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Strife. " , . . — • : 7 : JUDGES STAND by-charles hatwn WASHINGTON PARK, Home-wood, HI., May 18. — Larry Bogen-schutz, the official handicapper at Lincoln, Hawthorne and New Orleans, is not prepared to put in with the dim view the 1951 three-year-olds are an inferior lot. "I thought Count Turf ran in the Derby like a colt that had ti just use come come to i/O nimseii, himself," the me Cincinna ti just use come come to i/O nimseii, himself," the me Cincinna uincinna-tian said. "Of course, we cant be sure until he runs again, but that was my impression. The Preakness and the Peabody may turn up other capable colts." If Count Turf has been an unconscionable time "arriving," he has progressed at least as fast as Seabiscuit, Granville, Discovery, First Fiddle and other very decent horses. And a good many Marylanders will journey to Pimlico this week-end wondering if the Hampton Stables Alerted isnt another in Count Turfs category. He may be a Johnny Come Lately but he has come a long way since his purchase from Calumet Farm for a reported sum of 0,000. It also is conceivable that Mrs. Denemarks Ruhe will continue to improve as he did in the Arkansas Derby, Blue Grass and Kentucky Derby. At the moment, the Chicagoan appears a logical choice for the 5,000 Peabody on Memorial Day. It has been our observation that the three-year-olds have a disconcerting habit of producing an Assault, or a Challedon at about the time people begin casting aspersions. Challedon was not clearly a champion until the Classic, and one could get into an argument concering Hill Prince until his comeback in the American Derby. Both went on to become the "Horse of the Year." We suppose that what we mean to say is simply that its too early in the season to judge the three-year-olds. AAA Chicagoans may see Herman Delmans filly, How, at Arlington Park, and she is something to see in the form she showed in the Oaks. The New York sportsman has made her eligible for the 0,000 added Arlington Matron and the 0,000 added Classic out here on the prairie. How wasnt in any stakes last year, but certainly doesnt Bogenschutz Impressed by Count Turf How Is Candidate for Matron, Classic Maine May Profit From Illinois Experience New Story Book Horse at Lincoln Fields lack for engagements this season. Just now she is preoccupied with Belmonts Coaching Club. She also is in the Acorn, Belmont Stakes and Top Flight Handicap at that meet. There is a suggestion How may fill her Belmont Stakes engagement, and it would be interesting to see her perform against the colts. None of them has a more consistent record. By the way, the progeny of her sire, Princequillo, are bound to be in demand at the 1951 yearling auctions. He has sired three distinctly different types, all of them top class, in the clever filly, the rather leggy Prince Simon, and the lumbering Hill Prince. AAA Fairmount Parks conversion from night trots to night running races resulted in a resurgence of interest in the sport there last season, and it opens on May 25 for a meet which runs through the Fourth of July. Thoroughbred racing under the arc lights also enabled Scarborough Downs to continue operating last summer, though the Maine public had to be educated to this form of racing. In view of the experience at Fairmount, one inclines to .doubt the wisdom of scuttling thoroughbred racing in Maine in favor of the standardbreds. Fairmount plans eight-race cards, with purses graduated from 00 to ,000 in the first book. It operates under the same regulations that are enforced at the Chicago tracks, with a few special rules pertinent to night racing. For example, first post is 8:30 p. m., and the final race must be over by midnight or canceled from the card. There is a rule, "Lights shall not be turned on or off while the horses are on the track." Another, that "The stable area must be properly lighted, so that it will be entirely void of darkness in any section; lights will be turned on at dusk and they shall remain on until one hour after the last race." Still another provides that "Should any part of the racing strip become darkened due to defects in the lighting system before the start of any race, such condition will be given the immediate attention of the track superintendent, and no race will be allowed to start until such defects are corrected. In the event such defects cannot be corrected the starter with the approval of the stewards shall start the race." This last is a little contradictory. AAA Lincoln-at-Washington has a colorful performer in Sabaean, who races for J. Leslie Younghusbands Valley View Farm of Barrington, HI. Sabaean is a four-year-old gelding by Challedon from Far Star, the dam of Star Reward, Fleeting Star and Astro, and was bred at Charley Fishers Dixiana. He didnt start as a two- or three-year-old but won his first five starts this season, in the course of which Younghusband claimed him from Dixiana for 2,000 at Miami, won an_ allowance race with him, shipped him to Havana and won a featured handicap there. Trainer Cedric Nelson hopes to make a stake winner of him, and he may appear in this week-ends 0,000 Crete Handicap. Up to now his career is like something out of National Velvet. AAA Turf ana: Rex Ellsworth has a number of the first Khaleds in training at Arlington Park. . .Valley View, long on sprinters, may race divisions at Detroit and Randall Parks, to keep them from "getting in one anothers way". . .Ben Lindheimer, now on the West Coast, is expected for Arlingtons June 18 opener. . .Tommy Root is campaigning a large string here for the first time in several years. . .Washington Parks winners enclosure is in grass this season, cropped precisely as a putting green . Never Again XL, dam of Oil Capitol and Any-oldtime, became the dam of another stakes winner when Cigar Maid won the Fashion. Cigar Maid is Pavots. first stakes winner. Her dam is at Whitney Farm, where she was bred to Mahmoud . .John Jackson, Arlington-Washington general manager, has been going racing at Lincoln-at-Washington.
