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JUDGES STAND *y charus hatton STANTON, Del., June 13.— This tourist has seen some very nice prospects among the new crop of two-year-olds. Lincoln - at - Washington has Feudin Fightin and Curtice, Detroit Fair Grounds, Oil Capitol and High Frequency, and here at Delaware Park there are Quiz Show, Selector and Our Tops. Perhaps some colt or filly will develop more zip than any of these later in the season, but we should think that if any does he shall have to hang out some awfully fast time figures. At the moment Quiz Show appears a logical choice in Wednesdays 0,000 added Christiana Stakes for colts and geldings at the sporty Stanton course. "He isnt much of a work horse," trainer Slim Pierce observed, as he showed us the Palatine Stable colt this morning. "But he likes a race, and he is a very good doer. He looks like old Apache to me. We needed some two-year-olds, and I didnt think we could go far wrong for 2,000. He was about to buck and I could only run him once at Hialeah last winter, but he is in a lot of races here and , in New Jersey." Quiz Show was sold by Col. Phil Chinn to Ray Bryson for ,000 as a yearling, and Bryson in turn sold him to Frank Rosen, the Philadelphia manufacturer and sportsman. Up to now he has been a bargain for all hands around. Rosen has been racing horses only a couple of seasons, and he has won 22 or 23 races so far this year. Pierce has an active string of 12 for him here, including the improved mare, Dobodura, who used to run for ,500 and now shows stakes caliber. Pierce was one of Mr. Fitz staff for 18 years, when he became involved in the unpleasantness abroad. He now is among the leading trainers in this area. AAA Delaware now has a four-man, bipartisan racing commission. Gov. Elbert Carvel has appointed Sen. William Ayers to serve six years as the fourth man on the states turf governing body. The other commissioners are chairman John K. Johnston, W. W. Richardson and Joseph W. Chinn, Jr., the secretary. It is the length of time Quiz Show Bargain for Three Owners Features of Delawares Racing Laws Ross Now Owner, Breeder, Track Head Sagamore Developing Stakes Talent Ayers was appointed to serve which interests us, for we have always felt that it is a weakness of many commissions that their members come and go with the political tides. They often are removed at about the time they become familiar with their duties and the mechanics of the sport. Among other things, Delawares racing law authorizes the "tote," precludes night racing, limits the length of the meeting to 33 days of which Delaware Park runs 32, makes racing subject to the "reasonable rules" of The Jockey Club and NSHA, prohibits track operators from drawing salaries in excess of ,000, establishes 00 as a minimum purse. The law also will discourage any get-rich-quick ideas on the part of any licensee, for it provides that after taxes "The commission shall allow a licensee a sum not to exceed 4 per cent of the capital investment in his or its track. ... All net revenue of the licensee remaining shall be set aside and employed by the licensee for working capital." AAA Don Ross has a splendid training establishment, complete to a covered track, at his Brandywine Farm, which borders the backstretch here at Delaware Park. If it interests you, the place takes its name from Brandywine Creek, a picturesque stream which flows through the property. It seems the Kiamensi, a part of the Algonquin tribe of Indians, used to camp on its banks, thus the name * of the series of route events at Delaware Park. The residence at Brandywine, where trainer Buddy Raines makes his home, dates back almost to Revolutionary times, and Indian arrow heads, flintlocks and so on have been dug up all about. Delaware Parks president has been breeding some horses in recent years, and his stakes mare, Everget, now is in the Blue Grass, to be bred to Polynesians sire, Unbreakable. Perhaps the best of his active string just now is Cochise. This ones two-year-old sister, Safety Catch, whos by Blenheim IX out of New Pin, was a starter in the Polly Drummond. For several years past Ross has bought a group of the Greentree yearlings by private treaty, and we think Cochise and Safety Catch were among them. The name Safety Catch occasioned some little curiosity in the racing secretarys office here the other day, when it was noted that another entrant on the card was out of Safety Catch. You can imagine the commotion. It turned out the broodmares name really was Safety Catch, and that she was registered that way abroad. AAA Alfred Vanderbilt is racing his extensive Sagamore string in two divisions this summer, with Bill Winfrey training the larger group on Long Island, and Alfred Holberg deploying here with the others. Bed o Roses and Loser Weeper have won stakes for the young Worth-ington Valley sportsman in New York, and he has a three-year-old filly here called Kittyhawk that may improve like some other Discoverys. She is out of Canfli and is particularly well named. Bed o Roses hardly ran her race in the Polly Drummond, in which she was in a great deal of trouble, and we shall not be surprised if she is the-one-to-beat in the 0,000 Astoria on June 18 at Aqueduct. Kittyhawk is in the 0,000 Delaware Oaks here on the Fourth of July. AAA Turf ana: Delaware commissioner Richardson is a member of the firm of Richardson and Robbins, canned chicken dealers. . . . General Bradley went racing here on the week-end. . . . The Belgian Bayeux is in the Mon- month Handicap. . . . Brush for Delawares hedge courses involve the use of 40,000 cedars a year. . . . Delaware entrants must be on the grounds 24 hours. . . . Monmouth has a rule providing that only one horse may be entered by one interest in claiming races. . . . Arlingtons first condition book has been well received in the East. . . . Operators of vans bringing horses to the DSRA are required to file the horses identification papers with the racing secretary.
