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JUDGES STAND *ycharles hatton LEXINGTON, Ky., May 23.— Its just possible that Warren Wrights good filly, Wistful, will set a modern record for Oaks victories this season. She has won the Kentucky and Pim-lico Oaks, seems to have dead aim on Saturdays 0,000 Coaching Club Oaks at Belmont Park, and is eligible also for the 5,000 Hollywood Oaks on June 4 and the 0,000 Delaware Oaks on the Fourth of July. We should hesitate to guess if the Hollywood Oaks will tempt Wistful to take to the air, but that doesnt matter to her prospects of setting an Oaks record. Vagrancy was the most successful of the Oaks specialists, with the Coaching Club, Delaware and Pimlico versions to her credit. Gallorette won the Delaware and Pimlico Oaks, Twilight Tear and Scattered the Pimlico and Coaching Club Oaks. Perhaps Willie duPonts filly, Gaf-fery, will prove the stoutest of Wistfuls rivals in the Coaching Club. At any rate she is well seasoned and gives the impression she will stay a mile and a quarter. But Wistful will be an extensively backed favorite. Unlike most fillies she doesnt pitch the bit if she is bothered in a race, and she won the Kentucky and Pimlico Oaks looking for some more horses to beat. She is, incidentally, the first filly to capture both races. Calumet did not make her eligible for either the Classic or the American Derby, though she is to be active at Arlington and Washington. These two summer features closed last November 15. Wistful hadnt done anything spectacular, and something called Two Lea seemed a better prospect, so she was made eligible along with Ponder. AAA Detroiter racegoers have a rather high opinion of Oil Capitol after hi£ game race in the Lansing, and probably Wistful May Win Record total of Oaks Oil Capitol Only Purchase in Sale of 443 Three Blue Ribbon Yearlings Winners at 2 Busy Week-End for Midwest 3-Year-Olds he will be pointed also for the Graduation of 5,000 on the Fourth of July. Oil Capitol is the only purchase owner Tom Gray made at the Keeneiand sales last summer, where, a total of 443 were offered. This-gray son of Mahmoud .was bred at Elmendorf and already has won back ,450 of an investment of 5,000. Gray resides at Tulsa, Okla., thus the-colts name. Last fall his dam/Never Again U., was sold to Tyson Gilpin for ,600, in foal to the very promising young sire, Pavot. The Virginian may now feel that he also obtained a bargain. AAA Things are going very well for the judges at the various yearling shows of 1948. Only for that it wouldnt be quite cricket to mention that we have checked up on them. Alex Bower found himself on the hook at Pimlico a year ago, and he gave the blue to a filly by Piping Rock out of Wes. Eventually she was named Lika-rock and won her first start racing for Emma Downs. New Jersey breeders also give a yearling show, at the Monmouth Park course on the date of the New Jersey Futurity. P. M. "Pres" Burch judged the exhibit last season, and pinned a blue ribbon on a bay filly by Val-dina Orphan but of Mismate. This one was shown by 1;he 1 Carolyn K Stable, was named Jersey Queen, and also is a winner of her first start. Still another show is held at New Orleans, where a good many baby racers are trained each winter. The champion at the Louisiana course was Bolingover, a son of Bolingbroke and Lynvete, who won his second s@rt for J. A. Chambers. Were afraid that we dont quite know who judged this one, but he is entitled to take a bow. Virginians maneuvered Lou P. Doherty out on a limb as judge of their annual yearling show, and its up to an Attention filly called At Ease to come to his rescue. She was trotted out by Melville Church, sold at Saratoga for ,000 to agent O. T. Dubas-soff , and hasnt started. Perhaps she will emulate others of the showier yearlings and win, too. AAA Lincoln-at-Washington and the MRA plan rich three-year-old stakes this holiday week-end. Detroit will card its 5,000 added Frontier at six furlongs on Saturday, and the Chicago club offers its 5,000 Peabody Memorial of a mile and a furlong on the Memorial Day program Monday. Lextown was among the early leaders in the Kentucky Derby and qualified for his engagement in the Peabody when he won opening day at Lincoln-at-Wash-ington. Ky. Colonel, Johns Joy, Petey Cotter, Jacks Town and Model Cadet may also appear in one or another of these stakes. The Peabody a year ago developed one of the seasons sharpest three-year-old races, when Billings beat Shy Guy an exciting zip on the post. AAA Turf ana: The first three at the end of the Preakness were out of stakes-winning mares. . . . Humphrey Finney, after inspecting Breeders Sales Co. yearlings, declares they are "The most highly select lot to be offered at Keeneiand." . . . Blue Peter Is back under saddle. . . . The 1 recent winner, Sunny Boo, is the first or out-of-season foal by Sun Again, sired from a thoroughbred test mare, and foaled in September. . . . Papa Redbirds dam, a 00 mare, descends from Black Maria. . . . R. L. Baird is currently riding in good form at Detroit.
