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I BETWEEN RACES om I ARCADIA, Calif., May 27. Oregons new racing commission has accomplished an outstanding feat during the last few weeks, having resolved all differences between the dog and horse people in Portland. Oregon, you might be interested to know, was well represented at the recent NARC sessions in New York. The newest member of the commission, Jack Beck, of Eugene, received his appointment on a Thursday afternoon and entrained that night with the Oregon delegation for the East. Beck is one of the leading breeders in the timber state, maintaining two farms and pasturage areas near his home in the verdant and pleasant Willamette Valley. The Eugene haras is the home of the stallion, Pharlock, a rather well-known stud name in the Northwest. Beck has been breeding for the last several years, and only a year ago decided he had finally produced a colt of some capabilities. A big horse, he was dubbed Monstro and was nominated for the Kentucky Derby among other races. Due to a misfortune, Monstro did not train up to expectations in the spring and was not sent East to fill his engagement. The other members of the Oregon comission include Dr. Frank R. Menne of Portland, Fay S. Legrow of Athena, C. A. Huntington, one-time star football player and later an ace coach, also of Eugene, and Robert T. Mautz of Portland. AAA During our recent sojourn in New York, it was our good fortune to be able to talk with George Foster, the New Oregon Commission in. Outstanding Job Colorado Summer Racing Plans Are Nebulous M. H. Haskell Outlines Quarter-Horse Goals Haritos Hangs Up Tack, Opens Public Stable secretary of the Colorado commission. Colorado, as you probably are aware, is the newest American state to enjoy the pleasures and state profits of thoroughbred racing. Foster informs that while there still is a possibility that Denver will race late this fall, it is by no means a certainty. Time remains rather short to construct the type of plant desired by the jockey club there before the snow begins to fall. There is a chance to get ready, but just a chance. However, some smaller places with some facilities already available, are talking of staging short meetings, among them being Pueblo, Colorado Springs and, mayhap, Fort Greeley. Colorado is justly famous as a tourist state, with its majestic Rockies, and for that reason, some feel that the racing will prosper there much more than the population of the state normally seems to justify. In turn, the racing will act as an additional magnet to attract out-of-state tourists dur- . ing the summer months when the high, cool areas of Colorado seem quite appealing to folks in hot-weather areas. AAA Speaking of the New York conclave of commissioners, Arizona will be represented by Melville H. HaskeE of Tucson, who is an Arizona commissioner, as well as being the president of the American Quarter Racing Association. Haskell advises that there are now five states with legalized quarter-horse racing, New Mexico, the pioneer, his home state of Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Nevada. Haskel revealed that the quarter-horse people were well on their way toward clearing up registration procedures, positive identification of horses, and the like, and believed that within a short time the quarter sport would be on a plane quite acceptable to even Metropolitan audiences. "A start has to be made somewhere to reach a goal, and we have made that start," he explained. At the same time he passed out a tidy stack of the oficial bibles of the quarter-horse clan, the "Quarter Running Horse of 1948 Year Book and Register of Merit." The book sets forth the aims and ambitions of the quarter-horse industry quite clearly, and it is evident that the leaders of the sport are determined to surround it with a great many of the safeguards already in use on the thoroughbred tracks. . AAA The book will surprise many in that it insists there is no fundamental difference between the quarter-horse and the thoroughbred. By its own definition, any quarrel or argument as to the respective merits of the two breeds resolves into a clear-cut decision for the thoroughbred. A quarter running horse is one that has earned that title through meritorious performance on a track recognized by the American Quarter Running Horse Association. A Continued on Page Forty-Seven BETWEEN RACES By OSCAR OTIS Continued from Page Forty-Eight plain quarter horse is one accepted for registration by the National Quarter Horse Breeders Association of Texas and most light horse breeds are eligible with the notable exceptions of paints, appallossa, and albino. A thoroughbred is defined as a horse registered in the American Stud Book. The following comment is then made: "The thoroughbred has been developed principally as a distance race horse and must now trace only to horses already registered. However, he sprang from pretty much the same foundation as the quarter horse and his blood has been repeatedly crossed back into the short-race horse to produce the majority of quarter-running horses of today." Incidentally, a bill permitting legalized quarter-horse racing has passed both houses of the California legislature. AAA Horses and People: Santa Anitas role in the civic life of the community that is Southern California is well known. Hence it came as no surprise to learn that the Los Angeles Turf Club had donated some 160 acres of its Lake Arrowhead property to the Los Angeles Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. The club will improve the acreage, high in the mountains amid the pine trees, into an all-year-campsite to serve more than 27,000 scouts. . . . Jockey Jimmy Haritos has hung up his tack and has embarked upon a career as a public trainer. Weight did not drive Haritos from the saddle, but rather inability to obtain suitable mounts. The lad is not unprepared for his new career, inasmuch as he has studied the profession closely during his riding years. One of the Wests top trainers, Bob R. Roberts, took the patience to tutor him during recent years. Haritos first pa- tron is George J. Stempel, the San Fran-- cisco doughnut king, who has turned over to his care Shower Boy and Justa Shower. Miss Grillo is being returned to Holly- : wood Park at Santa Anita for a stakes 1 campaign.
