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rr- . i HKSaHIH JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Provocatives Ugly Duckling Story Jacks Jill to Reappear at Arlington Baby League Bids for Broodmare Honor Challe Anne Confirms Form of Oaks ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, 111., June 28. Arlingtons 0,000 Hyde Park was the first stakes won by Mrs. Emil Denemarks little Roman colt Provocative, but we shall be surprised if it is the last. He had several other stakes winners winners and and track track record record holders holders behind behind rr- . i winners winners and and track track record record holders holders behind behind him. The Chicago sportswoman picked up Provocative for 0,500 in the Elmendorf sale at Keeneland last summer, and he has proved to be a bargain. He has also proved that it is sometimes pretty difficult to know who are the "select yearlings." We are afraid that Provocative is something less than a model for weathervanes in appearance, and that the critics did not fancy his upright pasterns when he was offered for sale. Indeed the wisdom of offering him in a "sale of pf select select yearlings" yearlings" was was openly openly doubted doubted by by of pf select select yearlings" yearlings" was was openly openly doubted doubted by by HKSaHIH those whose opinions are no better than their taste. So Provocative became the first Elmendorf yearling to win a race, and he now must be considered one of the best prospects in the entire sale. People naturally prefer colts and fillies who look as if they will stay sound, but the sage Mr. Fitz has a saying that is rather apropros. He has judged many yearling shows and he declares that "It is what one cannot see that really matters the most. One cant look at a horse and be sure if he has the head and the heart for racing." We learn from Joe A. Goodwin that Jacks Jill, who. is one pf the most popular entertainers in the Middlewest, will be ready for the races in about two weeks. Perhaps she will be a starter in the 0,000 Arlington Matron here on July 29, if she continues to do well for trainer John . Goode. Jacks Jill now is a seven-year-old and has only to earn a few dollars to become a 00,000 winner before she is retired. Goodwin bought her as a weanling for 50. The master of Patchen Wilkes Farm incidentally has six horses under saddle at Lexington, mostly two-year-olds by Balladier, that will be shipped to Goode in a few weeks. Twelve yearlings are to be broken at the farm, which has a good turf course, beginning on August 1. One hears it often suggested that Mrs. Grahams lively colt Mr. Busher will turn out to be 1948s champion two-year-old. This gave rise to an interesting question down at the Claiborne Farm near Paris on a recent afternoon. A visiting sportsman asked if any mares have produced both a colt and a filly that have proved champions. Of course Ogden Phipps blocky little bay mare Baby League has given the turf one genuine champion in the filly Busher. A. B. Hancock, Jr., was able to show the visitor a Claiborne mare that has foaled a colt and" a filly of top class. This is the aristocratic Risk, who is the dam of Sky Larking and Beaugay. We suppose you know that some mares seem to have better colts than fillies and vice versa, and that a rare few foal two champions of either sex. The Kentucky Thoroughbred Breeders Association of Louisville last winter voted Potheen "the outstanding producer of 1947" and will award Warren Wright a portrait of the mare during the Keeneland Sales. Potheen foaled the champion filly Bewitch, and a good colt in the Classic winner Pot O Luck, although he never quite became a champion. Fred Flanders little filly Challe Anne proved that her victory in the Kentucky Oaks was not just a "flash in the pan" when she beat older horses in the Lincoln Handicap at the classic mile and a quarter route. Eternal Reward simply could not concede 23 pounds actual weight, and she became the first of her age and sex to win this event in 15 years. Challe Anne is by Challedon, who may have been syndicated in Kentucky by the time you read this, and she is out of Victorious Ann, who might have been purchased for 0,000 some months ago. We suppose that trainer W. U. Ridenour will sharpen Challe Annes "foot" for engagements at this meet and at Washington Park, for none of the filly-and-mare events is over the mile and a quarter route. Turf ana: Visitors to Claiborne find the name plates of 00,-000 winners and Derby winners over the stalls occupied by these products of the stud as yearlings. . . . Marching Home and her filly foal by Wait A Bit have been returned to William Zieglers Burrland Farm in Virginia, to appear in a horse show. Marching Home has won several "blues". . . . Lovely Nights daughter Sweet Dream gave him a nice send off to Virginia when she won the Gazelle. . . . There will be few Pilates in the 1949 crop. . . . Phalanx dam Jacola now is rearing a Count Fleet filly. . . . Some of the yearling ads "are becoming a little blattant. . . . Rippey won nearly 00,000 in sprints last season, and bids fair to surpass the mark this year.
