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✓ - JUDGES STAND *y charles hatton WASHINGTON PARK, Home-wood, HI., May 17. — The Preakness this week-end will be of interest everywhere, with a prospect the winner will meet Count Turf in the Belmont, and that both will meet the Peabody winner in the Classic and American Derby. General Reckords "Dream Dream Race" Race" didnt didnt quite quite material- "Dream Dream Race" Race" didnt didnt quite quite material- materialize, because Count Turf is coughing and Ruhe is here at Washington Park for the Peabody. But we think he deserves "three stars for trying," as they say about the tracks. Racing this season has a splendid opportunity of interesting more of the public. It could do with a little showmanship and it is refreshing that Reckord has a flair for it. We agree completely with Gene Mori that a large attendance is more significant than a large per capita play. The former reflects public interest, the latter the increased production occasioned by the unpleasantness in Korea. The Preakness is the second of the American "Triple Crown" events, and from this distance it appears likely to develop pretty much the same sort of scramble from which Count Turf, airily dismissed as a "fielder," emerged successfully in the Derby. The three-year-olds this season certainly exemplify what is called "the glorious uncertainty of racing." This is the fascination of the sport and should help to sustain interest through such summer stakes as the Classic, American Derby, Dwyer and Travers. AAA Chicagos Mrs. Emil Denemark has shown at least one of the better two-year-olds each summer, and Red Curtice is a blocky brown half-brother of the ill-fated Curtice, and he seems to take this relationship seriously. A 3,500 son of Requested and Stage Sister, he now has won the Dinner Purse and Bashford Manor. Though he stopped * in one or two races, he was only a fifth off the Downs* five furlongs mark of :58% in the Bashford Manor, and if anyone has shown a livelier Joliet prospect he has escaped our notice. little Pete Widener, who sold Red Curtice, retained a Miss America prospect in Miss Break. She tends to lug in and trainer Stewart supposes that is detrimental as running out, but she has size and speed. Reckords Showmanship Commendable Red Curtice Lively Joliet Prospect Charles Town Filly Shows Stake Class Stud Ads Will Boast Beat Citation Miss Break is by Unbreakable from Appian Via. Unbreakable was overshadowed by Roman and Sickle and got most of the- late foaling mares for years, nevertheless has proved a good sire. AAA The Black-Eyed Susans inaugural resulted, as nearly everyone hopefully expected, in a success for George D. Wideners Discreet. And she stayed that mile and three-sixteenths as if she may give Herman Delmans How some contention in the.Coaching Club American Oaks. It would be nice, in a way, if Break of Day, the runner-up in the Black-Eyed Susan, were to win a stake. Break of Day began her 1951 campaign racing at Charles Town, and last year was marked down to race for ,500, finally winning a mile and a sixteenth event running for ,000. The smaller tracks and less resourceful owners always are encouraged when they produce a horse good enough to compete for stakes on what is called the Big Apple. It doesnt happen often, but it is a good thing for racing. If it interests you, Break of Day, who races for C. B. Carter, was bred by Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewart in Virginia, and is by Piping Rock. How must be rated the leader, "pro tern" at least, of the three-year-old fillies. Her rival Aunt Jinny is freshening up in Kentucky for a return to competition in the Cleopatra Stakes on June 20 at Arlington Park. AAA Calumets Chicago division may be reinforced later in the season by some of the string Mayor Jimmy Jones has on the West Coast. Coaltown is in the Arlington and Washington Park Handicaps, though Citation is not. Bewitch has Arlington engagements and Two Lea is in the 00,000 Washington Park Handicap, which this summer is preshrunk to a flat mile. Citations future is a bit vague at the moment. About the only thing thats clear is that he isnt within half an hour of the Citation who won the "Triple Crown." Before many months we may expect to see stud advertisements capitalizing on his lapse of form with, the line "Beat Citation" in large bold type. Meanwhile, Mrs. Frank Glass, who is Calumet Farms Girl Friday, reports she cant see over the stack of applications for seasons to Citation, though the terms under which he will stand havent been- announced. Mention of Two Lea reminds that the new crop of Calumet foals includes an own sister to her and Twosy, as well as sisters to Armed and Coaltown. Among the colts is a chestnut by Alibhai from Blue Delight whom, farm manager Paul Eberhardt likes especially. Calumet has bred a number of mares to Alibhai since his "importation" from California, and the death of Pensive of the same Hyperion male line. The dams of Ponder, Theory and Pensive have 1951 foals by Alibhai. Hydroplane H., whos the dam of Citation, doesnt have a foal this season. AAA Turf ana: The first four in the Derby were purchased as yearlings for a total of 5,700. . .Waterford Park celebrated Memorial day with a ,000 handicap of six furlongs. . .Delmarie was involved in some pin hooking in which the original purchaser got stuck. Acquired for 00 at the Spa yearling sales, she was resold later in the season in California at a 50 loss... The 00,000 Arlington Handicap has a supplementary closing on July 7... .Mrs. Warren Wright is at her Chicago home for the summer season. . .The secret committee of the Breeders Sales Company have met and selected the summer sales colts and fillies. It isnt quite true they were masked and conferred in a cellar. . Oddly enough, none of Arlington-Washingtons filly-and-mare stakes is beyond one mile ... .Mrs. Otto Neumanns filly, Beauty Spot, who broke a bone in her foot last summer, may reappear under colors at Detroit. . .There will be no 1951 "Triple Crown" winner, of course, and presumably the Thoroughbred Racing Associations trophy will be presented one of the earlier winners . .Documentary statements in the Virginia Historical Magazine relate that in the 17th Century a Virginia tailor was fined for entering a horse in a race because it was unlawful "for just anyone to make a race, being a sport onlyfor gentlemen."
