented representedTurf Turf ana The A C Ernst estate is expected to continue his stud and racing stable perhaps under the direction of his son inlaw Tinkam Veale who is much interested in the turf Tom Piatt will offer a top yearling at Keeneland this summer in a bay colt by Balladier from the Man o War mare Uniform Seldom has a rider lost a close race and won more acclaim than did Tommy Rankin in the Truxton on the flat at the Iroquois meeting There now are 434 breeders of thorough ¬ breds in Virginia Hang Up began greenly in her debut but could run once she got the idea Several breeders hereabout fancy that My Request may emulate his sire at stud which suggests that he will begin this phase of his career under more favorable circumstances than did Requested
