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JUDGES STAND CHARLES HATT0N WASHINGTON PARK, Home-wood, 111., May- 16. — Lincoln-at-Washington opened with an increase in both attendance and play. It will be surprising if the daily average play doesnt exceed the 11,065.86 for the 29 days last season. Memorial Day is Lincolns best date, and the featured featured Peabody Peabody this this year year promises promises featured featured Peabody Peabody this this year year promises promises a more important race than in 1950, when 31,051 attended and wagered ,460,908 on nine events. Though the daily average was off almost 2,000 at that meeting, the association has increased purses, and may increase them further, if the national uptrend of 12 per cent in play extends to Chicago. The distribution in the first condition book, with its graduated purses, has attracted more important stables to this course than for any past meeting, which is most encouraging. Not only to the Lincoln Fields group, but also to Arlington and Washington. For, of course, these strings will stay on for the midsummer season. Lincoln has not raced at its Crete home since the imposition of the transportation ban during World War II., operating as the guest of neighboring tracks, pretty much as Empire has on Long Island. However, the Will County course has been kept in repair, against the time when the superhighway from the Loop is completed. Only a few miles remain. Lincoln Fields has a mile and a sixteenth track, and it seems a safe guess that it will build a turf course, as Arlington, Washington and Hawthorne have done. It offers grass racing here at Washington, and these events produce its largest bet per betting unit by about ,000. AAA Illinois will share handsomely in any increase in patronage at the state tracks this season. In 1950 the sport yielded ,797,743 to the Service Recognition Bond Interest and Retirement Fund, and 8,057 to the Illinois Veterans Rehabilitation Fund. The board observes that this latter fund "provides the wherewithal to purchase recreational equipment forthe pleasure and happiness of disabled veterans, to stimulate their interest in life and to bring about their speedy recovery from wounds and illness." Also during last season, more than ,000,000 was contributed by the sport to the Agricultural Premium Lincoln Fields Meet Makes Good Beginning State Sport Aids Veterans and Farmers Washington Park Offers Safe Going Rough n Tumble Chicagoans Champion Fund and the General Revenue Fund. Illinois is a foremost agricultural state and Arlington Park annually lends its facilities for the farm youths livestock exhibits. As board chairman Peabody observes, "Racing provides many benefits to the citizen whether or not he is a patron of the sport by making possible services to the community which could not be accomplished otherwise except by levying special taxes." AAA The Washington Park course is something of a phenomenon in that it is at once one of the fastest tracks and a safe one. There is a possibility that some rather fanciful times will be displayed at this meet. Lextown set a stake record of 1:09% in the Crete and meets a faster field in Saturdays renewal of this six furlongs. The track standard is Tre Vits 1:09 s. It was during Lincoln-at-Washington a year ago that Mrs. Emil Denemarks lively homebred Mais Boy amazed everyone by running five furlongs in :571/5, time which equaled the world record. There are some clever three-year-olds in the Peabody Memorial and the winner of this holiday feature may have to approximate Colosals 1:48 Vs for the mile and a furlong. That is once around the Homewood main course. Though Washington Parks surface has a good deal of bounce and live soil, the managements first concern is for the horses safety. It has several inches of protective cushion which does not break from beneath the horses hooves on contact. Arlington-Washingtons John D. Jackson has called particular attention to this characteristic of the going. The factor for safety is fully as important to Lincoln, Arlington and Washington as it is to the horsemen. They race and train here 29 days before the 36 at the North Side course, returning to Homewood for 31 days more. The box office attractions, horses of the sort who put the most zest into their work, usually are first to show the ill effects of an unsafe surface. And each of these clubs is heavily invested in stakes. Chicagoans are by no means prepared to concede that the East has the best of the 1951 three-year-olds. Many of them expect that Mrs. H. C. Genters robust colt, Roughn Tumble will come back at Arlington to prove a contender for the title, and point out that he handled Phil D. with the same facility Count Turf did in the Santa Anita Derby. Melvin Calvert was never one to "sweat horses for the brass," and passed up the Blue Grass and Derby with the Free for All colt when an old splint became reactivated. The Arlington Classic of 0,000 added on July 21 is Roughn Tumbles next important objective. It was at the fashionable North Side course he won his first stakes last summer, in a renewal of the Primer. Calvert is adept at having a horse ready for his best effort on the appointed day and time, and Roughn Tumble may catch some jaded horses upon his return. AAA Turf ana : Churchill Downs hopes to arrange a closing-day feature in which Sickles Image may compete. Calumet Farm will sell all but six or eight of its high-class dairy herd. . .Timely Reward, who neglected to quite run his race in the Derby, is eligible for the Kent at Delaware Park...Marse Tom Piatt now is a benedict ... Elkridge now has won Delawares Indian River five times, is a prospect for the chase again this summer . . A bay Polynesian colt from Aladear is among the newest and best of the Elmendorf foals . . . Coldstream, Duntreath and other Fayette County studs outbid cattlemen to increase their Angus herds at the Whitney sale last week-end. . .Delawares parking lot staff again will comprise University of Delaware students and ex-servicemen . . . Arlington and Washington are among the few tracks having elevator service for the public . . . The Lindheimer landscaping program at the local course will extend to the stable area . . .Ken Kane says of Hastings, "You didnt catch him. You trapped him". . .Renos legalized future books are said to have rejoiced when Count Turf won the Derby. . . Leslie Combs II. will offer Myrtlewoods last foal, a bay War Admiral colt at Keeneland this summer ... First broadcast of a race was Graham McNamees description of Zev beating Papyrus in 23 . . . Turco II. is inbred to Sir Gallahad in. and the English writer, Vincent Orchard says William Woodwards Epsom Derby hope "is as well bred as any of ours."
