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JUDGES STAND By Charles Nation 1 1Arbor Arbor Has Second Leg on Unique Triple Speedy Delegate Bred for Equipoise Mile Safeguard and By Jimminy Foal Win Blue in Va New Yorkers High Appraisal of Mr Busher BusherARLINGTON ARLINGTON PARK Arlington Heights 111 June 25 Citation proved himself far superior to all rival threeyear olds in capturing the American Triple Crown and we are sure he is quite deserving of the nice things that have been said of him On the other side of the Atlantic the French horse Arbar is bidding for an even more unique triple He now has won two of these events and it is expected that he will come to the United States in an attempt to complete his coup In May he won the Prix du Cadran which is Frances great cup event in new record time for the course moving to the lead with a burst of speed estimated at about 40 m p h On June 17 he won Englands famed Ascot Gold Cup by four leisurely lengths Having thus clearly established himself as the foremost cup horse in France and England the Boussac fouryearold may now attempt to extend his reign to America Count de Brignac told us in Lexington not long ago that there is some thought of making Arbar eligible for the International Gold Cup or the Jockey Club Gold Cup If it interests you Arbar is a smallish son of Djebel and Astronomic and Djebel is a halfbrother of Hierocles who is in the stud at Circle M Farm near Lexington De Brignac estimates that horses may lose 40 p c of their form in flying the Atlantic but if Arbar can bring off this triple it will be one of the most notable feats in all the history of the turf turfThe The Equipoise Mile will entertain Chicagoans this weekend at Arlington The Calumets will be the favor ¬ ites we suppose but it would be rather appropriate in a sentimental way were Herb Woolfs fouryearold Dele ¬ gate to run well in this one As a grandson of Pennant he is the nearest of kin to Equipoise in this field The Chocolate Soldiers on Equifox won the introductory Mile in 1941 and repeated as an eightyearold in 1945 Any of the get of Equipoise now in training would be flirting with the new Illinois rule which bars horses 12 and older from competing as he died in 1938 Coinci dentally the world record milers son Bolingbroke holds the American mile and a half mark of 227 and his grandsons Saggy and Algasir hold world records for four and a half furlongs on a straight course and around a Things are never dull in The Old Dominion When the Vir ¬ ginians begin to be bored they invent a horse show or a fox hunt or a pointtopoint race This seems to be the season for the horse shows It may interest New York horse players that an old favorite Mrs Isabel Dodge Sloanes mare Safeguard and her colt foal by By Jimminy won the blue a few days ago at Upperville Most breeders seem inclined to excuse mares for producing rather runty first foals Indeed mares often are bred first to a sire of negligible success and a small fee on the assumption that the foal isnt likely to be of much account any ¬ how Well Safeguards colt is a first foal and some racing men whose judgment in these matters is usually sound tell us that he is one of the best of Virginias 1948 crop of baby racers Safeguard is a fiveyearold Brookmeade homebred by Okapl from Guarded Queen by On Watch She won The Test and the Colonial Handicap as a threeyearold and was second in the Fleetwing and the American Legion Handicaps HandicapsMr Mr Busher will meet a nimble lot of colts when he comes to Chicago for the Arlington Futurity and if he can beat them he will become a bargain weanling at 50000 It may give you a vague idea of how he has Im ¬ pressed New Yorkers to note that 150000 is said to have been offered for him Perhaps it ought to be added that these offers one hears for various horses often have little if any connection with the owners appraisal of them For instance there are horses whose actual value is S4 that are simply not for sale Mr Bushers famous sister is reported to be in foal to Alibhai We shall no doubt hear a rendi ¬ tion of the anvil chorus if she fails to produce a series of stakes winners The only mare of comparable racing class whom this observer can recall was Regret The notion here was that she would make her mark in the stud We still arent sure she will hot through First Fiddle Regrets production record would look pretty good on any other mare mareTurf Turf ana The Epsom Derby winner My Love has a pedigree reminiscent of Faultless in that each is inbred to Teddy with an American cross My Loves comes through Orby and Han ¬ over Perhaps Elmendorf should be called the National Stud so many people are reported to have bought portions of it Actually none has to this writing The Belgian horse Bayeux was runnerup to Arbar in both the Prix du Cadran and the Ascot Cup There was a want of a nail case with variations at a Blue Grass farm recently It seems a mare with soft feet who had to wear shoes in front pawed her colicky foal to arouse him from a nap in the field so that the foal now has a bad knee Olin Gentry still is an admirer of Bimelech who has 44 winners from 55 starters from his first 65 registered foals H P Headleys filly Acoma winner of the Debutante now is on the grounds at Arlington
