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JUDGES STAND 1 By Charles Hatton 1 1ODonnell ODonnell Outlines Some Lincoln Plans Hypostyle Proves Nimble IllinoisBred Epsom Derby Heroes Kin in Kentucky Eternal Reward Seeks Third Lincoln Cap CapLincolnatWashington LincolnatWashington enters upon the final week of its 30 days meet with every prospect that it will prove an unquali ¬ fied success General manager Pete ODonnell tells us that it is hoped next seasonto operate Lincolnat Lincoln if the necessary repairs can be ef ¬ fected in time There is a sixlane highway from The Loop to the Crete course Lincoln has not met at home since the War ban on transportation We learn that the new club plans to complete the 18 hole golf course which Col Matt Winn started adja ¬ cent to the track and that there may also be an open air theatre The golf course may be opened to members of a new and exclu ¬ sive turf club As this is written the per ¬ centage of winning choices at Lincolnat Washington approximates the national par of 33 13 and the sport also has been aided by a sensational break in the weather No rain fell in the first 19 racing days which is ex ¬ traordinary for Lincoln dates The Race of the Week at the South Side park is the Lincoln Handicap which is for three yearolds and upward at the popular mile and a quarter distance and for a purse of 15000 added It promises to bring together some old Chicago favorites among them Eternal Reward Star Reward Colosal and Frere Jacques The recent La Salle Handi ¬ cap of a furlong shorter distance afforded handicapper Larry Bogenschutz a direct line on leading probables probablesClem Clem Nance of the Illinois Racing Board tells us that more than 100 thoroughbreds produced in the Prairie State now have been registered this season to be eligible for the bonus of 10 per cent of the purses they win The liveliest of the Illinosians is W A Mikels threeyearold Hypostyle a gelding by Hyprocite out of Chinese Empress who won an allowance race in Iloy3 swiftest time of the LincolnatWashington meeting to the writing Also at the Mikel farm is the stallion Hygoby sire of Norman El rods colt Hot And High As the story goes Elrod shipped Hygoby here from Texas after the horse sired Hot and High from Day Dawn who was his entire book of thor ¬ oughbred mares Babe Wells has enjoyed some success racing Equifox after he served at stud and the River Divide Farms Brief Sigh is a sire who now is winning allowance sprints at Homewood The gray sevenyearold son of Brevity has four Ohiobred yearlings that trainer Rollie Shepp will take up in the fall He was bred to only one mare this year we think and she is said not to be in foal foalThere There is said to be some prospect that the Epsom Derby winner My Love will come to the United States this season which leads to all sorts of interesting possibilities Remarkably enough both this French colt and last years Epsom Derby win ¬ ner are sons of Vatellor The 1947 winner in case you have forgotten was Pearl Diver Vatellor is a son of Vatout and Lady Elinor by Teddy His male line is that of St Simon through Chaucer The successes of My Love and Pearl Diver naturally will focus attention on a colt by Vatellor from Merry Hope by Abjer that the French Bloodstock Agency will offer at Tattersalls the last of next month My Loves victory was not altogether unexpected since the astute Aga Khan bought a half interest in him shortly before the race The colt made something of a prophet of Alain de Breil who had said that he felt rather confident My Love would win when in Lexington a month ago agoEternal Eternal Reward will attempt to win a third Lincoln atWashington stake with the running of the Lincoln Handicap Augustus Nahms fiveyearold son of Reap ¬ ing Reward and Forever Yours is at the top of his form just now and has accounted for the Crete of six furlongs and the La Salle of a mile and an eighth A confirmed rail runner he captured the La Salle the hard way so to speak coming off the rails to make a run outside Colosal Incidentally Henry Knight who always has been fond of Forever Yours was in the La Salle audience to root for him Forever Yours shares a paddock with Well Rewarded at his Almahurst Farm near Nicholasville Eternal Re ¬ wardcertainly is the horse for the Washington Park course It was there he won his most important race when he captured the historic American Derby DerbyTurf Turf ana Enforcer won an Ilinoisbred award when he ran six furlongs in 110 in the recent Burning Star Handi ¬ cap John Jackson has a photogenique twoyearold Pala mino stallion he plans to show and later to stand at stud Jim Emerys good mare Dolly Val now has a yearling and foal And his mud runner Topic a nineyearold son of Chance Sun and Simple Flower by Black Servant has been shipped to Joe Knights farm Guy Bedwell still is looking for a suit ¬ able 40000 horse to replace Prognosis who died of swamp fever It seems he must purchase one runner for the sum owing to some income tax regulation Hygoby never started The illfated Shot Put holds two Washington Park track marks
