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JUDGES STAND *y charles hatton CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., May 7. — Count Turfs conquest of the Kentucky Derby has been called shocking, stunning, fantastic, increditable and astonishing, and it was all of those things, but it was also quite decisive, in a race refreshingly free of fouls, for all the 20 starters. starters. And And we we should should just just like like to to starters. starters. And And we we should should just just like like to to say that as of May 5 Jack Amiels colt was pounds the best mile and a quarter horse. The Preakness, a week from Saturday, is next of the "Triple Crown" events. Count Turf, Royal Mustang and Ruhe are not prospects for the "Run for the Black-Eyed Susans," thus there wont be any "Triple Crown" winner this year. General Reckord has some notion of splitting the Preakness, which may produce a new title aspirant, if it draws more than 18 entrants and of offering 0,000 for a special event bringing together the leaders in his stake and the Derby. Meanwhile, Count Turf, who has a really extraordinary resemblance to his sire, Count Fleet, affords sports scribes some very good copy. He was bred by Dr. and Mrs. Frank Porter Miller at the Hertzes Stoner Creek Farm, reared in California, and sold to Amiel for ,700 as a Saratoga yearling, and he was the cheapest of the Count Fleets at the 1949 auctions. Owner Amiel ran a concession to hawk soft drinks at sports events into a flourishing restaurant business. Trainer Rutchick, a native of Russia, is said to have sold candy on the sidewalks of New York, before gravitating to the turf. And jockey Conn McCreary some years ago hitch-hiked from St. Louis to the Blue Grass to set out upon his riding career, hung up his tack last summer, and has made a most successful comeback. Racing was introduced in England with a rule precluding any of the proletariat from participating, but it now has become the most democratic of sports. AAA Tony Pelleteri and Gar Moore were recent visitors from the New Orleans Fair Grounds, and we learn that officials of the non-profit club met the other night at Antoines and turned over 7,184 to Charity Hosptal for "Best Horse* Won Richest Kentucky Derby N. O. Club Donates to Charity Hospital Easy Lass Prospective Mate for Big Cy Derby Absentees Point for Preakness special eye surgery and treatment facilities. This department of the huge Charity Hospital is one of the clubs special philantrophies, and 5,000 was contributed to it about 18 months ago. Pelleteri expressed a hope that "continued contributions may be made to it each year, in addition to the other civic and charitable agencies which the tracks helps." The Fair Grounds has donated more than 00,000 to other worthy causes. The gift to the Charity Hospital represents funds remaining after the liquidation of the Fair Grounds Breeders and Racing Association, operators of the Gentilly Road course from 1941 until 1946. Fair Grounds officials, none of whom receives a salary, are president John S. Letellier, vice-presidents Pelleteri and S. C. Braselman, treasurer Richard G. Jones and secretary Felix Gaudin. State revenue from New Orleans sport helps to support the school system. AAA Mrs. Lucille Wright plans to offer a draft of her Calumet Farm broodmares at Keenelands fall sales, but these will not include a little black* item called Easy Lass. Her first foal looked like "The Thing," and went either to the stock yard or the Experimental Station, as we recall. Then came Coaltown by Bull Lea, followed by Wistful by Sun Again, followed by Fanfare by Pensive. The Kentucky Thoroughbred Breeders Association last year voted Jher the "Champion Broodmare of 1949," and she may be the first to win this distinction twice. For she is comparatively young and might foal a stakes winner bred to a Jack. Easy Lass is a typey mare by Blenheim n. from Slow and Easy, by Collin, and was not herself a stakes winner. But perhaps that is because she fell over backward in the gate at the starting point of the Lassie and couldnt be raced thereafter. It is understood that she is among Citations prospective first mates in 1952. The Preakness, a week from next Saturday, second of the "Triple Crown" events, is expected to attract several colts who did not appear in the Derby. Among them is Uncle Miltie, who trained off after an all too-impressive first out. And the Flamingo winner, Yildiz, the Laurel Stakes winner, Alerted, and Harry Isaacs Intent, who bucked his shins while setting the pace in the Wood. The interval of two weeks between the running of the Derby and the Preakness will be appreciated by some of those who appeared at the Downs, particularly those who had a hard race or do not ship comfortably. If it interests you, the Pimlico classic takes its name from a Big Name Horse of 1870, the year the Hilltop course was introduced to the eastern circuit. And the horse in turn was named for a village in New Jersey. Historians are a little vague about where the village got the name. It was familiar to another generation of Kentuckians as the name of the stud now known as the Elmendorf Farm. AAA Turf ana: C. V. Whitney has written a book, Lone and Level Sands, the story of an Air Force Colonel, that will be published by Farrar, Straus and Young on May 22. It is a personal account of his life as an air force staff officer in World War II . . . Delaware Park patrol judges have been relieved from their extra-curricular duties during morning hours, so that they may study showings of the preceding days film. . .Gen. Mac Arthurs quotable blurbs include one that "Ill be back," upon leaving the Philippines. Buffalo reader notes that a horse has been so named. Lt. Gov. Moore and Mayor Impelliterri have watered it down to "I will return.". . .The Thoroughbred Racing Associations think you might like to know that Jess Linthicum is the latest recorded stakes winner tracing to the waning Glencoe male line. This now tenuous line once was prominent through Hanover and Hindoo . . . Two special trains carried New Orleanians to the Derby ...Joseph Sheppard of Duarte, Calif., has an idea for arranging loud speakers along the stands, to stimulate crowd noises during training hours, and better educate green two-year-olds.
