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EE v - , , JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Modesty Is Race of Week at Arlington Lindheimer on Filly-and-Mare Features Hancock, Jr., Talent-Scouts Eastern Colts Brownian Returns to Races in Top Form ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, HI.. June 26. Arlington offers three stakes during the week directly ahead. The first of these is the Primer of 0,000 for two-year-olds at five and a half furlongs on Wednesday. This event will be fol lowed on Thursday by the 0,000 Skokie Handicap for three-year-olds at six furlongs. "The Race of the Week" is Saturdays 5,-000 Modesty Stakes, also at six furlongs, for fillies and mares. The Primer will bring out several of the colts who will attempt to turn back the Easts crack Mr. Busher, and perhaps its world record holder, Algasir, in the rich Arlington Futurity on July 17. None of the Calumets was quite up to a race in time for the Hyde Park here opening day, but perhaps the Joneses will trot out one of them in the Primer. There are also the ex- penenced Ky. Colonel, Irish Sun, Or Skipper and Olympia. One would think that it will take a really good prospect to win this Primer. Talk of the Skokie seems to begin and end with Coal-town, who is so admirably suited for the six-furlong distance. Some trainers cp not much care to run three-year-olds against older horses but three of the last five winners of the Modesty were three-year-olds, and Bewitch and Itsabet are among the probables for the race this season, On the whole, this promises to be a week of excellent sport at the shady North Side course. Ben Lindheimer makes rather a point of offering a good many filly and mare races, and the Modesty is the first of two generous stakes for them at Arlington Park. This 5,000 is complemented by the 0,000 Arlington Matron of a flat mile on July 29. Needless to say, these fixtures are appreciated by sportsmen and breeders generally. We know breeders who keep a file of the charts and weights for such events, as future reference when the mares are retired to the stud. In late years filly and mare races have developed some of the best sport that has been presented by the clubs having them. Of Arlingtons "F and M" races, Lindheimer says, "I feel that there are certain fundamentals, like the relation of racing and breeding, which should be kept in mind in drawing up a program." He has received many letters from owners and breeders complimenting him on the policy of Arlington and Washington in regard to filly races. "I saw two nice colts in New York," A. B. Hancock, Jr., aid upon his return to this area. "One of these is Mr. Busher, the other Ennobled." It may be that Ennobled will appear during this meeting.. Two years ago William Helis sent his Cosmia Bomb to Chicago and won an impressive race in the Arlington Futurity. Cosmic Bomb "worf himself out" at 2, after Helis paid 9,500 for him at the Keeneland Sales. Ennobled was purchased for 5,000 at Saratoga last summer and he also seems -o have been very well bought. It is only natural that Helis has shown an interest in the yearling filly by Ennobleds sire, Count "leet, out of Cosmic Bombs dam, Banish Fear, to be sold at Keenr1 md next month. Returning to Hancock, who has a small string racing here, he tells us that visitors seem pleased with the way-the Claiborne yearlings are coming up to the sales. One eyeful is a chestnut colt by Blenheim H. from Black Wave, wno is a brother of the Derby winner. Jet Pilot. As you may know it wtU be "Hancock Afternoon" rather than "Hancock Night" at the sales this summer. The notion here is that it would be a highlight of the auctions even Claiborne had drawn a rainy 3 A. M. Dr. Eslie Asburys mare, Brownian, has been returned to competition in winning form by trainer Howard Babe" Wells. She is the "bread winner" of the string, and last season at three earned 7,975. The Ohioan did not vin stakes event quite, but she was second to Miss Kimo in the Misty Isle; in new track record time of 1:22 for seven furlongs. Eventually the Asbury filly is to join the broodmares at Forest Retreat, where her dam, Brown Biscuit, now is in service. Brown Biscuit introduces rather an interesting element into the pedigree of the Sickle fMly. She is by the obscure Sir Andrew but is out of Swing On, whom you used to see on the program as the dam of Seabiscuit. Here is a fairly clear case of the efficacy of a strong family, for it is also that of the mighty Equipoise. Turf ana: A Kentucky breeder finds that Djebel definitely is not for sale. . . . Harry Isaacs will one season mate Itsabet with Brookfield and something sudden should come of that. . . . Monmouths New Jersey Futurity on July 14 drew 41 nominees, of whom Shamrocks Big Nose and Helis Emulate are best known at the moment. . . . The clubs Salvator Mile, along with the Equipoise Mile, the Metropolitan and the Sysonby may tend to create more specialists at the "once around" distance. . . . Coaltown is in the 5,000 choice stakes of a mile and a quarter at Monmouth on August 7. . . . Arbar races in bandages.
