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JUDGES STAND by charles hatton AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 15. — If you care for puns, you might say that Miss Request turned the chalk players Sweet Dream into a nightmare down here on Long Island, the other day. They met in the Corvette Classified Handicap, and Sweet Dream tried hard to spot Mrs. Whit-akers filly six pounds. The six-fur- % long distance was supposed to be in Sweet Dreams favor, and Eddie Arcaro made the start look a brt uneven, nevertheless Miss Request ran her down and was looking for some more horses to beat at the end. Miss Request had been chasing But Why Not and Paddleduck, but trainer Jack Conway clearly has the Requested filly at the top of her form now. Voted the best three-year-old filly of 1948, she will be a candidate for the honor among those of .her sex again this season. The Queens County Jockey Club doesnt have a filly and mare stake at the current meeting, but the 0,000 Brooklyn Handicap on July 2 may look a good deal like one. Miss Request, But Why Not, and Conniver, who won this traditional Aqueduct feature in 1948, are among the fillies and mares that are eligible for it. Two of the last three renewals were won by the so-called weaker sex, for Gallorette took the 1946 Brooklyn. Its a moot point whether this is a commentary on the class of the fillies and mares, or a lack of it, among the horses. AAA The summer turf season in the Chicago area will reach its height with the opening of Arlington Parks 36-day meet next Monday, when the Hyde Park Stakes for two-year-olds will be the feature. The Hyde Park is the first of an opulent roster of 16 stakes events to be decided during the meet at the stylish North Side course. They range in added monies from 0,000 to 0,000, and this tourist finds eastern turfmen much interested in the Miss Request Recovers Form at Aqueduct Much Interest in Arlington Park Meeting Wine List Is Leonard Richards Prospect Civitello Doesnt Feel Loss of Bug Lassie, Arlington Futurity, Arlington Matron and the Classic. The three-year-old stake grossed 8,900 last season and will be worth approximately that sum this year: There will be a good deal of shuttling of stakes horses between Arlington Heights and the Detroit Fair Grounds. The formidable Calumet string is on the grounds, with Ponder in the Classic, Wistful in the filly stakes, Rearmed in the Arlington Futurity, and Coal-town in the handicaps. There also is an interesting possibility that Citation will reappear during the meeting. The play and crowds at Lincoln-at-Washington are off, but that at Arlington is expected to be less so. For one thing it enjoys the best of the vacation weather in the lake country. For another it attracts North Siders who rarely go racing at the other Chicago meets. In this way, it is a little like the old Empire track, which also had a clientele that was distinctly its own, up Westchester way. AAA Wine List shall have to be taken seriously in future engagements, if he can reproduce the form which he showed in the 5,000 added Kent the other day at Delaware Park. The bay son of Questionnaire and Fizz II. stripped for this mile and a sixteenth looking considerably better than he had about Derby time, and he ran the distance in :23, :46%, 1:10%, 1:36% and 1:42%, time a mere fifth behind the track record. He was able to take the track away from so swift a colt as Noble Impulse in a pace duel over the first three furlongs. Wine List hadnt done anything really spectacular up to this point in his three-year-old form, so that he got into the stake with only 111 pounds. Odd as it may seem he isnt in the Dwyer at Aqueduct, but he is a candidate for the 0,000 Leonard Richards Stakes at Delaware Park on July 2. It is incidentally pretty remarkable for a sire of Questionnaires years to send up performers like Wine List and Carolyn A. AAA If confidence means anything Benny Civitello isnt going the way of so many bugs when they lose the weight allowance. Tile Newark, Del., youngster was the leading rider at Delaware Park when he became-a journeyman jockey last week-end. Coincidentally, it was at the same course a year previously he rode his first winner, something called Coral Way. Civitello obtained his contract from Jimmy Radney, who was his developer, at Detroit Fair Grounds several weeks ago, and he now is under contract to Bruce Livies Bobanet Stable. Civitello hasnt ridden many stakes performers, and supposes that the mare Allies Pal is the best he has handled up to now, but probably he will have the leg up on Attention Mark, a contender for the two-year-old stakes in Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland. He has ridden 192 winners to this point. AAA Turfana:AWine List and Capot are the first foals of their dams, Fizz II. and Piquet, both of them stakes winners, to come to the races, though each had earlier, less fortunate foals. . . . Bayeux, the Belgian champion of 47, is improving. Resembles his kinsman, Bimelech. . . . John Needles of the MJC is going racing at Delaware. He also denies rumors the interest of any of the club members is evaporating. . . . Reveille now has had the luck to be virtually left in both the Flamingo and the Kent. . . . Coaltown is a possibility in the Equipoise Mile. . . . Dick Handlen tells us that Willie duPont now is making more use of Fairy Manhurst.
