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JUDGES STAND I By Charles Hatton Billings at Cross Roads in Peabody 15 in Bernboroughs First Crop to Date Joliet Rivals in Arlington Features AlsabVDay Points for Miss America AmericaLEXINGTON LEXINGTON Ky May 29 29Memorial Memorial Day always has been one of the most coveted racing dates of the season and Belmont Delaware Park Lincoln atWashington Garden State Hollywood Park and Suffolk will cater to the holiday turfgoers this year Belmonts traditional Suburban gives its winners at least as much prestige as any other American handicap and it will afford the popular Stymie a chance of moving within about 125000 of his first million He has enormous box office and likely will be the choice to beat Faultless again It seems a bit incongruous that the worlds richest race horse ever was anything s crass as a 1500 plater This circumstance may encourage many small horse owners The holiday cards at the other tracks in the asc aiso are suitaoiy decorative so to speaic ant here in the Middle West the Lincoln club offers the 25000 Peabody Memorial at Washington The Peabody is the first important threeyearold stake hereabout since the Derby and it may be the only one of the summer turf season in Chicago in which the winner will not have to beat the Calumets The feeling grows that in Billings and Eagle Look the astute Baba Wells is handling two colts that may have a future futureBernboroughs Bernboroughs admirers range all the way from Lexing ¬ ton to Towoomba and these may be interested to know that there are nine colts and six fillies in his first crop of foals with several mares yet to foal The Australian cham ¬ pions fillies are bays from La Ballerina Confetti Sarimar and First Class a chestnut from Joji T and a daughter of New Pin who is a rather undecided bay or gray Bernbor ¬ oughs sons are bays out of Dark Tower Flag Lily Miss Dogwood No Wire Responsive Fair Dancer and Maker t a brown out of Richmond Rose and a chestnut from Fan tinewho is the dam of Lord Boswell Perhaps you know that Bernle is himself a bay although he obviously is not what is called a pure dominant if it matters mattersTrack Track heads may take the position that spring stakes for two yearolds are inconclusive if they like but wei shall have to think that Ky Colonel arid Olympia are pretty genuine Inferior prospects do not run dead heats in new track record time of 5BVs in the Joliet Olympia seems to break a trifle slowly which sometimes has got him into difficulties and yet he has shared in three stakes from four starts Ky Colonel has not been beaten in three starts and he won the Bashford Manor and tied Olym ¬ pia for the Joliet in rather spectacular finishes Ky Colonels dam Minstrelette has previously produced the Hawthorne Gold Cup winner Jacks Jill and the stakes filly Ballas Girl If it interests you she now is rearing a sister to Ky Colonel A curious aspect of Minstrelettes stud record is that she seems sensibly disposed to give herself a rest on alternate years There is a theory this is beneficial to the foals which she does Jmve and indeed W C Whitney had a policy of resting his mares on alter ¬ nate years By the way it is understood that Jacks Jill has been in light training on the turf course at Patchen Wilkes Farm and she may come back There are no further stakes in which Ky Colonel and Olympia might run off their tie during Llncolnat Washington but we may expect to see them again at Arlington ArlingtonThe The new Miss America Stakes of 10000 for twoyear old fillies on June 12 is next of Lincolns features for the frosjh Larry Bogenschutz tells us there was some vague idea of making a fillyandmare handicap of this event but it was felt that a race for twoyearold fillies would fill more satisfactorily At the moment Mrs Albert Sabaths homebred seems to be the one to beat for the inaugural of the Miss America Jockey Steve Brooks appears to Lave been quite impressed by Alsabs Day and he is to have the mount in her races at Chicago this summer We should think it would be difficult to recall a threeyearold who ventured out of his age division and fared better than her sire did in 1942 Alsab proved himself a really great race horse and one doesnt see many of them in a lifetime lifetimeTurf Turf ana Tropical hopes to open the Florida season of 1948 49 Myrtle Charms training is said to be delayed owning to a splint BurgElArab is among the more popular untried sires and C V Whitney gave him some of his best mares this season Valter Chrysler Jr was a recent visitor to the Blue Grass Dr Eslie Asbury considers Brownian the bread win ¬ ner of his string Shy Fly has been bred to Bold Venture She formerly was the champion quarter horse Bold Venture sired Miss Princess who beat her in a match for a huge side sidewager wager John Hertz is expected at Stoner Creek upon the close closeof of Belmont
