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JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton 1 1Belair Belair May Start Two in Epsom Derby Favored My Babu of American Ancestry Citation Creates Wagering Problems Chicago ThreeYea rOIds Prep for Peabody PeabodyLEXINGTON LEXINGTON Ky May 22 22William William Woodward now believes that he may have two entrants in the Epsom Derby a week from Saturday Americans were disappointed when his Black Tarquin second in the Eng ¬ lish Free Handicap had to content himself with the place in his first venture at two and they were agreeably surprised when his Isolator colt The Senator II won the Hy ¬ perion Stakes of a mile and a quarter It is of course possible that Black Tarquin was a bit short as a consequence of interruptions in his work occasioned by the hard going and a slight training mishap This was indi ¬ cated by his riding in th Derby Trial today The son of Rhodes Scholar and the huge mare Vagrancy is himself almost 17 hands and Capt BoydRochfort seems to have found it rather tedius training him on the hard turf which obtained up to the first of May Until he captured the Hyperion The Senator TJ was regarded as some sort of interloper among the English classic eligibles He was bred at Claiborne and is by the AngloAmerican Isolator who won two Saratoga Cups for The Jockey Club chairman His dam is Maraschino an unraced sister to Gallant Fox and to the dam of Belairs Belmont Stakes eligible Whirling Fox The Senator H is not unlike Black Tarquin in that each has Lexington blood which the English seem to find so objectionable when it is in others horses The isolationist position which they have taken in this matter may improve the exchequer at the ex ¬ pense of the breed breedFrance France as well as the United States will bid for the Epsom Derby next month The colt My Love who re ¬ cently won the Prix Hocquart at Longchamps is con ¬ sidered quite a formidable prospect He is by Vatellor and is inbred to Teddy not unlike our own Gallant Fox winner Faultless He has American blood through the Epsom Derby winner Orby Matter of fact the Derby favorite My Babu was bred in France and he really has more American blood than does Citation for example He is by the French sire Djebel who descends from the American mare Frizette ancestress of Black Tarquin Myrtlewood Goya II Jet Pilot and all of that crowd My Babu is out of th gray Perfume who is the dam also of Sayani Perfume was a fast mare and gives him another American strain through Mumtaz Mahal the ancestress of Mahmoud MahmoudWe We suppose that Citation has only to stay sound to win the 100000 Belmont Stakes on June 12 and thus distinguish himself as a winner of the American Triple Crown Bull Leas brilliant son occasioned four minus pools coming up to the Derby in which there was win play only but we understand that show pools are obligatory in New York events having as many as five wagering units He may be at shorter odds than was Count Fleet in the Belmont who was at less than 1 to 100 at one stage of the wagering So much for the theory that the Bull Leas do not stay Turfgoers in the midwest may expect to see Citation next at fashionable Arlington Park where he is in the rich Classic for which his understudy Coaltown is ineligible One notes a disposition in some quarters to think that the threeyearolds are no very gay lot The notion here is that My Request and Coaltown are awfully good colts but that Citation is exceptional We should guess that he would have to concede them many pounds in handicaps More than he will be required to give under the conditions of threeyear old stakes following the Belmont Before many years Warren Wright shall probably have to sell or lease some stallions at the rate he is developing Fervents Coaltowns and Faultlesses but we are advised that Citation is to stand at Calumet CalumetChicago Chicago racegoers will see two stakes at Lincolnat Washington on the forthcoming holiday weekend Some of the fast set of Middle Western sprinters will appear for the 10000 Steger Handicap of six and a haff furlongs on Saturday On Monday there is the 25000 Peabody Memorial which is exclusively for threeyearolds at a mile and a furlong R W Mcllvains Billings and Dixi anas Shy Guy are most familiar of the threeyearolds now active in this area and Howard Wells Eagle Look seems an improving sort of Whirlaway colt Wells also may show some rather well bred twoyearold fillies for Dr Eslie Asbury at the Homewood meet where the 10000 Miss America will highlight activities in this division He is conditioning fillies by Whrlaway Gala Belle Bull Lea and Count Fleet for the master of Forest Retreat RetreatTurf Turf ana Alain du Breil was a recent visitor and points out that Marcel Boussacs Arbar now has won Frances most coveted Gold Cup setting a new record of 418 for two and anda a half miles He ran the last mile in the following fractions 2520 2422 2460 and 2498 Megogos American record is 420 Talon scarcely looks the thoroughbred he is and indeed there is a story that when he arrived from South Amer ¬ ica accompanied by a pony the groom placed the pony in a stall and tied Talon to a tree The good racer and sire Eternal was out of a gift mare Marse Tom Piatt has one of the few remaining Whisk Broom II mares She is Dustaway who was shipped to France returned here and foaled Welcome Pass Prince Dmitri Djordjadze was here last weekend to inspect Princequillo a young sire of promise who was that rara avis a fast stayer
