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JUDGES STAND by carles hatton DETROIT, Mich., May 24. — Another spoke will be added to the Midwest racing wheel when the Michigan season opens tomorrow afternoon at E. E. Dale Shaffers stylish Detroit course. The Kentucky commissioner, breeder and track operator is hopeful that the 56 programs will be as well well received received as as the the sport sport has has in in other other well well received received as as the the sport sport has has in in other other Midwest turf centers this year. Keeneland and the Downs enjoyed the most successful meets in their recent history, Lincoln-at-Washington last week-end had the first "million-dollar day" of the Chicago season, and the new Waterford Park opened with an attendance of 22,000. Memorial Day usually marks the first ,000,000 handle of the Illinois season, and Waterfords throng must be an "all-time West Virginia record. For reasons which are not clear to us, "The Trend" was up less sharply in the Motor City than it was elsewhere last fall, and the purses are scaled the same as they were then. As Shaffer observes, "One must be realistic." But there is a tremendous increase in industry this spring, and general manager Bob Leavitt "cant remember when there was quite so much interest about town." So perhaps the general uptrend will extend to Detroit this season. Charley Mc-Lennans book appears to have met with the horsemens""" hearty approval, for there are 900 performers here and at Hazel Park. The patrons will be pleased with the landscaping i and many of them will be enabled to attend more often with the new 3:45 post time on week-days. The races will be run each 23 minutes, with the last going postward at about 6:26. The sport opening day will be featured by the ,500 Anniversary Handicap for sprinters, and on the first Saturday by the Copper County, which is for two-year-olds. There are some clever youngsters on hand, among them Edgey and Lonoke Flash. AAA Stewards, like doctors, sometimes disagree. It may shock you to know that a question was brought up recently whether to disqualify if the revised order of placing failed to move the offended horse into any of the Detroit Club Optimistic as Meeting Opens Stewards Disagree on Disqualifications John Goode Opines Bernwood Will Stay Wealth of Material for Filly Features first four positions. This tourist doesnt fancy himself an arbiter in these matters, but since our opinion has been asked, we shouldnt think the question of whether the fouled horse would receive any of the purse enters into it at all. The rules are explicit enough. And we can find none which reads "Unless a l-to-10 shot fouls- a 50-to-l shot." In basketball or football the referee doesnt call fouls on the basis of scoring averages. We have always understood that the disqualification of a horse is an entirely disciplinary measure. It is for the purpose of discouraging foul riding. And it should be completely disassociated from the play or purse distribution, letting those chips fall where they may. AAA John Goode was a recent arrival over at Lindoln-at-Washington with a variously owned string which includes the two Chicago stakes prospects Bernwood and Long-" leat. Bernwood is a prospect for the 5,000 Peabody Memorial. The Tennessean for Arlington features. "They say Bernwoods a sprinter," the veteran mused, "but I wouldnt be too sure about that. I have seen him taken off the pace and make a good run the last part of it." As an afterthought he added. "A top horse has to be able to put in an eighth in 11 seconds some part of it." Bernwood did not fill his Kentucky Derby engagement, as he drew a position on the outside fence. He didnt beat anybody but ran in track record. time of 1:10 in his final Downs start. Longleat-was to have started in the Derby, but developed a slight quarter .crack, and later a cough. He now is back under saddle. Goode is training a two-year-old brother of the Prairie State winner for the E. W. Potters that will be rather a good story if ever he amounts to anything. He is called Avaricious and was foaled with ~a crooked left fore foot. So crooked indeed there was some thought of destroying him. But the pastern was fired and Goode tells us he trains as if he will stand. AAA Arlington, Washington, Monmouth, Delaware Park and other clubs are investing more heavily in filly-and-mare stakes this summer, and there appears to be a wealth of material for them. Plain Ben Jones introduced a new element of interest in Chicagos three-year-old filly features the other day, when Calumets Jennie Lee dusted off Sickles Image at the Downs. Jennie Lee is by Bull Lea out of the Kentucky Oaks winner, Nellie E. Jockeys dont often buy horses photographs, but Doug Dodson bought one of Jennie Lee when he rode her back at Keeneland. At Washington Park the other morning Jack Hodgins showed us Charley Fishers brilliant four-year-old, Heres Hoping, who is a prospect for such events as Arlingtons 0,000 Matron and Washingtons 5,000 Beverly. Her bloom and condition is a compliment to Hodgins skill. One would think Heres Hoping may extend the family Fisher started with Miss Jemima at his Dixiana Farm. From this family he has bred Star Reward, Astro, Fleeting Star, Sabaean and Far Star, as well as Heres Hoping. AAA Turf ana: Detroit will offer nine races Saturdays and holidays. . .Harry Trotsek didnt saddle Oil Capitol in the Met, missing his plane. Mr. and Mrs. Reubens were in Chicago to see Roman Bath, another of his trainees, win the Crete ..Our Request is a prospect for the Alger Memorial here on Memorial Day. . .Some 200 horses are stabled at Hazel... The new decor at Detroit includes flower beds, cedars and a completely reseeded inner field. . . . Sabaean ran in a sheepskin noseband of the sort trotting horsemen call shadow rolls in the Crete, showed a tendency to bear out anyhow. He is said not to be the most cheerful horse in training. . .Heres Hoping is inbred to Black Toney and looks it . .The Joliet candidates, Red Curtice and Errards Guide, have been working in almost precisely the same time at Washington. . .Henry Forrest has the main division of his useful string at Detroit.
