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TKrBW-- * JUDGES STAND charles hatton CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky.f May 8. — Eddie Brennan and Horace Wade of the Monmouth Park club were recent visitors to the Downs, and we learn that the modern New Jersey park, which offered turf course events in 1950, will also have hurdle racing this season. "It will be the the first first hurdle hurdle racing racing in in the the state state the the first first hurdle hurdle racing racing in in the the state state since the sport was resumed there," Brennan said. "The public seemed to like the turf events last season, and we feel sure the hurdle races will make a hit." He also noted that the topsoil on the main course has been thoroughly screened. Only a few tracks have undertaken to do this, and it helps to protect horsemens property with a perfectly safe cushion. Monmouth also will offer an increased distribution at the meeting which opens on June 16 and extends 46 days through August 8. The historic Monmouth Oaks has been given more monetary importance with 5,000 added, an increase of ,000 over its 1950 value. "It is our policy to encourage owners and breeders by stressing races for fillies and mares," Brennan observed. "There appears to be an abundance of worthwhile material for features in this division during 1951, and we hope for a representative field in the Monmouth Oaks." Amory Haskell and others of the Monmouth club are breeders and know the significance of these races. Monmouth also will card a number of two-year-old races, and may develop another Uncle Miltie, Hill Prince or Blue Peter, as it has in the last several years. AAA Waterford Park is nearing readiness for its inaugural meeting of 40 days» from May 19 through the Fourth of July. According to Carlyle Johnson, who is part newspaperman and part racing official, there is a growing interest in the sport around Pittsburgh and its suburbs. "Many people in the area never saw a thoroughbred," he remarked, "and crowds of the curious have visited the track to watch the training of those already on the grounds." stall applications were received for 2,200 MonmoutH Park Increases Value of Oaks V/aterford Near Readiness ior Inaugural Suffolk Drugs Case Disturbs Horsemen Errards Guide Lively Downs Development horses, though there are facilities for 960, which has enabled the club to screen the applicants for the better grade of entertainers. By the way, the Waterford Park course, which some insist upon calling Waterford Downs, takes its name from Waterford County in Ireland. The ancestors of A. J. Boyle, head of the new track, were natives of the county. AAA This tourist has no knowledge of the merits or demerits of the case, but horsemen seem rather upset about a recent drugs ruling Suffolk Downs stewards made against owner and trainer Ralph Lentini. According to a Boston American correspondent, Lentini got 60 days for negligence as an aftermath of the discovery of vitamin B-l in No Megs post-race tests. Lentinis friends feel that this ruling is unduly harsh. But the National Association of State Racing Commissioners is striving toward more uniform penalises, and many member commissions have adopted 60 days as the minimum for negligence in drug cases. We also have heard it argued that vitamin B-l is not a stimulant, but a popular and effective tonic for nervous little fillies, and that established laboratories have issued reports it is not categorically a stimulant. In that case one wonders that it resulted in a positive saliva test or urinalysis. We should be interested to see these reports. If vitamin B-l is clasesified as a tonic, then its presence is a violation of the regulation in many states which prohibits administering a tonic within 48 hours of a race. It ought to be defined. AAA The Bashford Manor here on Saturday may turn up a faster colt, but Mrs. E. G. Bandys dusky Errards Guide will do until one comes along. This one is trained by Johnny Loftus, whom we saw win the 1916 Kentucky Derby on George Smith, and he now has won three of four starts. Coincidentally, his latest success came in something Fred Burton called the Sir Barton, for the colt on whom Loftus won the 1919 Derby. Errards Guide is by Errard, as you might guess, is owned by a Chicagoan and probably will race there. He is not an eligible for the Bashford Manor. A good many of the local two-year-olds now are coughing, but such lively newcomers as Red Curtice, Hudgens, Oh Leo, Potpourri and Wellblessed are among the candidates. The Bashford Manor was thought up as long ago as 1902, and its winners include Oiseau, La U Mexican, Worth, Hawthorn, Escoba, Billy Kelly, Black Gold, Sky Larking, Roman and many others easy to remember. AAA Turf ana: Sickles Image may be moving again by the time you read this, taking to the air for Hollywood Park . . .The many coughers here doesnt make secretary Burtons task any easier, but he is arranging some good betting races . . Track we know spares its patrons any anxiety in paging doctors over the public address system. The announcer merely requests that "Number 30 the track physician will please report to whatever part of -the grounds he has a patient " . . R. L. Baird deserves to be commended for reporting LAdmiralte, favorite in the wagering, unable to warm out of her lameness en route to the gate. . Bernwood is a possibility for Lincoln-at-Washington Parks rich Peabody Memorial on Decoration Day. . Former Senator Walter Coleman plans to invade New England. . .The E. E. Dale Shaffers small children. Miss Candace Shaffer and C. B. "Tige" Shaffer III., have appropriate colors. The formers is white, chocolate lollipop front and back, the latters white, chocolate tiger front and back. Very sporting owners. Neither is old enough to read a condition book. . Mameluke came out of the Kentucky Derby with a high temperature and will be unable to accompany others of the string from Churchill Downs to New York.
