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JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATT0N I DETROIT, Mich., June 4. — The Michigan Racing Association will offer two important stakes events during the ensuing week in the 0,000 Powder Puff for two-year-old fillies on Wednesday and the 0,000 Motor City for three-year-olds on Saturday. The Motor City is at a mile and a sixteenth and it contains an interesting element of intersectional rivalry. Those familiar with the old provincial policies at the Fair Grounds cant help thinking how very different the features are in this respect. Chicagos Lextown and OF Skipper and the Easts Blue Lancer and Halt may match strides with the local favorites, Johns Joy, The Fat Lady and Yes You in the Motor City. We should think it would be pretty difficult to form any definite opinion about the result. Several of the candidates are fillies, among them The Fat Lady, Our Request and Pella, which is rather unusual. The Motor City is the first of MRAs two richest stakes for three-year-olds of both sexes. The other is the 5,000 Cavalcade at a mile and an eighth on July 2. It follows Aqueducts traditional Dwyer by a week and precedes The Classic by several weeks, so that theres a prospect the Motor City winner will meet championship contenders in that event. AAA Per capita play is off almost everywhere, so that the clubs only chance of handling as much money as in past seasons is to attract more players, and the best way to achieve this is to put on a good show in pleasant surroundings. We think the MRA is offering some of the best sport in the Middle West, and the crowds are a bit larger than those in 48, even though it is operating at the old Fair Grounds. One factor which has contributed to the new clubs success is that 41 per cent of the choices have been winning, in contrast to 29 per cent at last summers meeting. If it interests you, the old Detroit club had an East vs. West in Motor City Stakes Form Aids Meeting at Fair Grounds Illinois Officials Discourage Doping ,000 Plater, Corydon, 00,000 Winner average gate of 11,439 and "tote" action of 12,224 over a period of 85 days last season. The increase in crowds this summer is about 200 a day, which seems scarcely worth mentioning, but it ought to be noted that its a paid gate, and a good deal of it is in the clubhouse and boxes. Of course this helps to support the rather ambitious stakes program. Usually there is a conspicuous slump in - crowds the day after a holiday, but the Fair Grounds _ club was agreeably surprised when 8,175 came out for last Tuesdays card of overnighters. The racing at this meet is still to come. AAA Things certainly arent dull for the new Illinois Racing Board, which seems to this observer to be doing a splendid job. It has several drugs cases to hear, and the latest involves a plater called Hard War, who won two straight, at an advance of 00 in his claiming price. A few days earlier the stewards ordered a saliva test of Main Bet, who was far back after he had been the medium of rather extensive play. Coincidentally it is charged that coramine was found in each case. This may seem odd but Joseph P. .Broderick, secretary of the board, tells us that the drug acts both as a stimulant and a depressant, depending upon the timing. It accelerates the heart action for an interval soon after it is administered. This is followed by a reaction which might cause a horse to be particularly sluggish. Actually the doping of horses gives the doper far more courage than it gives the horse. As you might guess -the boards formal report of three saliva cases has led to the wildest surmise as to the prevalence of the practice. We cant think there is much of this sort of thing, and there will be less of it because of the boards reports. AAA Improbable as it seems, the Corydon, who was second racing for ,000 over at Lincoln - at - Washington last week, is the same Corydon who was winning stakes for the Greentree Stable about eight years ago. He is perhaps the only 12-year-old in training who has amassed 00,000. Mostly it was won "a nickel and a dime at a time" in a checkered career which extends over a total of 230 starts and includes 25 firsts, 36 seconds and 37 thirds. As the story goes there was an interlude during which he served as a mount for Ken Force when the latter was outrider at New York and Florida tracks. Under the rules in Illinois he will be ineligible for competition there next season, for horses past their twelfth birthday are considered too old to compete. Nevertheless he managed to win two purses in 48, and we shall not be at all surprised if he wins this season. Corydon is a gelding by St. Germans out of a Royal Minstrel mare and is racing these days for Jim Emery. AAA Turf ana: Detroits course is more safe than speed conducive, which pleases trainers racing here. ... I. J. Collins, fourth on the list of 49 money-winning owners, is racing at the Fair Grounds. . . . Anyway, Lincoln dates avoid conflict with the many Chicago beaches. . . . Moons End, who won for ,000 recently, was cheapest of Mayer two-year-olds of 48. . . . Jess Higley specializes in riding turf races. . . . Rival riders have nicknamed Benny Creechs new bug "Fearless" Wickel. . . . The other day Lincoln stewards were astonished at the sight of a stranger casually watching the races from a patrol judges stand near the finish. Seems he had become separated from his friend on the grandstand side, and it occurred he might see him and join him there! Thought the stewards were behaving a little smug about the whole thing too.
