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JUDGES STAND Lincoln-at-Washington will contribute a good share to Time Mags estimated 400,000 holiday week-end racegoers with the 5,000 Peabody Memorial as its stellar Memorial Day attraction. All thats needed is a continuation of pleasant racing t weather. Peter J. ODonnell believes tne attendance will approach the 43,053 that wagered ,925,145 a year ago. That was a "track record" for the Lincoln club. Indications are that John Marschs colt or Skipper will be there or thereabouts in the betting at least in this Peabody Memorial. He made a splendid showing in his three-year-old debut at this meeting. Provocative is perhaps the stoutest of his rivals, and he has somewhat the best of the weights, if -J. B. Campbells Experimental estimate is at all close. Joe Goodwins colt, Ky. Colonel, also has to be respected in this field. It was indicated that Johns Joy might come from neighboring Detroit Fair Grounds for this stake, but it was decided to start him there on the weekend. Very probably, the winner of the Peabody shall have to be dealt with by the eastern colts later in the local season, in Arlingtons Classic and Washingtons American Derby. AAA The Col. F. M. Alger Memorial on todays holiday card is the first of three stakes to be carded by the MRA over at Detroit during the current week. The Decoration Day stake has 5,000 added and it will be followed on Wednesday by the ,500 Grosse Pointe Handicap for sprinters, and on Saturday by the 5,000 Maple Leaf Stakes for fillies and mares at six furlongs. We cant guess Papa Redbirds tote odds in the Alger, but it offers Joe Goodwin odds of about 0,000 to 50 on the Bal-ladier colt against Dixianas resolute little Shy Guy. Both have an enthusiastic following at the Motor City course. Lincoln Aims at New Attendance Record Three Stakes on Weeks Agenda at Detroit Arlington Park Plans Some New Wrinkles Clubs Sixteen Stakes Attract Top Stables Next week-ends Maple Leaf also should be highly entertaining, what with Miss Mommy, Stole, Sequence and Lithe among the eligibles. Were told that Lithes race in the Royal Oak was awfully good, considering that she gave the first two weight and was knocked back to last at the outset. Stole was paddocked a good deal before that one, and ran kindly for the first time this season. AAA: A seemingly inconsequential feature which tends to speed up the tote operation at Lincoln-at-Washington is the color scheme of the boards over the windows. The win, place and show windows are each painted a different color, so that players can identify them at a glance from a considerable distance, and very few end up in the wrong lines. We think Ben Lindheimer thought up this wrinkle, and has applied it also at Arlington. The clubs rather pride themselves on the good time in which they run off their cards, and Arlington this summer will advance first post 15 minutes to 2 p. m. "Its a consideration with many of the public when they plan to go racing," Miss Marg Lindheimer observes, "They must be back in town in time for dinner engagements and so on, and we try to complete the cards on schedule." Usually the Arlington races are over by 5:35. Arlington also will carry the morning line on its programs at the meet which begins on June 20. Hialeah and several other clubs have adopted this feature, as a sort of evaluation of the entrants form. AAA The Arlington Park club has almost literally a bale of By CHARLES HATTON requests for boxes at its summer meet, which seems to show a great deal of interest around the fashionable North Side. The new racing secretary, Jimmy Kilroe, has sent proofs of the first condition book to the printers, and it should be off the presses early this week. It will cover the first eight days of the meet. Two-year-old races are particularly formful, and we should think the patrons will be pleased there are two of these daily, also that there are two turf course events each Wednesday and Saturday. The "Name Horses" active at Lincoln-at-Washington will be at Arlington, along with some from both the East and West Coasts. Warren Wright and Fred Hooper are the "Leading Money Winning Owners" up to now in 1949, and their stables will be represented, along with those of William Helis, William "Bill" Strem-mel and the Rices. The course is to be ready to receive horses on June 1, and John D. Jackson has everything in good order for them. Sixteen stakes totalling 70,000 in added monies, and including the Equipoise Mile, Stars and Stripes, Lassie, Futurity and Classic are to be offered. AAA Turf ana: A bill for the rotation of racing dates among Illinois clubs has been introduced at Springfield. . . . Coldstream will have a sister to Miss Mommy among its sales yearlings. . . . One very definite resolution in the recent NARC conference was anti-off-course-betting. . . . River Downs has painted things up a bit for the 43 days meet opening June 1. ... At Ernst Farm recently all the barren mares came in for the night save old Sun Bijur. Attendants found her in a far corner of a field, where she was standing guard over a brand new calf that strayed under the fence. . . . Mrs. Clyde Smith sold six yearlings last season. Four already have won, three at the first chance Ocean Brief won 0,000, "a nickel and a dime at a time," before winning her first stake, the Correction.
